Democratic Party candidate receipts — 2022 cycle

How DEM and the 2022 midterm cycle meet

This page is a join, not a restatement of either hub. Democratic Party (DEM) is one axis. Election cycle 2022 is the other. $1,943,619,405.84 is only the overlap: candidate receipts that carry both the party code and the cycle. The party overlay still holds $1,674,412,539.19. The 2022 election-cycle overlay still holds every party that filed in that cycle, which this packet does not publish as a grand total. A midterm DEM cell still stacks House and Senate authorized committees plus any other federal offices tagged DEM in 2022. There is no presidential Form 3 line in this cycle key the way 2020 carries one.

2,985 candidate records at a mean of about $651,128.78 per record describe a mix of authorized committees, not a typical campaign budget. Mean is $1,943,619,405.84 divided by 2,985. It flattens presidential or statewide committees with House long-shots. 2022 is a midterm election cycle on the FEC calendar. 2,985 records is a thicker row count than many presidential-year cells even when dollars sit below a presidential cycle. Mean remains arithmetic.

Party code DEM is candidate affiliation on the FEC candidate master, not a Democratic National Committee Form 3X total and not a DSCC or DCCC roll-up. Unitemized gifts outside candidate Form 3 receipts, independent expenditures, and Super PAC spending sit outside $1,943,619,405.84. DSCC and DCCC Form 3X filings are not inside $1,943,619,405.84. Candidate Form 3 receipts with affiliation DEM and cycle 2022 are.

DEM as the party side of the 2022 join

The Democratic Party hub is $1,674,412,539.19 in candidate receipts for records coded DEM in the indexed window. That hub is not this 2022 cell. Opening only the party page understates the cycle join when the two rollups differ; opening only this tie understates other cycles on the party overlay. The $1,674,412,539.19 party-wide index is a different cut. The 2022 cell is larger than that index; do not treat the pair as a remainder.

Candidate records can repeat across cycles, offices, and amendments. 2,985 is a count of FEC rows in this 2022 DEM cell, not a headcount of people currently on a ballot. The packet does not split those rows by office, incumbency, or primary versus general. DEM-coded 2018 and 2020 rows remain on the Democratic Party overlay. This tie is 2022 only.

2022 as the cycle side

Cycle 2022 on this page is the FEC election-cycle key attached to Democratic Party candidate receipts totaling $1,943,619,405.84. It is not turnout, not Electoral College votes, and not a cash-on-hand snapshot. FEC cycle 2022 is a midterm calendar. This packet does not publish House or Senate seat counts.

The 2022 election-cycle hub includes every party code that appears in that cycle. This join is only DEM. Other affiliation strings from the same year are other ties. Republican and other 2022 affiliation cells are other ties. Do not add them to $1,943,619,405.84 on this page.

What the DEM–2022 join refuses to say

This page does not forecast midterms, rank incumbents, or treat receipts as cash on hand. Party plus cycle is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. A larger 2022 cell than another cycle on a different page is a description of candidate receipts, not voting advice. A midterm dollar total is not a turnout score and not a majority-party claim.

Do not treat $1,943,619,405.84 as cash on hand. Candidate committees spend, refund, and transfer. This packet has a receipt total, not disbursements. Do not add DEM candidate receipts to Super PAC independent expenditures and call the sum party money. Form 3 candidate receipts only. Independent expenditures are omitted.

How to cite the two dollar figures

Quote $1,943,619,405.84 with Democratic Party and 2022 together. Quote $1,674,412,539.19 only as the party-wide hub. Do not add them. Do not treat 2,985 as unique people; it is a candidate-record count and can include repeat filers across offices. Keep $1,943,619,405.84, 2,985 records, and party code DEM on the same citation.

Democratic Party holds the $1,674,412,539.19 party overlay. The 2022 election cycle page holds the cycle overlay. All parties and all FEC ties collect other party-cycle pairs from the same two fields. FEC.gov is the source. Party codes are FEC labels. Amended Form 3 reports can move the snapshot. FEC.gov is the source system.

Related tables

Democratic Party holds party-wide candidate receipts coded DEM. The 2022 election cycle page holds that cycle’s overlay. All parties compares affiliation codes on the same candidate-receipt basis. All FEC ties lists sibling party-and-cycle pages. DFL 2022 is a separate affiliation code, not a subset of this DEM cell.

Questions

How much did Democratic candidates raise in 2022?

FEC candidate receipts for Democratic Party (code DEM) in the 2022 cycle total $1,943,619,405.84 across 2,985 candidate records. The Democratic Party hub in the indexed window is $1,674,412,539.19. Cite both labels. The source is FEC.gov candidate receipts by party and cycle.

Is $1.94 billion the DNC’s 2022 total?

No. $1,943,619,405.84 is authorized-committee candidate receipts with affiliation DEM in cycle 2022, not a national party-committee Form 3X total. Independent expenditures are outside this join. Source: FEC.gov aggregates. Party codes and occupation labels are filer-entered. Independent expenditures are omitted.

How many Democratic candidates are in the 2022 cell?

The aggregate includes 2,985 FEC candidate records coded DEM in 2022. That is a count of rows, not unique people currently on a ballot, and not a split by office. About $651,128.78 per record is $1,943,619,405.84 divided by 2,985. The packet does not further break down the 2,985.

Should I vote based on 2022 Democratic receipts?

No. These figures are public FEC records of candidate receipts by affiliation and cycle. They are not voting advice, not cash on hand, and not independent-expenditure totals. Read the Democratic Party tables and the 2022 election-cycle overlay for the filings.