Independent candidate receipts — 2022 cycle

How IND and the 2022 midterm cycle meet

This page is a join, not a restatement of either hub. Independent (IND) is one axis. Election cycle 2022 is the other. $5,625,854.91 is only the overlap: candidate receipts that carry both the party code and the cycle. The party overlay still holds $17,190,824.01. The 2022 election-cycle overlay still holds every party that filed in that cycle, which this packet does not publish as a grand total. 579 candidate records coded IND in 2022 reported $5,625,854.91. That is a high row count against a smaller dollar cell than IND 2020.

579 candidate records at a mean of about $9,716.50 per record describe a mix of authorized committees, not a typical campaign budget. Mean is $5,625,854.91 divided by 579. It flattens presidential or statewide committees with House long-shots. 2022 is a midterm election cycle on the FEC calendar. Mean per record is $5,625,854.91 divided by 579. Many Form 3 rows can sit under a modest dollar total.

Party code IND is the Independent affiliation string on the FEC candidate master, not a count of undeclared voters and not a national Independent party-committee total. Unitemized gifts outside candidate Form 3 receipts, independent expenditures, and Super PAC spending sit outside $5,625,854.91. No national Independent party-committee Form 3X sits inside this join.

IND as the affiliation side of the 2022 join

The Independent hub is $17,190,824.01 in candidate receipts for records coded IND 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 $17,190,824.01 party-wide index sits above this 2022 cell. The share is arithmetic on the two packet dollars.

Candidate records can repeat across cycles, offices, and amendments. 579 is a count of FEC rows in this 2022 IND cell, not a headcount of people currently on a ballot. The packet does not split those rows by office, incumbency, or primary versus general. IND-coded 2018, 2020, and 2026 rows remain on the Independent overlay.

2022 as the cycle side

Cycle 2022 on this page is the FEC election-cycle key attached to Independent candidate receipts totaling $5,625,854.91. 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 seat results.

The 2022 election-cycle hub includes every party code that appears in that cycle. This join is only IND. Other affiliation strings from the same year are other ties. DEM, REP, and LIB 2022 cells are other ties. Do not add them to $5,625,854.91.

What the IND–2022 join refuses to say

This page does not count unaffiliated voters, rank independents, 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 high candidate-record count is not a headcount of independents in the electorate.

Do not treat $5,625,854.91 as cash on hand. Candidate committees spend, refund, and transfer. This packet has a receipt total, not disbursements. Do not add IND 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 $5,625,854.91 with Independent and 2022 together. Quote $17,190,824.01 only as the party-wide hub. Do not add them. Do not treat 579 as unique people; it is a candidate-record count and can include repeat filers across offices. Keep $5,625,854.91, 579 records, and party code IND on the same citation.

Independent holds the $17,190,824.01 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. Independent 2020 is a different cycle tie, not a continuation of this page.

Related tables

Independent holds party-wide candidate receipts coded IND. 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. Independent 2026 is an open-cycle tie, not a forecast from 2022.

Questions

How much did Independent candidates raise in 2022?

FEC candidate receipts for Independent (code IND) in the 2022 cycle total $5,625,854.91 across 579 candidate records. The Independent hub in the indexed window is $17,190,824.01. Cite both labels. The source is FEC.gov candidate receipts by party and cycle.

Does Independent mean undeclared voters?

No. $5,625,854.91 is authorized-committee candidate receipts with affiliation IND 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 Independent candidates are in the 2022 cell?

The aggregate includes 579 FEC candidate records coded IND in 2022. That is a count of rows, not unique people currently on a ballot, and not a split by office. About $9,716.50 per record is $5,625,854.91 divided by 579. The packet does not further break down the 579.

Should I vote based on 2022 Independent 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 Independent tables and the 2022 election-cycle overlay for the filings.