Candidate receipts in Texas for 2012

Texas 2012 dollars versus the U.S. 2012 total

The 2012 × Texas join is a database match, not a narrative about a race. $131.1 million entered the extract because candidate records carried cycle 2012 and office state TX at the same time. 192 is the matching candidate count. $3.3 billion is what remains when the office-state filter is lifted for the same cycle.

192 is a relatively large candidate file for this office state. Arithmetic mean receipts per Texas candidate are about $682,869 ($131,110,842.76 / 192). 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 Texas campaigns were expensive or cheap.

Office state is not donor state. Texas (TX) is the FEC office-state code. Oklahoma, New Mexico, Louisiana, and Arkansas office states remain on their own cycle-state pages. The 2012 cycle is a closed even-year window in this extract; $131,110,842.76 is the stored Texas office-state total for that window. Independent expenditures and USAspending tables do not feed $131,110,842.76. Source: FEC.gov.

Texas candidates, not Texas donors

Candidate receipts for office state Texas in 2012 are $131.1 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.

192 candidates is a count of candidate records in the join, not a count of Texas households and not a turnout figure. The 2012 cycle is a closed even-year window in this extract; $131,110,842.76 is the stored Texas 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 $131.1 million because the cycle includes every office state, not because Texas is being compared with a second state on this URL. 2025 is larger than 192 for the same reason. 4.0% 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; $131,110,842.76 is the stored Texas 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 $131,110,842.76, the newer FEC extract controls.

$131.1 million versus $3.3 billion

Never write that Texas raised $3.3 billion. $3.3 billion is the national 2012 candidate-receipt total. Never write that the United States raised only $131.1 million in 2012. $131.1 million is the Texas office-state total. The two columns are labeled stateRaised and cycleRaised in the packet for that reason.

4.0% 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 Texas Senate or House committee. A Texas resident can fund a candidate whose office state is not TX. This page tracks the second field only: office state. It does not track the first.

Because donor geography is absent, $131,110,842.76 is not 'money from Texas.' It is 'money reported by candidates whose office state is Texas' in 2012. That sentence is the accurate one. Source: FEC.gov.

FEC receipts are not federal awards in Texas

USAspending publishes federal obligations by place and agency. FEC publishes campaign finance. $131,110,842.76 does not become an award total because Texas 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; $131,110,842.76 is the stored Texas 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.

Readers sometimes arrive from a Texas search and assume $3,267,855,820.57 is local, or arrive from a 2012 search and assume $131,110,842.76 is national. Both misreadings are prevented by keeping the office-state noun and the cycle noun in every dollar sentence. $131.1 million is local to office state TX in 2012. $3.3 billion is national for 2012. 192 is the Texas candidate file. 2025 is the U.S. candidate file. Independent expenditures remain outside both files as used here. Federal spending awards remain outside both files. The 2012 cycle is a closed even-year window in this extract; $131,110,842.76 is the stored Texas office-state total for that window. Texas (TX) is the FEC office-state code. Oklahoma, New Mexico, Louisiana, and Arkansas office states remain on their own cycle-state pages. If this snapshot and a live hub diverge, the live FEC extract wins. This JSON object is a labeled copy of packet facts, not a parallel disclosure system and not a scoreboard of Texas politics in 2012.

Questions

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

FEC candidate receipts for office state Texas (TX) total $131,110,842.76 in the 2012 cycle, across 192 candidates. The national 2012 cycle totals $3,267,855,820.57 from 2025 candidates, so Texas is 4.0% 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 Texas candidates raised in 2012?

No. $3,267,855,820.57 is the national 2012 candidate-receipt total. Texas's office-state total in that cycle is $131,110,842.76. Other office states hold $3,136,744,977.81. Use the 2012 cycle hub for the U.S. figure and this tie page for the Texas slice only. Independent expenditures are omitted from both totals as shown here.

Does office state TX mean the donors lived in Texas?

No. Office state is the state of the federal seat on the candidate record. Donors can live anywhere. This join does not allocate the $131,110,842.76 by donor state, employer, or party. An TX office-state code is not a map of Texas residents and is not a map of where the money was spent. No donor names are in this packet.

How many Texas candidates are in the 2012 file?

192 candidate records sum to $131,110,842.76. That count is candidates, not unique donors and not Texas households. The arithmetic mean is about $682,869 per candidate. Independent expenditures are not included. Unique-donor counts are not in these facts and are not invented here.