Ohio candidate fundraising — 2016 cycle

Why Ohio and 2016 share one LobbyVault page

$59,197,919 is Ohio office-state candidate receipts on FEC.gov for the 2016 election cycle. That figure is Ohio candidate-committee receipts for federal office in office state OH during the 2016 cycle, as grouped on FEC.gov. The matching national book is $3,179,037,937 ($3.18 billion) across 1,721 candidates. Ohio is 1.9% of those cycle dollars and 2.7% of the cycle candidate roster. This page exists because the two dimensions meet. It is not a restatement of the 2016 cycle hub alone and not a restatement of the Ohio state hub across every cycle.

Ohio’s 2016 cell is candidate-committee receipts for office state OH, not an Ohio Secretary of State extract for state offices. Forty-seven Ohio office-state candidates sit in a cycle that lists 1,721 candidates, so Ohio’s headcount share and dollar share should be read as separate ratios. Candidate receipts here are committee-side totals for the office-state filter. They are not independent expenditures, not a Schedule A donor directory, and not USAspending award dollars. The cycle hub lives at /election-cycles/2016/; the Ohio hub lives at /states/OH/. Every cycle is indexed at /election-cycles/, and sibling joins sit at /ties/.

Forty-seven Ohio candidates in the 2016 cell

Ohio accounts for 1.9% of 2016 cycle dollars and 2.7% of 2016 cycle candidates. Those two percentages need not match. A state can hold a larger share of listed candidates than of receipts, or the reverse. Forty-seven Ohio office-state candidates sit in a cycle that lists 1,721 candidates, so Ohio’s headcount share and dollar share should be read as separate ratios. Neither percentage is a ranking of winners. The remaining $3,119,840,019 stayed in other office states.

Placing Ohio inside the 2016 cycle total

The 2016 cycle table on FEC.gov shows $3,179,037,937 in candidate receipts nationwide and 1,721 candidates. After removing Ohio, $3,119,840,019 and 1,674 candidates remain in other office states. Those remainder figures are arithmetic (cycle minus state). They are not a second FEC file. Opening only this tie would hide that remainder. The 2016 hub at /election-cycles/2016/ keeps the full book; /election-cycles/ lists every cycle; /ties/ lists other two-key joins.

Office state on this page is the state of the federal office. A Senate or House candidate listed with office state OH enters the Ohio cell for 2016 even if some receipts were raised out of state. A donor who lives in Ohio and gives to a different office state does not enter this cell by residence. The Ohio hub at /states/OH/ is the broader state view; this tie freezes one cycle.

Limits of the Ohio 2016 receipt join

This join does not count independent expenditures, party coordinated expenditures, or unitemized receipts that never entered the candidate-receipt aggregate. It does not name donors. It does not say FEC receipts funded federal awards on USAspending.gov; those are different datasets even when the geography string matches. Office state OH is the seat sought, not the mailing state of contributors. Correlation between a busy cycle and a large state cell is not causation and not an election-outcome claim. Quote $59,197,919 as Ohio in 2016, and quote $3,179,037,937 as the 2016 national total — never as each other.

Ohio and 2016 hubs versus this overlap

Read /states/OH/ for Ohio campaign-finance totals that mix cycles. Read /election-cycles/2016/ for the 2016 cycle across every office state. Read /election-cycles/ for the cycle index and /ties/ for other FEC two-dimension pages. This URL, Ohio × 2016, is only the overlap: 47 candidates and $59,197,919 in receipts, sourced to FEC.gov candidate receipts grouped by election cycle and office state.

Cite two lines, never one: 2016 Ohio office-state candidate receipts $59,197,919 from 47 candidates, and 2016 national candidate receipts $3,179,037,937 from 1,721 candidates. The first line is the join cell. The second is the cycle book. FEC.gov is the source for both. Canonical path: /ties/2016-ohio-candidate-receipts/.

Ohio is 47 of 1,721 candidates in the 2016 FEC table. The join does not convert receipts into federal award dollars. A later FEC bulk file can move Ohio’s 2016 cell and the 2016 cycle book together; this snapshot stores $59,197,919 and $3,179,037,937 as harvested. Independent expenditures remain outside both columns. Donor names are not in this FEC grouping.

Questions

What did Ohio federal candidates raise in 2016?

$59,197,919 is FEC.gov candidate receipts for federal office in Ohio during the 2016 cycle. It is not the $3.18 billion national cycle total and not independent expenditures. Office state is the seat, not donor home address. Cite the Ohio cell and the cycle total as two different figures.

How many candidates are in the 2016 cycle table?

The 2016 cycle book on FEC.gov is $3,179,037,937 across 1,721 candidates nationwide. Ohio is 47 of those candidates and $59,197,919 of those receipts (1.9% of cycle dollars). The Ohio count is 47; the cycle count is 1,721.

Does $59.2 million fund federal contracts?

No. This page is candidate committee receipts grouped by election cycle 2016 and office state OH. It does not name individual donors, does not sum PAC independent expenditures, and does not treat FEC receipts as USAspending awards. FEC receipts and USAspending obligations are different datasets.

Which LobbyVault hubs pair with this Ohio 2016 tie?

Use /election-cycles/2016/ for the 2016 national cycle hub and /states/OH/ for Ohio across cycles. All election cycles live at /election-cycles/. Sibling cycle-state joins live at /ties/. Do not treat this overlap as the full Ohio history.