Texas candidate fundraising — 2016 cycle

How the 2016 cycle joins Texas office state

Texas office-state candidates reported $64,176,178 in FEC.gov receipts for the 2016 election cycle. That figure is Texas candidate-committee receipts for federal office in office state TX 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. Texas is 2.0% of those cycle dollars and 6.2% 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 Texas state hub across every cycle.

Texas is 107 of 1,721 cycle candidates (a larger headcount share) and $64.2 million of $3.18 billion (a smaller dollar share). Both ratios are table facts, not a ranking. One hundred seven Texas office-state candidates produced that cell, so candidate-share (6.2%) and dollar-share (2.0%) diverge inside the same 2016 table. 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 Texas hub lives at /states/TX/. Every cycle is indexed at /election-cycles/, and sibling joins sit at /ties/.

Texas’s $64.2 million candidate-receipt cell

Texas’s 2016 cell holds $64,176,178 ($64.2 million) from 107 office-state candidates. Dividing receipts by that candidate count gives an arithmetic mean of about $599,777 per listed candidate. That mean is a ratio of two FEC columns. It is not a median, not a typical itemized contribution, and not evidence that each campaign raised the same amount. The Texas hub at /states/TX/ mixes cycles; this tie freezes 2016 only.

The 2016 national cycle book

The 2016 cycle table on FEC.gov shows $3,179,037,937 in candidate receipts nationwide and 1,721 candidates. After removing Texas, $3,114,861,760 and 1,614 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.

What this Texas–2016 join does not count

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 TX 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 $64,176,178 as Texas in 2016, and quote $3,179,037,937 as the 2016 national total — never as each other.

Reading the cycle hub and the Texas hub

Read /states/TX/ for Texas 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, Texas × 2016, is only the overlap: 107 candidates and $64,176,178 in receipts, sourced to FEC.gov candidate receipts grouped by election cycle and office state.

Cite two lines, never one: 2016 Texas office-state candidate receipts $64,176,178 from 107 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-texas-candidate-receipts/.

Texas 2016 pairs a 107-candidate roster with $64,176,178. Headcount share and dollar share are different columns. A later FEC bulk file can move Texas’s 2016 cell and the 2016 cycle book together; this snapshot stores $64,176,178 and $3,179,037,937 as harvested. Independent expenditures remain outside both columns. Donor names are not in this FEC grouping.

Office state TX is a federal-seat code on candidate filings, not a contributor ZIP roll-up and not a state-office ethics filing. 107 candidates produced $64,176,178 inside 2016. Other office states hold the remaining $3,114,861,760 of the $3.18 billion cycle book. All FEC ties at /ties/ lists sibling cycle-state pages so this overlap is not mistaken for the full Texas hub.

Questions

How much did Texas federal candidates raise in 2016?

$64,176,178 is FEC.gov candidate receipts for federal office in Texas 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. The 107-candidate roster is the office-state count, not a unique-donor count.

What was the 2016 national FEC candidate-receipt total?

The 2016 cycle book on FEC.gov is $3,179,037,937 across 1,721 candidates nationwide. Texas is 107 of those candidates and $64,176,178 of those receipts (2.0% of cycle dollars). Do not substitute the Texas cell for the cycle book.

Does this page list Texas donors?

No. This page is candidate committee receipts grouped by election cycle 2016 and office state TX. It does not name individual donors, does not sum PAC independent expenditures, and does not treat FEC receipts as USAspending awards. Candidate receipts are committee-side totals for the office-state filter.

Where are the 2016 cycle and Texas state hubs?

Use /election-cycles/2016/ for the 2016 national cycle hub and /states/TX/ for Texas across cycles. All election cycles live at /election-cycles/. Sibling cycle-state joins live at /ties/. This tie is the overlap, not a reprint of either hub.