2014 cycle: Iowa candidate receipts

What the 2014 × Iowa overlap is

Two filters produce $50,010,474.20. Filter one is FEC cycle 2014. Filter two is office state IA (Iowa). 31 candidate records survive both. $1,664,069,869.80 is the cycle dimension with the state filter removed. Divide $50,010,474.20 by $1,664,069,869.80 and Iowa is 3.0% of the national 2014 candidate-receipt stack; $1,614,059,395.60 (97.0%) sits in other office states.

The Iowa hub still lists every cycle. The 2014 hub still lists every state. Citing either hub as if it were this page misstates the denominator. 31 candidates and $50.0 million are the intersection only. Office state is a candidate field, not a map of where contributors live and not a map of where committees are headquartered.

Iowa (IA) is the FEC office-state code. Minnesota, Illinois, and Nebraska office states remain on their own pages. Cycle 2014 is tagged as a midterm window on FEC.gov. Presidential versus midterm is a schedule label, not a finding about Iowa turnout or ideology. Independent expenditures are omitted from $50,010,474.20. USAspending awards are a different statute. Source: FEC.gov.

What 31 Iowa candidates represent

$50,010,474.20 is the Iowa office-state book for 2014 in this extract — every party, every federal office type in the candidate file, so long as office state stored IA and cycle stored 2014. 31 is the candidate count for that pair. The packet does not split Senate versus House, and this page does not invent that split.

Iowa pages still include other years. The 2014 hub still includes other states. This join keeps both nouns in the sentence: Iowa and 2014. Iowa (IA) is the FEC office-state code. Minnesota, Illinois, and Nebraska office states remain on their own pages. Office state is the seat's state on the candidate record, not Census residence of contributors.

What cycle 2014 contributes to this page

2014 is a midterm even-year FEC cycle. Nationally it shows 1671 candidates totaling $1,664,069,869.80. Inside it, Iowa shows 31 candidates totaling $50,010,474.20. National mean about $995,853; Iowa mean about $1.61 million. Those ratios use only packet facts. They are not household income and not a unique-person average.

The 2014 election-cycle hub mixes Iowa with every other office state. This page does not. If a citation needs Iowa in 2014, use this tie. If a citation needs all of 2014 nationally, use the cycle hub. If a citation needs all of Iowa across years, use the state hub. Three different denominators.

How large Iowa is inside $1.7 billion

$50,010,474.20 ÷ $1,664,069,869.80 = 3.0%. $1,614,059,395.60 ÷ $1,664,069,869.80 = 97.0%. Those identities use the packet's state total and cycle total only. They do not use 31 except as a separate candidate count. Do not convert 31 into a percentage of 1671 and then treat that percentage as dollars.

A 3.0% dollar share means most of the 2014 candidate-receipt book sits in other office states ($1.6 billion). That is a description of this table, not a claim that Iowa was quiet or loud in 2014 politics. Other states are not itemized on this page.

Candidates are not donors

31 is a candidate-record count. $50,010,474.20 is a dollar sum of candidate receipts. $1.61 million is their ratio. None of those is a unique-donor count. None is a median. None is a party split. The packet did not include those fields, so this page does not publish them.

Omitted from $50,010,474.20: independent expenditures, non-candidate PAC spending as a separate total, unitemized tables not rolled into these candidate receipts, and USAspending obligations. Omitted from the cycle comparison: any cycle other than 2014, except as context that the Iowa hub still mixes years.

What this join does not prove

Cite the join with both sides: Iowa (IA) and the 2014 election cycle. Dropping either side turns $50,010,474.20 into a hub number it is not. 31 candidates and a mean near $1.61 million stay attached to that pair. $1,664,069,869.80 is the national cycle book, not the join.

FEC candidate receipts are not USAspending awards. This packet has no obligation dollars. Do not add $50,010,474.20 to federal spending in Iowa. Campaign receipts and federal awards are different statutes even when both mention Iowa. Open the four internal links: 2014 election cycle; Iowa campaign finance; all election cycles; all FEC ties.

Questions

What is the 2014 Iowa candidate-receipt total?

$50.0 million ($50,010,474.20) from 31 candidates whose FEC office state is IA. Source: FEC.gov. That number is not the national 2014 total of $1.7 billion from 1671 candidates. Mixing the two columns is incorrect.

What share of 2014 U.S. candidate receipts came from Iowa office-state candidates?

3.0%. That is $50,010,474.20 divided by $1,664,069,869.80. The complement is 97.0%, or $1,614,059,395.60, from candidates whose office state is not IA. The share is not a share of donors, votes, or federal awards.

Are independent expenditures included in the Iowa 2014 total?

No. The source note on this page is candidate receipts grouped by election cycle and office state, not independent expenditures. $50,010,474.20 should not be quoted as a complete picture of 2014 political spending in Iowa. Super PAC and other independent-spend files are separate.

Do these FEC receipts fund federal spending in Iowa?

No. FEC candidate receipts and USAspending obligations are different datasets. $50,010,474.20 is campaign money reported by Iowa office-state candidates in 2014. It is not an award total and does not pay for federal contracts or grants. Do not add it to USAspending figures.