Alaska campaign finance ($25.2M) beside federal obligations ($76.8B)

Two Alaska extracts, one postal code

This page exists because both tables carry AK. LobbyVault’s Alaska campaign finance hub holds the FEC candidate book. SpendingVault’s Alaska USAspending hub holds the obligation book. The join restates neither hub in full. It names the two headline dollars and the rule that keeps them from collapsing into one invented total.

Republican candidate receipts of $13,457,069.03 are 53.4% of Alaska’s $25,216,436.96. Democratic receipts of $9,824,873.62 are 39.0%. Other-party receipts of $1,934,494.31 are 7.7%. Those shares describe the 288-committee receipt file. They do not describe the 49,408 awards.

Forty-nine thousand four hundred eight awards is a thinner row count than some states with similar obligation magnitudes in this series. This packet does not explain why. It reports 49,408 and $76.8 billion as the USAspending pair and leaves agency mix to the SpendingVault table.

Reading the $25.2 million FEC column

Two hundred eighty-eight federal filers produced Alaska’s candidate receipts. The dollar is inflows, not cash on hand. A committee can report receipts that still sit unspent. Independent expenditures by outside groups that name an Alaska candidate are not in the $25.2 million.

Alaska state-office campaigns file with the Alaska Public Offices Commission. APOC reports are outside FEC.gov and outside this join. Mixing APOC with FEC receipts, then mixing that blend with USAspending, would stack three incompatible systems.

Reading the $76.8 billion obligation column

Obligations tagged to Alaska include contracts, grants, and other award types as USAspending classifies them. This join does not publish a contract-versus-grant split because that split is not in the packet. The live Alaska USAspending page is the place for program and agency rows.

Federal land, military installations, and assistance programs can all produce Alaska place tags. Presence of an obligation is not a statement about Alaska politics, and it is not a statement about the 288 FEC filers.

Forty-nine thousand four hundred eight awards against $76,812,926,289.42 is a thicker dollar-per-row picture than South Dakota’s 219,302 awards against $36.8 billion in this slice. Thicker is not better. It is two packet fields reported together. Agency mix lives on the Alaska USAspending hub, not in this join’s facts.

Remote place-of-performance tags, Alaska Native corporation recipients, and federal facilities can all move dollars into the AK obligation total. This page does not quantify those channels because the packet has no such split.

The rule against collapsing the columns

Do not add $25.2 million to $76.8 billion. Do not subtract one from the other and call the remainder “unexplained spending.” Do not treat party receipt shares as a forecast of which agencies obligate dollars in Alaska. FEC.gov and USAspending.gov are parallel public records.

Cycle clocks differ. Candidate receipts sit on an FEC election cycle. Obligations sit on federal fiscal reporting. This snapshot does not force those clocks together.

Alaska’s other-party receipt share of 7.7% ($1,934,494.31 of $25,216,436.96) is smaller than West Virginia’s 20.2% and Vermont’s 33.2% in this slice. Those comparisons are FEC column facts. They are not award-file facts. Republican receipts of $13,457,069.03 (53.4%) and Democratic receipts of $9,824,873.62 (39.0%) stay on Form 3-style totals.

Alaska Public Offices Commission state-office filings, FEC Super PAC independent expenditures, and USAspending obligations are three systems. This join uses two of them — candidate receipts and obligations — and leaves the others out because they are not in the packet.

Next tables

Open Alaska campaign finance for committee-level FEC receipts. Use All FEC ties to move to another state join. Open Alaska USAspending for award-level obligations. Cite FEC.gov and USAspending.gov by name.

Alaska campaign finance holds the 288-committee FEC table. All FEC ties lists sibling joins. Alaska USAspending holds the 49,408-award table. Cite FEC.gov for $25,216,436.96 and USAspending.gov for $76,812,926,289.42.

Resource-extraction, military, and assistance framing is not a packet field. This page will not import those frames to explain either dollar.

Quoting Alaska without collapsing the columns

A complete citation: 288 Alaska-tagged federal candidate committees reported $25,216,436.96 on FEC.gov; USAspending.gov records $76,812,926,289.42 across 49,408 awards tagged to Alaska. Party receipts are $13,457,069.03 Republican, $9,824,873.62 Democratic, and $1,934,494.31 other. The about-3,046-to-1 ratio is scale, not a conversion of donations into awards.

Candidate receipts are inflows, not cash on hand. Obligations are recorded commitments, not always outlays in the same window. Those definition gaps are why the columns cannot be netted.

If the live hubs move after an amendment, quote the hubs. This prose keeps the packet dollars until a new extract replaces them.

Questions

How much have Alaska federal candidates raised?

Alaska-associated federal candidate committees reported $25,216,436.96 across 288 filers. Republican committees reported $13,457,069.03, Democratic committees $9,824,873.62, and other-party committees $1,934,494.31, per FEC.gov aggregates on LobbyVault.

How much federal spending is tagged to Alaska?

USAspending.gov records $76,812,926,289.42 in obligations across 49,408 awards tagged to Alaska, as indexed on SpendingVault. That series is not FEC candidate receipts.

Are Alaska campaign donations used to fund federal contracts?

No. Candidate receipts and federal obligations are collected on different forms by different agencies. This page joins them on the Alaska geography tag only.

Does this include Alaska state-office fundraising?

No. The $25.2 million is FEC.gov federal data. Alaska Public Offices Commission filings are not part of this join and are not part of the $76.8 billion obligation total.