Rancher political contributions from Texas

RANCHER × Texas: the intersection

Occupation RANCHER and contributor state Texas together sum to $6,952,084. That is about 41% of the occupation’s $17,057,096. Texas’s 16,836 contributions are about 41% of 40,878 nationally. Texas’s 1,269 donors are about 37% of 3,387. Dollar share and contribution share match; donor share is only slightly lower. The Texas slice is large relative to this occupation, without being the entire series.

Average itemized gift in the join is about $413 ($6,952,084 / 16,836). Combined with 1,269 donors, the pattern is a wide base of itemized receipts rather than a two-person outlier cell. Farmer, cattleman, and other agricultural strings are not inside these numbers.

RANCHER nationwide

Filers who wrote RANCHER reported $17,057,096 in 40,878 contributions from 3,387 donors. The remaining 59% of dollars ($17,057,096 minus $6,952,084) are attributed to states other than Texas. The occupation exists as a national label even when one large state holds a plurality of the money.

Three thousand three hundred eighty-seven donors and 40,878 gifts imply repeat giving. Texas’s 1,269 donors and 16,836 gifts are the same structure at state scale. The FEC does not verify acreage, livestock, or whether ranching is a primary job versus a secondary description.

Texas’s plurality, not the whole occupation

About four in ten RANCHER dollars and receipts carry a Texas address. That is a strong geographic tilt for this string, and it is still a minority of the national occupation if the question is “where is all rancher-labeled money?” The Texas campaign-finance page shows RANCHER as one occupation among many TX strings, including farmer and owner titles that researchers sometimes want to compare by hand.

Address state can diverge from where ranch land sits. A Texas mailing address with occupation RANCHER enters the $6,952,084; land in another state does not move the row. The join reports the FEC fields.

Land location and mailing address diverge in ranch country as much as in any rural state. The 1,269 Texas donor keys follow the state on the receipt. Researchers mapping acreage need a different dataset. This page stays with $6,952,084, 16,836 gifts, and 1,269 donors under RANCHER × TX.

What not to read into ranching and politics

The table does not show that ranching caused contributions or that the money funded agriculture or land-use committees. It does not compare Texas with other states as more politically active. It reports $6,952,084, 16,836 gifts, and 1,269 donors under this exact pair of labels.

Self-reported occupation means a donor can list RANCHER, farmer, or both across different filings. This page does not merge those histories. Use the occupations index and other ties to see adjacent agricultural labels.

Related FEC hubs

See Rancher donations for the $17,057,096 national total, Texas campaign finance for all TX occupations, the occupations index for farmer and related titles, and all FEC ties for other occupation–state joins. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates; occupation labels are filer-entered.

Plurality of a title is not a sector total

Texas holding about 41% of RANCHER dollars ($6,952,084 of $17,057,096) is a strong geographic tilt and still leaves 59% of the occupation in other states. Montana and Wyoming have their own rancher-labeled activity in the occupation index even if those joins are not this page. Treating Texas as “where rancher money is” erases 3,387 minus 1,269 donors and $17,057,096 minus $6,952,084.

FARMER is the neighboring agricultural string and is much larger nationally ($66,637,048). A Texas donor who listed FARMER is not in the $6,952,084. A donor who listed both strings across different filings is split. Livestock versus crops is not a column in the FEC occupation field. The join cannot answer commodity questions.

Treat the 41% dollar share as a plurality of RANCHER as filed, not as a claim about Texas livestock or land use. The occupation still has $17,057,096 minus $6,952,084 outside Texas, from 3,387 minus 1,269 donors. Those remaining donors and dollars are the reason a join page cannot substitute for the national occupation hub.

Questions

How much have Texas rancher donors given in FEC filings?

Donors listing occupation RANCHER with a Texas address reported $6,952,084 in itemized individual contributions, from 1,269 donors and 16,836 receipts. That is about 41% of the $17,057,096 recorded nationally under RANCHER. The join is not a livestock census or a total of Texas state-level campaign giving.

Is most Rancher political money from Texas?

Texas is about 41% of RANCHER dollars ($6,952,084 of $17,057,096) and about 41% of contributions (16,836 of 40,878), with about 37% of donors (1,269 of 3,387). That is a plurality of this occupation string, not a majority of dollars. Other states still hold about 59% of the national total.

Are farmers included in the Rancher totals?

Only if the occupation field says RANCHER. Farmer is a separate occupation page. National RANCHER is $17,057,096 from 3,387 donors; this Texas join is the subset with contributor state TX. Merging agricultural titles is a research choice, not part of the join.

Did these contributions go to Texas candidates?

Unknown here. The filter is donor state Texas plus occupation RANCHER, not recipient office. Texas-addressed donors can give to committees in any state. Committee receipts are required to trace the $6,952,084 from 1,269 donors. Those figures are FEC individual contribution aggregates with filer-entered occupation labels.