Ohio fundraising in the 2018 cycle

Where Ohio sits inside the 2018 FEC cycle

Cycle 2018 and Ohio (OH) are the two nouns this URL must keep together. Drop Ohio and you are citing $2.7 billion from 2418 U.S. candidates. Drop 2018 and you are citing a state hub that still mixes other even-year windows. Keep both and the number is $92.0 million from 74 candidates.

3.4% names $92,035,798.91 as a share of $2,698,163,707.14. It does not name a share of Ohio population, a share of House seats, or a share of itemized individual donors. Those denominators are absent. $2.6 billion is the complement inside the same 2018 cycle, other office states only.

Ohio (OH) is the FEC office-state code. Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky office states are not merged into OH. 2018 is a midterm two-year FEC window. Source: FEC.gov candidate receipts grouped by election cycle and office state. Not a claim about federal spending.

How FEC stores Ohio as an office state

Ohio (OH) in 2018 is one cell in a cycle-by-state grid. The cell value is $92,035,798.91. The cell's candidate count is 74. Other cells in the 2018 row sum to $2,606,127,908.23. This page publishes one cell, then explains the row total $2,698,163,707.14.

Because the packet has one state, this page does not rank Ohio against Tennessee, Ohio, or any other office state. Rankings would require the other cells. Ohio (OH) is the FEC office-state code. Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky office states are not merged into OH. Office state is not a donor map.

Reading $2.7 billion as the 2018 denominator

National candidate volume in 2018 is 2418. Ohio candidate volume is 74. Dollar counterparts are $2,698,163,707.14 and $92,035,798.91. Pair counts with dollars. A small candidate file can still hold a large dollar total if a few committees dominate; this packet does not prove that pattern, and it does not disprove it.

Use the 2018 election cycle page for the full national mix. Use this tie for Ohio inside 2018. Independent expenditures remain out of scope. Source: FEC.gov.

Do not mix state receipts with the cycle total

$92.0 million sits inside $2.7 billion the way a state cell sits inside a national row. Removing Ohio does not make $92,035,798.91 equal $2,698,163,707.14. Removing other states does not make $2,698,163,707.14 equal $92,035,798.91. Citations should name the filter that was applied.

74 versus 2418 is the candidate-count analog of that nesting. 74 is a relatively large candidate file for this office state. Means $1.24 million (Ohio) and $1.12 million (U.S.) stay attached to their denominators.

What FEC candidate receipts include here

Independent expenditures can dwarf or trail candidate receipts in a given state-cycle, and this packet does not say which. Super PAC and other independent-spend tables are other files. Mixing them into $92,035,798.91 would invent a number.

Federal awards in Ohio are USAspending, not FEC. $92,035,798.91 does not pay for those awards. $2,698,163,707.14 does not pay for them either. Keep the statutes apart even though both can mention Ohio and 2018.

Amended reports and live hubs

Candidate reports amend. A later 2018 extract can raise or lower $92,035,798.91 without this JSON file changing. Treat the live Ohio hub and the live 2018 hub as current, and treat this prose as a labeled snapshot of packet facts: $92,035,798.91, 74, $2,698,163,707.14, 2418.

Ohio (OH) is the FEC office-state code. Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky office states are not merged into OH. Sibling cycle-state pages for other years or other office states are other slugs. Do not reuse $92,035,798.91 on those pages.

Readers sometimes arrive from a Ohio search and assume $2,698,163,707.14 is local, or arrive from a 2018 search and assume $92,035,798.91 is national. Both misreadings are prevented by keeping the office-state noun and the cycle noun in every dollar sentence. $92.0 million is local to office state OH in 2018. $2.7 billion is national for 2018. 74 is the Ohio 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; $92,035,798.91 is the stored Ohio office-state total for that window. Ohio (OH) is the FEC office-state code. Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky office states are not merged into OH. 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 Ohio politics in 2018.

Questions

Who raised $92.0 million in Ohio in 2018?

74 federal candidates with office state OH 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 Ohio page?

Because this is a join. $2,698,163,707.14 is the national 2018 denominator that makes 3.4% computable. It is not additional Ohio money. Ohio money in 2018 remains $92,035,798.91. Cite the national figure only as the cycle total, never as the Ohio office-state cell.

Does 74 include state-legislature candidates in Ohio?

No. These are FEC candidate records for federal office, grouped by office state OH. Ohio state-office campaigns file under state law, not in this FEC candidate-receipt join. 74 is the federal candidate count in the packet, not a legislature roster.

Where should I go next from this Ohio 2018 tie?

Open the 2018 election cycle for the national year, Ohio 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.