Wisconsin fundraising in the 2022 cycle

Where Wisconsin sits inside the 2022 FEC cycle

Cycle 2022 and Wisconsin (WI) are the two nouns this URL must keep together. Drop Wisconsin and you are citing $3.7 billion from 2574 U.S. candidates. Drop 2022 and you are citing a state hub that still mixes other even-year windows. Keep both and the number is $122.5 million from 38 candidates.

3.4% names $122,526,541.22 as a share of $3,650,192,300.74. It does not name a share of Wisconsin population, a share of House seats, or a share of itemized individual donors. Those denominators are absent. $3.5 billion is the complement inside the same 2022 cycle, other office states only.

Wisconsin (WI) is the FEC office-state code. Minnesota, Illinois, and Michigan office states are separate keys. 2022 is a midterm two-year FEC window. Source: FEC.gov candidate receipts grouped by election cycle and office state. Not a claim about federal spending.

How FEC stores Wisconsin as an office state

Wisconsin (WI) in 2022 is one cell in a cycle-by-state grid. The cell value is $122,526,541.22. The cell's candidate count is 38. Other cells in the 2022 row sum to $3,527,665,759.52. This page publishes one cell, then explains the row total $3,650,192,300.74.

Because the packet has one state, this page does not rank Wisconsin against Tennessee, Ohio, or any other office state. Rankings would require the other cells. Wisconsin (WI) is the FEC office-state code. Minnesota, Illinois, and Michigan office states are separate keys. Office state is not a donor map.

Reading $3.7 billion as the 2022 denominator

National candidate volume in 2022 is 2574. Wisconsin candidate volume is 38. Dollar counterparts are $3,650,192,300.74 and $122,526,541.22. Pair counts with dollars. A small candidate file can still hold a large dollar total if a few committees dominate; this packet does not prove that pattern, and it does not disprove it.

Use the 2022 election cycle page for the full national mix. Use this tie for Wisconsin inside 2022. Independent expenditures remain out of scope. Source: FEC.gov.

Do not mix state receipts with the cycle total

$122.5 million sits inside $3.7 billion the way a state cell sits inside a national row. Removing Wisconsin does not make $122,526,541.22 equal $3,650,192,300.74. Removing other states does not make $3,650,192,300.74 equal $122,526,541.22. Citations should name the filter that was applied.

38 versus 2574 is the candidate-count analog of that nesting. 38 is a mid-size candidate file. Means $3.22 million (Wisconsin) and $1.42 million (U.S.) stay attached to their denominators.

What FEC candidate receipts include here

Independent expenditures can dwarf or trail candidate receipts in a given state-cycle, and this packet does not say which. Super PAC and other independent-spend tables are other files. Mixing them into $122,526,541.22 would invent a number.

Federal awards in Wisconsin are USAspending, not FEC. $122,526,541.22 does not pay for those awards. $3,650,192,300.74 does not pay for them either. Keep the statutes apart even though both can mention Wisconsin and 2022.

Amended reports and live hubs

Candidate reports amend. A later 2022 extract can raise or lower $122,526,541.22 without this JSON file changing. Treat the live Wisconsin hub and the live 2022 hub as current, and treat this prose as a labeled snapshot of packet facts: $122,526,541.22, 38, $3,650,192,300.74, 2574.

Wisconsin (WI) is the FEC office-state code. Minnesota, Illinois, and Michigan office states are separate keys. Sibling cycle-state pages for other years or other office states are other slugs. Do not reuse $122,526,541.22 on those pages.

A compact worksheet for this pair starts with labels, not with a ranking. Label one: Wisconsin 2022 candidate receipts = $122,526,541.22. Label two: U.S. 2022 candidate receipts = $3,650,192,300.74. Label three: other office states in 2022 = $3,527,665,759.52. Label four: Wisconsin candidate count = 38. Label five: U.S. candidate count = 2574. Label six: dollar share = 3.4%. Nothing in that worksheet is a donor list. Nothing in it is a federal award. 38 is a mid-size candidate file. Mean receipts of about $3.22 million in Wisconsin use labels one and four only. Mean receipts of about $1.42 million nationwide use labels two and five only. Cross-wiring those labels invents a statistic. Wisconsin (WI) is the FEC office-state code. Minnesota, Illinois, and Michigan office states are separate keys. Cycle 2022 is a midterm window, which dates the worksheet and does not interpret it. Source: FEC.gov candidate receipts grouped by election cycle and office state.

Questions

Who raised $122.5 million in Wisconsin in 2022?

38 federal candidates with office state WI in cycle 2022, in aggregate. This packet does not list their names, parties, or offices. Inventing a candidate or donor name would exceed the facts. Use live candidate pages for names. This tie stays aggregated to office state and cycle.

Why is $3,650,192,300.74 on the Wisconsin page?

Because this is a join. $3,650,192,300.74 is the national 2022 denominator that makes 3.4% computable. It is not additional Wisconsin money. Wisconsin money in 2022 remains $122,526,541.22. Cite the national figure only as the cycle total, never as the Wisconsin office-state cell.

Does 38 include state-legislature candidates in Wisconsin?

No. These are FEC candidate records for federal office, grouped by office state WI. Wisconsin state-office campaigns file under state law, not in this FEC candidate-receipt join. 38 is the federal candidate count in the packet, not a legislature roster.

Where should I go next from this Wisconsin 2022 tie?

Open the 2022 election cycle for the national year, Wisconsin campaign finance for the all-cycle state mix, all election cycles for other windows, and all FEC ties for other two-dimension pages. Those four hrefs are the only internal links this packet authorizes. Sibling cycle-state slugs are other keys.