Pennsylvania federal candidates, 2012 FEC cycle

Reading $91.9 million as PA in cycle 2012

Headline number: $91,855,826.92 ($91.9 million). Candidate count: 63. National cycle receipts: $3,267,855,820.57 ($3.3 billion). National candidate count: 2025. Remainder outside Pennsylvania: $3,175,999,993.65. Share of the 2012 cycle: 2.8%. Those quantities are the join. Everything else on this page explains what they are and are not.

Pennsylvania in 2012 is not Pennsylvania in every year and is not 2012 in every state. Mixing those frames is how a hub restatement sneaks in. The 63 candidates exist only at the intersection. An PA office-state code does not mean the receipts came from Pennsylvania donors, and it does not mean the money funded federal contracts in Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania (PA) is the FEC office-state code. Ohio, New Jersey, Maryland, and New York office states are other keys. FEC.gov stores cycle 2012 as a presidential even-year window. Use that label for dating the receipts, not for ranking Pennsylvania against other states. Source: FEC.gov candidate receipts by cycle and office state.

Reading $91.9 million as an office-state book for 2012

The state dimension answers a different question than the national cycle. How much candidate-receipt money is stored under office state PA in cycle 2012? $91,855,826.92. How much of the U.S. 2012 candidate-receipt book is that? 2.8% ($91,855,826.92 of $3,267,855,820.57). The difference is $3,175,999,993.65 in other office states. Those are stack identities, not rankings.

Pennsylvania (PA) is the FEC office-state code. Ohio, New Jersey, Maryland, and New York office states are other keys. Candidates who filed with a different office-state code are excluded from $91,855,826.92 even if they campaigned in Pennsylvania media markets. Filers do not get recoded. This page does not invent their names.

National 2012 receipts versus the Pennsylvania slice

Cycle 2012 tagged 2025 U.S. candidate records for a national sum of $3,267,855,820.57. Pennsylvania is 63 of those candidates and $91,855,826.92 of those dollars. That is the cycle slice versus the state slice. It is a presidential window. It is not a ranking of Pennsylvania among states, because this packet has one geography.

Quote $3.3 billion only as the national 2012 candidate-receipt total. Quote $91.9 million only as the Pennsylvania office-state total inside that cycle. Swapping the labels is the main citation error this page is written to block.

The complement: $3.2 billion outside Pennsylvania

The complement of the join inside the national cycle book is $3,175,999,993.65 (97.2%). That money is still cycle 2012; it is just not tagged office state PA. The join itself remains $91,855,826.92 / 63 candidates / Pennsylvania. Keep the complement and the join distinct in citations.

2.8% is not a turnout rate, not a share of Pennsylvania itemized individual dollars, and not a share of federal awards in Pennsylvania. Those denominators are absent. Use only $3,267,855,820.57 when stating the cycle share.

Receipts, not independent expenditures

What the table includes: FEC candidate receipts with office state PA and cycle 2012, summing to $91,855,826.92 across 63 candidates, against a national cycle $3,267,855,820.57 from 2025 candidates. What it excludes: everything else. That exclusion list is how this page stays a join instead of a hub restatement.

About $1.46 million per Pennsylvania candidate should never be quoted as a typical Pennsylvania campaign. Typical would need a median and an office-type split. This extract has neither. 63 candidates can hide a lopsided mix of large and small committees — both directions are possible and neither is measured here.

How to cite the pair

Citation template: office state Pennsylvania (PA), election cycle 2012 (presidential), $91,855,826.92 in candidate receipts from 63 candidates, national cycle $3,267,855,820.57 from 2025 candidates, share 2.8%, remainder $3,175,999,993.65, Pennsylvania mean about $1.46 million per candidate. Source: FEC.gov via LobbyVault cycle-state aggregates.

Then send the reader to the live 2012 election cycle page, the Pennsylvania campaign-finance hub, all election cycles, and all FEC ties. If you need donor cuts of Pennsylvania, those are other joins, not this file. This file stays on one office state and one cycle.

Pennsylvania in 2012 can be cited in one sentence without losing the join: office-state candidates in PA reported $91,855,826.92 on a file of 63 candidates, inside a national 2012 candidate-receipt total of $3,267,855,820.57 from 2025 candidates, for a dollar share of 2.8%. That sentence uses every packet dollar column once. A second sentence can add the complement $3,175,999,993.65 and the two means, $1.46 million in Pennsylvania and $1.61 million 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. Pennsylvania (PA) is the FEC office-state code. Ohio, New Jersey, Maryland, and New York office states are other keys. The 2012 cycle is a closed even-year window in this extract; $91,855,826.92 is the stored Pennsylvania office-state total for that window. Those three sentences are still the same join. They are not a restatement of the Pennsylvania hub and they are not a restatement of the 2012 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 2012 and office state PA.

Questions

How does Pennsylvania in 2012 differ from the Pennsylvania state hub?

The state hub mixes every cycle stored for office state PA. This tie keeps only 2012, where receipts are $91,855,826.92 from 63 candidates. If you need Pennsylvania without a year filter, use the state hub. If you need Pennsylvania in 2012 only, use this page. The two pages share a geography noun and different denominators.

How does this page differ from the 2012 election cycle hub?

The cycle hub mixes every office state. National receipts are $3,267,855,820.57 from 2025 candidates. This page keeps only Pennsylvania, where receipts are $91,855,826.92 from 63 candidates. The cycle hub is the parent row; this URL is one cell. Do not cite the parent total as the Pennsylvania cell.

What does a mean of $1.46 million per Pennsylvania candidate mean?

It is $91,855,826.92 divided by 63. It is not a median, not a typical House budget, and not a unique-person average. A few large statewide committees can pull the mean up. The packet does not publish a median or an office-type split, so this page does not invent one.

Is the 2012 Pennsylvania total a closed final number?

The 2012 cycle is a closed even-year window in this extract; $91,855,826.92 is the stored Pennsylvania office-state total for that window. Amended candidate reports can still move $91,855,826.92. If the live Pennsylvania hub or the live 2012 hub disagrees with this snapshot, use the newer FEC extract. This JSON file does not replace FEC.gov and is not a third disclosure system.