South Dakota campaign finance beside $36.8 billion in federal obligations

A short filer list next to a dense award file

One hundred forty-three federal candidate committees produced $7.38 million. Two hundred nineteen thousand three hundred two awards produced $36.8 billion in obligations. Comparing 143 to 219,302 as if they were the same unit would be a category error. This join reports each inventory in its own system.

Republican committees hold $5,820,808.99 (78.9% of $7,376,783.32). Democratic committees hold $984,084.67 (13.3%). Other-party committees hold $571,889.66 (7.8%). Those shares describe receipts among 143 filers. They do not describe 219,302 awards.

The obligation total is about 4,995 times the candidate-receipt total. The multiple is packet arithmetic. It is not a score for South Dakota politics.

FEC column: 143 committees, $7.38 million

Receipts are inflows disclosed by South Dakota-tagged federal candidate committees. Independent expenditures and state-office filings with the South Dakota Secretary of State are outside this column. The South Dakota campaign finance hub lists the 143 filers.

A 7.8% other-party receipt share is large enough to keep visible. LobbyVault does not reclassify those committees.

USAspending column: 219,302 awards

South Dakota’s award count is high relative to its FEC filer count. Assistance programs with many small rows can produce that pattern; this packet does not confirm a program split, so this page does not assert one. The South Dakota USAspending hub is the place for award-type and agency tables.

Obligations of $36.8 billion are recorded federal commitments tagged to the state. They are not assigned to the 143 candidate committees and are not paid from the $7.38 million.

Two hundred nineteen thousand three hundred two awards is the second-densest row count in this slice after Nebraska’s 344,180, against a much smaller obligation total ($36,843,955,380.12 versus Nebraska’s $80.7 billion). Dense rows and smaller dollars can travel together when many awards are small. This packet does not split award types, so the pattern stays a pair of fields, not a program diagnosis.

Assistance awards tagged to South Dakota can inflate count. The South Dakota USAspending hub is where agency and type detail lives. Those rows are not the 143 FEC committees.

What the join refuses to say

It does not say Republican receipt share caused award volume. It does not say South Dakota is more or less “dependent” on Washington. It has no population field and no per-capita field. It does not rank the state against neighbors.

FEC cycles and USAspending fiscal years remain different clocks. Live tables override this snapshot.

Republican receipts of $5,820,808.99 are 78.9% of $7,376,783.32. Democratic receipts of $984,084.67 are 13.3%. Other-party receipts of $571,889.66 are 7.8%. The 7.8% other-party slice is large enough to keep visible. None of those shares describe 219,302 awards.

South Dakota Secretary of State state-office filings are outside both columns. Independent expenditures are outside the $7.38 million.

Next reads

South Dakota campaign finance for FEC receipts. All FEC ties for other joins. South Dakota USAspending for the 219,302-award file. Cite FEC.gov and USAspending.gov.

South Dakota campaign finance for the 143-committee FEC file. All FEC ties for other joins. South Dakota USAspending for the 219,302-award file. Cite FEC.gov for $7,376,783.32 and USAspending.gov for $36,843,955,380.12.

Do not treat filer scarcity (143) and award abundance (219,302) as a paradox that donations must explain. They are inventories from different agencies.

Short roster, dense award file — two inventories

South Dakota’s distinctive pair in this slice is the shortest FEC roster (143) next to one of the densest award files (219,302). A complete citation names $7,376,783.32, the three party figures, 219,302 awards, and $36,843,955,380.12, then states that contributions are not awards. The about-4,995-to-1 ratio is scale.

Population and farm-program frames are not packet fields. This page will not import them to explain row count. Per-capita rankings are likewise out of scope.

Live hubs override this snapshot after amendments. Quote the hubs when they disagree with these packet dollars.

One hundred forty-three committees produced $7,376,783.32. Two hundred nineteen thousand three hundred two awards produced $36,843,955,380.12. Those sentences use different verbs on purpose: produced, as in disclosed or recorded in each system, not funded. The 7.8% other-party receipt slice ($571,889.66) stays in the FEC sentence.

Amendments move both extracts. If the South Dakota campaign finance hub or the South Dakota USAspending hub disagrees with this snapshot, the hub and the source agency control. This prose does not rewrite $7,376,783.32 or $36,843,955,380.12 on page load.

Questions

How much have South Dakota federal candidates raised?

South Dakota-associated federal candidate committees reported $7,376,783.32 across 143 filers. Republican committees reported $5,820,808.99, Democratic committees $984,084.67, and other-party committees $571,889.66, according to FEC.gov via LobbyVault.

How many federal awards are tagged to South Dakota?

USAspending.gov lists 219,302 awards with $36,843,955,380.12 in obligations tagged to South Dakota, as indexed on SpendingVault. Award count and obligation dollars are separate fields from FEC receipts.

Do South Dakota campaign donations fund those 219,302 awards?

No. FEC candidate receipts and USAspending obligations are different datasets. This page joins them on the South Dakota geography tag only.

Why are there so many awards and so few candidate committees?

Filer count (143) is an FEC inventory. Award count (219,302) is a USAspending inventory. They are not comparable units and are not evidence that fundraising produced awards.