Federal Elections Commission

This collection of charts focuses on comparing how candidates finance their campaigns in United States federal elections.

• House of Representatives
• Senate

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Want to analyze the data yourself?

All charts in this collection come with R code you can use to replicate them (save for some aesthetics).

• Walkthrough: Using the R programming language for the First Time
• tidyusafec: an R package I made for getting data from the FEC.
• tidyverse: a set of R packages for wrangling and visualizing data.

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Other Resources

Keeping tabs on who is spending in federal elections is a group effort.

• The Federal Election Commission is the government source of campaign finance data.
• ProPublica’s itemizer lets you look at individual contributions and expenditures
• The Center for Responsive Politics provides some of the best campaign finance analysis and data out there.