Illinois candidate fundraising — 2018 cycle

Why Illinois and 2018 share one LobbyVault page

$76,894,544 is Illinois office-state candidate receipts on FEC.gov for the 2018 election cycle. That figure is Illinois candidate-committee receipts for federal office in office state IL 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. Illinois is 2.8% of those cycle dollars and 3.3% 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 Illinois state hub across every cycle.

Illinois’s 2018 cell is candidate-committee receipts for office state IL, not a Cook County donor file and not a state-board campaign-finance extract. Seventy-nine Illinois office-state candidates sit in a cycle that lists 2,418 candidates; dollars and headcount are separate columns. 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/2018/; the Illinois hub lives at /states/IL/. Every cycle is indexed at /election-cycles/, and sibling joins sit at /ties/.

Seventy-nine Illinois candidates in the 2018 cell

Illinois accounts for 2.8% of 2018 cycle dollars and 3.3% 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-nine Illinois office-state candidates sit in a cycle that lists 2,418 candidates; dollars and headcount are separate columns. Neither percentage is a ranking of winners. The remaining $2,621,269,163 stayed in other office states.

Placing Illinois inside the 2018 cycle total

The 2018 cycle table on FEC.gov shows $2,698,163,707 in candidate receipts nationwide and 2,418 candidates. After removing Illinois, $2,621,269,163 and 2,339 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.

Office state on this page is the state of the federal office. A Senate or House candidate listed with office state IL enters the Illinois cell for 2018 even if some receipts were raised out of state. A donor who lives in Illinois and gives to a different office state does not enter this cell by residence. The Illinois hub at /states/IL/ is the broader state view; this tie freezes one cycle.

Limits of the Illinois 2018 receipt join

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 IL 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 $76,894,544 as Illinois in 2018, and quote $2,698,163,707 as the 2018 national total — never as each other.

Illinois and 2018 hubs versus this overlap

Read /states/IL/ for Illinois 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, Illinois × 2018, is only the overlap: 79 candidates and $76,894,544 in receipts, sourced to FEC.gov candidate receipts grouped by election cycle and office state.

Cite two lines, never one: 2018 Illinois office-state candidate receipts $76,894,544 from 79 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-illinois-candidate-receipts/.

Illinois is 79 of 2,418 candidates in the 2018 FEC candidate table. The join does not convert receipts into federal award dollars. A later FEC bulk file can move Illinois’s 2018 cell and the 2018 cycle book together; this snapshot stores $76,894,544 and $2,698,163,707 as harvested. Independent expenditures remain outside both columns. Donor names are not in this FEC grouping.

Questions

What did Illinois federal candidates raise in 2018?

$76,894,544 is FEC.gov candidate receipts for federal office in Illinois 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. Cite the Illinois cell and the cycle total as two different figures.

How many candidates are in the 2018 cycle table?

The 2018 cycle book on FEC.gov is $2,698,163,707 across 2,418 candidates nationwide. Illinois is 79 of those candidates and $76,894,544 of those receipts (2.8% of cycle dollars). The Illinois count is 79; the cycle count is 2,418.

Does $76.9 million fund federal contracts?

No. This page is candidate committee receipts grouped by election cycle 2018 and office state IL. It does not name individual donors, does not sum PAC independent expenditures, and does not treat FEC receipts as USAspending awards. FEC receipts and USAspending obligations are different datasets.

Which LobbyVault hubs pair with this Illinois 2018 tie?

Use /election-cycles/2018/ for the 2018 national cycle hub and /states/IL/ for Illinois across cycles. All election cycles live at /election-cycles/. Sibling cycle-state joins live at /ties/. Do not treat this overlap as the full Illinois history across cycles.