New Jersey (NJ) candidate receipts in 2018

New Jersey receipts in 2018 are a two-key overlap

LobbyVault keeps a New Jersey state page and a 2018 election-cycle page. Neither page is this join. The join is $109,069,881.85 from 64 candidates where cycle equals 2018 and office state equals NJ. Against the national cycle total of $2,698,163,707.14, that is 4.0%. Other office states in the same cycle hold $2.6 billion.

Do not treat 4.0% as New Jersey's share of donor dollars from New Jersey residents. Donor geography is not in these facts. Do not treat 64 as unique people who live in New Jersey. The count is candidates with office state NJ in cycle 2018. The packet does not publish a unique-donor count, a party split, or an office (Senate versus House) split for this pair.

The 2018 cycle is a closed even-year window in this extract; $109,069,881.85 is the stored New Jersey office-state total for that window. New Jersey (NJ) is the FEC office-state code. New York, Pennsylvania, and Delaware office states are other keys. Dollar figures are candidate receipt aggregates from FEC.gov, not federal awards and not state-office filings. Independent expenditures are other files.

New Jersey office-state receipts without a national mix-in

64 is a relatively large candidate file for this office state. 64 candidates produced $109,069,881.85. Mean about $1.70 million per candidate is $109,069,881.85 divided by 64. That ratio is not a typical campaign budget: a handful of statewide committees can dominate a mean while many House challengers file much smaller totals. No median is in the packet.

New Jersey (NJ) is the FEC office-state code. New York, Pennsylvania, and Delaware office states are other keys. Keep NJ on the name. Other states have their own 2018 ties. $109,069,881.85 is not a New Jersey state-office total under state law. Open the New Jersey campaign-finance hub for the all-cycle state mix; open this page for New Jersey in 2018 only.

2018 as a midterm FEC window

On the cycle side, 2418 U.S. candidates produced $2,698,163,707.14. Repeat filings and amended reports can still sit inside a candidate count of 2418 as stored. The packet does not say how many unique humans those records represent beyond the candidate count given. About $1.12 million per U.S. candidate is a trivial division, not a finding about wealth. Midterm versus the other even-year type is a schedule fact for 2018, not an explanation of New Jersey's $109.1 million.

Independent expenditures never enter these candidate-receipt totals. Committee operating expenditures as a separate table never enter them. State-office filings never enter them. This is a candidate-receipt cycle×office-state aggregate from FEC.gov. The 2018 cycle is a closed even-year window in this extract; $109,069,881.85 is the stored New Jersey office-state total for that window.

4.0% of 2018 U.S. candidate receipts

Compared with the rest of the 2018 cycle, New Jersey is 4.0% of candidate receipts ($109,069,881.85 of $2,698,163,707.14). The rest is $2,589,093,825.29. 64 is the New Jersey candidate count only. Quote dollars and candidates as different columns. Mixing them produces a fake density statistic this packet does not support.

Do not rank New Jersey as a winner or loser in 2018. This join has one office state and one cycle. Neighboring cycle-state pages are other keys. New Jersey campaign finance still mixes years.

What 64 New Jersey candidates are not

Candidate receipts are the only money on this page. 64 New Jersey candidates sum to $109,069,881.85 in 2018. If a researcher needs donor-city cuts, those are other LobbyVault joins. If a researcher needs committee names, those are not in this packet. Do not invent donor names.

Office state NJ is a candidate field. Cycle 2018 is an FEC tag. Together they are a join, not a story about why 64 candidates raised $109.1 million. Correlation is not causation. An office in New Jersey does not locate the donors who funded the committee.

Using New Jersey and 2018 links without mixing statutes

Public records, not accusations: $109,069,881.85 from 64 candidates is a disclosure aggregate. It is not evidence of coordination, quid pro quo, or local control. Correlation is not causation. New Jersey × 2018 is a database join.

Researchers should keep NJ as the stored office-state code and 2018 as the cycle tag. New Jersey (NJ) is the FEC office-state code. New York, Pennsylvania, and Delaware office states are other keys. Source: FEC.gov candidate receipts grouped by election cycle and office state. Live hubs win if they disagree with this snapshot.

Questions

Who raised $109.1 million in New Jersey in 2018?

64 federal candidates with office state NJ in cycle 2018, in aggregate. This packet does not list their names, parties, or offices. Inventing a candidate or donor name would exceed the facts. Use live candidate pages for names. This tie stays aggregated to office state and cycle.

Why is $2,698,163,707.14 on the New Jersey page?

Because this is a join. $2,698,163,707.14 is the national 2018 denominator that makes 4.0% computable. It is not additional New Jersey money. New Jersey money in 2018 remains $109,069,881.85. Cite the national figure only as the cycle total, never as the New Jersey office-state cell.

Does 64 include state-legislature candidates in New Jersey?

No. These are FEC candidate records for federal office, grouped by office state NJ. New Jersey state-office campaigns file under state law, not in this FEC candidate-receipt join. 64 is the federal candidate count in the packet, not a legislature roster.

Where should I go next from this New Jersey 2018 tie?

Open the 2018 election cycle for the national year, New Jersey campaign finance for the all-cycle state mix, all election cycles for other windows, and all FEC ties for other two-dimension pages. Those four hrefs are the only internal links this packet authorizes. Sibling cycle-state slugs are other keys.