Vital Statistics

All Public-Sector Union Spending

$1,961,086,525

Federal Spending

$400,718,692

State Spending

$1,560,367,833

Spending by year

Not all political donations in our data sets include dates. This may result in discrepancies between spending listed on this chart and total spending.

Partisan Spending

Democrats: $842,569,850 (90%)

Republicans: $128,822,930 (10%)

Any spending not identified as Republican or Democrat is either non-partisan, third party, or unknown. Ballot initiative spending was not assigned to political parties and is not included in this chart.

Spending on Candidates and Ballot Measures, by State

1 California: $536,310,350
2 Illinois: $92,731,306
3 Oregon: $92,585,988
4 Ohio: $62,367,803
5 New York: $55,671,054
6 Pennsylvania: $51,064,095
7 Michigan: $45,022,186
8 Massachusetts: $41,038,585
9 Colorado: $34,950,214
10 Washington: $33,802,265
11 Texas: $23,887,489
12 Missouri: $20,884,292
13 Florida: $19,821,477
14 Arizona: $19,578,165
15 Alabama: $18,750,713
16 Indiana: $18,677,873
17 Virginia: $14,585,010
18 New Jersey: $14,391,177
19 Maryland: $13,416,099
20 Nevada: $11,778,408
21 Wisconsin: $10,943,057
22 Iowa: $10,601,660
23 Oklahoma: $10,498,230
24 Georgia: $9,892,837
25 Maine: $9,590,855
26 Minnesota: $8,923,384
27 Idaho: $7,265,631
28 Nebraska: $5,931,072
29 North Carolina: $5,782,946
30 New Mexico: $5,702,346
31 Tennessee: $5,686,495
32 Utah: $5,456,305
33 Alaska: $5,372,940
34 Hawaii: $5,363,895
35 Connecticut: $4,910,210
36 Rhode Island: $4,369,011
37 West Virginia: $3,909,554
38 South Dakota: $3,564,194
39 Kentucky: $3,191,706
40 Montana: $3,111,147
41 Louisiana: $2,542,042
42 New Hampshire: $2,446,541
43 Kansas: $2,104,859
44 North Dakota: $1,642,327
45 Delaware: $1,622,008
46 South Carolina: $1,431,073
47 Arkansas: $1,430,277
48 Mississippi: $1,328,704
49 Vermont: $1,279,919
50 Wyoming: $653,603
51 District of Columbia: $36,000
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