Candidate receipts in Florida for 2012

Florida 2012 dollars versus the U.S. 2012 total

The 2012 × Florida join is a database match, not a narrative about a race. $113.9 million entered the extract because candidate records carried cycle 2012 and office state FL at the same time. 126 is the matching candidate count. $3.3 billion is what remains when the office-state filter is lifted for the same cycle.

126 is a relatively large candidate file for this office state. Arithmetic mean receipts per Florida candidate are about $903,672 ($113,862,617.67 / 126). National mean receipts per candidate in 2012 are about $1.61 million ($3,267,855,820.57 / 2025). Those ratios are divisions of packet facts. They are not medians, not typical campaigns, and not proof that Florida campaigns were expensive or cheap.

Office state is not donor state. Florida (FL) is the FEC office-state code. Georgia, Alabama, and other Southeastern office states are not recoded into FL. The 2012 cycle is a closed even-year window in this extract; $113,862,617.67 is the stored Florida office-state total for that window. Independent expenditures and USAspending tables do not feed $113,862,617.67. Source: FEC.gov.

Florida candidates, not Florida donors

Candidate receipts for office state Florida in 2012 are $113.9 million. That money is reported on candidate committee filings aggregated to the candidate, then grouped by office state and cycle. It is not an itemized individual-donor table. No donor names appear in this packet, and none are invented here.

126 candidates is a count of candidate records in the join, not a count of Florida households and not a turnout figure. The 2012 cycle is a closed even-year window in this extract; $113,862,617.67 is the stored Florida office-state total for that window. Neighboring office states are other cycle-state pages.

2025 U.S. candidates in 2012

$3.3 billion is larger than $113.9 million because the cycle includes every office state, not because Florida is being compared with a second state on this URL. 2025 is larger than 126 for the same reason. 3.5% is the only share this page computes, and its denominator is $3,267,855,820.57, not population.

2012 as a presidential cycle dates the window. The 2012 cycle is a closed even-year window in this extract; $113,862,617.67 is the stored Florida office-state total for that window. Live cycle hubs can move as amended candidate reports arrive. If a live hub disagrees with $3,267,855,820.57 or $113,862,617.67, the newer FEC extract controls.

$113.9 million versus $3.3 billion

Never write that Florida raised $3.3 billion. $3.3 billion is the national 2012 candidate-receipt total. Never write that the United States raised only $113.9 million in 2012. $113.9 million is the Florida office-state total. The two columns are labeled stateRaised and cycleRaised in the packet for that reason.

3.5% is the only legitimate bridge between the columns. It is a quotient, not a second source. Independent expenditures still sit outside both columns.

Office state versus donor state

Donor state and office state part ways constantly. A contributor in another state can fund a Florida Senate or House committee. A Florida resident can fund a candidate whose office state is not FL. This page tracks the second field only: office state. It does not track the first.

Because donor geography is absent, $113,862,617.67 is not 'money from Florida.' It is 'money reported by candidates whose office state is Florida' in 2012. That sentence is the accurate one. Source: FEC.gov.

FEC receipts are not federal awards in Florida

USAspending publishes federal obligations by place and agency. FEC publishes campaign finance. $113,862,617.67 does not become an award total because Florida appears in both systems. $3,267,855,820.57 does not become an award total because 2012 is a year in both systems. This page never claims receipts funded federal awards.

The 2012 cycle is a closed even-year window in this extract; $113,862,617.67 is the stored Florida office-state total for that window. Internal links remain the four packet hrefs only. No other path is cited. Independent expenditures remain outside the dollar columns used here.

A compact worksheet for this pair starts with labels, not with a ranking. Label one: Florida 2012 candidate receipts = $113,862,617.67. Label two: U.S. 2012 candidate receipts = $3,267,855,820.57. Label three: other office states in 2012 = $3,153,993,202.90. Label four: Florida candidate count = 126. Label five: U.S. candidate count = 2025. Label six: dollar share = 3.5%. Nothing in that worksheet is a donor list. Nothing in it is a federal award. 126 is a relatively large candidate file for this office state. Mean receipts of about $903,672 in Florida use labels one and four only. Mean receipts of about $1.61 million nationwide use labels two and five only. Cross-wiring those labels invents a statistic. Florida (FL) is the FEC office-state code. Georgia, Alabama, and other Southeastern office states are not recoded into FL. Cycle 2012 is a presidential window, which dates the worksheet and does not interpret it. Source: FEC.gov candidate receipts grouped by election cycle and office state.

Questions

How much did Florida candidates raise in the 2012 election cycle?

FEC candidate receipts for office state Florida (FL) total $113,862,617.67 in the 2012 cycle, across 126 candidates. The national 2012 cycle totals $3,267,855,820.57 from 2025 candidates, so Florida is 3.5% of that U.S. candidate-receipt stack. Figures are from FEC.gov cycle-by-office-state aggregates of candidate receipts only, not independent expenditures.

Is $3.3 billion the amount Florida candidates raised in 2012?

No. $3,267,855,820.57 is the national 2012 candidate-receipt total. Florida's office-state total in that cycle is $113,862,617.67. Other office states hold $3,153,993,202.90. Use the 2012 cycle hub for the U.S. figure and this tie page for the Florida slice only. Independent expenditures are omitted from both totals as shown here.

Does office state FL mean the donors lived in Florida?

No. Office state is the state of the federal seat on the candidate record. Donors can live anywhere. This join does not allocate the $113,862,617.67 by donor state, employer, or party. An FL office-state code is not a map of Florida residents and is not a map of where the money was spent. No donor names are in this packet.

How many Florida candidates are in the 2012 file?

126 candidate records sum to $113,862,617.67. That count is candidates, not unique donors and not Florida households. The arithmetic mean is about $903,672 per candidate. Independent expenditures are not included. Unique-donor counts are not in these facts and are not invented here.