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Presidential Campaign Contributions
Last updated: October 28, 2016
What
For each recent U.S. presidential candidate's principal campaign committee, this repository contains the following data:
- All itemized contributions (Form 3P, Schedule A, Line 17a)
- All transfers from other authorized committees (Form 3P, Schedule A, Line 18), including the alloted portions of individual contributions to joint-fundraising committees.
- All refunds to individuals (Form 3P, Schedule B, Line 28a)
Why
This is all data you could get from the Federal Election Commission, but we've gone through the trouble of fetching and formatting it for you. Specifically, we've:
- Identified the latest versions of each committee's F3P filings. (Committees often amended their filings, sometimes multiple times for a single filing.)
- Extracted the SA17A, SA18, and SB28A lines from the broader filings (which also contain disbursements to vendors, loans, et cetera).
- Converted the FEC's
ASCII 28-delimited format into comma-delimited files, and added header rows with field names.
Committees
The data currently covers these committees:
| Cycle | Committee Name | Committee ID |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | HILLARY FOR AMERICA | C00575795 |
| 2016 | DONALD J. TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT, INC. | C00580100 |
| 2016 | GARY JOHNSON 2016 | C00605568 |
| 2016 | JILL STEIN FOR PRESIDENT | C00581199 |
| 2016 | MCMULLIN FOR PRESIDENT COMMITTEE INC. | C00623884 |
| 2012 | OBAMA FOR AMERICA | C00431445 |
| 2012 | ROMNEY FOR PRESIDENT, INC. | C00431171 |
| 2012 | GARY JOHNSON 2012 INC | C00495622 |
| 2012 | JILL STEIN FOR PRESIDENT | C00505800 |
| 2008 | OBAMA FOR AMERICA | C00431445 |
| 2008 | JOHN MCCAIN 2008 INC. | C00430470 |
Filings
The filings/ directory contains CSVs listing each committee's most recently updated FEC Form F3P submissions for each filing period. These listings were obtained from the ProPublica Campaign Finance API.
Contributions, Transfers, and Refunds
The data/ directory contains all contributions, transfers, and refunds described above, organized as such: data/{cycle}/{committee}/{committee}-{line_type}-{coverage_period}.csv.
To save storage (and stay under GitHub's file size limits), all contribution files are compressed with gzip. To decompress all files, run make decompress.
Feedback
Contact Jeremy Singer-Vine at jeremy.singer-vine@buzzfeed.com.
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