Maryland federal candidates in the 2016 cycle

Reading $56.4 million as cycle 2016 in MD

Headline number: $56,389,245.27 ($56.4 million). Candidate count: 54. National cycle receipts: $3,179,037,937.47 ($3.2 billion). National candidate count: 1721. Remainder outside Maryland: $3,122,648,692.20. Share of the 2016 cycle: 1.8%. Those quantities are the join. Everything else on this page explains what they are and are not.

Maryland in 2016 is not Maryland in every year and is not 2016 in every state. Mixing those frames is how a hub restatement sneaks in. The 54 candidates exist only at the intersection. An MD office-state code does not mean the receipts came from Maryland donors, and it does not mean the money funded federal contracts in Maryland.

Maryland (MD) is the FEC office-state code. District of Columbia, Virginia, and Delaware office states are not recoded into MD. FEC.gov stores cycle 2016 as a presidential even-year window. Use that label for dating the receipts, not for ranking Maryland against other states. Source: FEC.gov candidate receipts by cycle and office state.

Reading $56.4 million as an office-state book for 2016

The state dimension answers a different question than the national cycle. How much candidate-receipt money is stored under office state MD in cycle 2016? $56,389,245.27. How much of the U.S. 2016 candidate-receipt book is that? 1.8% ($56,389,245.27 of $3,179,037,937.47). The difference is $3,122,648,692.20 in other office states. Those are stack identities, not rankings.

Maryland (MD) is the FEC office-state code. District of Columbia, Virginia, and Delaware office states are not recoded into MD. Candidates who filed with a different office-state code are excluded from $56,389,245.27 even if they campaigned in Maryland media markets. Filers do not get recoded. This page does not invent their names.

National 2016 receipts versus the Maryland slice

Cycle 2016 tagged 1721 U.S. candidate records for a national sum of $3,179,037,937.47. Maryland is 54 of those candidates and $56,389,245.27 of those dollars. That is the cycle slice versus the state slice. It is a presidential window. It is not a ranking of Maryland among states, because this packet has one geography.

Quote $3.2 billion only as the national 2016 candidate-receipt total. Quote $56.4 million only as the Maryland office-state total inside that cycle. Swapping the labels is the main citation error this page is written to block.

The complement: $3.1 billion outside Maryland

The complement of the join inside the national cycle book is $3,122,648,692.20 (98.2%). That money is still cycle 2016; it is just not tagged office state MD. The join itself remains $56,389,245.27 / 54 candidates / Maryland. Keep the complement and the join distinct in citations.

1.8% is not a turnout rate, not a share of Maryland itemized individual dollars, and not a share of federal awards in Maryland. Those denominators are absent. Use only $3,179,037,937.47 when stating the cycle share.

Receipts, not independent expenditures

What the table includes: FEC candidate receipts with office state MD and cycle 2016, summing to $56,389,245.27 across 54 candidates, against a national cycle $3,179,037,937.47 from 1721 candidates. What it excludes: everything else. That exclusion list is how this page stays a join instead of a hub restatement.

About $1.04 million per Maryland candidate should never be quoted as a typical Maryland campaign. Typical would need a median and an office-type split. This extract has neither. 54 candidates can hide a lopsided mix of large and small committees — both directions are possible and neither is measured here.

How to cite the pair

Citation template: office state Maryland (MD), election cycle 2016 (presidential), $56,389,245.27 in candidate receipts from 54 candidates, national cycle $3,179,037,937.47 from 1721 candidates, share 1.8%, remainder $3,122,648,692.20, Maryland mean about $1.04 million per candidate. Source: FEC.gov via LobbyVault cycle-state aggregates.

Then send the reader to the live 2016 election cycle page, the Maryland campaign-finance hub, all election cycles, and all FEC ties. If you need donor cuts of Maryland, those are other joins, not this file. This file stays on one office state and one cycle.

Questions

Who raised $56.4 million in Maryland in 2016?

54 federal candidates with office state MD in cycle 2016, 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 $3,179,037,937.47 on a Maryland page?

Because this is a join. $3,179,037,937.47 is the national 2016 denominator that makes 1.8% computable. It is not additional Maryland money. Maryland money in 2016 remains $56,389,245.27. Cite the national figure only as the cycle total.

Does 54 include state-legislature candidates in Maryland?

No. These are FEC candidate records for federal office, grouped by office state MD. Maryland state-office campaigns file under state law, not in this FEC candidate-receipt join. 54 is the federal candidate count in the packet.

Where should I go next from this Maryland 2016 tie?

Open the 2016 election cycle for the national year, Maryland 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.