Illinois candidate receipts in the 2012 cycle
Illinois federal candidates reported $54,060,084.95 in FEC candidate receipts for 2012. Sixty-seven Illinois office-state candidates produced $54,060,084. Nationally, FEC candidate receipts for 2012 total $3,267,855,820.57 across 2,025 candidates. Arithmetically, the Illinois office-state cell is 1.65% of that national cycle total; the remaining 98.35% ($3,213,795,735.62) is other office states. This page joins election cycle 2012 with office state IL. Figures are from FEC.gov. They are candidate receipts, not independent expenditures and not USAspending awards.
Key figures
- Illinois office-state candidates reported $54,060,084.95 in the 2012 FEC cycle across 67 candidates.
- The national 2012 candidate-receipt total is $3,267,855,820.57 across 2,025 candidates; Illinois is 1.65% of that book.
- Office state IL is the seat, not the donor address; $54,060,084.95 is not a Illinois-resident giving total.
- Mean receipts in the cell are about $806,866.94 per candidate; the national mean is about $1,613,755.96.
- These figures are FEC candidate receipts, not independent expenditures and not USAspending awards.
Illinois (IL) office-state receipts in cycle 2012
Two filters are true at once: election cycle 2012, and office state IL (Illinois). Only rows that match both produce $54,060,084.95 from 67 candidates. The 2012 election-cycle hub still mixes every office state and therefore shows $3,267,855,820.57. The Illinois campaign-finance hub still mixes every cycle. $54,060,084.95 lives only at the intersection. A restatement of 2012 would still mix states. A restatement of Illinois would still mix years.
Office state is the geography of the federal seat on the FEC candidate master, not the donor’s mailing address. Money raised by a Illinois office-state candidate can come from any state. Illinois’s office-state code is IL. Chicago as a donor city is not the same filter as office state IL. 2012 is a presidential two-year FEC window. Downstate versus Cook County splits are unpublished. This join does not list donors, does not name candidates, and does not allocate $54,060,084.95 by House, Senate, or presidential line.
Sixty-seven Illinois office-state candidates produced $54,060,084.95. Mean receipts are about $806,866.94 per candidate versus a national mean near $1,613,755.96. The national 2012 tally is 2,025 candidates. Illinois’s candidate count is 3.31% of the national candidate count, while its receipts are 1.65% of $3,267,855,820.57. Those two shares are not required to match. Mean receipts in the cell are about $806,866.94 per candidate ($54,060,084.95 ÷ 67). The national mean is about $1,613,755.96 ($3,267,855,820.57 ÷ 2,025). Means are arithmetic. They are not medians.
Illinois’s $54,060,084.95 is not a Chicago donor rollup
$54,060,084.95 is Illinois candidate receipts inside cycle 2012 only. It is not Illinois’s lifetime total across cycles, and it is not itemized individual giving by Illinois residents. Donor-city and occupation tables are other joins. Citing $3,267,855,820.57 as a Illinois figure mixes the national cycle hub into this cell. Citing $54,060,084.95 as the 2012 national total mixes the cell into the cycle hub.
67 is the candidate count attached to office state IL in 2012. Names are not in the packet and are not invented. Primary challengers, withdrawn filings, and general-election nominees can all sit in an FEC candidate count; this page does not split them. Use the Illinois state hub without a year for the state overlay; use the 2012 cycle hub without a state for the national overlay; use this URL for the join.
National 2012 candidate receipts: $3,267,855,820.57
$3,267,855,820.57 is the national 2012 candidate-receipt total across 2,025 candidates. Subtracting the Illinois cell leaves $3,213,795,735.62 in other office states. 1.65% is a dollar share of the national cycle, not a share of Electoral College votes, House seats, or population. 3.31% is a candidate-count share only. 2012 is a presidential two-year FEC window in calendar terms; that label does not split $3,267,855,820.57 by office type.
The 2012 cycle page still includes every other state. Independent expenditures, PAC-to-PAC transfers, and unitemized receipts are other FEC tables. They are not mixed into $54,060,084.95 or $3,267,855,820.57. Federal contract and grant amounts live in USAspending, a different dataset. Sharing a calendar year does not turn these receipts into awards.
Sixty-seven Illinois candidates in a presidential cycle
$54,060,084.95 ÷ $3,267,855,820.57 = 1.65%. $3,213,795,735.62 ÷ $3,267,855,820.57 = 98.35%. 67 ÷ 2,025 = 3.31%. Those identities use packet facts only. They are not voter shares and not proof that Illinois ‘won’ or ‘lost’ a money race. Do not add $54,060,084.95 to $3,267,855,820.57.
Keep the labels glued to the numbers. $54,060,084.95 always travels with Illinois, IL, 2012, and 67 candidates. $3,267,855,820.57 always travels with the national 2012 cycle and 2,025 candidates. Source: FEC.gov candidate receipts grouped by election cycle and office state.
City-of-Chicago tables are a different site join
This page does not rank Illinois against other states, does not score votes, and does not treat receipts as cash on hand. Correlation is not causation. A two-column match is bookkeeping. Candidate names, donor names, and party splits are absent from the facts. Municipal or Cook County campaign reports are not FEC federal candidate receipts. $54,060,084.95 is the federal office-state cell only.
Do not claim $54,060,084.95 funded federal awards. Do not add Super PAC independent expenditures to Form 3 candidate receipts. Amended reports can move either total. If live hubs disagree with this extract, the newer FEC file controls.
Illinois campaign finance and 2012
The 2012 election cycle hub holds the national $3,267,855,820.57 overlay. Illinois campaign finance holds the state overlay across cycles. All election cycles lists other even-year windows. All FEC ties lists sibling cycle-and-state pages built the same way. FEC.gov is the source. Quote $54,060,084.95 only with office state IL and cycle 2012.
Questions
- How much did Illinois candidates raise in the 2012 cycle?
- FEC candidate receipts for office state Illinois (IL) in the 2012 cycle total $54,060,084.95 across 67 candidates. The national 2012 cycle total is $3,267,855,820.57 across 2,025 candidates, so the Illinois cell is 1.65% of that national book. Figures are from FEC.gov. They exclude independent expenditures.
- Is $54,060,084.95 the national 2012 total?
- No. $54,060,084.95 is Illinois office-state candidate receipts in 2012 only. $3,267,855,820.57 is the national cycle total. Other office states hold $3,213,795,735.62. Use the cycle hub for $3,267,855,820.57 and this tie page for the Illinois slice. Keep $54,060,084.95 on the Illinois line and $3,267,855,820.57 on the national 2012 line; they are different totals.
- Is $54,060,084.95 Illinois-resident giving?
- Not necessarily. Office state IL is the geography of the seat, not the donor’s home address. $54,060,084.95 is authorized-committee candidate receipts for Illinois federal offices in 2012. Itemized gifts from Illinois residents to out-of-state committees sit on other tables. This join does not publish a donor-state total.
- How many Illinois candidates are in the 2012 cell?
- The aggregate counts 67 candidates with office state Illinois in cycle 2012. That is the packet tally, not a published list of names. About $806,866.94 per candidate is $54,060,084.95 divided by 67. The packet does not split House, Senate, or presidential lines. Original filings remain on FEC.gov.
FEC.gov candidate receipts grouped by election cycle and office state. Not independent expenditures. Not a claim about federal spending.