Georgia candidate fundraising — 2018 cycle

Joining the 2018 cycle to Georgia office state

$75,580,692 is the Georgia office-state candidate-receipt cell on FEC.gov for 2018. That figure is Georgia candidate-committee receipts for federal office in office state GA during the 2018 cycle, as grouped on FEC.gov. The matching national book is $2,698,163,707 ($2.70 billion) across 2,418 candidates. Georgia is 2.8% of those cycle dollars and 3.0% of the cycle candidate roster. This page exists because the two dimensions meet. It is not a restatement of the 2018 cycle hub alone and not a restatement of the Georgia 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 GA enters the Georgia cell for 2018 even if some receipts were raised out of state. A donor who lives in Georgia and gives to a different office state does not enter this cell by residence. The Georgia hub at /states/GA/ is the broader state view; this tie freezes one cycle.

Georgia’s 73-candidate 2018 receipt stack

Georgia’s 2018 cell holds $75,580,692 ($75.6 million) from 73 office-state candidates. Dividing receipts by that candidate count gives an arithmetic mean of about $1,035,352 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 Georgia hub at /states/GA/ mixes cycles; this tie freezes 2018 only.

Georgia versus the 2018 national total

Georgia accounts for 2.8% of 2018 cycle dollars and 3.0% of 2018 cycle candidates. Those two percentages need not match. A state can hold a larger share of listed candidates than of receipts, or the reverse. Seventy-three Georgia office-state candidates sit behind the cell, inside a 2018 cycle roster of 2,418 candidates. Neither percentage is a ranking of winners. The remaining $2,622,583,016 stayed in other office states.

The 2018 cycle table on FEC.gov shows $2,698,163,707 in candidate receipts nationwide and 2,418 candidates. After removing Georgia, $2,622,583,016 and 2,345 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 2018 hub at /election-cycles/2018/ keeps the full book; /election-cycles/ lists every cycle; /ties/ lists other two-key joins.

What Georgia 2018 receipts leave out

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 GA 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 $75,580,692 as Georgia in 2018, and quote $2,698,163,707 as the 2018 national total — never as each other.

Georgia hub, 2018 hub, and this overlap

Read /states/GA/ for Georgia campaign-finance totals that mix cycles. Read /election-cycles/2018/ for the 2018 cycle across every office state. Read /election-cycles/ for the cycle index and /ties/ for other FEC two-dimension pages. This URL, Georgia × 2018, is only the overlap: 73 candidates and $75,580,692 in receipts, sourced to FEC.gov candidate receipts grouped by election cycle and office state.

Cite two lines, never one: 2018 Georgia office-state candidate receipts $75,580,692 from 73 candidates, and 2018 national candidate receipts $2,698,163,707 from 2,418 candidates. The first line is the join cell. The second is the cycle book. FEC.gov is the source for both. Canonical path: /ties/2018-georgia-candidate-receipts/.

Georgia’s 2018 cell is 73 candidates and $75,580,692. Residence of donors is not the grouping key; office state is. A later FEC bulk file can move Georgia’s 2018 cell and the 2018 cycle book together; this snapshot stores $75,580,692 and $2,698,163,707 as harvested. Independent expenditures remain outside both columns. Donor names are not in this FEC grouping.

Questions

How much did Georgia federal candidates raise in 2018?

$75,580,692 is FEC.gov candidate receipts for federal office in Georgia during the 2018 cycle. It is not the $2.70 billion national cycle total and not independent expenditures. Office state is the seat, not donor home address. Do not swap in the 2018 national total of $2.70 billion.

How many Georgia candidates are in the 2018 table?

The 2018 cycle book on FEC.gov is $2,698,163,707 across 2,418 candidates nationwide. Georgia is 73 of those candidates and $75,580,692 of those receipts (2.8% of cycle dollars). The table count is 73 office-state candidates.

Does this include Georgia PAC independent spending?

No. This page is candidate committee receipts grouped by election cycle 2018 and office state GA. It does not name individual donors, does not sum PAC independent expenditures, and does not treat FEC receipts as USAspending awards. Independent expenditures are outside candidate-receipt totals.

Where is the Georgia campaign-finance hub?

Use /election-cycles/2018/ for the 2018 national cycle hub and /states/GA/ for Georgia across cycles. All election cycles live at /election-cycles/. Sibling cycle-state joins live at /ties/. The 2018 cycle hub is the national book for that year.