California × 2022: candidate receipts

Reading $321,761,835.95 as a two-column match

LobbyVault keeps a California state page and a 2022 election-cycle page. Neither page is this join. The join is $321,761,835.95 from 258 candidates where cycle equals 2022 and office state equals CA. Against the national cycle total of $3,650,192,300.74 from 2574 candidates, that is 8.8% of dollars and 10.0% of candidate records. Other office states hold $3,328,430,464.79 and 2316 candidates.

Do not treat 8.8% as California's share of donor geography. Donor state is a different field. Do not treat 258 as unique residents. Repeat filings, primary-and-general committees, and special elections can add candidate records. The packet publishes the count as given.

Dollar figures are candidate receipt aggregates from FEC.gov, not federal awards and not state-office filings outside the FEC candidate file. This page is a cycle × office-state join, not a donor roster.

California without a national mix

On the state side, California indexes $321,761,835.95 of candidate-receipt dollars in 2022 from 258 records. Dollar share of the national cycle is 8.8%. Candidate-record share is 10.0% (258 of 2574). Those two shares need not match; they use different numerators and the same national file.

Keep state CA on the name. $321,761,835.95 is not a donor-state total. Open the California campaign-finance hub for other cycles; open this page for California in 2022 only.

2022 as a midterm FEC window

On the cycle side, 2574 national candidate records produced $3,650,192,300.74. California contributed 258 of those records and $321,761,835.95 of those dollars. Midterm versus the other even-year type is a schedule fact for 2022, not an explanation of the dollars.

Independent expenditures never enter $321,761,835.95. Committee operating expenditures never enter $321,761,835.95. This is a candidate-receipt cycle×state aggregate from FEC.gov. California state-office filings outside the FEC candidate system are a different statute.

Packet slug 2022-california-candidate-receipts is the LobbyVault filename for this 2022 × California join. Canonical path is /ties/2022-california-candidate-receipts/. Overlay the cycle hub and the state hub; do not treat either hub as $321,761,835.95.

Cycle 2022 (midterm) plus office state CA is the two-part key behind $321,761,835.95. Drop the cycle and the page becomes a multi-year state hub. Drop the state and the page becomes the national cycle hub of $3,650,192,300.74. Keep both.

8.8% of 2022 candidate-receipt dollars

Compared with the rest of cycle 2022, California is 8.8% of candidate-receipt dollars ($321,761,835.95 of $3,650,192,300.74) and 10.0% of candidate records (258 of 2574). The dollar rest is $3,328,430,464.79. Quote dollars and records as different columns.

Do not rank California as a winner or loser in 2022. This join has one office state and one cycle. Neighboring cycle-state pages are other keys.

Recompute the dollar share from the raw figures: 321,761,835.95 divided by 3,650,192,300.74 is 8.8%. The complement 3,328,430,464.79 is $3,328,430,464.79, which is 91.2% of the national 2022 book. Candidate share uses 258 / 2574.

FEC candidate receipts are not USAspending obligations. $321,761,835.95 has no award count beside it in this packet. Do not fold $321,761,835.95 into federal spending in California. Different statutes, different forms, different tables.

What $321,761,835.95 leaves out

Independent expenditures sit outside $321,761,835.95. California state-office filings that never enter the FEC candidate system sit outside it. Federal contract awards sit outside it. Office-state labels follow the candidate filing. Donor city is a different join.

Do not read $321,761,835.95 as proof that money decided California elections in 2022. The join is two fields. Correlation is not causation. If the live hubs disagree with $321,761,835.95, the newer FEC extract controls.

California 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 California hub. Researchers who need California in 2022 should stay here.

Do not invent candidate names. 258 is a record count. Mean about $1,247,138.90 is arithmetic. The packet published cycle, state, $321,761,835.95, 258, $3,650,192,300.74, and 2574.

Internal links for the 2022 × California join

The four hrefs in the packet are the only URLs used here: the 2022 election cycle, California campaign finance, all election cycles, and all FEC ties. No other path is invented. Canonical path for this join is /ties/2022-california-candidate-receipts/.

Quote $321,761,835.95, 258, $3,650,192,300.74, 2574, 8.8%, and 10.0%. That set is complete relative to the packet. Extra dollars or extra names would be inventions.

Candidate receipts are the only money in $321,761,835.95 and $3,650,192,300.74. 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 2022 × California candidate-receipt join?

It is $321,761,835.95 in candidate receipts matching cycle 2022 and office state CA, on 258 candidate records. The national 2022 hub without that state filter is $3,650,192,300.74 from 2574 candidates. This page is the intersection, not a restatement of either hub and not a named-candidate list. Source: FEC.gov.

Was 2022 a presidential or midterm cycle?

Cycle 2022 is a midterm two-year FEC window. That calendar label dates the receipts. It does not explain why California candidates reported $321,761,835.95 on 258 records, and it is not a finding about turnout. Nationally the same window shows $3,650,192,300.74 from 2574 candidates. Source: FEC.gov candidate receipt aggregates.

What share of 2022 candidates ran in California?

258 of 2574 candidate records are 10.0% of the national 2022 file in this extract. Dollar share is separate: $321,761,835.95 is 8.8% of $3,650,192,300.74. Quote both. Do not convert 10.0% into a share of California adults. Eligible-voter denominators are not in the packet.

Does $321,761,835.95 fund USAspending awards coded to California?

No. Campaign receipts and federal awards are different statutes. This packet has only FEC candidate receipt aggregates. $321,761,835.95 has no obligation dollars beside it. Do not add the join to federal spending in California. Cite FEC.gov for the candidate-receipt file. Independent expenditures are also outside this join.