Wisconsin candidate fundraising — 2018 cycle

The 2018 cycle meeting Wisconsin office state

Wisconsin office-state candidates reported $68,918,660 in FEC.gov receipts inside the 2018 cycle table. That figure is Wisconsin candidate-committee receipts for federal office in office state WI 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. Wisconsin is 2.6% of those cycle dollars and 1.3% 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 Wisconsin state hub across every cycle.

Two nearby cycles with similar Wisconsin candidate counts still have separate dollar cells. This page quotes 2018 only. Thirty-one Wisconsin office-state candidates are the roster behind that dollar cell, against 2,418 candidates in the 2018 cycle table. 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 Wisconsin hub lives at /states/WI/. Every cycle is indexed at /election-cycles/, and sibling joins sit at /ties/.

Wisconsin’s 31-candidate 2018 receipt cell

Wisconsin’s 2018 cell holds $68,918,660 ($68.9 million) from 31 office-state candidates. Dividing receipts by that candidate count gives an arithmetic mean of about $2,223,183 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 Wisconsin hub at /states/WI/ mixes cycles; this tie freezes 2018 only.

National 2018 receipts beside Wisconsin

The 2018 cycle table on FEC.gov shows $2,698,163,707 in candidate receipts nationwide and 2,418 candidates. After removing Wisconsin, $2,629,245,047 and 2,387 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.

What Wisconsin 2018 receipts are not

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 WI 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 $68,918,660 as Wisconsin in 2018, and quote $2,698,163,707 as the 2018 national total — never as each other.

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

Using the 2018 cycle hub and Wisconsin hub

Read /states/WI/ for Wisconsin 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, Wisconsin × 2018, is only the overlap: 31 candidates and $68,918,660 in receipts, sourced to FEC.gov candidate receipts grouped by election cycle and office state.

Cite two lines, never one: 2018 Wisconsin office-state candidate receipts $68,918,660 from 31 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-wisconsin-candidate-receipts/.

Wisconsin’s 31 candidates are the office-state count for 2018. Do not read the Wisconsin cell as the 2018 national total. A later FEC bulk file can move Wisconsin’s 2018 cell and the 2018 cycle book together; this snapshot stores $68,918,660 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 Wisconsin federal candidates raise in 2018?

$68,918,660 is FEC.gov candidate receipts for federal office in Wisconsin 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. Quote the Wisconsin cell separately from the $2.70 billion cycle book.

What is the 2018 national candidate-receipt total here?

The 2018 cycle book on FEC.gov is $2,698,163,707 across 2,418 candidates nationwide. Wisconsin is 31 of those candidates and $68,918,660 of those receipts (2.6% of cycle dollars). That cycle total includes every office state, not Wisconsin alone.

Is this a Wisconsin donor directory for 2018?

No. This page is candidate committee receipts grouped by election cycle 2018 and office state WI. It does not name individual donors, does not sum PAC independent expenditures, and does not treat FEC receipts as USAspending awards. The page publishes candidate-receipt aggregates, not contributor names.

Where do I compare other 2018 states?

Use /election-cycles/2018/ for the 2018 national cycle hub and /states/WI/ for Wisconsin across cycles. All election cycles live at /election-cycles/. Sibling cycle-state joins live at /ties/. All FEC ties lists sibling cycle–state pages. FEC.gov candidate receipts are the source for both columns on this join.