Massachusetts candidate fundraising — 2018 cycle

How 2018 and Massachusetts share a join page

Massachusetts office-state candidates reported $74,462,395 in FEC.gov receipts for the 2018 cycle. That figure is Massachusetts candidate-committee receipts for federal office in office state MA 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. Massachusetts is 2.8% of those cycle dollars and 1.8% 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 Massachusetts state hub across every cycle.

Do not mix columns: $74,462,395 belongs to Massachusetts in 2018; $2,698,163,707 belongs to the whole 2018 cycle. Forty-three Massachusetts office-state candidates is a smaller roster than many large-state cells, so dollars per candidate run higher than a 2,418-candidate cycle average would imply if someone mixed the 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 Massachusetts hub lives at /states/MA/. Every cycle is indexed at /election-cycles/, and sibling joins sit at /ties/.

Forty-three Massachusetts candidates in 2018

Massachusetts’s 2018 cell holds $74,462,395 ($74.5 million) from 43 office-state candidates. Dividing receipts by that candidate count gives an arithmetic mean of about $1,731,684 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 Massachusetts hub at /states/MA/ mixes cycles; this tie freezes 2018 only.

Massachusetts against the 2018 cycle book

The 2018 cycle table on FEC.gov shows $2,698,163,707 in candidate receipts nationwide and 2,418 candidates. After removing Massachusetts, $2,623,701,312 and 2,375 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 the Massachusetts 2018 cell omits

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 MA 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 $74,462,395 as Massachusetts in 2018, and quote $2,698,163,707 as the 2018 national total — never as each other.

Massachusetts hub versus the 2018 cycle hub

Read /states/MA/ for Massachusetts 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, Massachusetts × 2018, is only the overlap: 43 candidates and $74,462,395 in receipts, sourced to FEC.gov candidate receipts grouped by election cycle and office state.

Cite two lines, never one: 2018 Massachusetts office-state candidate receipts $74,462,395 from 43 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-massachusetts-candidate-receipts/.

Massachusetts 2018: 43 candidates, $74,462,395. Office state MA is not a donor-residence filter. A later FEC bulk file can move Massachusetts’s 2018 cell and the 2018 cycle book together; this snapshot stores $74,462,395 and $2,698,163,707 as harvested. Independent expenditures remain outside both columns. Donor names are not in this FEC grouping.

Office state MA is a federal-seat code on candidate filings, not a contributor ZIP roll-up and not a state-office ethics filing. 43 candidates produced $74,462,395 inside 2018. Other office states hold the remaining $2,623,701,312 of the $2.70 billion cycle book. All FEC ties at /ties/ lists sibling cycle-state pages so this overlap is not mistaken for the full Massachusetts hub.

Questions

How much did Massachusetts federal candidates raise in 2018?

$74,462,395 is FEC.gov candidate receipts for federal office in Massachusetts 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. Forty-three is the office-state candidate count, not a donor count.

How large was the 2018 cycle nationwide?

The 2018 cycle book on FEC.gov is $2,698,163,707 across 2,418 candidates nationwide. Massachusetts is 43 of those candidates and $74,462,395 of those receipts (2.8% of cycle dollars). Massachusetts is a subset of that $2.70 billion book.

Is this a list of Massachusetts donors in 2018?

No. This page is candidate committee receipts grouped by election cycle 2018 and office state MA. It does not name individual donors, does not sum PAC independent expenditures, and does not treat FEC receipts as USAspending awards. The join is candidate receipts by office state, not Schedule A names.

Where are the Massachusetts and 2018 hubs?

Use /election-cycles/2018/ for the 2018 national cycle hub and /states/MA/ for Massachusetts across cycles. All election cycles live at /election-cycles/. Sibling cycle-state joins live at /ties/. All election cycles lists every cycle hub. FEC.gov candidate receipts are the source for both columns on this join.