How much did Missouri candidates raise in the 2010 election cycle?

FEC candidate receipts for office state Missouri (MO) total $42,522,965.62 in the 2010 cycle, across 47 candidates. The national 2010 cycle totals $1,854,998,616.07 from 2190 candidates, so Missouri is 2.3% of that U.S. candidate-receipt stack. Figures are from FEC.gov cycle-by-office-state aggregates of candidate receipts only.

Is $1.9 billion the amount Missouri candidates raised in 2010?

No. $1,854,998,616.07 is the national 2010 candidate-receipt total. Missouri's office-state total in that cycle is $42,522,965.62. Other office states hold $1,812,475,650.45. Use the 2010 cycle hub for the U.S. figure and this tie page for the Missouri slice only. Independent expenditures are omitted from both totals as shown here.

Does office state MO mean the donors lived in Missouri?

No. Office state is the state of the federal seat on the candidate record. Donors can live anywhere. This join does not allocate the $42,522,965.62 by donor state, employer, or party. An MO office-state code is not a map of Missouri residents and is not a map of where the money was spent.

How many Missouri candidates are in the 2010 file?

47 candidate records sum to $42,522,965.62. That count is candidates, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $904,744 per candidate. Independent expenditures are not included. Unique-donor counts are not in these facts and are not invented here.

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2010 Missouri office-state candidate receipts

Office state MO plus election cycle 2010 yields $42.5 million in candidate receipts from 47 Missouri candidates. The national 2010 denominator is $1.9 billion from 2190 candidates. Mixing those two dollar columns is the error this page exists to prevent. Source: FEC.gov candidate receipts by cycle and office state. Not independent expenditures. Not federal awards.

Key figures

$42.5 million is Missouri (MO) candidate receipts in 2010, not the U.S. cycle total of $1.9 billion.
47 Missouri candidates versus 2190 U.S. candidates in the same midterm cycle.
Other office states hold $1.8 billion (97.7%) of 2010 candidate receipts.
Independent expenditures and USAspending awards are outside these FEC candidate-receipt columns.
Source: FEC.gov candidate receipts grouped by election cycle and office state.

The relationship: cycle 2010 and office state MO

Where cycle 2010 meets office state MO, candidate receipts sum to $42,522,965.62 across 47 candidates. The cycle aggregate without a state filter is $1,854,998,616.07 from 2190 candidates. Missouri is 2.3% of that national book; 97.7% ($1.8 billion) was filed under other office states. The arithmetic uses only packet facts.

This URL is a relationship page. Section one states the relationship. Later sections unpack the Missouri side, the 2010 side, the share, and the caveats. It is not a restatement of Missouri campaign finance across years, and it is not a restatement of the 2010 cycle across states.

Missouri (MO) is the FEC office-state code. Illinois, Kansas, and Arkansas office states are other keys. A midterm cycle tag on 2010 does not explain $42.5 million. Independent expenditures are omitted. PAC-to-PAC transfers as a separate table are omitted. Federal spending awards are omitted. Source: FEC.gov.

Office state MO is not donor geography

Missouri's 2010 total of $42,522,965.62 is the state slice. The national parent set is $1,854,998,616.07. 2.3% names the slice as a share of the parent. $1,812,475,650.45 names the complement inside the same cycle. MO is the office state of the candidate, not a claim about Missouri elections for governor or legislature.

Use the state hub when the year does not matter. Use this tie when both Missouri and 2010 matter. Missouri (MO) is the FEC office-state code. Illinois, Kansas, and Arkansas office states are other keys. Do not fold neighboring states into MO. Each office-state code is its own key.

Cycle 2010 is not the Missouri hub

The cycle dimension is the FEC even-year tag 2010 (midterm). Combined with Missouri, it yields $42,522,965.62 and 47 candidates. The national 2010 page still has every other office state. This page has one office state. Keep both nouns when citing: Missouri and 2010.

About $847,031 per U.S. candidate is $1,854,998,616.07 divided by 2190. No median is in the packet. No party split is in the packet. No Senate-only or House-only subtotal is in the packet. Those omissions are intentional: the facts do not include them.

