Delaware FEC receipts of $7.2 million next to $42.0 billion in federal obligations

One of the narrower FEC books in this slice

One hundred sixty-eight committees is a shorter federal candidate roster than several neighbors in this join series. Receipts of $7.19 million match that smaller inventory in scale, not as a law of nature but as the packet’s two FEC fields reported together. The USAspending side remains large: $42.0 billion. The obligation total is about 5,840 times the candidate-receipt total.

The 97.3% Democratic receipt share is the striking FEC fact. This page states it as a share of $7,193,939.39. It does not apply 97.3% to $42,013,280,288.51. Awards are not party-coded on USAspending.

Twenty-eight thousand six hundred fifty-six awards is the row count behind the obligation dollars. Row count and dollars remain separate answers.

What FEC.gov discloses for Delaware

The $7.19 million is candidate inflows for Delaware-tagged federal committees. Independent expenditures, state-office filings with the Delaware Department of Elections / Commissioner of Elections, and donor-state aggregates that are not in this packet stay out.

Sorting the Delaware campaign finance hub by receipts shows which of the 168 filers hold the $7.00 million Democratic slice and which hold the $186,814.46 Republican slice. LobbyVault does not relabel FEC party codes.

What USAspending.gov discloses for Delaware

Obligations tagged to Delaware can include assistance and contracts as USAspending classifies them. This join has no award-type split. Corporate headquarters density in Delaware can affect recipient-location tags on some awards; this packet does not quantify that effect, so this page does not invent a headquarters statistic.

The Delaware USAspending hub is the table for agency and recipient rows. Those rows are not the 168 FEC committees.

Twenty-eight thousand six hundred fifty-six awards against $42,013,280,288.51 sit next to one of the narrower FEC books in this slice: 168 committees and $7,193,939.39. Headquarters density can affect recipient-location tags on USAspending; this packet does not quantify that effect, so this page does not invent a headquarters statistic. The Delaware USAspending hub holds recipient rows.

The about-5,840-to-1 obligation-to-receipt ratio is packet arithmetic. It is not a finding that Delaware “converts” donations into awards at that rate.

A lopsided receipt file is still not an award file

Do not treat 97.3% as a statement about federal agencies, contractors, or grant recipients in Delaware. Do not add the FEC and USAspending columns. Do not rank Delaware as safer, better governed, or more partisan from these two extracts.

Cycle time and fiscal-year time differ. Live hubs control after amendments.

Democratic receipts of $7,000,087.53 are 97.3% of the FEC column. Republican receipts of $186,814.46 are 2.6%. Other-party receipts of $7,037.40 are 0.1%. A near-one-party receipt file is still only receipts. Applying 97.3% to 28,656 awards would mix incompatible codes.

Delaware Department of Elections state-office filings are outside FEC.gov. Super PAC independent expenditures that mention a Delaware candidate are outside the $7.19 million.

Where to continue

Delaware campaign finance for the FEC roster. All FEC ties for other state joins. Delaware USAspending for the $42.0 billion obligation file. Cite FEC.gov and USAspending.gov.

Delaware campaign finance for the 168-filer roster. All FEC ties for other geography joins. Delaware USAspending for the $42.0 billion obligation file. Cite FEC.gov and USAspending.gov.

Incorporation-law framing is not a packet field. This page will not use it to explain either dollar.

How to quote Delaware’s lopsided FEC column honestly

A complete citation: 168 Delaware-tagged federal candidate committees reported $7,193,939.39 on FEC.gov, of which $7,000,087.53 is Democratic, $186,814.46 Republican, and $7,037.40 other. USAspending.gov records $42,013,280,288.51 across 28,656 awards tagged to Delaware. Campaign contributions are not federal awards.

The 97.3% Democratic receipt share is the striking FEC fact. The striking USAspending fact is $42.0 billion. They share a DE tag. They do not share a causal arrow.

After amendments, the live Delaware campaign finance hub and the live Delaware USAspending hub control. This prose keeps packet dollars until a new extract replaces them.

One hundred sixty-eight is a shorter federal candidate roster than New Hampshire’s 424 or Hawaii’s 391 in this slice, and $7,193,939.39 is a smaller receipt book than those states’ FEC columns. Roster length and receipt dollars still do not predict $42,013,280,288.51. The join’s only shared key is DE.

Cash on hand, independent expenditures, and state-office filings remain outside the FEC column. Outlays versus obligations remain a USAspending definition issue outside this packet. Quote the two live hubs after any amendment rather than treating $7,193,939.39 and $42,013,280,288.51 as frozen.

Questions

How much have Delaware federal candidates raised?

Delaware-associated federal candidate committees reported $7,193,939.39 across 168 filers. Democratic committees reported $7,000,087.53, Republican committees $186,814.46, and other-party committees $7,037.40, according to FEC.gov via LobbyVault.

How much federal spending is tagged to Delaware?

USAspending.gov records $42,013,280,288.51 in obligations across 28,656 awards tagged to Delaware, as indexed on SpendingVault. That series is separate from candidate receipts.

Does Delaware’s 97.3% Democratic receipt share apply to federal awards?

No. That percentage is a share of $7,193,939.39 in FEC candidate receipts. USAspending awards are not coded by FEC party, and donations do not fund those awards on this page.

Are Delaware state races included?

No. The $7.19 million is FEC.gov federal data. Delaware state-office campaign filings are outside this join and outside the $42.0 billion obligation total.