Candidate receipts in Washington for 2022

Washington 2022 dollars versus the U.S. 2022 total

The 2022 × Washington join is a database match, not a narrative about a race. $89.4 million entered the extract because candidate records carried cycle 2022 and office state WA at the same time. 54 is the matching candidate count. $3.7 billion is what remains when the office-state filter is lifted for the same cycle.

54 is a relatively large candidate file for this office state. Arithmetic mean receipts per Washington candidate are about $1.66 million ($89,391,950.31 / 54). National mean receipts per candidate in 2022 are about $1.42 million ($3,650,192,300.74 / 2574). Those ratios are divisions of packet facts. They are not medians, not typical campaigns, and not proof that Washington campaigns were expensive or cheap.

Office state is not donor state. Washington (WA) is the FEC office-state code, not Washington, D.C. Oregon and Idaho office states are separate keys. The 2022 cycle is a closed even-year window in this extract; $89,391,950.31 is the stored Washington office-state total for that window. Independent expenditures and USAspending tables do not feed $89,391,950.31. Source: FEC.gov.

Washington candidates, not Washington donors

Candidate receipts for office state Washington in 2022 are $89.4 million. That money is reported on candidate committee filings aggregated to the candidate, then grouped by office state and cycle. It is not an itemized individual-donor table. No donor names appear in this packet, and none are invented here.

54 candidates is a count of candidate records in the join, not a count of Washington households and not a turnout figure. The 2022 cycle is a closed even-year window in this extract; $89,391,950.31 is the stored Washington office-state total for that window. Neighboring office states are other cycle-state pages.

2574 U.S. candidates in 2022

$3.7 billion is larger than $89.4 million because the cycle includes every office state, not because Washington is being compared with a second state on this URL. 2574 is larger than 54 for the same reason. 2.4% is the only share this page computes, and its denominator is $3,650,192,300.74, not population.

2022 as a midterm cycle dates the window. The 2022 cycle is a closed even-year window in this extract; $89,391,950.31 is the stored Washington office-state total for that window. Live cycle hubs can move as amended candidate reports arrive. If a live hub disagrees with $3,650,192,300.74 or $89,391,950.31, the newer FEC extract controls.

$89.4 million versus $3.7 billion

Never write that Washington raised $3.7 billion. $3.7 billion is the national 2022 candidate-receipt total. Never write that the United States raised only $89.4 million in 2022. $89.4 million is the Washington office-state total. The two columns are labeled stateRaised and cycleRaised in the packet for that reason.

2.4% is the only legitimate bridge between the columns. It is a quotient, not a second source. Independent expenditures still sit outside both columns.

Office state versus donor state

Donor state and office state part ways constantly. A contributor in another state can fund a Washington Senate or House committee. A Washington resident can fund a candidate whose office state is not WA. This page tracks the second field only: office state. It does not track the first.

Because donor geography is absent, $89,391,950.31 is not 'money from Washington.' It is 'money reported by candidates whose office state is Washington' in 2022. That sentence is the accurate one. Source: FEC.gov.

FEC receipts are not federal awards in Washington

USAspending publishes federal obligations by place and agency. FEC publishes campaign finance. $89,391,950.31 does not become an award total because Washington appears in both systems. $3,650,192,300.74 does not become an award total because 2022 is a year in both systems. This page never claims receipts funded federal awards.

The 2022 cycle is a closed even-year window in this extract; $89,391,950.31 is the stored Washington office-state total for that window. Internal links remain the four packet hrefs only. No other path is cited. Independent expenditures remain outside the dollar columns used here.

Readers sometimes arrive from a Washington search and assume $3,650,192,300.74 is local, or arrive from a 2022 search and assume $89,391,950.31 is national. Both misreadings are prevented by keeping the office-state noun and the cycle noun in every dollar sentence. $89.4 million is local to office state WA in 2022. $3.7 billion is national for 2022. 54 is the Washington candidate file. 2574 is the U.S. candidate file. Independent expenditures remain outside both files as used here. Federal spending awards remain outside both files. The 2022 cycle is a closed even-year window in this extract; $89,391,950.31 is the stored Washington office-state total for that window. Washington (WA) is the FEC office-state code, not Washington, D.C. Oregon and Idaho office states are separate keys. If this snapshot and a live hub diverge, the live FEC extract wins. This JSON object is a labeled copy of packet facts, not a parallel disclosure system and not a scoreboard of Washington politics in 2022.

Questions

How much did Washington candidates raise in the 2022 election cycle?

FEC candidate receipts for office state Washington (WA) total $89,391,950.31 in the 2022 cycle, across 54 candidates. The national 2022 cycle totals $3,650,192,300.74 from 2574 candidates, so Washington is 2.4% of that U.S. candidate-receipt stack. Figures are from FEC.gov cycle-by-office-state aggregates of candidate receipts only, not independent expenditures.

Is $3.7 billion the amount Washington candidates raised in 2022?

No. $3,650,192,300.74 is the national 2022 candidate-receipt total. Washington's office-state total in that cycle is $89,391,950.31. Other office states hold $3,560,800,350.43. Use the 2022 cycle hub for the U.S. figure and this tie page for the Washington slice only. Independent expenditures are omitted from both totals as shown here.

Does office state WA mean the donors lived in Washington?

No. Office state is the state of the federal seat on the candidate record. Donors can live anywhere. This join does not allocate the $89,391,950.31 by donor state, employer, or party. An WA office-state code is not a map of Washington residents and is not a map of where the money was spent. No donor names are in this packet.

How many Washington candidates are in the 2022 file?

54 candidate records sum to $89,391,950.31. That count is candidates, not unique donors and not Washington households. The arithmetic mean is about $1.66 million per candidate. Independent expenditures are not included. Unique-donor counts are not in these facts and are not invented here.