Candidate receipts for New York in 2020

The relationship: cycle 2020 and office state NY

Headline number: $189,454,360.60. Candidate count: 142. National cycle dollars: $7,976,535,091.66. National cycle candidates: 2459. Remainder outside New York: $7,787,080,731.06. Dollar share: 2.4%. Candidate share: 5.8%. Those quantities are the join.

New York in 2020 is not New York in every year and is not 2020 in every state. Mixing those frames is how a hub restatement sneaks in. Correlation is not causation. An NY office-state code does not mean every dollar was donated from New York.

Use cycle 2020 and state NY together when quoting $189,454,360.60. Source: FEC.gov candidate receipts grouped by election cycle and office state. Not independent expenditures.

Reading $189,454,360.60 as an office-state book

The state dimension answers a different question than the national cycle hub. How much did candidates for New York offices raise in 2020? $189,454,360.60 from 142 records. How much did all office states raise in 2020? $7,976,535,091.66 from 2459 records. The difference is $7,787,080,731.06 and 2317 candidates.

Those are stack identities, not rankings. Do not rank New York against unnamed other states beyond the shares already stated. Neighboring cycle-state pages are other keys.

National 2020 dollars beside New York

Cycle 2020 tagged $7,976,535,091.66 nationally and $189,454,360.60 to office state NY. That is the cycle slice for New York. It is a presidential window. It is not a ranking of New York among all states beyond the shares already stated (2.4% of dollars, 5.8% of candidate records).

Mean about $1,334,185.64 should be quoted with the inputs: $189,454,360.60 and 142 records. Dropping either input turns the mean into an unsourced claim. This cycle-state page does not break $189,454,360.60 out by office (Senate vs House vs President) because that split is not in the packet.

Packet slug 2020-new-york-candidate-receipts is the LobbyVault filename for this 2020 × New York join. Canonical path is /ties/2020-new-york-candidate-receipts/. Overlay the cycle hub and the state hub; do not treat either hub as $189,454,360.60.

Cycle 2020 (presidential) plus office state NY is the two-part key behind $189,454,360.60. Drop the cycle and the page becomes a multi-year state hub. Drop the state and the page becomes the national cycle hub of $7,976,535,091.66. Keep both.

The complement: $7,787,080,731.06 outside New York

The complement of the join inside the cycle book is $7,787,080,731.06 (97.6%) and 2317 candidate records (94.2%). That money is still cycle 2020; it is just not tagged office state NY. The join itself remains $189,454,360.60 / 142 records / New York / 2020.

2.4% is not a turnout rate and not a share of federal spending. Those denominators are absent. Use only $7,976,535,091.66 when stating the cycle dollar share.

Recompute the dollar share from the raw figures: 189,454,360.60 divided by 7,976,535,091.66 is 2.4%. The complement 7,787,080,731.06 is $7,787,080,731.06, which is 97.6% of the national 2020 book. Candidate share uses 142 / 2459.

FEC candidate receipts are not USAspending obligations. $189,454,360.60 has no award count beside it in this packet. Do not fold $189,454,360.60 into federal spending in New York. Different statutes, different forms, different tables.

Itemized candidate receipts, not a census

Candidate receipts are the only money on this page. $189,454,360.60 is the operational definition for New York in 2020. If a researcher needs city cuts of donors, those are other LobbyVault joins. If a researcher needs names, those are not in this packet.

Cycle 2020 is an FEC tag. Office state NY is an FEC tag. Together they are a join, not a story about why 142 campaigns raised $189,454,360.60.

New York campaign-finance coverage still includes every other cycle. This tie does not. Researchers who need a multi-year mix should leave this URL and open the New York hub. Researchers who need New York in 2020 should stay here.

FEC candidate receipts are not USAspending awards

A candidate receipt is not an assistance award and not a contract action. $189,454,360.60 does not become New York spending because both datasets can mention New York. Keep FEC and USAspending separate. This packet has only FEC candidate receipt aggregates.

Open the 2020 election cycle for the national book, New York campaign finance for the state mix across years, all election cycles for other windows, and all FEC ties for sibling joins. Each door answers a different question.

Candidate receipts are the only money in $189,454,360.60 and $7,976,535,091.66. Independent expenditures and USAspending awards are other files. Mixing those files with this join would invent a total the packet does not contain.

Questions

What is the 2020 × New York candidate-receipt join?

It is $189,454,360.60 in candidate receipts matching cycle 2020 and office state NY, on 142 candidate records. The national 2020 hub without that state filter is $7,976,535,091.66 from 2459 candidates. This page is the intersection, not a restatement of either hub and not a named-candidate list. Source: FEC.gov.

Was 2020 a presidential or midterm cycle?

Cycle 2020 is a presidential two-year FEC window. That calendar label dates the receipts. It does not explain why New York candidates reported $189,454,360.60 on 142 records, and it is not a finding about turnout. Nationally the same window shows $7,976,535,091.66 from 2459 candidates. Source: FEC.gov candidate receipt aggregates.

What share of 2020 candidates ran in New York?

142 of 2459 candidate records are 5.8% of the national 2020 file in this extract. Dollar share is separate: $189,454,360.60 is 2.4% of $7,976,535,091.66. Quote both. Do not convert 5.8% into a share of New York adults. Eligible-voter denominators are not in the packet.

Does $189,454,360.60 fund USAspending awards coded to New York?

No. Campaign receipts and federal awards are different statutes. This packet has only FEC candidate receipt aggregates. $189,454,360.60 has no obligation dollars beside it. Do not add the join to federal spending in New York. Cite FEC.gov for the candidate-receipt file. Independent expenditures are also outside this join.