2014 Kentucky office-state candidate receipts

The relationship: cycle 2014 and office state KY

Where cycle 2014 meets office state KY, candidate receipts sum to $55,308,080.36 across 19 candidates. The cycle aggregate without a state filter is $1,664,069,869.80 from 1671 candidates. Kentucky is 3.3% of that national book; 96.7% ($1.6 billion) was filed under other office states. The arithmetic uses only packet facts.

This URL is a relationship page. Section one states the relationship. Later sections unpack the Kentucky side, the 2014 side, the share, and the caveats. It is not a restatement of Kentucky campaign finance across years, and it is not a restatement of the 2014 cycle across states.

Kentucky (KY) is the FEC office-state code. Tennessee, Ohio, and Indiana office states stay on their own pages. A midterm cycle tag on 2014 does not explain $55.3 million. Independent expenditures are omitted. PAC-to-PAC transfers as a separate table are omitted. Federal spending awards are omitted. Source: FEC.gov.

Office state KY is not donor geography

Kentucky's 2014 total of $55,308,080.36 is the state slice. The national parent set is $1,664,069,869.80. 3.3% names the slice as a share of the parent. $1,608,761,789.44 names the complement inside the same cycle. KY is the office state of the candidate, not a claim about Kentucky elections for governor or legislature.

Use the state hub when the year does not matter. Use this tie when both Kentucky and 2014 matter. Kentucky (KY) is the FEC office-state code. Tennessee, Ohio, and Indiana office states stay on their own pages. Do not fold neighboring states into KY. Each office-state code is its own key.

Cycle 2014 is not the Kentucky hub

The cycle dimension is the FEC even-year tag 2014 (midterm). Combined with Kentucky, it yields $55,308,080.36 and 19 candidates. The national 2014 page still has every other office state. This page has one office state. Keep both nouns when citing: Kentucky and 2014.

About $995,853 per U.S. candidate is $1,664,069,869.80 divided by 1671. No median is in the packet. No party split is in the packet. No Senate-only or House-only subtotal is in the packet. Those omissions are intentional: the facts do not include them.

Dollar share is not candidate-count share

Inside cycle 2014, Kentucky holds $55,308,080.36 and other office states hold $1,608,761,789.44. The cycle total is the sum: $1,664,069,869.80. 3.3% names the Kentucky piece. 19 names the Kentucky candidate file size. Mean about $2.91 million names $55,308,080.36/19. Four numbers, four jobs.

If a later FEC extract revises $55,308,080.36 or $1,664,069,869.80, the live hubs control. This prose is a snapshot of the packet facts. Amended candidate reports can move either side of the join.

Means, medians, and missing splits

Dollars ($55,308,080.36), candidates (19), cycle total ($1,664,069,869.80), remainder ($1,608,761,789.44), share (3.3%), Kentucky mean ($2.91 million), U.S. mean ($995,853): those are the numeric claims. Dates in the packet are the cycle year 2014 only. No other dollar, count, or URL is used. Internal links stay on the four hrefs in the packet.

Amended FEC reports can change $55,308,080.36 after this snapshot. If the live Kentucky hub or the live 2014 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls. This file is not a third disclosure system.

Public records, not accusations

Do not convert $55,308,080.36 into a statement about how Kentucky voted in 2014. Candidate receipts are a filing stream. Most residents never appear as candidates. 19 records are the candidate file, not the electorate. 3.3% of the national cycle is not 3.3% of Kentucky.

See the 2014 election cycle for the national year cut, Kentucky campaign finance for the state mix, all election cycles for other even-year windows, and all FEC ties for sibling joins. Dollar figures first. Source: FEC.gov.

A compact worksheet for this pair starts with labels, not with a ranking. Label one: Kentucky 2014 candidate receipts = $55,308,080.36. Label two: U.S. 2014 candidate receipts = $1,664,069,869.80. Label three: other office states in 2014 = $1,608,761,789.44. Label four: Kentucky candidate count = 19. Label five: U.S. candidate count = 1671. Label six: dollar share = 3.3%. Nothing in that worksheet is a donor list. Nothing in it is a federal award. 19 is a relatively small candidate file for a statewide federal slate. Mean receipts of about $2.91 million in Kentucky use labels one and four only. Mean receipts of about $995,853 nationwide use labels two and five only. Cross-wiring those labels invents a statistic. Kentucky (KY) is the FEC office-state code. Tennessee, Ohio, and Indiana office states stay on their own pages. Cycle 2014 is a midterm window, which dates the worksheet and does not interpret it. Source: FEC.gov candidate receipts grouped by election cycle and office state.

Questions

How much did Kentucky candidates raise in the 2014 election cycle?

FEC candidate receipts for office state Kentucky (KY) total $55,308,080.36 in the 2014 cycle, across 19 candidates. The national 2014 cycle totals $1,664,069,869.80 from 1671 candidates, so Kentucky is 3.3% of that U.S. candidate-receipt stack. Figures are from FEC.gov cycle-by-office-state aggregates of candidate receipts only.

Is $1.7 billion the amount Kentucky candidates raised in 2014?

No. $1,664,069,869.80 is the national 2014 candidate-receipt total. Kentucky's office-state total in that cycle is $55,308,080.36. Other office states hold $1,608,761,789.44. Use the 2014 cycle hub for the U.S. figure and this tie page for the Kentucky slice only. Independent expenditures are omitted from both totals as shown here.

Does office state KY mean the donors lived in Kentucky?

No. Office state is the state of the federal seat on the candidate record. Donors can live anywhere. This join does not allocate the $55,308,080.36 by donor state, employer, or party. An KY office-state code is not a map of Kentucky residents and is not a map of where the money was spent.

How many Kentucky candidates are in the 2014 file?

19 candidate records sum to $55,308,080.36. That count is candidates, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $2.91 million per candidate. Independent expenditures are not included. Unique-donor counts are not in these facts and are not invented here.