How much did Pennsylvania candidates raise in the 2016 election cycle?

FEC candidate receipts for office state Pennsylvania (PA) total $82,841,353.69 in the 2016 cycle, across 57 candidates. The national 2016 cycle totals $3,179,037,937.47 from 1721 candidates, so Pennsylvania is 2.6% 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 Pennsylvania candidates raised in 2016?

No. $3,179,037,937.47 is the national 2016 candidate-receipt total. Pennsylvania's office-state total in that cycle is $82,841,353.69. Other office states hold $3,096,196,583.78. Use the 2016 cycle hub for the U.S. figure and this tie page for the Pennsylvania slice only. Independent expenditures are omitted from both totals as shown here.

Does office state PA mean the donors lived in Pennsylvania?

No. Office state is the state of the federal seat on the candidate record. Donors can live anywhere. This join does not allocate the $82,841,353.69 by donor state, employer, or party. An PA office-state code is not a map of Pennsylvania residents and is not a map of where the money was spent. No donor names are in this packet.

How many Pennsylvania candidates are in the 2016 file?

57 candidate records sum to $82,841,353.69. That count is candidates, not unique donors and not Pennsylvania households. The arithmetic mean is about $1.45 million per candidate. Independent expenditures are not included. Unique-donor counts are not in these facts and are not invented here.

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2016 election cycle: Pennsylvania candidate receipts

FEC.gov groups $82,841,353.69 to Pennsylvania (PA) in cycle 2016: 57 candidates, candidate-committee receipts only. The matching national cycle total is $3,179,037,937.47 from 1721 candidates. $82.8 million sits inside $3.2 billion; it is not a second U.S. total. LobbyVault publishes the two-key overlap. These figures are not donor names, not PAC independent expenditures, and not federal award dollars.

Key figures

$82.8 million is Pennsylvania (PA) candidate receipts in 2016, not the U.S. cycle total of $3.2 billion.
57 Pennsylvania candidates versus 1721 U.S. candidates in the same presidential cycle.
Other office states hold $3.1 billion (97.4%) of 2016 candidate receipts.
Independent expenditures and USAspending awards are outside these FEC candidate-receipt columns.
Source: FEC.gov candidate receipts grouped by election cycle and office state.

The 2016 cycle × Pennsylvania office-state join

Two filters produce $82,841,353.69. Filter one is FEC cycle 2016. Filter two is office state PA (Pennsylvania). 57 candidate records survive both. $3,179,037,937.47 is the cycle dimension with the state filter removed. Divide $82,841,353.69 by $3,179,037,937.47 and Pennsylvania is 2.6% of the national 2016 candidate-receipt stack; $3,096,196,583.78 (97.4%) sits in other office states.

The Pennsylvania hub still lists every cycle. The 2016 hub still lists every state. Citing either hub as if it were this page misstates the denominator. 57 candidates and $82.8 million are the intersection only. Office state is a candidate field, not a map of where contributors live and not a map of where committees are headquartered.

Pennsylvania (PA) is the FEC office-state code. Ohio, New Jersey, Maryland, and New York office states are other keys. Cycle 2016 is tagged as a presidential window on FEC.gov. Presidential versus midterm is a schedule label, not a finding about Pennsylvania turnout or ideology. Independent expenditures are omitted from $82,841,353.69. USAspending awards are a different statute. Source: FEC.gov.

What 57 Pennsylvania candidates represent

$82,841,353.69 is the Pennsylvania office-state book for 2016 in this extract — every party, every federal office type in the candidate file, so long as office state stored PA and cycle stored 2016. 57 is the candidate count for that pair. The packet does not split Senate versus House, and this page does not invent that split.

Pennsylvania pages still include other years. The 2016 hub still includes other states. This join keeps both nouns in the sentence: Pennsylvania and 2016. Pennsylvania (PA) is the FEC office-state code. Ohio, New Jersey, Maryland, and New York office states are other keys. Office state is the seat's state on the candidate record, not Census residence of contributors.

