2016 cycle: Arizona candidate receipts

What the 2016 × Arizona overlap is

Two filters produce $53,071,916.42. Filter one is FEC cycle 2016. Filter two is office state AZ (Arizona). 39 candidate records survive both. $3,179,037,937.47 is the cycle dimension with the state filter removed. Divide $53,071,916.42 by $3,179,037,937.47 and Arizona is 1.7% of the national 2016 candidate-receipt stack; $3,125,966,021.05 (98.3%) sits in other office states.

The Arizona hub still lists every cycle. The 2016 hub still lists every state. Citing either hub as if it were this page misstates the denominator. 39 candidates and $53.1 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.

Arizona (AZ) is the FEC office-state code. Nevada, New Mexico, and California office states are not merged into AZ. Cycle 2016 is tagged as a presidential window on FEC.gov. Presidential versus midterm is a schedule label, not a finding about Arizona turnout or ideology. Independent expenditures are omitted from $53,071,916.42. USAspending awards are a different statute. Source: FEC.gov.

What 39 Arizona candidates represent

$53,071,916.42 is the Arizona office-state book for 2016 in this extract — every party, every federal office type in the candidate file, so long as office state stored AZ and cycle stored 2016. 39 is the candidate count for that pair. The packet does not split Senate versus House, and this page does not invent that split.

Arizona pages still include other years. The 2016 hub still includes other states. This join keeps both nouns in the sentence: Arizona and 2016. Arizona (AZ) is the FEC office-state code. Nevada, New Mexico, and California office states are not merged into AZ. Office state is the seat's state on the candidate record, not Census residence of contributors.

What cycle 2016 contributes to this page

2016 is a presidential even-year FEC cycle. Nationally it shows 1721 candidates totaling $3,179,037,937.47. Inside it, Arizona shows 39 candidates totaling $53,071,916.42. National mean about $1.85 million; Arizona mean about $1.36 million. Those ratios use only packet facts. They are not household income and not a unique-person average.

The 2016 election-cycle hub mixes Arizona with every other office state. This page does not. If a citation needs Arizona in 2016, use this tie. If a citation needs all of 2016 nationally, use the cycle hub. If a citation needs all of Arizona across years, use the state hub. Three different denominators.

How large Arizona is inside $3.2 billion

$53,071,916.42 ÷ $3,179,037,937.47 = 1.7%. $3,125,966,021.05 ÷ $3,179,037,937.47 = 98.3%. Those identities use the packet's state total and cycle total only. They do not use 39 except as a separate candidate count. Do not convert 39 into a percentage of 1721 and then treat that percentage as dollars.

A 1.7% dollar share means most of the 2016 candidate-receipt book sits in other office states ($3.1 billion). That is a description of this table, not a claim that Arizona was quiet or loud in 2016 politics. Other states are not itemized on this page.

Candidates are not donors

39 is a candidate-record count. $53,071,916.42 is a dollar sum of candidate receipts. $1.36 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 $53,071,916.42: 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 2016, except as context that the Arizona hub still mixes years.

What this join does not prove

Cite the join with both sides: Arizona (AZ) and the 2016 election cycle. Dropping either side turns $53,071,916.42 into a hub number it is not. 39 candidates and a mean near $1.36 million stay attached to that pair. $3,179,037,937.47 is the national cycle book, not the join.

FEC candidate receipts are not USAspending awards. This packet has no obligation dollars. Do not add $53,071,916.42 to federal spending in Arizona. Campaign receipts and federal awards are different statutes even when both mention Arizona. Open the four internal links: 2016 election cycle; Arizona campaign finance; all election cycles; all FEC ties.

Questions

What is the 2016 Arizona candidate-receipt total?

$53.1 million ($53,071,916.42) from 39 candidates whose FEC office state is AZ. Source: FEC.gov. That number is not the national 2016 total of $3.2 billion from 1721 candidates. Mixing the two columns is incorrect.

What share of 2016 U.S. candidate receipts came from Arizona office-state candidates?

1.7%. That is $53,071,916.42 divided by $3,179,037,937.47. The complement is 98.3%, or $3,125,966,021.05, from candidates whose office state is not AZ. The share is not a share of donors, votes, or federal awards.

Are independent expenditures included in the Arizona 2016 total?

No. The source note on this page is candidate receipts grouped by election cycle and office state, not independent expenditures. $53,071,916.42 should not be quoted as a complete picture of 2016 political spending in Arizona. Super PAC and other independent-spend files are separate.

Do these FEC receipts fund federal spending in Arizona?

No. FEC candidate receipts and USAspending obligations are different datasets. $53,071,916.42 is campaign money reported by Arizona office-state candidates in 2016. It is not an award total and does not pay for federal contracts or grants. Do not add it to USAspending figures.