Missouri candidate fundraising — 2018 cycle

The 2018 cycle × Missouri office-state join

Forty-two Missouri office-state candidates reported $69,201,612 on FEC.gov for the 2018 cycle. That figure is Missouri candidate-committee receipts for federal office in office state MO 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. Missouri is 2.6% of those cycle dollars and 1.7% 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 Missouri 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 MO enters the Missouri cell for 2018 even if some receipts were raised out of state. A donor who lives in Missouri and gives to a different office state does not enter this cell by residence. The Missouri hub at /states/MO/ is the broader state view; this tie freezes one cycle.

Forty-two Missouri candidates and the dollar cell

Missouri’s 2018 cell holds $69,201,612 ($69.2 million) from 42 office-state candidates. Dividing receipts by that candidate count gives an arithmetic mean of about $1,647,657 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 Missouri hub at /states/MO/ mixes cycles; this tie freezes 2018 only.

The mean of about $1.65 million per Missouri 2018 candidate is an arithmetic ratio, not a typical contribution.

Missouri’s share of the 2018 cycle

Missouri accounts for 2.6% of 2018 cycle dollars and 1.7% 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. A 42-candidate Missouri roster is a compact slice of 2,418 cycle candidates; dollars and headcount remain separate columns. Neither percentage is a ranking of winners. The remaining $2,628,962,095 stayed in other office states.

Exclusions: IEs, donors, and federal awards

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 MO 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 $69,201,612 as Missouri in 2018, and quote $2,698,163,707 as the 2018 national total — never as each other.

Hubs that sit beside this Missouri 2018 tie

Read /states/MO/ for Missouri 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, Missouri × 2018, is only the overlap: 42 candidates and $69,201,612 in receipts, sourced to FEC.gov candidate receipts grouped by election cycle and office state.

Cite two lines, never one: 2018 Missouri office-state candidate receipts $69,201,612 from 42 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-missouri-candidate-receipts/.

Forty-two MO office-state candidates are the 2018 roster for this cell. This is not an independent-expenditure scoreboard. A later FEC bulk file can move Missouri’s 2018 cell and the 2018 cycle book together; this snapshot stores $69,201,612 and $2,698,163,707 as harvested. Independent expenditures remain outside both columns. Donor names are not in this FEC grouping.

Office state MO is a federal-seat code on candidate filings, not a contributor ZIP roll-up and not a state-office ethics filing. 42 candidates produced $69,201,612 inside 2018. Other office states hold the remaining $2,628,962,095 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 Missouri hub.

Questions

How much did Missouri federal candidates raise in 2018?

$69,201,612 is FEC.gov candidate receipts for federal office in Missouri 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-two is the candidate count for office state MO, not contributors.

How big was the 2018 cycle nationwide?

The 2018 cycle book on FEC.gov is $2,698,163,707 across 2,418 candidates nationwide. Missouri is 42 of those candidates and $69,201,612 of those receipts (2.6% of cycle dollars). Missouri’s cell is a subset, not a substitute for the cycle total.

Are these Missouri donor names?

No. This page is candidate committee receipts grouped by election cycle 2018 and office state MO. It does not name individual donors, does not sum PAC independent expenditures, and does not treat FEC receipts as USAspending awards. No contributor roster is published on this join.

How do I open the 2018 cycle or Missouri hubs?

Use /election-cycles/2018/ for the 2018 national cycle hub and /states/MO/ for Missouri across cycles. All election cycles live at /election-cycles/. Sibling cycle-state joins live at /ties/. Sibling cycle–state cells live under All FEC ties.