2016 Illinois office-state candidate receipts

Cycle 2016 and office state IL as a pair

Where cycle 2016 meets office state IL, candidate receipts sum to $78,854,158.17 across 67 candidates. The cycle aggregate without a state filter is $3,179,037,937.47 from 1721 candidates. Illinois is 2.5% of that national book; 97.5% ($3.1 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 Illinois side, the 2016 side, the share, and the caveats. It is not a restatement of Illinois campaign finance across years, and it is not a restatement of the 2016 cycle across states.

Illinois (IL) is the FEC office-state code. Indiana, Wisconsin, Missouri, and Iowa office states are not folded into IL. A presidential cycle tag on 2016 does not explain $78.9 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 IL is not donor geography

Illinois's 2016 total of $78,854,158.17 is the state slice. The national parent set is $3,179,037,937.47. 2.5% names the slice as a share of the parent. $3,100,183,779.30 names the complement inside the same cycle. IL is the office state of the candidate, not a claim about Illinois elections for governor or legislature.

Use the state hub when the year does not matter. Use this tie when both Illinois and 2016 matter. Illinois (IL) is the FEC office-state code. Indiana, Wisconsin, Missouri, and Iowa office states are not folded into IL. Do not fold neighboring states into IL. Each office-state code is its own key.

Cycle 2016 is not the Illinois hub

The cycle dimension is the FEC even-year tag 2016 (presidential). Combined with Illinois, it yields $78,854,158.17 and 67 candidates. The national 2016 page still has every other office state. This page has one office state. Keep both nouns when citing: Illinois and 2016.

About $1.85 million per U.S. candidate is $3,179,037,937.47 divided by 1721. 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 2016, Illinois holds $78,854,158.17 and other office states hold $3,100,183,779.30. The cycle total is the sum: $3,179,037,937.47. 2.5% names the Illinois piece. 67 names the Illinois candidate file size. Mean about $1.18 million names $78,854,158.17/67. Four numbers, four jobs.

If a later FEC extract revises $78,854,158.17 or $3,179,037,937.47, 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 ($78,854,158.17), candidates (67), cycle total ($3,179,037,937.47), remainder ($3,100,183,779.30), share (2.5%), Illinois mean ($1.18 million), U.S. mean ($1.85 million): those are the numeric claims. Dates in the packet are the cycle year 2016 only. No other dollar, count, or URL is used. Internal links stay on the four hrefs in the packet.

Amended FEC reports can change $78,854,158.17 after this snapshot. If the live Illinois hub or the live 2016 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 $78,854,158.17 into a statement about how Illinois voted in 2016. Candidate receipts are a filing stream. Most residents never appear as candidates. 67 records are the candidate file, not the electorate. 2.5% of the national cycle is not 2.5% of Illinois.

See the 2016 election cycle for the national year cut, Illinois 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: Illinois 2016 candidate receipts = $78,854,158.17. Label two: U.S. 2016 candidate receipts = $3,179,037,937.47. Label three: other office states in 2016 = $3,100,183,779.30. Label four: Illinois candidate count = 67. Label five: U.S. candidate count = 1721. Label six: dollar share = 2.5%. Nothing in that worksheet is a donor list. Nothing in it is a federal award. 67 is a relatively large candidate file for this office state. Mean receipts of about $1.18 million in Illinois use labels one and four only. Mean receipts of about $1.85 million nationwide use labels two and five only. Cross-wiring those labels invents a statistic. Illinois (IL) is the FEC office-state code. Indiana, Wisconsin, Missouri, and Iowa office states are not folded into IL. Cycle 2016 is a presidential window, which dates the worksheet and does not interpret it. Source: FEC.gov candidate receipts grouped by election cycle and office state.

Questions

What is the 2016 Illinois candidate-receipt total?

$78.9 million ($78,854,158.17) from 67 candidates whose FEC office state is IL. Source: FEC.gov. That number is not the national 2016 total of $3.2 billion from 1721 candidates. Mixing the two columns is incorrect. Quote $78,854,158.17 only as Illinois in 2016, and quote $3,179,037,937.47 only as the U.S. 2016 book.

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

2.5%. That is $78,854,158.17 divided by $3,179,037,937.47. The complement is 97.5%, or $3,100,183,779.30, from candidates whose office state is not IL. The share is not a share of donors, votes, or federal awards, and it is not a ranking of Illinois against unnamed other states.

Are independent expenditures included in the Illinois 2016 total?

No. The source note on this page is candidate receipts grouped by election cycle and office state, not independent expenditures. $78,854,158.17 should not be quoted as a complete picture of 2016 political spending in Illinois. Super PAC and other independent-spend files are separate tables.

Do these FEC receipts fund federal spending in Illinois?

No. FEC candidate receipts and USAspending obligations are different datasets. $78,854,158.17 is campaign money reported by Illinois 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 for Illinois.