Wisconsin (WI) candidate receipts, 2012 cycle

Wisconsin and the 2012 cycle as a two-column join

LobbyVault keeps a Wisconsin state page and a 2012 election-cycle page. Neither page is this join. The join is $56,562,378.06 from 28 candidates where cycle equals 2012 and office state equals WI. Against the national cycle total of $3,267,855,820.57, that is 1.7%. Other office states in the same cycle hold $3.2 billion.

Do not treat 1.7% as Wisconsin's share of donor dollars from Wisconsin residents. Donor geography is not in these facts. Do not treat 28 as unique people who live in Wisconsin. The count is candidates with office state WI in cycle 2012. The packet does not publish a unique-donor count, a party split, or an office (Senate versus House) split for this pair.

The 2012 cycle is a closed even-year window in this extract; $56,562,378.06 is the stored Wisconsin office-state total for that window. Wisconsin (WI) is the FEC office-state code. Minnesota, Illinois, and Michigan office states are separate keys. Dollar figures are candidate receipt aggregates from FEC.gov, not federal awards and not state-office filings. Independent expenditures are other files.

Wisconsin office-state receipts without a national mix-in

28 is a mid-size candidate file. 28 candidates produced $56,562,378.06. Mean about $2.02 million per candidate is $56,562,378.06 divided by 28. That ratio is not a typical campaign budget: a handful of statewide committees can dominate a mean while many House challengers file much smaller totals. No median is in the packet.

Wisconsin (WI) is the FEC office-state code. Minnesota, Illinois, and Michigan office states are separate keys. Keep WI on the name. Other states have their own 2012 ties. $56,562,378.06 is not a Wisconsin state-office total under state law. Open the Wisconsin campaign-finance hub for the all-cycle state mix; open this page for Wisconsin in 2012 only.

2012 as a presidential FEC window

On the cycle side, 2025 U.S. candidates produced $3,267,855,820.57. Repeat filings and amended reports can still sit inside a candidate count of 2025 as stored. The packet does not say how many unique humans those records represent beyond the candidate count given. About $1.61 million per U.S. candidate is a trivial division, not a finding about wealth. Presidential versus the other even-year type is a schedule fact for 2012, not an explanation of Wisconsin's $56.6 million.

Independent expenditures never enter these candidate-receipt totals. Committee operating expenditures as a separate table never enter them. State-office filings never enter them. This is a candidate-receipt cycle×office-state aggregate from FEC.gov. The 2012 cycle is a closed even-year window in this extract; $56,562,378.06 is the stored Wisconsin office-state total for that window.

1.7% of 2012 U.S. candidate receipts

Compared with the rest of the 2012 cycle, Wisconsin is 1.7% of candidate receipts ($56,562,378.06 of $3,267,855,820.57). The rest is $3,211,293,442.51. 28 is the Wisconsin candidate count only. Quote dollars and candidates as different columns. Mixing them produces a fake density statistic this packet does not support.

Do not rank Wisconsin as a winner or loser in 2012. This join has one office state and one cycle. Neighboring cycle-state pages are other keys. Wisconsin campaign finance still mixes years.

What 28 Wisconsin candidates are not

Candidate receipts are the only money on this page. 28 Wisconsin candidates sum to $56,562,378.06 in 2012. If a researcher needs donor-city cuts, those are other LobbyVault joins. If a researcher needs committee names, those are not in this packet. Do not invent donor names.

Office state WI is a candidate field. Cycle 2012 is an FEC tag. Together they are a join, not a story about why 28 candidates raised $56.6 million. Correlation is not causation. An office in Wisconsin does not locate the donors who funded the committee.

Using Wisconsin and 2012 links without mixing statutes

Public records, not accusations: $56,562,378.06 from 28 candidates is a disclosure aggregate. It is not evidence of coordination, quid pro quo, or local control. Correlation is not causation. Wisconsin × 2012 is a database join.

Researchers should keep WI as the stored office-state code and 2012 as the cycle tag. Wisconsin (WI) is the FEC office-state code. Minnesota, Illinois, and Michigan office states are separate keys. Source: FEC.gov candidate receipts grouped by election cycle and office state. Live hubs win if they disagree with this snapshot.

Questions

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

The state hub mixes every cycle stored for office state WI. This tie keeps only 2012, where receipts are $56,562,378.06 from 28 candidates. If you need Wisconsin without a year filter, use the state hub. If you need Wisconsin in 2012 only, use this page.

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 Wisconsin, where receipts are $56,562,378.06 from 28 candidates. The cycle hub is the parent row; this URL is one cell.

What does a mean of $2.02 million per Wisconsin candidate mean?

It is $56,562,378.06 divided by 28. 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.

Is the 2012 Wisconsin total a closed final number?

The 2012 cycle is a closed even-year window in this extract; $56,562,378.06 is the stored Wisconsin office-state total for that window. Amended candidate reports can still move $56,562,378.06. If the live Wisconsin hub or the live 2012 hub disagrees with this snapshot, use the newer FEC extract. This JSON file does not replace FEC.gov.