Texas × 2026: candidate receipts

Reading $190,299,221.34 as a two-column match

LobbyVault keeps a Texas state page and a 2026 election-cycle page. Neither page is this join. The join is $190,299,221.34 from 252 candidates where cycle equals 2026 and office state equals TX. Against the national cycle total of $2,096,542,958.74 from 2430 candidates, that is 9.1% of dollars and 10.4% of candidate records. Other office states hold $1,906,243,737.40 and 2178 candidates.

Do not treat 9.1% as Texas's share of donor geography. Donor state is a different field. Do not treat 252 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.

Texas without a national mix

On the state side, Texas indexes $190,299,221.34 of candidate-receipt dollars in 2026 from 252 records. Dollar share of the national cycle is 9.1%. Candidate-record share is 10.4% (252 of 2430). Those two shares need not match; they use different numerators and the same national file.

Keep state TX on the name. $190,299,221.34 is not a donor-state total. Open the Texas campaign-finance hub for other cycles; open this page for Texas in 2026 only.

2026 as a midterm FEC window

On the cycle side, 2430 national candidate records produced $2,096,542,958.74. Texas contributed 252 of those records and $190,299,221.34 of those dollars. Midterm versus the other even-year type is a schedule fact for 2026, not an explanation of the dollars.

Independent expenditures never enter $190,299,221.34. Committee operating expenditures never enter $190,299,221.34. This is a candidate-receipt cycle×state aggregate from FEC.gov. Texas state-office filings outside the FEC candidate system are a different statute.

Packet slug 2026-texas-candidate-receipts is the LobbyVault filename for this 2026 × Texas join. Canonical path is /ties/2026-texas-candidate-receipts/. Overlay the cycle hub and the state hub; do not treat either hub as $190,299,221.34.

Cycle 2026 (midterm) plus office state TX is the two-part key behind $190,299,221.34. Drop the cycle and the page becomes a multi-year state hub. Drop the state and the page becomes the national cycle hub of $2,096,542,958.74. Keep both.

9.1% of 2026 candidate-receipt dollars

Compared with the rest of cycle 2026, Texas is 9.1% of candidate-receipt dollars ($190,299,221.34 of $2,096,542,958.74) and 10.4% of candidate records (252 of 2430). The dollar rest is $1,906,243,737.40. Quote dollars and records as different columns.

Do not rank Texas as a winner or loser in 2026. This join has one office state and one cycle. Neighboring cycle-state pages are other keys.

Recompute the dollar share from the raw figures: 190,299,221.34 divided by 2,096,542,958.74 is 9.1%. The complement 1,906,243,737.40 is $1,906,243,737.40, which is 90.9% of the national 2026 book. Candidate share uses 252 / 2430.

FEC candidate receipts are not USAspending obligations. $190,299,221.34 has no award count beside it in this packet. Do not fold $190,299,221.34 into federal spending in Texas. Different statutes, different forms, different tables.

What $190,299,221.34 leaves out

Independent expenditures sit outside $190,299,221.34. Texas 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 $190,299,221.34 as proof that money decided Texas elections in 2026. The join is two fields. Correlation is not causation. If the live hubs disagree with $190,299,221.34, the newer FEC extract controls.

Texas 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 Texas hub. Researchers who need Texas in 2026 should stay here.

Do not invent candidate names. 252 is a record count. Mean about $755,155.64 is arithmetic. The packet published cycle, state, $190,299,221.34, 252, $2,096,542,958.74, and 2430.

Internal links for the 2026 × Texas join

The four hrefs in the packet are the only URLs used here: the 2026 election cycle, Texas campaign finance, all election cycles, and all FEC ties. No other path is invented. Canonical path for this join is /ties/2026-texas-candidate-receipts/.

Quote $190,299,221.34, 252, $2,096,542,958.74, 2430, 9.1%, and 10.4%. That set is complete relative to the packet. Extra dollars or extra names would be inventions.

Candidate receipts are the only money in $190,299,221.34 and $2,096,542,958.74. Independent expenditures and USAspending awards are other files. Mixing those files with this join would invent a total the packet does not contain.

Questions

How much money is tied to Texas in the 2026 cycle?

Candidate receipts storing office state TX and cycle 2026 total $190,299,221.34 across 252 candidate records in this extract. The unfiltered 2026 national book is $2,096,542,958.74 from 2430 candidates. $190,299,221.34 is already inside $2,096,542,958.74; adding the two double-counts. Source: FEC.gov candidate receipt aggregates.

Does $190,299,221.34 include independent expenditures in Texas?

No. The source note limits the series to candidate receipts. Independent expenditures, electioneering communications, and committee operating expenditures are other FEC tables and are omitted from $190,299,221.34 and from $2,096,542,958.74. Cite the live 2026 file on FEC.gov for those other schedules.

Can I treat 252 as unique Texas candidates?

Treat it as a candidate-record count in this extract, not a named census. Multiple committees and special elections can add records. The packet publishes 252 for Texas in 2026 and 2430 nationally. Names are unpublished and are not invented here. Mean about $755,155.64 uses $190,299,221.34 divided by 252.

Are 2026 Texas receipts the same as Texas federal spending?

No. FEC candidate receipts and USAspending obligations are different datasets. $190,299,221.34 is not an award amount. Office state on a candidate filing does not convert receipts into federal spending. This packet publishes no obligation dollars and no award counts. Source: FEC.gov.