Dollar share is not candidate-count share

Inside cycle 2010, Missouri holds $42,522,965.62 and other office states hold $1,812,475,650.45. The cycle total is the sum: $1,854,998,616.07. 2.3% names the Missouri piece. 47 names the Missouri candidate file size. Mean about $904,744 names $42,522,965.62/47. Four numbers, four jobs.

If a later FEC extract revises $42,522,965.62 or $1,854,998,616.07, the live hubs control. This prose is a snapshot of the packet facts. Amended candidate reports can move either side of the join.

Means, medians, and missing splits

Dollars ($42,522,965.62), candidates (47), cycle total ($1,854,998,616.07), remainder ($1,812,475,650.45), share (2.3%), Missouri mean ($904,744), U.S. mean ($847,031): those are the numeric claims. Dates in the packet are the cycle year 2010 only. No other dollar, count, or URL is used. Internal links stay on the four hrefs in the packet.

Amended FEC reports can change $42,522,965.62 after this snapshot. If the live Missouri hub or the live 2010 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls. This file is not a third disclosure system.

Public records, not accusations

Do not convert $42,522,965.62 into a statement about how Missouri voted in 2010. Candidate receipts are a filing stream. Most residents never appear as candidates. 47 records are the candidate file, not the electorate. 2.3% of the national cycle is not 2.3% of Missouri.

See the 2010 election cycle for the national year cut, Missouri campaign finance for the state mix, all election cycles for other even-year windows, and all FEC ties for sibling joins. Dollar figures first. Source: FEC.gov.

Missouri in 2010 can be cited in one sentence without losing the join: office-state candidates in MO reported $42,522,965.62 on a file of 47 candidates, inside a national 2010 candidate-receipt total of $1,854,998,616.07 from 2190 candidates, for a dollar share of 2.3%. That sentence uses every packet dollar column once. A second sentence can add the complement $1,812,475,650.45 and the two means, $904,744 in Missouri and $847,031 nationwide, as long as each mean keeps its own denominator. A third sentence should repeat the omissions: no donor names, no independent expenditures, no USAspending awards, no party split, no Senate-versus-House split. Missouri (MO) is the FEC office-state code. Illinois, Kansas, and Arkansas office states are other keys. The 2010 cycle is a closed even-year window in this extract; $42,522,965.62 is the stored Missouri office-state total for that window. Those three sentences are still the same join. They are not a restatement of the Missouri hub and they are not a restatement of the 2010 hub. Researchers who need named candidates must leave this URL for the live hubs. Researchers who need donor geography must leave for a donor join. This file stays on cycle 2010 and office state MO.

Questions

How much did Missouri candidates raise in the 2010 election cycle?: FEC candidate receipts for office state Missouri (MO) total $42,522,965.62 in the 2010 cycle, across 47 candidates. The national 2010 cycle totals $1,854,998,616.07 from 2190 candidates, so Missouri is 2.3% of that U.S. candidate-receipt stack. Figures are from FEC.gov cycle-by-office-state aggregates of candidate receipts only.
Is $1.9 billion the amount Missouri candidates raised in 2010?: No. $1,854,998,616.07 is the national 2010 candidate-receipt total. Missouri's office-state total in that cycle is $42,522,965.62. Other office states hold $1,812,475,650.45. Use the 2010 cycle hub for the U.S. figure and this tie page for the Missouri slice only. Independent expenditures are omitted from both totals as shown here.
Does office state MO mean the donors lived in Missouri?: No. Office state is the state of the federal seat on the candidate record. Donors can live anywhere. This join does not allocate the $42,522,965.62 by donor state, employer, or party. An MO office-state code is not a map of Missouri residents and is not a map of where the money was spent.
How many Missouri candidates are in the 2010 file?: 47 candidate records sum to $42,522,965.62. That count is candidates, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $904,744 per candidate. Independent expenditures are not included. Unique-donor counts are not in these facts and are not invented here.

FEC.gov candidate receipts grouped by election cycle and office state. Not independent expenditures. Not a claim about federal spending.