Washington candidate receipts in the 2012 cycle

Washington State office codes in cycle 2012

Two filters are true at once: election cycle 2012, and office state WA (Washington). Only rows that match both produce $36,836,077.13 from 49 candidates. The 2012 election-cycle hub still mixes every office state and therefore shows $3,267,855,820.57. The Washington campaign-finance hub still mixes every cycle. $36,836,077.13 lives only at the intersection. A restatement of 2012 would still mix states. A restatement of Washington 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 Washington office-state candidate can come from any state. The office-state code is WA for Washington State. District of Columbia is a different key and is not this page. 2012 is a presidential two-year FEC window. The join is not a single November date. This join does not list donors, does not name candidates, and does not allocate $36,836,077.13 by House, Senate, or presidential line.

Forty-nine Washington office-state candidates underlie $36,836,077.13. Mean receipts are about $751,756.68 per candidate. The packet does not publish a median. The national 2012 tally is 2,025 candidates. Washington’s candidate count is 2.42% of the national candidate count, while its receipts are 1.13% of $3,267,855,820.57. Those two shares are not required to match. Mean receipts in the cell are about $751,756.68 per candidate ($36,836,077.13 ÷ 49). The national mean is about $1,613,755.96 ($3,267,855,820.57 ÷ 2,025). Means are arithmetic. They are not medians.

Washington’s $36,836,077.13 is office state WA, 2012

$36,836,077.13 is Washington candidate receipts inside cycle 2012 only. It is not Washington’s lifetime total across cycles, and it is not itemized individual giving by Washington residents. Donor-city and occupation tables are other joins. Citing $3,267,855,820.57 as a Washington figure mixes the national cycle hub into this cell. Citing $36,836,077.13 as the 2012 national total mixes the cell into the cycle hub.

49 is the candidate count attached to office state WA 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 Primary challengers, withdrawn filings, and general-election nominees can all sit in an FEC candidate count; this page does not split them.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 Washington 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.

The 2012 national candidate-receipt total

$3,267,855,820.57 is the national 2012 candidate-receipt total across 2,025 candidates. Subtracting the Washington cell leaves $3,231,019,743.44 in other office states. 1.13% is a dollar share of the national cycle, not a share of Electoral College votes, House seats, or population. 2.42% 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 $36,836,077.13 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.

WA dollars as a slice of $3,267,855,820.57

$36,836,077.13 ÷ $3,267,855,820.57 = 1.13%. $3,231,019,743.44 ÷ $3,267,855,820.57 = 98.87%. 49 ÷ 2,025 = 2.42%. Those identities use packet facts only. They are not voter shares and not proof that Washington ‘won’ or ‘lost’ a money race. Do not add $36,836,077.13 to $3,267,855,820.57.

Keep the labels glued to the numbers. $36,836,077.13 always travels with Washington, WA, 2012, and 49 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.

Not Washington, D.C., and not federal awards

This page does not rank Washington 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. Tech-employer occupation pages are other joins. Do not add those employer totals to $36,836,077.13. This cell is WA × 2012 candidate receipts.

Do not claim $36,836,077.13 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.

Washington campaign finance and 2012

The 2012 election cycle hub holds the national $3,267,855,820.57 overlay. Washington 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 $36,836,077.13 only with office state WA and cycle 2012.

Questions

How much did Washington candidates raise in the 2012 cycle?

FEC candidate receipts for office state Washington (WA) in the 2012 cycle total $36,836,077.13 across 49 candidates. The national 2012 cycle total is $3,267,855,820.57 across 2,025 candidates, so the Washington cell is 1.13% of that national book. Figures are from FEC.gov. They exclude independent expenditures.

Is $36,836,077.13 the national 2012 total?

No. $36,836,077.13 is Washington office-state candidate receipts in 2012 only. $3,267,855,820.57 is the national cycle total. Other office states hold $3,231,019,743.44. Use the cycle hub for $3,267,855,820.57 and this tie page for the Washington slice. Keep $36,836,077.13 on the Washington line and $3,267,855,820.57 on the national 2012 line; they are different totals.

Did Washington State residents give $36,836,077.13?

Not necessarily. Office state WA is the geography of the seat, not the donor’s home address. $36,836,077.13 is authorized-committee candidate receipts for Washington federal offices in 2012. Itemized gifts from Washington residents to out-of-state committees sit on other tables. This join does not publish a donor-state total.

How many Washington candidates are in the 2012 cell?

The aggregate counts 49 candidates with office state Washington in cycle 2012. That is the packet tally, not a published list of names. About $751,756.68 per candidate is $36,836,077.13 divided by 49. The packet does not split House, Senate, or presidential lines. Original filings remain on FEC.gov.