Candidate political contributions from South Carolina

Occupation CANDIDATE and donor state SC

CANDIDATE plus donor state SC equals $915,378. That figure is the harvested sum of itemized individual contributions in which the occupation field matched this string and the donor-state field was SC. Officeholder, Politician, Public Official, and Retired Candidate are other keys if those words appear. This join does not recode the label into a ballot extract, an FEC candidate-master file, or a Secretary of State roster. Other-state amounts are not fields in this packet except as the remainder $15,592,921.

Parent hubs: Candidate donations and South Carolina campaign finance. All occupations lists neighboring titles. All FEC ties keeps each occupation-state cell on its own path so a reader can move without mixing $915,378 into another state or another string. Do not add those parent pages into this cell.

Party, committee, and employer breakdowns for Candidate in South Carolina are not fields in this packet. Do not infer a partisan split from $915,378. CANDIDATE here is an occupation string on individual contribution receipts, not a candidate-committee ID. People who listed Candidate as their job title sit in this bucket. It is not a list of people on a ballot. The occupation page and the South Carolina state page are the next clicks for named committees. Donor names are absent and are not invented.

CANDIDATE as typed, not a job census

$16,508,299 belongs to the exact string CANDIDATE across harvested states. It is not a ballot extract, an FEC candidate-master file, or a Secretary of State roster. People who wrote nearby wording — Officeholder, Politician, Public Official, and Retired Candidate — sit in other rows if the characters differ. The South Carolina slice is 5.5% of that title bucket. Share of CANDIDATE is not share of all South Carolina receipts.

Amended individual contribution reports can move $915,378. A later harvest of the same occupation string can move $16,508,299. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Live Candidate donations and the live South Carolina campaign finance pages are the tables; this prose is a packet snapshot. Itemized individual contributions are the only receipt class in this cell.

Address code SC next to Candidate

State SC on a contribution row is the donor’s reported state, not the committee’s state and not the candidate’s state. $915,378 can support committees anywhere the FEC accepts filings. Do not rewrite $915,378 as “South Carolina politics” in the sense of only South Carolina races.

CANDIDATE here is an occupation string on individual contribution receipts, not a candidate-committee ID. People who listed Candidate as their job title sit in this bucket. It is not a list of people on a ballot. 9 donor keys are not a professional-board roster for South Carolina. People who live in South Carolina but typed a different occupation string are on the state hub, not in this cell.

86 Candidate receipts from South Carolina

9 donors and 86 receipts — about 9.6 lines per donor. Mean per receipt about $10,644; mean per donor about $101,709. Those ratios are arithmetic on two harvested integers. They are not medians, not typical gifts, and not a claim about income.

Repeat gifts add receipts. 86 is a line count, not 9 one-time gifts. CANDIDATE here is an occupation string on individual contribution receipts, not a candidate-committee ID. People who listed Candidate as their job title sit in this bucket. It is not a list of people on a ballot. Neither figure is a headcount of everyone who works in the field named by CANDIDATE in South Carolina. People who left occupation blank, used a nearby spelling, or listed a more specific title are not in $915,378.

What not to infer from Candidate plus South Carolina

This page does not count licensed candidate professionals in South Carolina, rank employers, or claim that Candidate-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. CANDIDATE is not a sibling title even when one person used both strings on different forms.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. Donor state SC is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. License counts and employer payrolls are not in these packet numbers.

How to read Candidate money in South Carolina

This join does not recode CANDIDATE into a ballot extract, an FEC candidate-master file, or a Secretary of State roster. CANDIDATE here is an occupation string on individual contribution receipts, not a candidate-committee ID. People who listed Candidate as their job title sit in this bucket. It is not a list of people on a ballot. If a researcher needs license or NAICS crosswalks, they start from the raw string. Correlation is not causation.

Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold, in-kind goods without this occupation string, and bundled contributions that never carried CANDIDATE are outside $915,378. Independent expenditures are outside $915,378. Quote the cell as itemized individual receipts only.

Questions

How much did Candidate-tagged donors in South Carolina give?

The join records $915,378 in itemized individual contributions for occupation Candidate and donor state South Carolina, from 86 contributions and 9 donors. The occupation’s national total is $16,508,299, so South Carolina is 5.5% of that roll. Figures come from FEC.gov aggregates. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Does this count every candidate who donated from South Carolina?

No. The 9 donor keys are people whose itemized receipts grouped to CANDIDATE and SC. Filers who used a different title are other occupation rows. FEC.gov does not verify jobs. The cell totals $915,378 on 86 lines. Unitemized gifts never appear in this aggregate.

What two tables meet on this page?

Candidate donations ($16,508,299 for the string) and South Carolina campaign finance. The overlap is $915,378 from 86 receipts and 9 donors. All FEC ties lists other occupation-state cells. All occupations lists neighboring titles. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates for Candidate in South Carolina.

Do these South Carolina donations fund federal spending?

No. $915,378 is FEC itemized individual contributions tagged Candidate and South Carolina. USAspending awards are a different dataset. This join does not claim donations funded contracts or grants. Independent expenditures are also outside $915,378. Source: FEC.gov. Occupation labels are filer-entered. Donor state is an address code, not recipient geography.