Massachusetts candidate fundraising — 2010 cycle

Why Massachusetts and 2010 share one LobbyVault page

$68,932,159 is Massachusetts office-state candidate receipts on FEC.gov for the 2010 election cycle. That figure is Massachusetts candidate-committee receipts for federal office in office state MA during the 2010 cycle, as grouped on FEC.gov. The matching national book is $1,854,998,616 ($1.85 billion) across 2,190 candidates. Massachusetts is 3.7% of those cycle dollars and 2.5% of the cycle candidate roster. This page exists because the two dimensions meet. It is not a restatement of the 2010 cycle hub alone and not a restatement of the Massachusetts state hub across every cycle.

Comparing Massachusetts 2010 to other Massachusetts cycles requires a separate cycle–state page for each year. This page holds only 2010. Fifty-four Massachusetts office-state candidates sit in a cycle that lists 2,190 candidates. The 2010 national book ($1.85 billion) is smaller than several later presidential-cycle books, so Massachusetts’s percentage of cycle dollars is higher than in 2020 even when the state cell is similar in size. Candidate receipts here are committee-side totals for the office-state filter. They are not independent expenditures, not a Schedule A donor directory, and not USAspending award dollars. The cycle hub lives at /election-cycles/2010/; the Massachusetts hub lives at /states/MA/. Every cycle is indexed at /election-cycles/, and sibling joins sit at /ties/.

Fifty-four Massachusetts candidates in the 2010 cell

Massachusetts accounts for 3.7% of 2010 cycle dollars and 2.5% of 2010 cycle candidates. Those two percentages need not match. A state can hold a larger share of listed candidates than of receipts, or the reverse. Fifty-four Massachusetts office-state candidates sit in a cycle that lists 2,190 candidates. The 2010 national book ($1.85 billion) is smaller than several later presidential-cycle books, so Massachusetts’s percentage of cycle dollars is higher than in 2020 even when the state cell is similar in size. Neither percentage is a ranking of winners. The remaining $1,786,066,457 stayed in other office states.

Placing Massachusetts inside the 2010 cycle total

The 2010 cycle table on FEC.gov shows $1,854,998,616 in candidate receipts nationwide and 2,190 candidates. After removing Massachusetts, $1,786,066,457 and 2,136 candidates remain in other office states. Those remainder figures are arithmetic (cycle minus state). They are not a second FEC file. Opening only this tie would hide that remainder. The 2010 hub at /election-cycles/2010/ keeps the full book; /election-cycles/ lists every cycle; /ties/ lists other two-key joins.

Office state on this page is the state of the federal office. A Senate or House candidate listed with office state MA enters the Massachusetts cell for 2010 even if some receipts were raised out of state. A donor who lives in Massachusetts and gives to a different office state does not enter this cell by residence. The Massachusetts hub at /states/MA/ is the broader state view; this tie freezes one cycle.

Limits of the Massachusetts 2010 receipt join

This join does not count independent expenditures, party coordinated expenditures, or unitemized receipts that never entered the candidate-receipt aggregate. It does not name donors. It does not say FEC receipts funded federal awards on USAspending.gov; those are different datasets even when the geography string matches. Office state MA is the seat sought, not the mailing state of contributors. Correlation between a busy cycle and a large state cell is not causation and not an election-outcome claim. Quote $68,932,159 as Massachusetts in 2010, and quote $1,854,998,616 as the 2010 national total — never as each other.

Massachusetts and 2010 hubs versus this overlap

Read /states/MA/ for Massachusetts campaign-finance totals that mix cycles. Read /election-cycles/2010/ for the 2010 cycle across every office state. Read /election-cycles/ for the cycle index and /ties/ for other FEC two-dimension pages. This URL, Massachusetts × 2010, is only the overlap: 54 candidates and $68,932,159 in receipts, sourced to FEC.gov candidate receipts grouped by election cycle and office state.

Cite two lines, never one: 2010 Massachusetts office-state candidate receipts $68,932,159 from 54 candidates, and 2010 national candidate receipts $1,854,998,616 from 2,190 candidates. The first line is the join cell. The second is the cycle book. FEC.gov is the source for both. Canonical path: /ties/2010-massachusetts-candidate-receipts/.

Questions

What did Massachusetts federal candidates raise in 2010?

$68,932,159 is FEC.gov candidate receipts for federal office in Massachusetts during the 2010 cycle. It is not the $1.85 billion national cycle total and not independent expenditures. Office state is the seat, not donor home address. Cite the Massachusetts cell and the cycle total as two different figures.

How many candidates are in the 2010 cycle table?

The 2010 cycle book on FEC.gov is $1,854,998,616 across 2,190 candidates nationwide. Massachusetts is 54 of those candidates and $68,932,159 of those receipts (3.7% of cycle dollars). The Massachusetts count is 54; the cycle count is 2,190.

Does $68.9 million fund federal contracts?

No. This page is candidate committee receipts grouped by election cycle 2010 and office state MA. It does not name individual donors, does not sum PAC independent expenditures, and does not treat FEC receipts as USAspending awards. FEC receipts and USAspending obligations are different datasets.

Which LobbyVault hubs pair with this Massachusetts 2010 tie?

Use /election-cycles/2010/ for the 2010 national cycle hub and /states/MA/ for Massachusetts across cycles. All election cycles live at /election-cycles/. Sibling cycle-state joins live at /ties/. Do not treat this overlap as the full Massachusetts history.