Candidate political contributions from New Jersey

Candidate and New Jersey as overlapping FEC fields

Occupation CANDIDATE and donor state NJ produce $1,078,408, 154 contributions, and 7 donors. The occupation hub is $16,508,299, 7,075 contributions, and 409 donors. New Jersey’s dollar share is about 6.5%; contribution share about 2.2% (154 of 7,075); donor share about 1.7% (7 of 409). Seven New Jersey donors are about 1.7% of 409 national donors; 154 contributions are about 2.2% of 7,075 national rows; dollars are about 6.5% of $16,508,299.

POLITICAL CANDIDATE, OFFICEHOLDER, and CAMPAIGN, if used, sit in other hubs and should not be added to this Candidate total. Do not stack CANDIDATE with OFFICEHOLDER or POLITICAL CANDIDATE into a single New Jersey professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

7 New Jersey donors produced 154 contributions, about 22.0 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 17.3 rows per donor nationally (7,075 contributions from 409 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this New Jersey cell is about $7,003, against about $2,333 nationwide. New Jersey’s about 6.5% dollar share from 7 people is a concentrated slice of a thin occupation (409 national donors).

CANDIDATE as an occupation string, not a ballot extract

CANDIDATE is a filer-entered string. The FEC file does not verify a filing, a primary, or an office sought. Some filers type CANDIDATE when contributing to their own committee; this packet does not confirm that pattern. The $16,508,299 national total is CANDIDATE only. 409 donors produced 7,075 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 7,075 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to New Jersey (NJ). Four hundred nine national donors make this a small occupation. This tie asks how much of that labeled money also carries donor state NJ.

New Jersey on the state side

7 New Jersey donors produced 154 contributions totaling $1,078,408. Donor state NJ is the address on the record, not proof of a New Jersey license, and not a limit to New Jersey candidates. NJ is the address on the itemized record. Seven unique donors is not a New Jersey candidate directory.

The New Jersey campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to NJ. This join is only CANDIDATE. The Candidate occupation hub without New Jersey still holds about 93.5% of the $16,508,299. New Jersey’s state hub includes every other occupation coded to NJ. CANDIDATE is only this filter.

What the join is not

This page does not list ballot-qualified candidates, merge officeholder strings, or claim that Candidate-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. CANDIDATE is an occupation field, not proof that the donor was on a New Jersey ballot.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. CANDIDATE is not a ballot extract. Donor state NJ is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. Office sought is not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Candidate filter

Subtract the New Jersey dollars on this page from the national CANDIDATE occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded CANDIDATE in every other state combined. That remainder ($15,429,891) has no row-by-row breakdown here because those states are other ties. The occupation internal link holds the unlabeled-by-state total; the state internal link holds every occupation with this state code; the occupations index and the ties index place this pair among other joins built the same way.

A unique-donor count of 7 is not a person-level audit. The FEC aggregate can merge similar names or split one person who filed under variants. A contribution count of 154 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $1,078,408 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the New Jersey dollars, or only the CANDIDATE national total, drops a key. Seven donors producing 154 contributions totaling $1,078,408 is the fact to keep next to the dollar headline.

Related tables

Candidate donations holds the $16,508,299 national occupation total. New Jersey campaign finance holds the state’s itemized individual activity across occupations. All occupations and all FEC ties collect other occupation-state pairs from the same two fields. Oregon has a separate Candidate occupation-state tie with different facts.

Questions

How much have Candidate donors in New Jersey given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation CANDIDATE and state New Jersey total $1,078,408, from 154 contributions and 7 donors. Nationwide, CANDIDATE-coded receipts are $16,508,299 from 7,075 contributions and 409 donors. New Jersey is about 6.5% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Are these people running for office in New Jersey?

The FEC file does not say. Occupation is the string CANDIDATE and state is NJ. This is not a ballot roster. Seven donors produced 154 gifts. The 7 New Jersey donors used occupation CANDIDATE and state NJ. Filers who wrote OFFICEHOLDER or CAMPAIGN may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Candidate FEC money is from New Jersey?

About 6.5% of the $16,508,299 occupation total is in this New Jersey join ($1,078,408). New Jersey also accounts for about 2.2% of contributions (154 of 7,075) and about 1.7% of donors (7 of 409). About 6.5% of dollars from 7 of 409 donors and 154 of 7,075 contributions.

Does this money go to New Jersey candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is New Jersey. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $1,078,408 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to NJ; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.