Rancher political contributions from Wyoming

The Rancher–Wyoming overlap

Occupation RANCHER and donor state WY produce $2,148,584, 1,710 contributions, and 195 donors. The occupation hub is $17,057,096, 40,878 contributions, and 3,387 donors. Wyoming’s dollar share is about 13%; contribution share about 4% (1,710 of 40,878); donor share about 6% (195 of 3,387).

Dollar share (about 13%) outruns contribution share (about 4%) and donor share (about 6%). The Wyoming-coded Rancher slice is heavier per row than the national labeled mix. That is a description of two FEC columns. It is not evidence that Wyoming ranchers give more than ranchers in Texas or Montana, and those states are not in this packet’s facts.

One hundred ninety-five Wyoming donors produced 1,710 contributions, about nine itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 12 rows per donor nationally (40,878 contributions from 3,387 donors). Wyoming holds about 13% of the $17,057,096 with about 6% of donors and about 4% of contributions—dollar-heavy relative to rows. That is a two-key description, not a ranking of herd size.

Rancher as an occupation string

RANCHER is filer-entered. FARMER, CATTLEMAN, RANCH OWNER, and RANCHING, if used, sit in other hubs. The $17,057,096 national total is this word only. Three thousand three hundred eighty-seven donors produced 40,878 contributions.

This page does not merge farm and ranch labels. It locates how much of the RANCHER bucket is also coded to Wyoming.

Wyoming as donor state

One hundred ninety-five Wyoming donors produced 1,710 contributions totaling $2,148,584. Donor state WY is the address on the record, not proof of a Wyoming grazing lease, and not a limit to Wyoming candidates.

The Wyoming campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to WY. This join is only RANCHER. Other occupations on that hub are outside these 195 donors.

Wyoming’s state hub includes every occupation coded WY. This join is only RANCHER. The Rancher occupation hub without Wyoming still holds about 87% of the $17,057,096. FARMER and CATTLEMAN, if used, sit in other hubs.

What the join does not measure

This page does not measure herd size, acreage, or commodity prices, and it does not claim that Rancher-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. It does not rank Wyoming against other states as more agricultural or more political.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

RANCHER is not an AUM of land or livestock. Itemized individual contributions only. Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. Grazing leases and brand inspections are not FEC fields. Donor state WY is not recipient geography. Correlation is not causation.

Wyoming’s $2,148,584 is the RANCHER-and-WY overlap only, not a statewide agriculture total and not a livestock inventory.

Reading Rancher and Wyoming as two keys

Subtract the Wyoming 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 has no row-by-row breakdown here because those states are other ties. The occupation internal link holds the unlabeled-by-state total; the state internal link holds every occupation with this state code; the occupations index and the ties index place this pair among other joins built the same way.

A unique-donor count is not a person-level audit. The FEC aggregate can merge similar names or split one person who filed under variants. A contribution count can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Wyoming dollars, or only the Rancher national total, drops a key.

This relationship is not a forecast and not a ranking of influence. Occupation does not cause contributions, and donor state does not cause recipient geography. Public records, two fields, one intersection. FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates; occupation labels are filer-entered.

Related tables

Rancher donations holds the $17,057,096 national occupation total. Wyoming 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.

Questions

How much have Rancher donors in Wyoming given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation Rancher and state Wyoming total $2,148,584, from 1,710 contributions and 195 donors. Nationwide, Rancher-coded receipts are $17,057,096 from 40,878 contributions and 3,387 donors. Wyoming is about 13% of those dollars.

Are these working Wyoming ranchers?

The FEC file does not verify land, livestock, or employment. Occupation is the string RANCHER and state is WY. The 195 Wyoming donors used that pair of labels. Filers who wrote FARMER sit in a different bucket if that string was harvested separately.

What share of Rancher FEC money is from Wyoming?

About 13% of the $17,057,096 occupation total is in this Wyoming join ($2,148,584). Wyoming also accounts for about 4% of contributions (1,710 of 40,878) and about 6% of donors (195 of 3,387).

Does this money go to Wyoming candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Wyoming. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $2,148,584 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns.