North Dakota campaign finance next to federal obligations

North Dakota’s tiny FEC book beside a large award book

ND joins $4.8 million from 124 committees to $243,044,668,180 from 150,516 awards. A small campaign-receipt total beside a large obligation total is the clearest demonstration that the ledgers are not a pipeline.

A Fargo contribution does not become a Bismarck obligation because both strings say North Dakota. North Dakota campaign finance, North Dakota USAspending, and All FEC ties are the three hrefs.

Energy folklore is not a packet dollar. $243,044,668,180 may include energy-related awards as USAspending coded them, but this page will not guess shares. Quote 150,516 as an action count only.

State-office campaigns in North Dakota file under state law and sit outside $4.8 million. Local procurement paid without a federal award sits outside $243,044,668,180. This page names two federal disclosure systems — FEC.gov candidate receipts and USAspending.gov awards — and stops. A third system would be a different citation.

Print three FEC lines, not two

Republican committees reported $3.9 million (81.9%). Other filers reported $0.6 million (11.5%). Democratic committees reported $0.3 million (6.6%). Skipping the other line hides $0.6 million of $4.8 million. 124 committees is a short roster; sort it rather than averaging.

State races file with North Dakota’s system, outside $4.8 million. Do not relabel other-party committees by news judgment. This page keeps FEC party codes as stored.

A 124-committee roster can still include empty residual filers. Sort North Dakota campaign finance rather than treating 124 as a Senate-and-House slate.

124 is a filing count, not a November ballot census. 150,516 is an action count, not unique vendors. Keep those nouns attached to the integers when citing North Dakota.

North Dakota obligations remain an award extract

$243,044,668,180 and 150,516 awards come from USAspending.gov. Energy, agriculture, and flood-control stories need agency fields on North Dakota USAspending. They do not inherit 81.9% from the candidate file.

150,516 is an action count, not unique vendors. Do not compute a mean award. Do not divide $243,044,668,180 by $4.8 million.

Quote North Dakota campaign finance for the live FEC roster of 124 committees and $4.8 million in receipts. Quote North Dakota USAspending for $243,044,668,180 and 150,516 awards. All FEC ties keeps ND in a series of geographic joins. None of those pages adds receipts to obligations or assigns FEC party codes to awards.

Do not export the other-party share onto spending

A chart that paints 11.5% of $243,044,668,180 as other-party federal spending would be false. This packet has no party dimension on obligations.

Independent expenditures about North Dakota candidates can be paid from elsewhere. Those dollars sit outside both packet totals.

North Dakota’s 124 committees and 150,516 awards answer different questions. Keep $4.8 million on the FEC.gov sentence and $243,044,668,180 on the USAspending.gov sentence even when a headline wants a single number. A single number would mix statutes. This join will not publish one.

Oil-patch folklore is not a packet field

East and west of the Missouri River share ND. This packet does not split $4.8 million or $243,044,668,180 by region. 124 committees and 150,516 awards stay statewide.

Compare North Dakota’s other-party $0.6 million with Minnesota’s other line as an FEC labeling comparison, not as a spending comparison. Minnesota is a different tie.

Amended candidate reports move $4.8 million. Award restatements move $243,044,668,180. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. North Dakota campaign finance and North Dakota USAspending are the live tables; this prose is a packet snapshot for ND.

North Dakota citation

FEC.gov: $4.8 million; 124 committees; Democratic $0.3 million; Republican $3.9 million; other $0.6 million. USAspending.gov: $243,044,668,180; 150,516 awards. Campaign contributions are not federal awards.

Do not rank North Dakota as more influential because $4.8 million sits beside $243,044,668,180. Influence is not a field in this packet. The join is ND geography only.

Questions

Can North Dakota’s $4.8 million in FEC receipts explain $243.0 billion in obligations?

No. $4.8 million is candidate receipts from 124 committees. $243,044,668,180 is USAspending obligations from 150,516 awards. The totals share a state code. They do not share a funding path. LobbyVault joins the ND extracts only. FEC.gov and USAspending.gov remain the originating systems.

Why print an other-party line for North Dakota?

Other filers reported $0.6 million, or 11.5% of $4.8 million, larger than a rounding error. Republican committees reported $3.9 million; Democratic committees reported $0.3 million. Those labels do not apply to $243,044,668,180 in obligations.

How many federal awards are coded to North Dakota?

USAspending.gov lists 150,516 awards and $243,044,668,180 in obligations. Award count is not unique vendors. It is also not the 124 FEC candidate committees. LobbyVault joins the ND extracts only. FEC.gov and USAspending.gov remain the originating systems.

Where are North Dakota’s hubs?

North Dakota campaign finance on LobbyVault, North Dakota USAspending on SpendingVault, All FEC ties for other joins. Later bulk files override this snapshot. Do not add receipts to obligations. LobbyVault joins the ND extracts only. FEC.gov and USAspending.gov remain the originating systems.