Pennsylvania federal candidates, 2018 FEC cycle

Reading $115.8 million as PA in cycle 2018

Headline number: $115,827,871.89 ($115.8 million). Candidate count: 131. National cycle receipts: $2,698,163,707.14 ($2.7 billion). National candidate count: 2418. Remainder outside Pennsylvania: $2,582,335,835.25. Share of the 2018 cycle: 4.3%. Those quantities are the join. Everything else on this page explains what they are and are not.

Pennsylvania in 2018 is not Pennsylvania in every year and is not 2018 in every state. Mixing those frames is how a hub restatement sneaks in. The 131 candidates exist only at the intersection. An PA office-state code does not mean the receipts came from Pennsylvania donors, and it does not mean the money funded federal contracts in Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania (PA) is the FEC office-state code. Ohio, New Jersey, Maryland, and New York office states are other keys. FEC.gov stores cycle 2018 as a midterm even-year window. Use that label for dating the receipts, not for ranking Pennsylvania against other states. Source: FEC.gov candidate receipts by cycle and office state.

Reading $115.8 million as an office-state book for 2018

The state dimension answers a different question than the national cycle. How much candidate-receipt money is stored under office state PA in cycle 2018? $115,827,871.89. How much of the U.S. 2018 candidate-receipt book is that? 4.3% ($115,827,871.89 of $2,698,163,707.14). The difference is $2,582,335,835.25 in other office states. Those are stack identities, not rankings.

Pennsylvania (PA) is the FEC office-state code. Ohio, New Jersey, Maryland, and New York office states are other keys. Candidates who filed with a different office-state code are excluded from $115,827,871.89 even if they campaigned in Pennsylvania media markets. Filers do not get recoded. This page does not invent their names.

National 2018 receipts versus the Pennsylvania slice

Cycle 2018 tagged 2418 U.S. candidate records for a national sum of $2,698,163,707.14. Pennsylvania is 131 of those candidates and $115,827,871.89 of those dollars. That is the cycle slice versus the state slice. It is a midterm window. It is not a ranking of Pennsylvania among states, because this packet has one geography.

Quote $2.7 billion only as the national 2018 candidate-receipt total. Quote $115.8 million only as the Pennsylvania office-state total inside that cycle. Swapping the labels is the main citation error this page is written to block.

The complement: $2.6 billion outside Pennsylvania

The complement of the join inside the national cycle book is $2,582,335,835.25 (95.7%). That money is still cycle 2018; it is just not tagged office state PA. The join itself remains $115,827,871.89 / 131 candidates / Pennsylvania. Keep the complement and the join distinct in citations.

4.3% is not a turnout rate, not a share of Pennsylvania itemized individual dollars, and not a share of federal awards in Pennsylvania. Those denominators are absent. Use only $2,698,163,707.14 when stating the cycle share.

Receipts, not independent expenditures

What the table includes: FEC candidate receipts with office state PA and cycle 2018, summing to $115,827,871.89 across 131 candidates, against a national cycle $2,698,163,707.14 from 2418 candidates. What it excludes: everything else. That exclusion list is how this page stays a join instead of a hub restatement.

About $884,182 per Pennsylvania candidate should never be quoted as a typical Pennsylvania campaign. Typical would need a median and an office-type split. This extract has neither. 131 candidates can hide a lopsided mix of large and small committees — both directions are possible and neither is measured here.

How to cite the pair

Citation template: office state Pennsylvania (PA), election cycle 2018 (midterm), $115,827,871.89 in candidate receipts from 131 candidates, national cycle $2,698,163,707.14 from 2418 candidates, share 4.3%, remainder $2,582,335,835.25, Pennsylvania mean about $884,182 per candidate. Source: FEC.gov via LobbyVault cycle-state aggregates.

Then send the reader to the live 2018 election cycle page, the Pennsylvania campaign-finance hub, all election cycles, and all FEC ties. If you need donor cuts of Pennsylvania, those are other joins, not this file. This file stays on one office state and one cycle.

Readers sometimes arrive from a Pennsylvania search and assume $2,698,163,707.14 is local, or arrive from a 2018 search and assume $115,827,871.89 is national. Both misreadings are prevented by keeping the office-state noun and the cycle noun in every dollar sentence. $115.8 million is local to office state PA in 2018. $2.7 billion is national for 2018. 131 is the Pennsylvania 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; $115,827,871.89 is the stored Pennsylvania office-state total for that window. Pennsylvania (PA) is the FEC office-state code. Ohio, New Jersey, Maryland, and New York 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 Pennsylvania politics in 2018.

Questions

How does Pennsylvania in 2018 differ from the Pennsylvania state hub?

The state hub mixes every cycle stored for office state PA. This tie keeps only 2018, where receipts are $115,827,871.89 from 131 candidates. If you need Pennsylvania without a year filter, use the state hub. If you need Pennsylvania in 2018 only, use this page. The two pages share a geography noun and different denominators.

How does this page differ from the 2018 election cycle hub?

The cycle hub mixes every office state. National receipts are $2,698,163,707.14 from 2418 candidates. This page keeps only Pennsylvania, where receipts are $115,827,871.89 from 131 candidates. The cycle hub is the parent row; this URL is one cell. Do not cite the parent total as the Pennsylvania cell.

What does a mean of $884,182 per Pennsylvania candidate mean?

It is $115,827,871.89 divided by 131. It is not a median, not a typical House budget, and not a unique-person average. A few large statewide committees can pull the mean up. The packet does not publish a median or an office-type split, so this page does not invent one.

Is the 2018 Pennsylvania total a closed final number?

The 2018 cycle is a closed even-year window in this extract; $115,827,871.89 is the stored Pennsylvania office-state total for that window. Amended candidate reports can still move $115,827,871.89. If the live Pennsylvania hub or the live 2018 hub disagrees with this snapshot, use the newer FEC extract. This JSON file does not replace FEC.gov and is not a third disclosure system.