Louisiana 2016 cycle candidate fundraising

Office state Louisiana inside the 2016 FEC cycle

Cycle 2016 and Louisiana (LA) are the two nouns this URL must keep together. Drop Louisiana and you are citing $3.2 billion from 1721 U.S. candidates. Drop 2016 and you are citing a state hub that still mixes other even-year windows. Keep both and the number is $43.8 million from 35 candidates.

1.4% names $43,754,087.53 as a share of $3,179,037,937.47. It does not name a share of Louisiana population, a share of House seats, or a share of itemized individual donors. Those denominators are absent. $3.1 billion is the complement inside the same 2016 cycle, other office states only.

Louisiana (LA) is the FEC office-state code. Texas, Mississippi, and Arkansas office states are other keys. 2016 is a presidential two-year FEC window. Source: FEC.gov candidate receipts grouped by election cycle and office state. Not a claim about federal spending.

How FEC stores Louisiana as an office state

Louisiana (LA) in 2016 is one cell in a cycle-by-state grid. The cell value is $43,754,087.53. The cell's candidate count is 35. Other cells in the 2016 row sum to $3,135,283,849.94. This page publishes one cell, then explains the row total $3,179,037,937.47.

Because the packet has one state, this page does not rank Louisiana against Tennessee, Ohio, or any other office state. Rankings would require the other cells. Louisiana (LA) is the FEC office-state code. Texas, Mississippi, and Arkansas office states are other keys. Office state is not a donor map.

Reading $3.2 billion as the 2016 denominator

National candidate volume in 2016 is 1721. Louisiana candidate volume is 35. Dollar counterparts are $3,179,037,937.47 and $43,754,087.53. Pair counts with dollars. A small candidate file can still hold a large dollar total if a few committees dominate; this packet does not prove that pattern, and it does not disprove it.

Use the 2016 election cycle page for the full national mix. Use this tie for Louisiana inside 2016. Independent expenditures remain out of scope. Source: FEC.gov.

Do not mix state receipts with the cycle total

$43.8 million sits inside $3.2 billion the way a state cell sits inside a national row. Removing Louisiana does not make $43,754,087.53 equal $3,179,037,937.47. Removing other states does not make $3,179,037,937.47 equal $43,754,087.53. Citations should name the filter that was applied.

35 versus 1721 is the candidate-count analog of that nesting. 35 is a mid-size candidate file. Means $1.25 million (Louisiana) and $1.85 million (U.S.) stay attached to their denominators.

What FEC candidate receipts include here

Independent expenditures can dwarf or trail candidate receipts in a given state-cycle, and this packet does not say which. Super PAC and other independent-spend tables are other files. Mixing them into $43,754,087.53 would invent a number.

Federal awards in Louisiana are USAspending, not FEC. $43,754,087.53 does not pay for those awards. $3,179,037,937.47 does not pay for them either. Keep the statutes apart even though both can mention Louisiana and 2016.

Amended reports and live hubs

Candidate reports amend. A later 2016 extract can raise or lower $43,754,087.53 without this JSON file changing. Treat the live Louisiana hub and the live 2016 hub as current, and treat this prose as a labeled snapshot of packet facts: $43,754,087.53, 35, $3,179,037,937.47, 1721.

Louisiana (LA) is the FEC office-state code. Texas, Mississippi, and Arkansas office states are other keys. Sibling cycle-state pages for other years or other office states are other slugs. Do not reuse $43,754,087.53 on those pages.

Louisiana in 2016 can be cited in one sentence without losing the join: office-state candidates in LA reported $43,754,087.53 on a file of 35 candidates, inside a national 2016 candidate-receipt total of $3,179,037,937.47 from 1721 candidates, for a dollar share of 1.4%. That sentence uses every packet dollar column once. A second sentence can add the complement $3,135,283,849.94 and the two means, $1.25 million in Louisiana and $1.85 million nationwide, as long as each mean keeps its own denominator. A third sentence should repeat the omissions: no donor names, no independent expenditures, no USAspending awards, no party split, no Senate-versus-House split. Louisiana (LA) is the FEC office-state code. Texas, Mississippi, and Arkansas office states are other keys. The 2016 cycle is a closed even-year window in this extract; $43,754,087.53 is the stored Louisiana office-state total for that window. Those three sentences are still the same join. They are not a restatement of the Louisiana hub and they are not a restatement of the 2016 hub. Researchers who need named candidates must leave this URL for the live hubs. Researchers who need donor geography must leave for a donor join. This file stays on cycle 2016 and office state LA.

Questions

How does Louisiana in 2016 differ from the Louisiana state hub?

The state hub mixes every cycle stored for office state LA. This tie keeps only 2016, where receipts are $43,754,087.53 from 35 candidates. If you need Louisiana without a year filter, use the state hub. If you need Louisiana in 2016 only, use this page.

How does this page differ from the 2016 election cycle hub?

The cycle hub mixes every office state. National receipts are $3,179,037,937.47 from 1721 candidates. This page keeps only Louisiana, where receipts are $43,754,087.53 from 35 candidates. The cycle hub is the parent row; this URL is one cell.

What does a mean of $1.25 million per Louisiana candidate mean?

It is $43,754,087.53 divided by 35. 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 2016 Louisiana total a closed final number?

The 2016 cycle is a closed even-year window in this extract; $43,754,087.53 is the stored Louisiana office-state total for that window. Amended candidate reports can still move $43,754,087.53. If the live Louisiana hub or the live 2016 hub disagrees with this snapshot, use the newer FEC extract. This JSON file does not replace FEC.gov.