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

FEC candidate receipts for office state Massachusetts (MA) total $92,548,582.77 in the 2012 cycle, across 42 candidates. The national 2012 cycle totals $3,267,855,820.57 from 2025 candidates, so Massachusetts is 2.8% 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 Massachusetts candidates raised in 2012?

No. $3,267,855,820.57 is the national 2012 candidate-receipt total. Massachusetts's office-state total in that cycle is $92,548,582.77. Other office states hold $3,175,307,237.80. Use the 2012 cycle hub for the U.S. figure and this tie page for the Massachusetts slice only. Independent expenditures are omitted from both totals as shown here.

Does office state MA mean the donors lived in Massachusetts?

No. Office state is the state of the federal seat on the candidate record. Donors can live anywhere. This join does not allocate the $92,548,582.77 by donor state, employer, or party. An MA office-state code is not a map of Massachusetts residents and is not a map of where the money was spent. No donor names are in this packet.

How many Massachusetts candidates are in the 2012 file?

42 candidate records sum to $92,548,582.77. That count is candidates, not unique donors and not Massachusetts households. The arithmetic mean is about $2.20 million per candidate. Independent expenditures are not included. Unique-donor counts are not in these facts and are not invented here.

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2012 election cycle: Massachusetts candidate receipts

FEC.gov groups $92,548,582.77 to Massachusetts (MA) in cycle 2012: 42 candidates, candidate-committee receipts only. The matching national cycle total is $3,267,855,820.57 from 2025 candidates. $92.5 million sits inside $3.3 billion; it is not a second U.S. total. LobbyVault publishes the two-key overlap. These figures are not donor names, not PAC independent expenditures, and not federal award dollars.

Key figures

Massachusetts office-state candidates reported $92,548,582.77 in the 2012 FEC cycle across 42 candidates.
The national 2012 candidate-receipt total is $3,267,855,820.57 from 2025 candidates; Massachusetts is 2.8% of that cycle.
This page joins election cycle 2012 with office state Massachusetts; it is not the state hub or the national cycle hub.
Office state is not donor state; the $92,548,582.77 is not allocated by donor geography or party here.
Mean receipts are about $2.20 million per Massachusetts candidate ($92,548,582.77 / 42), not a median.

The 2012 cycle × Massachusetts office-state join

Two filters produce $92,548,582.77. Filter one is FEC cycle 2012. Filter two is office state MA (Massachusetts). 42 candidate records survive both. $3,267,855,820.57 is the cycle dimension with the state filter removed. Divide $92,548,582.77 by $3,267,855,820.57 and Massachusetts is 2.8% of the national 2012 candidate-receipt stack; $3,175,307,237.80 (97.2%) sits in other office states.

The Massachusetts hub still lists every cycle. The 2012 hub still lists every state. Citing either hub as if it were this page misstates the denominator. 42 candidates and $92.5 million are the intersection only. Office state is a candidate field, not a map of where contributors live and not a map of where committees are headquartered.

Massachusetts (MA) is the FEC office-state code. New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut office states stay separate. Cycle 2012 is tagged as a presidential window on FEC.gov. Presidential versus midterm is a schedule label, not a finding about Massachusetts turnout or ideology. Independent expenditures are omitted from $92,548,582.77. USAspending awards are a different statute. Source: FEC.gov.

What 42 Massachusetts candidates represent

$92,548,582.77 is the Massachusetts office-state book for 2012 in this extract — every party, every federal office type in the candidate file, so long as office state stored MA and cycle stored 2012. 42 is the candidate count for that pair. The packet does not split Senate versus House, and this page does not invent that split.

Massachusetts pages still include other years. The 2012 hub still includes other states. This join keeps both nouns in the sentence: Massachusetts and 2012. Massachusetts (MA) is the FEC office-state code. New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut office states stay separate. Office state is the seat's state on the candidate record, not Census residence of contributors.

What cycle 2012 contributes to this page

2012 is a presidential even-year FEC cycle. Nationally it shows 2025 candidates totaling $3,267,855,820.57. Inside it, Massachusetts shows 42 candidates totaling $92,548,582.77. National mean about $1.61 million; Massachusetts mean about $2.20 million. Those ratios use only packet facts. They are not household income and not a unique-person average.

The 2012 election-cycle hub mixes Massachusetts with every other office state. This page does not. If a citation needs Massachusetts in 2012, use this tie. If a citation needs all of 2012 nationally, use the cycle hub. If a citation needs all of Massachusetts across years, use the state hub. Three different denominators.

How large Massachusetts is inside $3.3 billion

$92,548,582.77 ÷ $3,267,855,820.57 = 2.8%. $3,175,307,237.80 ÷ $3,267,855,820.57 = 97.2%. Those identities use the packet's state total and cycle total only. They do not use 42 except as a separate candidate count. Do not convert 42 into a percentage of 2025 and then treat that percentage as dollars.

A 2.8% dollar share means most of the 2012 candidate-receipt book sits in other office states ($3.2 billion). That is a description of this table, not a claim that Massachusetts was quiet or loud in 2012 politics. Other states are not itemized on this page.

Candidates are not donors

42 is a candidate-record count. $92,548,582.77 is a dollar sum of candidate receipts. $2.20 million is their ratio. None of those is a unique-donor count. None is a median. None is a party split. The packet did not include those fields, so this page does not publish them.

Omitted from $92,548,582.77: independent expenditures, non-candidate PAC spending as a separate total, unitemized tables not rolled into these candidate receipts, and USAspending obligations. Omitted from the cycle comparison: any cycle other than 2012, except as context that the Massachusetts hub still mixes years.

What this join does not prove

Cite the join with both sides: Massachusetts (MA) and the 2012 election cycle. Dropping either side turns $92,548,582.77 into a hub number it is not. 42 candidates and a mean near $2.20 million stay attached to that pair. $3,267,855,820.57 is the national cycle book, not the join.

FEC candidate receipts are not USAspending awards. This packet has no obligation dollars. Do not add $92,548,582.77 to federal spending in Massachusetts. Campaign receipts and federal awards are different statutes even when both mention Massachusetts. Open the four internal links: 2012 election cycle; Massachusetts campaign finance; all election cycles; all FEC ties.

Questions

How much did Massachusetts candidates raise in the 2012 election cycle?: FEC candidate receipts for office state Massachusetts (MA) total $92,548,582.77 in the 2012 cycle, across 42 candidates. The national 2012 cycle totals $3,267,855,820.57 from 2025 candidates, so Massachusetts is 2.8% 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 Massachusetts candidates raised in 2012?: No. $3,267,855,820.57 is the national 2012 candidate-receipt total. Massachusetts's office-state total in that cycle is $92,548,582.77. Other office states hold $3,175,307,237.80. Use the 2012 cycle hub for the U.S. figure and this tie page for the Massachusetts slice only. Independent expenditures are omitted from both totals as shown here.
Does office state MA mean the donors lived in Massachusetts?: No. Office state is the state of the federal seat on the candidate record. Donors can live anywhere. This join does not allocate the $92,548,582.77 by donor state, employer, or party. An MA office-state code is not a map of Massachusetts residents and is not a map of where the money was spent. No donor names are in this packet.
How many Massachusetts candidates are in the 2012 file?: 42 candidate records sum to $92,548,582.77. That count is candidates, not unique donors and not Massachusetts households. The arithmetic mean is about $2.20 million 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.