Rancher political contributions from South Dakota

South Dakota Rancher as an agricultural occupation cell

Occupation RANCHER and donor state SD produce $379,383, 1,665 contributions, and 85 donors. The occupation hub is $17,057,096, 40,878 contributions, and 3,387 donors. South Dakota’s dollar share is about 2.2%; contribution share about 4.1% (1,665 of 40,878); donor share about 2.5% (85 of 3,387). This page is the intersection of those two FEC.gov fields, not a restatement of the Rancher hub and not a restatement of all South Dakota occupations.

FARMER, RANCH OWNER, and CATTLEMAN, if used, sit in other hubs. Do not stack RANCHER with those strings into a single South Dakota professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs. The FEC file stores the occupation exactly as entered. A longer or shorter variant is a different key.

85 South Dakota donors produced 1,665 contributions, about 19.6 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 12.1 rows per donor nationally (40,878 contributions from 3,387 donors). Line volume in South Dakota is the distinctive feature of this cell: 4.1% of national RANCHER contributions against a 2.2% dollar share. The arithmetic mean gift in this South Dakota cell is about $228, against about $417 nationwide. A high row count can be many small itemized gifts from the same people across cycles.

RANCHER versus FARMER on South Dakota lines

RANCHER is a filer-entered string. The FEC file does not verify a license, an employer, or a payroll title. The $17,057,096 national total is RANCHER only. 3,387 donors produced 40,878 contributions in that occupation bucket. RANCHER is an agricultural self-description as typed, not a USDA operator census. Nearby labels FARMER, RANCH OWNER, and CATTLEMAN remain outside this occupation total even when one person has used more than one string.

This page does not split those 40,878 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to South Dakota (SD). 40,878 national contributions make RANCHER a published occupation bucket; this tie locates the South Dakota overlap. Independent expenditures and unitemized gifts are omitted. Committee identifiers on the itemized line are the recipient keys in the underlying file, but this packet does not publish a recipient breakdown.

South Dakota donor state on rancher-coded lines

85 South Dakota donors produced 1,665 contributions totaling $379,383. Donor state SD is the address on the record, not proof of a South Dakota license, and not a limit to South Dakota candidates. SD is the address on the itemized record, not a map of which campaigns received the $379,383. Out-of-state committees can receive itemized gifts from SD-coded donors.

The South Dakota campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to SD. This join is only RANCHER. The Rancher occupation hub without South Dakota still holds about 97.8% of the $17,057,096 (remainder $16,677,713). South Dakota’s state hub includes every other occupation coded to SD. RANCHER is only this filter. Federal awards on USAspending.gov are a different ledger; this page does not claim donations funded awards.

USDA operator counts are not in the join

A 2.2% dollar share in South Dakota does not rank the state as more or less political than others. Occupation labels are filer-entered. Correlation is not causation. This page does not name donors, does not invent committees, and does not treat 85 unique donors as a brand-inspection roster. RANCHER is not interchangeable with FARMER, RANCH OWNER, and CATTLEMAN.

Quote $379,383, 1,665 contributions, and 85 donors for Rancher in South Dakota, against $17,057,096 nationwide, source FEC.gov. Unitemized gifts stay outside the itemized aggregate. Cycle stacking can raise line counts without raising unique people. Public records describe overlap; they do not assign motive. Keep both sides of the join—Rancher and South Dakota—whenever the dollars are quoted.

South Dakota Rancher dollars next to gift and donor counts

A complete claim names Rancher and South Dakota (SD), then $379,383, 1,665 contributions, 85 donors, and 2.2% of $17,057,096, source FEC.gov. Remainder outside South Dakota: $16,677,713. Mean gift $228 is $379,383 divided by 1,665 lines in this state cell. Repeat the join without adding fields the packet does not publish. The canonical path is a ties URL, not a donor-detail URL.

Subtract the South Dakota dollars on this page from the national RANCHER occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded RANCHER in every other state combined. That remainder ($16,677,713) has no row-by-row breakdown here because those states are other ties. A unique-donor count of 85 is not a person-level audit. The FEC aggregate can merge similar names or split one person who filed under variants. Keeping dollars, contribution count, and donor count on the same page is the point of the join.

Ranching occupation pages and South Dakota finance

Rancher donations holds the $17,057,096 national occupation total. South Dakota campaign finance holds the state’s itemized individual activity across occupations. All occupations and All FEC ties collect other occupation-state pairs from the same two fields. Original filings remain at FEC.gov. Occupation labels are filer-entered. This tie page quotes packet facts only. Ranching strings that differ by even one word live on other hubs.

Questions

How much have Rancher donors in South Dakota given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation RANCHER and state South Dakota total $379,383, from 1,665 contributions and 85 donors. Nationwide, RANCHER-coded receipts are $17,057,096 from 40,878 contributions and 3,387 donors. South Dakota is about 2.2% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Does this include filers who wrote FARMER instead of RANCHER?

No. The FEC file does not verify licenses, employers, or headcount. Occupation is the string RANCHER and state is SD. 85 donors are not a brand-inspection roster. FARMER, RANCH OWNER, and CATTLEMAN, if stored separately, sit in other hubs. Do not add those cells to Rancher. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates.

What share of Rancher FEC money is from South Dakota?

About 2.2% of the $17,057,096 occupation total is in this South Dakota join ($379,383). South Dakota also accounts for about 4.1% of contributions (1,665 of 40,878) and about 2.5% of donors (85 of 3,387). Remainder outside South Dakota: $16,677,713. Occupation labels are filer-entered; FEC.gov is the source for the join.

Is this a USDA farm-operator census for South Dakota?

Not as a published split. Donor state is South Dakota. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $379,383 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open South Dakota campaign finance for every occupation coded to SD; open Rancher donations for every state in the bucket. All occupations and All FEC ties list sibling joins.