Candidate political contributions from Michigan

The Candidate × Michigan join

LobbyVault stores FEC occupation strings separately from donor states. Crossing them for Candidate and Michigan yields $629,718. That is 144 itemized lines and 7 unique donors. The figure is not a committee’s reported disbursement. FEC.gov remains the underlying source.

Occupation strings can collide with similar form text. This join uses the exact grouping CANDIDATE. Related titles, abbreviations, and employer names are not added. The 7 donor identities are contributor keys, not a headcount of a workforce. Political candidate, nominee, officeholder, and campaign staff sit elsewhere.

Dropping either filter changes the story. Drop the state and you see $16,508,299. Drop the string and you see the entire Michigan hub. This page holds both filters at once. Michigan CANDIDATE is an occupation string on individual lines, not a candidate-committee ID. Seven donors produced this Michigan cell; Arkansas and Georgia Candidate joins are other URLs.

The occupation string CANDIDATE

A national figure of $16,508,299 can swallow a single state if the join is skipped. Michigan is $629,718, 3.8%. The leftover $15,878,581 belongs on other state pages for the same string, not in this cell.

$16,508,299 is still only this exact grouping. It is not every related title and not a sector total. 3.8% describes Michigan inside Candidate, nothing else. This join does not recode CANDIDATE into a ballot-qualified candidate list, an FEC candidate-master file, or a campaign-payroll census.

Volume: 144 lines, 7 identities

Packet arithmetic: $629,718 ÷ 144 ≈ $4,373 per contribution; $629,718 ÷ 7 ≈ $89,960 per donor; 144 ÷ 7 ≈ 20.6 contributions per donor. None of those figures is a median, a mode, or a party breakdown.

The Commission’s itemized-individual universe excludes unitemized gifts. Adding those would change the means. This join does not add them. Political candidate, nominee, officeholder, and campaign staff are other keys and would change the means if merged.

The donor-state MI field

Remove Candidate and the Michigan hub still contains every other grouping. This file does not add those dollars. Keep both keys if the question is CANDIDATE in MI: $629,718, 144 contributions, 7 donors.

Donor state MI is an address on the itemized line. It is not proof of a Michigan professional license and not a claim that the money stayed in Michigan races. Federal versus state versus local candidacy as typed is unpublished.

Where to go next from Candidate in Michigan

Start with $629,718, then Candidate donations for the national occupation total, then Michigan campaign finance if the occupation filter needs to come off. All occupations lists political candidate, nominee, officeholder, and campaign staff as separate titles. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Do not invent donor names on this page. The individual-contribution cell remains $629,718 on 144 receipts from 7 donors. Michigan CANDIDATE is an occupation string on individual lines, not a candidate-committee ID. Seven donors produced this Michigan cell; Arkansas and Georgia Candidate joins are other URLs.

Repeat the join without adding fields the packet does not publish. The occupation and state hubs remain the places for one-sided totals. This tie page quotes packet facts only. Independent expenditures stay outside the cell. Filer-entered occupation strings are not payroll titles. Readers who need a person-level roster will not find names on this page. USAspending.gov is a different ledger from FEC.gov individual contributions.

All occupations and All FEC ties remain the indexes for sibling joins. Cite the source note exactly as copied from the packet. Do not convert a contribution count into a unique-person census. Dollar figures first, then the two keys that produced them. The canonical path is a ties URL, not a donor-detail URL. Unitemized gifts are outside the itemized aggregate quoted here.

Open /occupations/candidate/ (Candidate donations) for the occupation hub, /states/MI/ (Michigan campaign finance) for the state hub, /occupations/ (All occupations) for neighboring titles, and /ties/ (All FEC ties) for other occupation-state joins.

Questions

How much FEC money is tagged Candidate in Michigan?

FEC.gov itemized individual contribution aggregates show $629,718 from occupation Candidate with donor state MI. That join covers 144 contributions from 7 donors. Nationwide the occupation totals $16,508,299, so Michigan is about 3.8% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

How much of the $16,508,299 Candidate bucket is MI?

About 3.8% of the $16,508,299 Candidate grouping is coded to Michigan: $629,718. Contribution share is about 2.0% (144 of 7,075). Donor share is about 1.7% (7 of 409). The remainder $15,878,581 is other states.

Is Candidate the same as political candidate?

No. 7 is the unique-donor count in this occupation–state cell as aggregated from itemized FEC lines, not a labor-market census. Mean gift in the cell is about $4,373 across 144 contributions. Political candidate, nominee, officeholder, and campaign staff , if stored separately, are other keys. This join is CANDIDATE only.

Why is there a Candidate × Michigan page?

Candidate donations carry the $16,508,299 occupation total. Michigan campaign finance is the state hub. All occupations and All FEC ties list sibling joins. Original filings remain at FEC.gov. This tie page is the CANDIDATE × MI intersection only.