2014 FEC cycle — Massachusetts candidate receipts

Two filters: 2014 and Massachusetts (MA)

Massachusetts candidates in 2014 reported $47,057,344.24. U.S. candidates in 2014 reported $1,664,069,869.80. Subtract and other office states hold $1,617,012,525.56. Divide and Massachusetts is 2.8% of the cycle. Count and the files are 38 versus 1671. That is the entire numeric claim set.

The page exists because two tables meet. The cycle table answers how large 2014 was nationally. The state table answers how Massachusetts looks across years. This tie answers only how Massachusetts looked inside 2014. 38 is a mid-size candidate file. Mean about $1.24 million per Massachusetts candidate uses $47,057,344.24 and 38 only.

The 2014 cycle is a closed even-year window in this extract; $47,057,344.24 is the stored Massachusetts office-state total for that window. Massachusetts (MA) is the FEC office-state code. New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut office states stay separate. Do not add $47,057,344.24 to USAspending obligations for Massachusetts. Campaign receipts and federal awards are different datasets. Source: FEC.gov.

38 candidates seeking Massachusetts federal offices

What the Massachusetts side includes: candidate receipts tagged office state MA and cycle 2014, summing to $47,057,344.24 across 38 candidates. What it excludes: other cycles for Massachusetts, other office states for 2014, independent expenditures, and unitemized or non-candidate tables not in this aggregate.

Mean about $1.24 million should be quoted with both inputs. Dropping 38 turns the mean into an unsourced claim. Massachusetts (MA) is the FEC office-state code. New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut office states stay separate. State-office campaign finance under Massachusetts law is a different disclosure system.

How 2014 national totals bound the Massachusetts figure

2014 national receipts of $1,664,069,869.80 are the ceiling this Massachusetts figure sits under. $47,057,344.24 cannot exceed $1,664,069,869.80 in a consistent extract; here it is 2.8% of the ceiling. $1.6 billion is the room between the Massachusetts cell and the national ceiling.

The cycle hub still answers questions this page refuses: every state's mix, national party mix if published there, and other cycle-level tables. This file stays on Massachusetts × 2014. Massachusetts (MA) is the FEC office-state code. New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut office states stay separate.

2.8% is a cycle share, not a ranking

Share language that is allowed: Massachusetts office-state candidate receipts were 2.8% of U.S. candidate receipts in the 2014 cycle ($47,057,344.24 of $1,664,069,869.80). Share language that is not allowed: Massachusetts accounted for 2.8% of federal spending, 2.8% of donors, or 2.8% of votes. Those claims need other tables.

The remainder $1.6 billion is not a list of rival states. It is a single leftover sum. This page does not itemize it.

No invented names, no invented offices

No candidate names appear here because the packet did not list them. No donor names appear here because this is not a donor page. No committee IDs appear here because the packet did not list them. The published objects are the two dollar columns, the two candidate counts, the cycle year, and the office-state code.

Massachusetts (MA) is the FEC office-state code. New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut office states stay separate. Researchers who need named candidates should open the live Massachusetts campaign-finance hub or the 2014 cycle hub, which are different pages with different grain. This tie stays aggregated.

Keep the two dollar columns labeled

Label every dollar figure when you reuse it. $47.1 million = Massachusetts candidate receipts in 2014. $1.7 billion = U.S. candidate receipts in 2014. $1.6 billion = other office states in 2014. If a sentence uses one of those figures without the label, rewrite the sentence.

The four internal links exist so readers can leave the join for the matching hub. 2014 election cycle holds the national year. Massachusetts campaign finance holds the state mix. All election cycles lists other windows. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. Source: FEC.gov.

Readers sometimes arrive from a Massachusetts search and assume $1,664,069,869.80 is local, or arrive from a 2014 search and assume $47,057,344.24 is national. Both misreadings are prevented by keeping the office-state noun and the cycle noun in every dollar sentence. $47.1 million is local to office state MA in 2014. $1.7 billion is national for 2014. 38 is the Massachusetts candidate file. 1671 is the U.S. candidate file. Independent expenditures remain outside both files as used here. Federal spending awards remain outside both files. The 2014 cycle is a closed even-year window in this extract; $47,057,344.24 is the stored Massachusetts office-state total for that window. Massachusetts (MA) is the FEC office-state code. New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut office states stay separate. If this snapshot and a live hub diverge, the live FEC extract wins. This JSON object is a labeled copy of packet facts, not a parallel disclosure system and not a scoreboard of Massachusetts politics in 2014.

Questions

Who raised $47.1 million in Massachusetts in 2014?

38 federal candidates with office state MA 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 Massachusetts page?

Because this is a join. $1,664,069,869.80 is the national 2014 denominator that makes 2.8% computable. It is not additional Massachusetts money. Massachusetts money in 2014 remains $47,057,344.24. Cite the national figure only as the cycle total.

Does 38 include state-legislature candidates in Massachusetts?

No. These are FEC candidate records for federal office, grouped by office state MA. Massachusetts state-office campaigns file under state law, not in this FEC candidate-receipt join. 38 is the federal candidate count in the packet.

Where should I go next from this Massachusetts 2014 tie?

Open the 2014 election cycle for the national year, Massachusetts 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.