Virginia candidate fundraising — 2012 cycle

Virginia office state inside the 2012 cycle

Virginia office-state candidates reported $63,554,114 in the 2012 FEC.gov candidate-receipt table. That figure is Virginia candidate-committee receipts for federal office in office state VA during the 2012 cycle, as grouped on FEC.gov. The matching national book is $3,267,855,821 ($3.27 billion) across 2,025 candidates. Virginia is 1.9% of those cycle dollars and 2.3% of the cycle candidate roster. This page exists because the two dimensions meet. It is not a restatement of the 2012 cycle hub alone and not a restatement of the Virginia state hub across every cycle.

Virginia’s 2012 cell is not a restatement of other Virginia cycle pages. Each even-year cycle has its own office-state total on FEC.gov. Forty-six Virginia office-state candidates produced the cell; the 2012 cycle lists 2,025 candidates across all office states. Candidate receipts here are committee-side totals for the office-state filter. They are not independent expenditures, not a Schedule A donor directory, and not USAspending award dollars. The cycle hub lives at /election-cycles/2012/; the Virginia hub lives at /states/VA/. Every cycle is indexed at /election-cycles/, and sibling joins sit at /ties/.

Forty-six Virginia candidates and $63.6 million

Virginia’s 2012 cell holds $63,554,114 ($63.6 million) from 46 office-state candidates. Dividing receipts by that candidate count gives an arithmetic mean of about $1,381,611 per listed candidate. That mean is a ratio of two FEC columns. It is not a median, not a typical itemized contribution, and not evidence that each campaign raised the same amount. The Virginia hub at /states/VA/ mixes cycles; this tie freezes 2012 only.

The 2012 cycle remainder outside Virginia

The 2012 cycle table on FEC.gov shows $3,267,855,821 in candidate receipts nationwide and 2,025 candidates. After removing Virginia, $3,204,301,706 and 1,979 candidates remain in other office states. Those remainder figures are arithmetic (cycle minus state). They are not a second FEC file. Opening only this tie would hide that remainder. The 2012 hub at /election-cycles/2012/ keeps the full book; /election-cycles/ lists every cycle; /ties/ lists other two-key joins.

Virginia 2012: IEs and awards stay out

This join does not count independent expenditures, party coordinated expenditures, or unitemized receipts that never entered the candidate-receipt aggregate. It does not name donors. It does not say FEC receipts funded federal awards on USAspending.gov; those are different datasets even when the geography string matches. Office state VA is the seat sought, not the mailing state of contributors. Correlation between a busy cycle and a large state cell is not causation and not an election-outcome claim. Quote $63,554,114 as Virginia in 2012, and quote $3,267,855,821 as the 2012 national total — never as each other.

Cycle and state indexes for Virginia 2012

Read /states/VA/ for Virginia campaign-finance totals that mix cycles. Read /election-cycles/2012/ for the 2012 cycle across every office state. Read /election-cycles/ for the cycle index and /ties/ for other FEC two-dimension pages. This URL, Virginia × 2012, is only the overlap: 46 candidates and $63,554,114 in receipts, sourced to FEC.gov candidate receipts grouped by election cycle and office state.

Office state on this page is the state of the federal office. A Senate or House candidate listed with office state VA enters the Virginia cell for 2012 even if some receipts were raised out of state. A donor who lives in Virginia and gives to a different office state does not enter this cell by residence. The Virginia hub at /states/VA/ is the broader state view; this tie freezes one cycle.

Cite two lines, never one: 2012 Virginia office-state candidate receipts $63,554,114 from 46 candidates, and 2012 national candidate receipts $3,267,855,821 from 2,025 candidates. The first line is the join cell. The second is the cycle book. FEC.gov is the source for both. Canonical path: /ties/2012-virginia-candidate-receipts/.

Virginia is 46 of 2,025 candidates in the 2012 table. The $63.6 million cell is not the $3.27 billion cycle book. A later FEC bulk file can move Virginia’s 2012 cell and the 2012 cycle book together; this snapshot stores $63,554,114 and $3,267,855,821 as harvested. Independent expenditures remain outside both columns. Donor names are not in this FEC grouping.

Questions

How much did Virginia federal candidates raise in 2012?

$63,554,114 is FEC.gov candidate receipts for federal office in Virginia during the 2012 cycle. It is not the $3.27 billion national cycle total and not independent expenditures. Office state is the seat, not donor home address. Forty-six is the candidate count for office state VA.

What did the 2012 cycle raise nationwide?

The 2012 cycle book on FEC.gov is $3,267,855,821 across 2,025 candidates nationwide. Virginia is 46 of those candidates and $63,554,114 of those receipts (1.9% of cycle dollars). Keep the Virginia cell and the cycle total on separate lines.

Are independent expenditures in the Virginia 2012 total?

No. This page is candidate committee receipts grouped by election cycle 2012 and office state VA. It does not name individual donors, does not sum PAC independent expenditures, and does not treat FEC receipts as USAspending awards. The source note excludes independent expenditures.

How do I open Virginia or 2012 without this join?

Use /election-cycles/2012/ for the 2012 national cycle hub and /states/VA/ for Virginia across cycles. All election cycles live at /election-cycles/. Sibling cycle-state joins live at /ties/. Those hubs mix other cycles or other states. FEC.gov candidate receipts are the source for both columns on this join.