Minnesota (MN) candidate receipts, 2014 cycle

Minnesota and the 2014 cycle as a two-column join

LobbyVault keeps a Minnesota state page and a 2014 election-cycle page. Neither page is this join. The join is $52,231,243.79 from 37 candidates where cycle equals 2014 and office state equals MN. Against the national cycle total of $1,664,069,869.80, that is 3.1%. Other office states in the same cycle hold $1.6 billion.

Do not treat 3.1% as Minnesota's share of donor dollars from Minnesota residents. Donor geography is not in these facts. Do not treat 37 as unique people who live in Minnesota. The count is candidates with office state MN in cycle 2014. The packet does not publish a unique-donor count, a party split, or an office (Senate versus House) split for this pair.

The 2014 cycle is a closed even-year window in this extract; $52,231,243.79 is the stored Minnesota office-state total for that window. Minnesota (MN) is the FEC office-state code on the candidate record. Wisconsin, Iowa, and North Dakota office states are other keys and are not folded into MN. Dollar figures are candidate receipt aggregates from FEC.gov, not federal awards and not state-office filings. Independent expenditures are other files.

Minnesota office-state receipts without a national mix-in

37 is a mid-size candidate file. 37 candidates produced $52,231,243.79. Mean about $1.41 million per candidate is $52,231,243.79 divided by 37. That ratio is not a typical campaign budget: a handful of statewide committees can dominate a mean while many House challengers file much smaller totals. No median is in the packet.

Minnesota (MN) is the FEC office-state code on the candidate record. Wisconsin, Iowa, and North Dakota office states are other keys and are not folded into MN. Keep MN on the name. Other states have their own 2014 ties. $52,231,243.79 is not a Minnesota state-office total under state law. Open the Minnesota campaign-finance hub for the all-cycle state mix; open this page for Minnesota in 2014 only.

2014 as a midterm FEC window

On the cycle side, 1671 U.S. candidates produced $1,664,069,869.80. Repeat filings and amended reports can still sit inside a candidate count of 1671 as stored. The packet does not say how many unique humans those records represent beyond the candidate count given. About $995,853 per U.S. candidate is a trivial division, not a finding about wealth. Midterm versus the other even-year type is a schedule fact for 2014, not an explanation of Minnesota's $52.2 million.

Independent expenditures never enter these candidate-receipt totals. Committee operating expenditures as a separate table never enter them. State-office filings never enter them. This is a candidate-receipt cycle×office-state aggregate from FEC.gov. The 2014 cycle is a closed even-year window in this extract; $52,231,243.79 is the stored Minnesota office-state total for that window.

3.1% of 2014 U.S. candidate receipts

Compared with the rest of the 2014 cycle, Minnesota is 3.1% of candidate receipts ($52,231,243.79 of $1,664,069,869.80). The rest is $1,611,838,626.01. 37 is the Minnesota candidate count only. Quote dollars and candidates as different columns. Mixing them produces a fake density statistic this packet does not support.

Do not rank Minnesota as a winner or loser in 2014. This join has one office state and one cycle. Neighboring cycle-state pages are other keys. Minnesota campaign finance still mixes years.

What 37 Minnesota candidates are not

Candidate receipts are the only money on this page. 37 Minnesota candidates sum to $52,231,243.79 in 2014. If a researcher needs donor-city cuts, those are other LobbyVault joins. If a researcher needs committee names, those are not in this packet. Do not invent donor names.

Office state MN is a candidate field. Cycle 2014 is an FEC tag. Together they are a join, not a story about why 37 candidates raised $52.2 million. Correlation is not causation. An office in Minnesota does not locate the donors who funded the committee.

Using Minnesota and 2014 links without mixing statutes

Public records, not accusations: $52,231,243.79 from 37 candidates is a disclosure aggregate. It is not evidence of coordination, quid pro quo, or local control. Correlation is not causation. Minnesota × 2014 is a database join.

Researchers should keep MN as the stored office-state code and 2014 as the cycle tag. Minnesota (MN) is the FEC office-state code on the candidate record. Wisconsin, Iowa, and North Dakota office states are other keys and are not folded into MN. Source: FEC.gov candidate receipts grouped by election cycle and office state. Live hubs win if they disagree with this snapshot.

Questions

How does Minnesota in 2014 differ from the Minnesota state hub?

The state hub mixes every cycle stored for office state MN. This tie keeps only 2014, where receipts are $52,231,243.79 from 37 candidates. If you need Minnesota without a year filter, use the state hub. If you need Minnesota in 2014 only, use this page.

How does this page differ from the 2014 election cycle hub?

The cycle hub mixes every office state. National receipts are $1,664,069,869.80 from 1671 candidates. This page keeps only Minnesota, where receipts are $52,231,243.79 from 37 candidates. The cycle hub is the parent row; this URL is one cell.

What does a mean of $1.41 million per Minnesota candidate mean?

It is $52,231,243.79 divided by 37. It is not a median, not a typical House budget, and not a unique-person average. A few large statewide committees can pull the mean up. The packet does not publish a median or an office-type split.

Is the 2014 Minnesota total a closed final number?

The 2014 cycle is a closed even-year window in this extract; $52,231,243.79 is the stored Minnesota office-state total for that window. Amended candidate reports can still move $52,231,243.79. If the live Minnesota hub or the live 2014 hub disagrees with this snapshot, use the newer FEC extract. This JSON file does not replace FEC.gov.