North Carolina federal candidates, 2020 FEC cycle

Reading $135.9 million as NC in cycle 2020

Headline number: $135,888,628.25 ($135.9 million). Candidate count: 98. National cycle receipts: $7,976,535,091.66 ($8.0 billion). National candidate count: 2459. Remainder outside North Carolina: $7,840,646,463.41. Share of the 2020 cycle: 1.7%. Those quantities are the join. Everything else on this page explains what they are and are not.

North Carolina in 2020 is not North Carolina in every year and is not 2020 in every state. Mixing those frames is how a hub restatement sneaks in. The 98 candidates exist only at the intersection. An NC office-state code does not mean the receipts came from North Carolina donors, and it does not mean the money funded federal contracts in North Carolina.

North Carolina (NC) is the FEC office-state code. South Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee office states stay separate. FEC.gov stores cycle 2020 as a presidential even-year window. Use that label for dating the receipts, not for ranking North Carolina against other states. Source: FEC.gov candidate receipts by cycle and office state.

Reading $135.9 million as an office-state book for 2020

The state dimension answers a different question than the national cycle. How much candidate-receipt money is stored under office state NC in cycle 2020? $135,888,628.25. How much of the U.S. 2020 candidate-receipt book is that? 1.7% ($135,888,628.25 of $7,976,535,091.66). The difference is $7,840,646,463.41 in other office states. Those are stack identities, not rankings.

North Carolina (NC) is the FEC office-state code. South Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee office states stay separate. Candidates who filed with a different office-state code are excluded from $135,888,628.25 even if they campaigned in North Carolina media markets. Filers do not get recoded. This page does not invent their names.

National 2020 receipts versus the North Carolina slice

Cycle 2020 tagged 2459 U.S. candidate records for a national sum of $7,976,535,091.66. North Carolina is 98 of those candidates and $135,888,628.25 of those dollars. That is the cycle slice versus the state slice. It is a presidential window. It is not a ranking of North Carolina among states, because this packet has one geography.

Quote $8.0 billion only as the national 2020 candidate-receipt total. Quote $135.9 million only as the North Carolina office-state total inside that cycle. Swapping the labels is the main citation error this page is written to block.

The complement: $7.8 billion outside North Carolina

The complement of the join inside the national cycle book is $7,840,646,463.41 (98.3%). That money is still cycle 2020; it is just not tagged office state NC. The join itself remains $135,888,628.25 / 98 candidates / North Carolina. Keep the complement and the join distinct in citations.

1.7% is not a turnout rate, not a share of North Carolina itemized individual dollars, and not a share of federal awards in North Carolina. Those denominators are absent. Use only $7,976,535,091.66 when stating the cycle share.

Receipts, not independent expenditures

What the table includes: FEC candidate receipts with office state NC and cycle 2020, summing to $135,888,628.25 across 98 candidates, against a national cycle $7,976,535,091.66 from 2459 candidates. What it excludes: everything else. That exclusion list is how this page stays a join instead of a hub restatement.

About $1.39 million per North Carolina candidate should never be quoted as a typical North Carolina campaign. Typical would need a median and an office-type split. This extract has neither. 98 candidates can hide a lopsided mix of large and small committees — both directions are possible and neither is measured here.

How to cite the pair

Citation template: office state North Carolina (NC), election cycle 2020 (presidential), $135,888,628.25 in candidate receipts from 98 candidates, national cycle $7,976,535,091.66 from 2459 candidates, share 1.7%, remainder $7,840,646,463.41, North Carolina mean about $1.39 million per candidate. Source: FEC.gov via LobbyVault cycle-state aggregates.

Then send the reader to the live 2020 election cycle page, the North Carolina campaign-finance hub, all election cycles, and all FEC ties. If you need donor cuts of North Carolina, those are other joins, not this file. This file stays on one office state and one cycle.

North Carolina in 2020 can be cited in one sentence without losing the join: office-state candidates in NC reported $135,888,628.25 on a file of 98 candidates, inside a national 2020 candidate-receipt total of $7,976,535,091.66 from 2459 candidates, for a dollar share of 1.7%. That sentence uses every packet dollar column once. A second sentence can add the complement $7,840,646,463.41 and the two means, $1.39 million in North Carolina 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. North Carolina (NC) is the FEC office-state code. South Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee office states stay separate. The 2020 cycle is a closed even-year window in this extract; $135,888,628.25 is the stored North Carolina office-state total for that window. Those three sentences are still the same join. They are not a restatement of the North Carolina 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 NC.

Questions

How does North Carolina in 2020 differ from the North Carolina state hub?

The state hub mixes every cycle stored for office state NC. This tie keeps only 2020, where receipts are $135,888,628.25 from 98 candidates. If you need North Carolina without a year filter, use the state hub. If you need North Carolina in 2020 only, use this page. The two pages share a geography noun and different denominators.

How does this page differ from the 2020 election cycle hub?

The cycle hub mixes every office state. National receipts are $7,976,535,091.66 from 2459 candidates. This page keeps only North Carolina, where receipts are $135,888,628.25 from 98 candidates. The cycle hub is the parent row; this URL is one cell. Do not cite the parent total as the North Carolina cell.

What does a mean of $1.39 million per North Carolina candidate mean?

It is $135,888,628.25 divided by 98. It is not a median, not a typical House budget, and not a unique-person average. A few large statewide committees can pull the mean up. The packet does not publish a median or an office-type split, so this page does not invent one.

Is the 2020 North Carolina total a closed final number?

The 2020 cycle is a closed even-year window in this extract; $135,888,628.25 is the stored North Carolina office-state total for that window. Amended candidate reports can still move $135,888,628.25. If the live North Carolina hub or the live 2020 hub disagrees with this snapshot, use the newer FEC extract. This JSON file does not replace FEC.gov and is not a third disclosure system.