Wisconsin candidate fundraising — 2016 cycle

The 2016 cycle × Wisconsin office-state join

Thirty Wisconsin office-state candidates reported $77,656,386 on FEC.gov for the 2016 cycle. That figure is Wisconsin candidate-committee receipts for federal office in office state WI 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. Wisconsin is 2.4% of those cycle dollars and 1.7% 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 Wisconsin state hub across every cycle.

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

Thirty Wisconsin candidates and the dollar cell

Wisconsin’s 2016 cell holds $77,656,386 ($77.7 million) from 30 office-state candidates. Dividing receipts by that candidate count gives an arithmetic mean of about $2,588,546 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 Wisconsin hub at /states/WI/ mixes cycles; this tie freezes 2016 only.

The mean of about $2.59 million per Wisconsin candidate is an arithmetic ratio, not a typical gift and not a donor list.

Wisconsin’s share of the 2016 cycle

Wisconsin accounts for 2.4% of 2016 cycle dollars and 1.7% 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. A 30-candidate Wisconsin roster is a thin slice of 1,721 cycle candidates, yet the dollar cell is large relative to that headcount. Neither percentage is a ranking of winners. The remaining $3,101,381,552 stayed in other office states.

Exclusions: IEs, donors, and federal awards

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 WI 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 $77,656,386 as Wisconsin in 2016, and quote $3,179,037,937 as the 2016 national total — never as each other.

Hubs that sit beside this Wisconsin 2016 tie

Read /states/WI/ for Wisconsin 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, Wisconsin × 2016, is only the overlap: 30 candidates and $77,656,386 in receipts, sourced to FEC.gov candidate receipts grouped by election cycle and office state.

Cite two lines, never one: 2016 Wisconsin office-state candidate receipts $77,656,386 from 30 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-wisconsin-candidate-receipts/.

Thirty WI office-state candidates are 1.7% of the 2016 roster by headcount. This is not an independent-expenditure scoreboard and not a spending-award table. A later FEC bulk file can move Wisconsin’s 2016 cell and the 2016 cycle book together; this snapshot stores $77,656,386 and $3,179,037,937 as harvested. Independent expenditures remain outside both columns. Donor names are not in this FEC grouping.

Office state WI is a federal-seat code on candidate filings, not a contributor ZIP roll-up and not a state-office ethics filing. 30 candidates produced $77,656,386 inside 2016. Other office states hold the remaining $3,101,381,552 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 Wisconsin hub.

Questions

How much did Wisconsin federal candidates raise in 2016?

$77,656,386 is FEC.gov candidate receipts for federal office in Wisconsin 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. Thirty is the candidate count for office state WI, not the number of contributors.

How big was the 2016 cycle nationwide?

The 2016 cycle book on FEC.gov is $3,179,037,937 across 1,721 candidates nationwide. Wisconsin is 30 of those candidates and $77,656,386 of those receipts (2.4% of cycle dollars). Wisconsin’s cell is a subset, not a substitute for the cycle total.

Are these Wisconsin donor names?

No. This page is candidate committee receipts grouped by election cycle 2016 and office state WI. It does not name individual donors, does not sum PAC independent expenditures, and does not treat FEC receipts as USAspending awards. No contributor roster is published on this join.

How do I open the 2016 cycle or Wisconsin hubs?

Use /election-cycles/2016/ for the 2016 national cycle hub and /states/WI/ for Wisconsin across cycles. All election cycles live at /election-cycles/. Sibling cycle-state joins live at /ties/. Sibling cycle–state cells live under All FEC ties.