Who raised $102.5 million in Colorado in 2020?

43 federal candidates with office state CO in cycle 2020, 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 $7,976,535,091.66 on the Colorado page?

Because this is a join. $7,976,535,091.66 is the national 2020 denominator that makes 1.3% computable. It is not additional Colorado money. Colorado money in 2020 remains $102,495,189.95. Cite the national figure only as the cycle total, never as the Colorado office-state cell.

Does 43 include state-legislature candidates in Colorado?

No. These are FEC candidate records for federal office, grouped by office state CO. Colorado state-office campaigns file under state law, not in this FEC candidate-receipt join. 43 is the federal candidate count in the packet, not a legislature roster.

Where should I go next from this Colorado 2020 tie?

Open the 2020 election cycle for the national year, Colorado 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.

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Colorado fundraising in the 2020 cycle

43 Colorado candidates seeking federal office reported $102.5 million in the 2020 FEC cycle. 2459 U.S. candidates reported $8.0 billion in the same window. The join is cycle 2020 × office state CO. Donor, occupation, and committee pages are other tables. Source: FEC.gov.

Key figures

$102.5 million is Colorado (CO) candidate receipts in 2020, not the U.S. cycle total of $8.0 billion.
43 Colorado candidates versus 2459 U.S. candidates in the same presidential cycle.
Other office states hold $7.9 billion (98.7%) of 2020 candidate receipts.
Independent expenditures and USAspending awards are outside these FEC candidate-receipt columns.
Source: FEC.gov candidate receipts grouped by election cycle and office state.

Where Colorado sits inside the 2020 FEC cycle

Cycle 2020 and Colorado (CO) are the two nouns this URL must keep together. Drop Colorado and you are citing $8.0 billion from 2459 U.S. candidates. Drop 2020 and you are citing a state hub that still mixes other even-year windows. Keep both and the number is $102.5 million from 43 candidates.

1.3% names $102,495,189.95 as a share of $7,976,535,091.66. It does not name a share of Colorado population, a share of House seats, or a share of itemized individual donors. Those denominators are absent. $7.9 billion is the complement inside the same 2020 cycle, other office states only.

Colorado (CO) is the FEC office-state code. Wyoming, Utah, and New Mexico office states are not recoded into CO. 2020 is a presidential 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 Colorado as an office state

Colorado (CO) in 2020 is one cell in a cycle-by-state grid. The cell value is $102,495,189.95. The cell's candidate count is 43. Other cells in the 2020 row sum to $7,874,039,901.71. This page publishes one cell, then explains the row total $7,976,535,091.66.

Because the packet has one state, this page does not rank Colorado against Tennessee, Ohio, or any other office state. Rankings would require the other cells. Colorado (CO) is the FEC office-state code. Wyoming, Utah, and New Mexico office states are not recoded into CO. Office state is not a donor map.

Reading $8.0 billion as the 2020 denominator

National candidate volume in 2020 is 2459. Colorado candidate volume is 43. Dollar counterparts are $7,976,535,091.66 and $102,495,189.95. 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 2020 election cycle page for the full national mix. Use this tie for Colorado inside 2020. Independent expenditures remain out of scope. Source: FEC.gov.

Do not mix state receipts with the cycle total

$102.5 million sits inside $8.0 billion the way a state cell sits inside a national row. Removing Colorado does not make $102,495,189.95 equal $7,976,535,091.66. Removing other states does not make $7,976,535,091.66 equal $102,495,189.95. Citations should name the filter that was applied.

43 versus 2459 is the candidate-count analog of that nesting. 43 is a mid-size candidate file. Means $2.38 million (Colorado) and $3.24 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 $102,495,189.95 would invent a number.

Federal awards in Colorado are USAspending, not FEC. $102,495,189.95 does not pay for those awards. $7,976,535,091.66 does not pay for them either. Keep the statutes apart even though both can mention Colorado and 2020.

Amended reports and live hubs

Candidate reports amend. A later 2020 extract can raise or lower $102,495,189.95 without this JSON file changing. Treat the live Colorado hub and the live 2020 hub as current, and treat this prose as a labeled snapshot of packet facts: $102,495,189.95, 43, $7,976,535,091.66, 2459.

Colorado (CO) is the FEC office-state code. Wyoming, Utah, and New Mexico office states are not recoded into CO. Sibling cycle-state pages for other years or other office states are other slugs. Do not reuse $102,495,189.95 on those pages.

Colorado in 2020 can be cited in one sentence without losing the join: office-state candidates in CO reported $102,495,189.95 on a file of 43 candidates, inside a national 2020 candidate-receipt total of $7,976,535,091.66 from 2459 candidates, for a dollar share of 1.3%. That sentence uses every packet dollar column once. A second sentence can add the complement $7,874,039,901.71 and the two means, $2.38 million in Colorado and $3.24 million nationwide, as long as each mean keeps its own denominator. A third sentence should repeat the omissions: no donor names, no independent expenditures, no USAspending awards, no party split, no Senate-versus-House split. Colorado (CO) is the FEC office-state code. Wyoming, Utah, and New Mexico office states are not recoded into CO. The 2020 cycle is a closed even-year window in this extract; $102,495,189.95 is the stored Colorado office-state total for that window. Those three sentences are still the same join. They are not a restatement of the Colorado hub and they are not a restatement of the 2020 hub. Researchers who need named candidates must leave this URL for the live hubs. Researchers who need donor geography must leave for a donor join. This file stays on cycle 2020 and office state CO.

Questions

Who raised $102.5 million in Colorado in 2020?: 43 federal candidates with office state CO in cycle 2020, 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 $7,976,535,091.66 on the Colorado page?: Because this is a join. $7,976,535,091.66 is the national 2020 denominator that makes 1.3% computable. It is not additional Colorado money. Colorado money in 2020 remains $102,495,189.95. Cite the national figure only as the cycle total, never as the Colorado office-state cell.
Does 43 include state-legislature candidates in Colorado?: No. These are FEC candidate records for federal office, grouped by office state CO. Colorado state-office campaigns file under state law, not in this FEC candidate-receipt join. 43 is the federal candidate count in the packet, not a legislature roster.
Where should I go next from this Colorado 2020 tie?: Open the 2020 election cycle for the national year, Colorado 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.

FEC.gov candidate receipts grouped by election cycle and office state. Not independent expenditures. Not a claim about federal spending.