Who raised $52.2 million in Colorado in 2014?

32 federal candidates with office state CO in cycle 2014, in aggregate. This packet does not list their names, parties, or offices. Inventing a candidate or donor name would exceed the facts. Use live candidate pages for names.

Why is $1,664,069,869.80 on a Colorado page?

Because this is a join. $1,664,069,869.80 is the national 2014 denominator that makes 3.1% computable. It is not additional Colorado money. Colorado money in 2014 remains $52,192,216.78. Cite the national figure only as the cycle total.

Does 32 include state-legislature candidates in Colorado?

No. These are FEC candidate records for federal office, grouped by office state CO. Colorado state-office campaigns file under state law, not in this FEC candidate-receipt join. 32 is the federal candidate count in the packet.

Where should I go next from this Colorado 2014 tie?

Open the 2014 election cycle for the national year, Colorado campaign finance for the all-cycle state mix, all election cycles for other windows, and all FEC ties for other two-dimension pages. Those four hrefs are the only internal links this packet authorizes.

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Colorado federal candidates in the 2014 cycle

The 2014 cycle captured $52,192,216.78 in candidate receipts for Colorado office-state filings, from 32 candidates. That slice sits inside a national cycle book of $1,664,069,869.80. 3.1% of 2014 U.S. candidate receipts in this extract is the Colorado office-state join; 96.9% ($1.6 billion) was raised by candidates whose office state is not CO. Source: FEC.gov.

Key figures

$52.2 million is Colorado (CO) candidate receipts in 2014, not the U.S. cycle total of $1.7 billion.
32 Colorado candidates versus 1671 U.S. candidates in the same midterm cycle.
Other office states hold $1.6 billion (96.9%) of 2014 candidate receipts.
Independent expenditures and USAspending awards are outside these FEC candidate-receipt columns.
Source: FEC.gov candidate receipts grouped by election cycle and office state.

Reading $52.2 million as cycle 2014 in CO

Headline number: $52,192,216.78 ($52.2 million). Candidate count: 32. National cycle receipts: $1,664,069,869.80 ($1.7 billion). National candidate count: 1671. Remainder outside Colorado: $1,611,877,653.02. Share of the 2014 cycle: 3.1%. Those quantities are the join. Everything else on this page explains what they are and are not.

Colorado in 2014 is not Colorado in every year and is not 2014 in every state. Mixing those frames is how a hub restatement sneaks in. The 32 candidates exist only at the intersection. An CO office-state code does not mean the receipts came from Colorado donors, and it does not mean the money funded federal contracts in Colorado.

Colorado (CO) is the FEC office-state code. Wyoming, Utah, and New Mexico office states are not recoded into CO. FEC.gov stores cycle 2014 as a midterm even-year window. Use that label for dating the receipts, not for ranking Colorado against other states. Source: FEC.gov candidate receipts by cycle and office state.

Reading $52.2 million as an office-state book for 2014

The state dimension answers a different question than the national cycle. How much candidate-receipt money is stored under office state CO in cycle 2014? $52,192,216.78. How much of the U.S. 2014 candidate-receipt book is that? 3.1% ($52,192,216.78 of $1,664,069,869.80). The difference is $1,611,877,653.02 in other office states. Those are stack identities, not rankings.

Colorado (CO) is the FEC office-state code. Wyoming, Utah, and New Mexico office states are not recoded into CO. Candidates who filed with a different office-state code are excluded from $52,192,216.78 even if they campaigned in Colorado media markets. Filers do not get recoded. This page does not invent their names.

National 2014 receipts versus the Colorado slice

Cycle 2014 tagged 1671 U.S. candidate records for a national sum of $1,664,069,869.80. Colorado is 32 of those candidates and $52,192,216.78 of those dollars. That is the cycle slice versus the state slice. It is a midterm window. It is not a ranking of Colorado among states, because this packet has one geography.

Quote $1.7 billion only as the national 2014 candidate-receipt total. Quote $52.2 million only as the Colorado office-state total inside that cycle. Swapping the labels is the main citation error this page is written to block.

The complement: $1.6 billion outside Colorado

The complement of the join inside the national cycle book is $1,611,877,653.02 (96.9%). That money is still cycle 2014; it is just not tagged office state CO. The join itself remains $52,192,216.78 / 32 candidates / Colorado. Keep the complement and the join distinct in citations.

3.1% is not a turnout rate, not a share of Colorado itemized individual dollars, and not a share of federal awards in Colorado. Those denominators are absent. Use only $1,664,069,869.80 when stating the cycle share.

Receipts, not independent expenditures

What the table includes: FEC candidate receipts with office state CO and cycle 2014, summing to $52,192,216.78 across 32 candidates, against a national cycle $1,664,069,869.80 from 1671 candidates. What it excludes: everything else. That exclusion list is how this page stays a join instead of a hub restatement.

About $1.63 million per Colorado candidate should never be quoted as a typical Colorado campaign. Typical would need a median and an office-type split. This extract has neither. 32 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 Colorado (CO), election cycle 2014 (midterm), $52,192,216.78 in candidate receipts from 32 candidates, national cycle $1,664,069,869.80 from 1671 candidates, share 3.1%, remainder $1,611,877,653.02, Colorado mean about $1.63 million per candidate. Source: FEC.gov via LobbyVault cycle-state aggregates.

Then send the reader to the live 2014 election cycle page, the Colorado campaign-finance hub, all election cycles, and all FEC ties. If you need donor cuts of Colorado, those are other joins, not this file. This file stays on one office state and one cycle.

Questions

Who raised $52.2 million in Colorado in 2014?: 32 federal candidates with office state CO in cycle 2014, in aggregate. This packet does not list their names, parties, or offices. Inventing a candidate or donor name would exceed the facts. Use live candidate pages for names.
Why is $1,664,069,869.80 on a Colorado page?: Because this is a join. $1,664,069,869.80 is the national 2014 denominator that makes 3.1% computable. It is not additional Colorado money. Colorado money in 2014 remains $52,192,216.78. Cite the national figure only as the cycle total.
Does 32 include state-legislature candidates in Colorado?: No. These are FEC candidate records for federal office, grouped by office state CO. Colorado state-office campaigns file under state law, not in this FEC candidate-receipt join. 32 is the federal candidate count in the packet.
Where should I go next from this Colorado 2014 tie?: Open the 2014 election cycle for the national year, Colorado campaign finance for the all-cycle state mix, all election cycles for other windows, and all FEC ties for other two-dimension pages. Those four hrefs are the only internal links this packet authorizes.

FEC.gov candidate receipts grouped by election cycle and office state. Not independent expenditures. Not a claim about federal spending.