Arizona candidate fundraising — 2018 cycle

Why Arizona and 2018 share one LobbyVault page

$81,427,916.97 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: election cycle 2018, and candidate office state Arizona (AZ). 72 candidates survive both filters. The cycle side with the state filter removed is $2,698,163,707.14 from 2418 candidates nationwide. Arizona therefore accounts for 3.0% of 2018 U.S. candidate receipts in these facts. The remaining $2,616,735,790.17 (97.0%) was reported by candidates whose office state is not AZ.

This is not a restatement of Arizona campaign finance. That hub mixes 2018 with every other even-year window filed under office state AZ. It is also not a restatement of the 2018 election cycle hub, which mixes Arizona with every other office state. 72 candidates and $81,427,916.97 exist only where both filters are true. Correlation is not causation: an office-state code plus a cycle year does not prove why money was raised, which office drove the total, or who the donors were.

FEC candidate files store office state as the state of the seat sought, not the donor's home address. Arizona (AZ) is the FEC office-state code. Nevada, New Mexico, and California office states are not merged into AZ. 2018 is a midterm FEC cycle: a two-year window that does not include a presidential general election. That calendar tag dates the receipts. It does not explain $81.4 million. The 2018 cycle is a closed even-year window in this extract; $81,427,916.97 is the stored Arizona office-state total for that window. Source: FEC.gov candidate receipts grouped by election cycle and office state.

The Arizona (AZ) side of the join

On the state side, Arizona indexes $81,427,916.97 of candidate receipts in cycle 2018 from 72 candidates. That figure is the office-state total for this cycle, not an all-years Arizona census and not a count of residents. It is already inside the national 2018 total of $2,698,163,707.14; adding $81,427,916.97 to $2,698,163,707.14 would double-count the Arizona slice. Arizona campaign-finance pages still mix 2018 with every other cycle.

Arizona (AZ) is the FEC office-state code. Nevada, New Mexico, and California office states are not merged into AZ. Office state AZ stays on the citation so Arizona is not merged with another state's candidates. A large state-cycle total does not mean donors lived in Arizona. Recipient committees of those campaigns file as candidate committees; this join does not publish a donor-city cut. Use the Arizona hub to see the state without a year filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Arizona in 2018.

The 2018 cycle side next to Arizona

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2018 cycle is the Commission's cycle tag on candidate receipts, not a single calendar year of January filings only. Inside that window, U.S. candidates reported $2,698,163,707.14 across 2418 candidates. Arizona's slice of that window is $81,427,916.97 from 72 candidates. Dividing national dollars by national candidates gives a mean of about $1.12 million per U.S. candidate. That mean is an arithmetic average of candidates, not a typical campaign and not a median.

The national 2018 hub still includes every other office state. State pages for Arizona still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Arizona × 2018. Independent expenditures are omitted from both $81,427,916.97 and $2,698,163,707.14 as they appear here. Adjacent pages for the 2018 election cycle, Arizona campaign finance, all election cycles, and all FEC ties keep those broader cuts.

Arizona's share of the 2018 national cycle

3.0% of $2,698,163,707.14 is a defined slice. Other office states hold $2,616,735,790.17. Put another way, about 3.0% of 2018 U.S. candidate receipts in this aggregate were tagged office state AZ, and about 97.0% were not. Those percentages are $81,427,916.97 divided by $2,698,163,707.14 and $2,616,735,790.17 divided by $2,698,163,707.14. They are not shares of state population, eligible voters, or USAspending.

Dollar share (3.0%) and candidate volume (72 of 2418) are separate facts. This page does not publish a candidate-count percentage as a substitute for the dollar share. Do not treat 3.0% as Arizona donors' share of national itemized giving. Donor tables are other joins.

Counts, dollars, and what they omit

72 candidates totaling $81,427,916.97 is the operational definition of the Arizona side. The FEC file can list primary losers, general-election nominees, and other federal candidates under the same office-state code. Unique-person counts beyond that candidate total are not in the packet. Neither is a ranking of Arizona versus other states: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean receipts of about $1.13 million use only $81,427,916.97 and 72. It is a trivial ratio, not a finding about wealth, turnout, or ideology. This cycle-state page does not break $81,427,916.97 out by occupation of donors, industry, or named committee. No donor names are supplied, and none are added.

Caveats on a cycle-state join

This page does not rank Arizona against other states, does not call 2018 a wave, and does not treat candidate receipts as a proxy for public opinion in Arizona. Two columns matched. The office state of the candidate is not the state of the donor. An AZ office-state code does not mean the money supported only Arizona residents. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Arizona hub or the live 2018 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls.

Independent expenditures and non-candidate tables are omitted. See the 2018 election cycle, Arizona campaign finance, all election cycles, and all FEC ties for the adjacent tables. Dollar figures are FEC candidate receipt aggregates. They are not federal spending awards and they do not fund USAspending totals. Source: FEC.gov.

Questions

What is the 2018 Arizona candidate-receipt total?

$81.4 million ($81,427,916.97) from 72 candidates whose FEC office state is AZ. Source: FEC.gov. That number is not the national 2018 total of $2.7 billion from 2418 candidates. Mixing the two columns is incorrect. Quote $81,427,916.97 only as Arizona in 2018, and quote $2,698,163,707.14 only as the U.S. 2018 book.

What share of 2018 U.S. candidate receipts came from Arizona office-state candidates?

3.0%. That is $81,427,916.97 divided by $2,698,163,707.14. The complement is 97.0%, or $2,616,735,790.17, from candidates whose office state is not AZ. The share is not a share of donors, votes, or federal awards, and it is not a ranking of Arizona against unnamed other states.

Are independent expenditures included in the Arizona 2018 total?

No. The source note on this page is candidate receipts grouped by election cycle and office state, not independent expenditures. $81,427,916.97 should not be quoted as a complete picture of 2018 political spending in Arizona. Super PAC and other independent-spend files are separate tables.

Do these FEC receipts fund federal spending in Arizona?

No. FEC candidate receipts and USAspending obligations are different datasets. $81,427,916.97 is campaign money reported by Arizona office-state candidates in 2018. It is not an award total and does not pay for federal contracts or grants. Do not add it to USAspending figures for Arizona.