New Jersey candidate fundraising — 2020 cycle

New Jersey office state inside the 2020 cycle

New Jersey office-state candidates reported $74,163,064 in the 2020 FEC.gov candidate-receipt table. That figure is New Jersey candidate-committee receipts for federal office in office state NJ during the 2020 cycle, as grouped on FEC.gov. The matching national book is $7,976,535,092 ($7.98 billion) across 2,459 candidates. New Jersey is 0.93% of those cycle dollars and 2.7% of the cycle candidate roster. This page exists because the two dimensions meet. It is not a restatement of the 2020 cycle hub alone and not a restatement of the New Jersey state hub across every cycle.

Office state on this page is the state of the federal office. A Senate or House candidate listed with office state NJ enters the New Jersey cell for 2020 even if some receipts were raised out of state. A donor who lives in New Jersey and gives to a different office state does not enter this cell by residence. The New Jersey hub at /states/NJ/ is the broader state view; this tie freezes one cycle.

Sixty-seven New Jersey candidates and the 2020 cell

New Jersey’s 2020 cell holds $74,163,064 ($74.2 million) from 67 office-state candidates. Dividing receipts by that candidate count gives an arithmetic mean of about $1,106,911 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 New Jersey hub at /states/NJ/ mixes cycles; this tie freezes 2020 only.

A small percentage of a very large 2020 cycle is still a large New Jersey cell. Do not read the percentage as a statement that New Jersey races were quiet.

Why New Jersey is a small share of 2020 dollars

New Jersey accounts for 0.93% of 2020 cycle dollars and 2.7% of 2020 cycle candidates. Those two percentages need not match. A state can hold a larger share of listed candidates than of receipts, or the reverse. The 2020 national book is $7,976,535,092, so New Jersey’s $74.2 million is a small percentage of cycle dollars even though the state cell itself is tens of millions. Neither percentage is a ranking of winners. The remaining $7,902,372,027 stayed in other office states.

New Jersey 2020: not IEs, not awards

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 NJ 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 $74,163,064 as New Jersey in 2020, and quote $7,976,535,092 as the 2020 national total — never as each other.

2020 cycle hub and New Jersey hub

Read /states/NJ/ for New Jersey campaign-finance totals that mix cycles. Read /election-cycles/2020/ for the 2020 cycle across every office state. Read /election-cycles/ for the cycle index and /ties/ for other FEC two-dimension pages. This URL, New Jersey × 2020, is only the overlap: 67 candidates and $74,163,064 in receipts, sourced to FEC.gov candidate receipts grouped by election cycle and office state.

Cite two lines, never one: 2020 New Jersey office-state candidate receipts $74,163,064 from 67 candidates, and 2020 national candidate receipts $7,976,535,092 from 2,459 candidates. The first line is the join cell. The second is the cycle book. FEC.gov is the source for both. Canonical path: /ties/2020-new-jersey-candidate-receipts/.

New Jersey 2020 is 67 candidates and $74,163,064. The 2020 cycle book is $7,976,535,092 across 2,459 candidates. A later FEC bulk file can move New Jersey’s 2020 cell and the 2020 cycle book together; this snapshot stores $74,163,064 and $7,976,535,092 as harvested. Independent expenditures remain outside both columns. Donor names are not in this FEC grouping.

Questions

How much did New Jersey federal candidates raise in 2020?

$74,163,064 is FEC.gov candidate receipts for federal office in New Jersey during the 2020 cycle. It is not the $7.98 billion national cycle total and not independent expenditures. Office state is the seat, not donor home address. Sixty-seven candidates is the NJ office-state count for 2020.

Why is New Jersey’s share of 2020 so small?

The 2020 cycle book on FEC.gov is $7,976,535,092 across 2,459 candidates nationwide. New Jersey is 67 of those candidates and $74,163,064 of those receipts (0.93% of cycle dollars). The 2020 cycle total is $7.98 billion; the NJ cell is $74.2 million.

Does this include 2020 independent expenditures in New Jersey?

No. This page is candidate committee receipts grouped by election cycle 2020 and office state NJ. It does not name individual donors, does not sum PAC independent expenditures, and does not treat FEC receipts as USAspending awards. Candidate receipts exclude independent expenditures.

Where is the 2020 election-cycle hub?

Use /election-cycles/2020/ for the 2020 national cycle hub and /states/NJ/ for New Jersey across cycles. All election cycles live at /election-cycles/. Sibling cycle-state joins live at /ties/. New Jersey campaign finance is the state hub across cycles.