Washington candidate fundraising — 2018 cycle

Washington office state inside the 2018 cycle

Washington office-state candidates reported $58,904,046 in the 2018 FEC.gov candidate-receipt table. That figure is Washington candidate-committee receipts for federal office in office state WA 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. Washington is 2.2% of those cycle dollars and 2.1% 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 Washington state hub across every cycle.

Washington’s share of 2018 cycle dollars is a descriptive ratio. Office state WA is the federal seat, not a Seattle donor-residence filter. Fifty-one Washington office-state candidates produced the cell; the 2018 cycle lists 2,418 candidates across all office states. Candidate receipts here are committee-side totals for the office-state filter. They are not independent expenditures, not a Schedule A donor directory, and not USAspending award dollars. The cycle hub lives at /election-cycles/2018/; the Washington hub lives at /states/WA/. Every cycle is indexed at /election-cycles/, and sibling joins sit at /ties/.

Fifty-one Washington candidates and $58.9 million

Washington’s 2018 cell holds $58,904,046 ($58.9 million) from 51 office-state candidates. Dividing receipts by that candidate count gives an arithmetic mean of about $1,154,981 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 Washington hub at /states/WA/ mixes cycles; this tie freezes 2018 only.

The 2018 cycle remainder outside Washington

The 2018 cycle table on FEC.gov shows $2,698,163,707 in candidate receipts nationwide and 2,418 candidates. After removing Washington, $2,639,259,661 and 2,367 candidates remain in other office states. Those remainder figures are arithmetic (cycle minus state). They are not a second FEC file. Opening only this tie would hide that remainder. The 2018 hub at /election-cycles/2018/ keeps the full book; /election-cycles/ lists every cycle; /ties/ lists other two-key joins.

Washington 2018: IEs and awards stay out

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 WA 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 $58,904,046 as Washington in 2018, and quote $2,698,163,707 as the 2018 national total — never as each other.

Cycle and state indexes for Washington 2018

Read /states/WA/ for Washington 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, Washington × 2018, is only the overlap: 51 candidates and $58,904,046 in receipts, sourced to FEC.gov candidate receipts grouped by election cycle and office state.

Office state on this page is the state of the federal office. A Senate or House candidate listed with office state WA enters the Washington cell for 2018 even if some receipts were raised out of state. A donor who lives in Washington and gives to a different office state does not enter this cell by residence. The Washington hub at /states/WA/ is the broader state view; this tie freezes one cycle.

Cite two lines, never one: 2018 Washington office-state candidate receipts $58,904,046 from 51 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-washington-candidate-receipts/.

Washington is 51 of 2,418 candidates in the 2018 table. The $58.9 million cell is not the $2.70 billion cycle book. A later FEC bulk file can move Washington’s 2018 cell and the 2018 cycle book together; this snapshot stores $58,904,046 and $2,698,163,707 as harvested. Independent expenditures remain outside both columns. Donor names are not in this FEC grouping.

Questions

How much did Washington federal candidates raise in 2018?

$58,904,046 is FEC.gov candidate receipts for federal office in Washington 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. Fifty-one is the candidate count for office state WA.

What did the 2018 cycle raise nationwide?

The 2018 cycle book on FEC.gov is $2,698,163,707 across 2,418 candidates nationwide. Washington is 51 of those candidates and $58,904,046 of those receipts (2.2% of cycle dollars). Keep the Washington cell and the cycle total on separate lines.

Are independent expenditures in the Washington 2018 total?

No. This page is candidate committee receipts grouped by election cycle 2018 and office state WA. It does not name individual donors, does not sum PAC independent expenditures, and does not treat FEC receipts as USAspending awards. The source note excludes independent expenditures.

How do I open Washington or 2018 without this join?

Use /election-cycles/2018/ for the 2018 national cycle hub and /states/WA/ for Washington across cycles. All election cycles live at /election-cycles/. Sibling cycle-state joins live at /ties/. Those hubs mix other cycles or other states. FEC.gov candidate receipts are the source for both columns on this join.