Candidate receipts in New York for 2016

New York 2016 dollars versus the U.S. 2016 total

The 2016 × New York join is a database match, not a narrative about a race. $99.6 million entered the extract because candidate records carried cycle 2016 and office state NY at the same time. 91 is the matching candidate count. $3.2 billion is what remains when the office-state filter is lifted for the same cycle.

91 is a relatively large candidate file for this office state. Arithmetic mean receipts per New York candidate are about $1.10 million ($99,647,398.99 / 91). National mean receipts per candidate in 2016 are about $1.85 million ($3,179,037,937.47 / 1721). Those ratios are divisions of packet facts. They are not medians, not typical campaigns, and not proof that New York campaigns were expensive or cheap.

Office state is not donor state. New York (NY) is the FEC office-state code. New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania office states stay separate. The 2016 cycle is a closed even-year window in this extract; $99,647,398.99 is the stored New York office-state total for that window. Independent expenditures and USAspending tables do not feed $99,647,398.99. Source: FEC.gov.

New York candidates, not New York donors

Candidate receipts for office state New York in 2016 are $99.6 million. That money is reported on candidate committee filings aggregated to the candidate, then grouped by office state and cycle. It is not an itemized individual-donor table. No donor names appear in this packet, and none are invented here.

91 candidates is a count of candidate records in the join, not a count of New York households and not a turnout figure. The 2016 cycle is a closed even-year window in this extract; $99,647,398.99 is the stored New York office-state total for that window. Neighboring office states are other cycle-state pages.

1721 U.S. candidates in 2016

$3.2 billion is larger than $99.6 million because the cycle includes every office state, not because New York is being compared with a second state on this URL. 1721 is larger than 91 for the same reason. 3.1% is the only share this page computes, and its denominator is $3,179,037,937.47, not population.

2016 as a presidential cycle dates the window. The 2016 cycle is a closed even-year window in this extract; $99,647,398.99 is the stored New York office-state total for that window. Live cycle hubs can move as amended candidate reports arrive. If a live hub disagrees with $3,179,037,937.47 or $99,647,398.99, the newer FEC extract controls.

$99.6 million versus $3.2 billion

Never write that New York raised $3.2 billion. $3.2 billion is the national 2016 candidate-receipt total. Never write that the United States raised only $99.6 million in 2016. $99.6 million is the New York office-state total. The two columns are labeled stateRaised and cycleRaised in the packet for that reason.

3.1% is the only legitimate bridge between the columns. It is a quotient, not a second source. Independent expenditures still sit outside both columns.

Office state versus donor state

Donor state and office state part ways constantly. A contributor in another state can fund a New York Senate or House committee. A New York resident can fund a candidate whose office state is not NY. This page tracks the second field only: office state. It does not track the first.

Because donor geography is absent, $99,647,398.99 is not 'money from New York.' It is 'money reported by candidates whose office state is New York' in 2016. That sentence is the accurate one. Source: FEC.gov.

FEC receipts are not federal awards in New York

USAspending publishes federal obligations by place and agency. FEC publishes campaign finance. $99,647,398.99 does not become an award total because New York appears in both systems. $3,179,037,937.47 does not become an award total because 2016 is a year in both systems. This page never claims receipts funded federal awards.

The 2016 cycle is a closed even-year window in this extract; $99,647,398.99 is the stored New York office-state total for that window. Internal links remain the four packet hrefs only. No other path is cited. Independent expenditures remain outside the dollar columns used here.

New York in 2016 can be cited in one sentence without losing the join: office-state candidates in NY reported $99,647,398.99 on a file of 91 candidates, inside a national 2016 candidate-receipt total of $3,179,037,937.47 from 1721 candidates, for a dollar share of 3.1%. That sentence uses every packet dollar column once. A second sentence can add the complement $3,079,390,538.48 and the two means, $1.10 million in New York 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. New York (NY) is the FEC office-state code. New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania office states stay separate. The 2016 cycle is a closed even-year window in this extract; $99,647,398.99 is the stored New York office-state total for that window. Those three sentences are still the same join. They are not a restatement of the New York 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 NY.

Questions

How much did New York candidates raise in the 2016 election cycle?

FEC candidate receipts for office state New York (NY) total $99,647,398.99 in the 2016 cycle, across 91 candidates. The national 2016 cycle totals $3,179,037,937.47 from 1721 candidates, so New York is 3.1% of that U.S. candidate-receipt stack. Figures are from FEC.gov cycle-by-office-state aggregates of candidate receipts only, not independent expenditures.

Is $3.2 billion the amount New York candidates raised in 2016?

No. $3,179,037,937.47 is the national 2016 candidate-receipt total. New York's office-state total in that cycle is $99,647,398.99. Other office states hold $3,079,390,538.48. Use the 2016 cycle hub for the U.S. figure and this tie page for the New York slice only. Independent expenditures are omitted from both totals as shown here.

Does office state NY mean the donors lived in New York?

No. Office state is the state of the federal seat on the candidate record. Donors can live anywhere. This join does not allocate the $99,647,398.99 by donor state, employer, or party. An NY office-state code is not a map of New York residents and is not a map of where the money was spent. No donor names are in this packet.

How many New York candidates are in the 2016 file?

91 candidate records sum to $99,647,398.99. That count is candidates, not unique donors and not New York households. The arithmetic mean is about $1.10 million per candidate. Independent expenditures are not included. Unique-donor counts are not in these facts and are not invented here.