What cycle 2016 contributes to this page

2016 is a presidential even-year FEC cycle. Nationally it shows 1721 candidates totaling $3,179,037,937.47. Inside it, Pennsylvania shows 57 candidates totaling $82,841,353.69. National mean about $1.85 million; Pennsylvania mean about $1.45 million. Those ratios use only packet facts. They are not household income and not a unique-person average.

The 2016 election-cycle hub mixes Pennsylvania with every other office state. This page does not. If a citation needs Pennsylvania in 2016, use this tie. If a citation needs all of 2016 nationally, use the cycle hub. If a citation needs all of Pennsylvania across years, use the state hub. Three different denominators.

How large Pennsylvania is inside $3.2 billion

$82,841,353.69 ÷ $3,179,037,937.47 = 2.6%. $3,096,196,583.78 ÷ $3,179,037,937.47 = 97.4%. Those identities use the packet's state total and cycle total only. They do not use 57 except as a separate candidate count. Do not convert 57 into a percentage of 1721 and then treat that percentage as dollars.

A 2.6% dollar share means most of the 2016 candidate-receipt book sits in other office states ($3.1 billion). That is a description of this table, not a claim that Pennsylvania was quiet or loud in 2016 politics. Other states are not itemized on this page.

Candidates are not donors

57 is a candidate-record count. $82,841,353.69 is a dollar sum of candidate receipts. $1.45 million is their ratio. None of those is a unique-donor count. None is a median. None is a party split. The packet did not include those fields, so this page does not publish them.

Omitted from $82,841,353.69: independent expenditures, non-candidate PAC spending as a separate total, unitemized tables not rolled into these candidate receipts, and USAspending obligations. Omitted from the cycle comparison: any cycle other than 2016, except as context that the Pennsylvania hub still mixes years.

What this join does not prove

Cite the join with both sides: Pennsylvania (PA) and the 2016 election cycle. Dropping either side turns $82,841,353.69 into a hub number it is not. 57 candidates and a mean near $1.45 million stay attached to that pair. $3,179,037,937.47 is the national cycle book, not the join.

FEC candidate receipts are not USAspending awards. This packet has no obligation dollars. Do not add $82,841,353.69 to federal spending in Pennsylvania. Campaign receipts and federal awards are different statutes even when both mention Pennsylvania. Open the four internal links: 2016 election cycle; Pennsylvania campaign finance; all election cycles; all FEC ties.

Questions

How much did Pennsylvania candidates raise in the 2016 election cycle?: FEC candidate receipts for office state Pennsylvania (PA) total $82,841,353.69 in the 2016 cycle, across 57 candidates. The national 2016 cycle totals $3,179,037,937.47 from 1721 candidates, so Pennsylvania is 2.6% 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 Pennsylvania candidates raised in 2016?: No. $3,179,037,937.47 is the national 2016 candidate-receipt total. Pennsylvania's office-state total in that cycle is $82,841,353.69. Other office states hold $3,096,196,583.78. Use the 2016 cycle hub for the U.S. figure and this tie page for the Pennsylvania slice only. Independent expenditures are omitted from both totals as shown here.
Does office state PA mean the donors lived in Pennsylvania?: No. Office state is the state of the federal seat on the candidate record. Donors can live anywhere. This join does not allocate the $82,841,353.69 by donor state, employer, or party. An PA office-state code is not a map of Pennsylvania residents and is not a map of where the money was spent. No donor names are in this packet.
How many Pennsylvania candidates are in the 2016 file?: 57 candidate records sum to $82,841,353.69. That count is candidates, not unique donors and not Pennsylvania households. The arithmetic mean is about $1.45 million per candidate. Independent expenditures are not included. Unique-donor counts are not in these facts and are not invented here.

FEC.gov candidate receipts grouped by election cycle and office state. Not independent expenditures. Not a claim about federal spending.