2018 Michigan office-state candidate receipts

Cycle 2018 and office state MI as a pair

Where cycle 2018 meets office state MI, candidate receipts sum to $84,602,183.59 across 72 candidates. The cycle aggregate without a state filter is $2,698,163,707.14 from 2418 candidates. Michigan is 3.1% of that national book; 96.9% ($2.6 billion) was filed under other office states. The arithmetic uses only packet facts.

This URL is a relationship page. Section one states the relationship. Later sections unpack the Michigan side, the 2018 side, the share, and the caveats. It is not a restatement of Michigan campaign finance across years, and it is not a restatement of the 2018 cycle across states.

Michigan (MI) is the FEC office-state code. Ohio, Wisconsin, and Indiana office states are other keys. A midterm cycle tag on 2018 does not explain $84.6 million. Independent expenditures are omitted. PAC-to-PAC transfers as a separate table are omitted. Federal spending awards are omitted. Source: FEC.gov.

Office state MI is not donor geography

Michigan's 2018 total of $84,602,183.59 is the state slice. The national parent set is $2,698,163,707.14. 3.1% names the slice as a share of the parent. $2,613,561,523.55 names the complement inside the same cycle. MI is the office state of the candidate, not a claim about Michigan elections for governor or legislature.

Use the state hub when the year does not matter. Use this tie when both Michigan and 2018 matter. Michigan (MI) is the FEC office-state code. Ohio, Wisconsin, and Indiana office states are other keys. Do not fold neighboring states into MI. Each office-state code is its own key.

Cycle 2018 is not the Michigan hub

The cycle dimension is the FEC even-year tag 2018 (midterm). Combined with Michigan, it yields $84,602,183.59 and 72 candidates. The national 2018 page still has every other office state. This page has one office state. Keep both nouns when citing: Michigan and 2018.

About $1.12 million per U.S. candidate is $2,698,163,707.14 divided by 2418. No median is in the packet. No party split is in the packet. No Senate-only or House-only subtotal is in the packet. Those omissions are intentional: the facts do not include them.

Dollar share is not candidate-count share

Inside cycle 2018, Michigan holds $84,602,183.59 and other office states hold $2,613,561,523.55. The cycle total is the sum: $2,698,163,707.14. 3.1% names the Michigan piece. 72 names the Michigan candidate file size. Mean about $1.18 million names $84,602,183.59/72. Four numbers, four jobs.

If a later FEC extract revises $84,602,183.59 or $2,698,163,707.14, the live hubs control. This prose is a snapshot of the packet facts. Amended candidate reports can move either side of the join.

Means, medians, and missing splits

Dollars ($84,602,183.59), candidates (72), cycle total ($2,698,163,707.14), remainder ($2,613,561,523.55), share (3.1%), Michigan mean ($1.18 million), U.S. mean ($1.12 million): those are the numeric claims. Dates in the packet are the cycle year 2018 only. No other dollar, count, or URL is used. Internal links stay on the four hrefs in the packet.

Amended FEC reports can change $84,602,183.59 after this snapshot. If the live Michigan hub or the live 2018 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls. This file is not a third disclosure system.

Public records, not accusations

Do not convert $84,602,183.59 into a statement about how Michigan voted in 2018. Candidate receipts are a filing stream. Most residents never appear as candidates. 72 records are the candidate file, not the electorate. 3.1% of the national cycle is not 3.1% of Michigan.

See the 2018 election cycle for the national year cut, Michigan campaign finance for the state mix, all election cycles for other even-year windows, and all FEC ties for sibling joins. Dollar figures first. Source: FEC.gov.

Readers sometimes arrive from a Michigan search and assume $2,698,163,707.14 is local, or arrive from a 2018 search and assume $84,602,183.59 is national. Both misreadings are prevented by keeping the office-state noun and the cycle noun in every dollar sentence. $84.6 million is local to office state MI in 2018. $2.7 billion is national for 2018. 72 is the Michigan candidate file. 2418 is the U.S. candidate file. Independent expenditures remain outside both files as used here. Federal spending awards remain outside both files. The 2018 cycle is a closed even-year window in this extract; $84,602,183.59 is the stored Michigan office-state total for that window. Michigan (MI) is the FEC office-state code. Ohio, Wisconsin, and Indiana office states are other keys. If this snapshot and a live hub diverge, the live FEC extract wins. This JSON object is a labeled copy of packet facts, not a parallel disclosure system and not a scoreboard of Michigan politics in 2018.

Questions

What is the 2018 Michigan candidate-receipt total?

$84.6 million ($84,602,183.59) from 72 candidates whose FEC office state is MI. 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 $84,602,183.59 only as Michigan 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 Michigan office-state candidates?

3.1%. That is $84,602,183.59 divided by $2,698,163,707.14. The complement is 96.9%, or $2,613,561,523.55, from candidates whose office state is not MI. The share is not a share of donors, votes, or federal awards, and it is not a ranking of Michigan against unnamed other states.

Are independent expenditures included in the Michigan 2018 total?

No. The source note on this page is candidate receipts grouped by election cycle and office state, not independent expenditures. $84,602,183.59 should not be quoted as a complete picture of 2018 political spending in Michigan. Super PAC and other independent-spend files are separate tables.

Do these FEC receipts fund federal spending in Michigan?

No. FEC candidate receipts and USAspending obligations are different datasets. $84,602,183.59 is campaign money reported by Michigan 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 Michigan.