2020 Montana office-state candidate receipts

Cycle 2020 and office state MT as a pair

Where cycle 2020 meets office state MT, candidate receipts sum to $93,757,825.45 across 16 candidates. The cycle aggregate without a state filter is $7,976,535,091.66 from 2459 candidates. Montana is 1.2% of that national book; 98.8% ($7.9 billion) was filed under other office states. The arithmetic uses only packet facts.

This URL is a relationship page. Section one states the relationship. Later sections unpack the Montana side, the 2020 side, the share, and the caveats. It is not a restatement of Montana campaign finance across years, and it is not a restatement of the 2020 cycle across states.

Montana (MT) is the FEC office-state code. Idaho, Wyoming, North Dakota, and South Dakota office states remain separate keys. A presidential cycle tag on 2020 does not explain $93.8 million. Independent expenditures are omitted. PAC-to-PAC transfers as a separate table are omitted. Federal spending awards are omitted. Source: FEC.gov.

Office state MT is not donor geography

Montana's 2020 total of $93,757,825.45 is the state slice. The national parent set is $7,976,535,091.66. 1.2% names the slice as a share of the parent. $7,882,777,266.21 names the complement inside the same cycle. MT is the office state of the candidate, not a claim about Montana elections for governor or legislature.

Use the state hub when the year does not matter. Use this tie when both Montana and 2020 matter. Montana (MT) is the FEC office-state code. Idaho, Wyoming, North Dakota, and South Dakota office states remain separate keys. Do not fold neighboring states into MT. Each office-state code is its own key.

Cycle 2020 is not the Montana hub

The cycle dimension is the FEC even-year tag 2020 (presidential). Combined with Montana, it yields $93,757,825.45 and 16 candidates. The national 2020 page still has every other office state. This page has one office state. Keep both nouns when citing: Montana and 2020.

About $3.24 million per U.S. candidate is $7,976,535,091.66 divided by 2459. No median is in the packet. No party split is in the packet. No Senate-only or House-only subtotal is in the packet. Those omissions are intentional: the facts do not include them.

Dollar share is not candidate-count share

Inside cycle 2020, Montana holds $93,757,825.45 and other office states hold $7,882,777,266.21. The cycle total is the sum: $7,976,535,091.66. 1.2% names the Montana piece. 16 names the Montana candidate file size. Mean about $5.86 million names $93,757,825.45/16. Four numbers, four jobs.

If a later FEC extract revises $93,757,825.45 or $7,976,535,091.66, the live hubs control. This prose is a snapshot of the packet facts. Amended candidate reports can move either side of the join.

Means, medians, and missing splits

Dollars ($93,757,825.45), candidates (16), cycle total ($7,976,535,091.66), remainder ($7,882,777,266.21), share (1.2%), Montana mean ($5.86 million), U.S. mean ($3.24 million): those are the numeric claims. Dates in the packet are the cycle year 2020 only. No other dollar, count, or URL is used. Internal links stay on the four hrefs in the packet.

Amended FEC reports can change $93,757,825.45 after this snapshot. If the live Montana hub or the live 2020 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls. This file is not a third disclosure system.

Public records, not accusations

Do not convert $93,757,825.45 into a statement about how Montana voted in 2020. Candidate receipts are a filing stream. Most residents never appear as candidates. 16 records are the candidate file, not the electorate. 1.2% of the national cycle is not 1.2% of Montana.

See the 2020 election cycle for the national year cut, Montana campaign finance for the state mix, all election cycles for other even-year windows, and all FEC ties for sibling joins. Dollar figures first. Source: FEC.gov.

Montana in 2020 can be cited in one sentence without losing the join: office-state candidates in MT reported $93,757,825.45 on a file of 16 candidates, inside a national 2020 candidate-receipt total of $7,976,535,091.66 from 2459 candidates, for a dollar share of 1.2%. That sentence uses every packet dollar column once. A second sentence can add the complement $7,882,777,266.21 and the two means, $5.86 million in Montana 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. Montana (MT) is the FEC office-state code. Idaho, Wyoming, North Dakota, and South Dakota office states remain separate keys. The 2020 cycle is a closed even-year window in this extract; $93,757,825.45 is the stored Montana office-state total for that window. Those three sentences are still the same join. They are not a restatement of the Montana 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 MT.

Questions

What is the 2020 Montana candidate-receipt total?

$93.8 million ($93,757,825.45) from 16 candidates whose FEC office state is MT. Source: FEC.gov. That number is not the national 2020 total of $8.0 billion from 2459 candidates. Mixing the two columns is incorrect. Quote $93,757,825.45 only as Montana in 2020, and quote $7,976,535,091.66 only as the U.S. 2020 book.

What share of 2020 U.S. candidate receipts came from Montana office-state candidates?

1.2%. That is $93,757,825.45 divided by $7,976,535,091.66. The complement is 98.8%, or $7,882,777,266.21, from candidates whose office state is not MT. The share is not a share of donors, votes, or federal awards, and it is not a ranking of Montana against unnamed other states.

Are independent expenditures included in the Montana 2020 total?

No. The source note on this page is candidate receipts grouped by election cycle and office state, not independent expenditures. $93,757,825.45 should not be quoted as a complete picture of 2020 political spending in Montana. Super PAC and other independent-spend files are separate tables.

Do these FEC receipts fund federal spending in Montana?

No. FEC candidate receipts and USAspending obligations are different datasets. $93,757,825.45 is campaign money reported by Montana office-state candidates in 2020. It is not an award total and does not pay for federal contracts or grants. Do not add it to USAspending figures for Montana.