2018 cycle: Tennessee candidate receipts

What the 2018 × Tennessee overlap is

Two filters produce $56,851,593.84. Filter one is FEC cycle 2018. Filter two is office state TN (Tennessee). 51 candidate records survive both. $2,698,163,707.14 is the cycle dimension with the state filter removed. Divide $56,851,593.84 by $2,698,163,707.14 and Tennessee is 2.1% of the national 2018 candidate-receipt stack; $2,641,312,113.30 (97.9%) sits in other office states.

The Tennessee hub still lists every cycle. The 2018 hub still lists every state. Citing either hub as if it were this page misstates the denominator. 51 candidates and $56.9 million are the intersection only. Office state is a candidate field, not a map of where contributors live and not a map of where committees are headquartered.

Tennessee (TN) is the FEC office-state code. Kentucky, Alabama, and other bordering office states remain on their own cycle-state pages. Cycle 2018 is tagged as a midterm window on FEC.gov. Presidential versus midterm is a schedule label, not a finding about Tennessee turnout or ideology. Independent expenditures are omitted from $56,851,593.84. USAspending awards are a different statute. Source: FEC.gov.

What 51 Tennessee candidates represent

$56,851,593.84 is the Tennessee office-state book for 2018 in this extract — every party, every federal office type in the candidate file, so long as office state stored TN and cycle stored 2018. 51 is the candidate count for that pair. The packet does not split Senate versus House, and this page does not invent that split.

Tennessee pages still include other years. The 2018 hub still includes other states. This join keeps both nouns in the sentence: Tennessee and 2018. Tennessee (TN) is the FEC office-state code. Kentucky, Alabama, and other bordering office states remain on their own cycle-state pages. Office state is the seat's state on the candidate record, not Census residence of contributors.

What cycle 2018 contributes to this page

2018 is a midterm even-year FEC cycle. Nationally it shows 2418 candidates totaling $2,698,163,707.14. Inside it, Tennessee shows 51 candidates totaling $56,851,593.84. National mean about $1.12 million; Tennessee mean about $1.11 million. Those ratios use only packet facts. They are not household income and not a unique-person average.

The 2018 election-cycle hub mixes Tennessee with every other office state. This page does not. If a citation needs Tennessee in 2018, use this tie. If a citation needs all of 2018 nationally, use the cycle hub. If a citation needs all of Tennessee across years, use the state hub. Three different denominators.

How large Tennessee is inside $2.7 billion

$56,851,593.84 ÷ $2,698,163,707.14 = 2.1%. $2,641,312,113.30 ÷ $2,698,163,707.14 = 97.9%. Those identities use the packet's state total and cycle total only. They do not use 51 except as a separate candidate count. Do not convert 51 into a percentage of 2418 and then treat that percentage as dollars.

A 2.1% dollar share means most of the 2018 candidate-receipt book sits in other office states ($2.6 billion). That is a description of this table, not a claim that Tennessee was quiet or loud in 2018 politics. Other states are not itemized on this page.

Candidates are not donors

51 is a candidate-record count. $56,851,593.84 is a dollar sum of candidate receipts. $1.11 million is their ratio. None of those is a unique-donor count. None is a median. None is a party split. The packet did not include those fields, so this page does not publish them.

Omitted from $56,851,593.84: independent expenditures, non-candidate PAC spending as a separate total, unitemized tables not rolled into these candidate receipts, and USAspending obligations. Omitted from the cycle comparison: any cycle other than 2018, except as context that the Tennessee hub still mixes years.

What this join does not prove

Cite the join with both sides: Tennessee (TN) and the 2018 election cycle. Dropping either side turns $56,851,593.84 into a hub number it is not. 51 candidates and a mean near $1.11 million stay attached to that pair. $2,698,163,707.14 is the national cycle book, not the join.

FEC candidate receipts are not USAspending awards. This packet has no obligation dollars. Do not add $56,851,593.84 to federal spending in Tennessee. Campaign receipts and federal awards are different statutes even when both mention Tennessee. Open the four internal links: 2018 election cycle; Tennessee campaign finance; all election cycles; all FEC ties.

Questions

What is the 2018 Tennessee candidate-receipt total?

$56.9 million ($56,851,593.84) from 51 candidates whose FEC office state is TN. Source: FEC.gov. That number is not the national 2018 total of $2.7 billion from 2418 candidates. Mixing the two columns is incorrect.

What share of 2018 U.S. candidate receipts came from Tennessee office-state candidates?

2.1%. That is $56,851,593.84 divided by $2,698,163,707.14. The complement is 97.9%, or $2,641,312,113.30, from candidates whose office state is not TN. The share is not a share of donors, votes, or federal awards.

Are independent expenditures included in the Tennessee 2018 total?

No. The source note on this page is candidate receipts grouped by election cycle and office state, not independent expenditures. $56,851,593.84 should not be quoted as a complete picture of 2018 political spending in Tennessee. Super PAC and other independent-spend files are separate.

Do these FEC receipts fund federal spending in Tennessee?

No. FEC candidate receipts and USAspending obligations are different datasets. $56,851,593.84 is campaign money reported by Tennessee 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.