Illinois candidate fundraising — 2014 cycle

How the 2014 cycle joins Illinois office state

Illinois office-state candidates reported $59,890,083 in FEC.gov receipts for the 2014 election cycle. That figure is Illinois candidate-committee receipts for federal office in office state IL during the 2014 cycle, as grouped on FEC.gov. The matching national book is $1,664,069,870 ($1.66 billion) across 1,671 candidates. Illinois is 3.6% of those cycle dollars and 3.4% of the cycle candidate roster. This page exists because the two dimensions meet. It is not a restatement of the 2014 cycle hub alone and not a restatement of the Illinois state hub across every cycle.

The 2014 join is cycle year plus office state IL, not a Chicago donor-residence file and not an Illinois State Board of Elections extract. Fifty-seven Illinois office-state candidates produced that cell against 1,671 candidates in the 2014 cycle table. 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/2014/; the Illinois hub lives at /states/IL/. Every cycle is indexed at /election-cycles/, and sibling joins sit at /ties/.

Illinois’s $59.9 million candidate-receipt cell

Illinois’s 2014 cell holds $59,890,083 ($59.9 million) from 57 office-state candidates. Dividing receipts by that candidate count gives an arithmetic mean of about $1,050,703 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 Illinois hub at /states/IL/ mixes cycles; this tie freezes 2014 only.

The 2014 national cycle book

The 2014 cycle table on FEC.gov shows $1,664,069,870 in candidate receipts nationwide and 1,671 candidates. After removing Illinois, $1,604,179,786 and 1,614 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 2014 hub at /election-cycles/2014/ keeps the full book; /election-cycles/ lists every cycle; /ties/ lists other two-key joins.

What this Illinois–2014 join does not count

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 IL 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 $59,890,083 as Illinois in 2014, and quote $1,664,069,870 as the 2014 national total — never as each other.

Reading the cycle hub and the Illinois hub

Read /states/IL/ for Illinois campaign-finance totals that mix cycles. Read /election-cycles/2014/ for the 2014 cycle across every office state. Read /election-cycles/ for the cycle index and /ties/ for other FEC two-dimension pages. This URL, Illinois × 2014, is only the overlap: 57 candidates and $59,890,083 in receipts, sourced to FEC.gov candidate receipts grouped by election cycle and office state.

Cite two lines, never one: 2014 Illinois office-state candidate receipts $59,890,083 from 57 candidates, and 2014 national candidate receipts $1,664,069,870 from 1,671 candidates. The first line is the join cell. The second is the cycle book. FEC.gov is the source for both. Canonical path: /ties/2014-illinois-candidate-receipts/.

Office state IL is the federal seat, not a donor mailing-state roll-up. Independent expenditures and USAspending awards are outside this table. A later FEC bulk file can move Illinois’s 2014 cell and the 2014 cycle book together; this snapshot stores $59,890,083 and $1,664,069,870 as harvested. Independent expenditures remain outside both columns. Donor names are not in this FEC grouping.

Office state IL is a federal-seat code on candidate filings, not a contributor ZIP roll-up and not a state-office ethics filing. 57 candidates produced $59,890,083 inside 2014. Other office states hold the remaining $1,604,179,786 of the $1.66 billion cycle book. All FEC ties at /ties/ lists sibling cycle-state pages so this overlap is not mistaken for the full Illinois hub.

Questions

How much did Illinois federal candidates raise in 2014?

$59,890,083 is FEC.gov candidate receipts for federal office in Illinois during the 2014 cycle. It is not the $1.66 billion national cycle total and not independent expenditures. Office state is the seat, not donor home address. The 57-candidate roster is the office-state count, not a unique-donor count.

What was the 2014 national FEC candidate-receipt total?

The 2014 cycle book on FEC.gov is $1,664,069,870 across 1,671 candidates nationwide. Illinois is 57 of those candidates and $59,890,083 of those receipts (3.6% of cycle dollars). Do not substitute the Illinois cell for the cycle book.

Does this page list Illinois donors?

No. This page is candidate committee receipts grouped by election cycle 2014 and office state IL. It does not name individual donors, does not sum PAC independent expenditures, and does not treat FEC receipts as USAspending awards. Candidate receipts are committee-side totals for the office-state filter.

Where are the 2014 cycle and Illinois state hubs?

Use /election-cycles/2014/ for the 2014 national cycle hub and /states/IL/ for Illinois across cycles. All election cycles live at /election-cycles/. Sibling cycle-state joins live at /ties/. This tie is the overlap, not a reprint of either hub.