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Committee: ActBlue
FECfile: 1378435
filed: January 31st, 2020
size: ~ 9.7gb
data points: 44,627,333
contributions: 24,656,453
volume: $525,124,217.30
contribution avg: $21.30
unique recipient committees: 1,844
unique individuals: 4,422,861
unique locations: 3,875,357
unique zipcodes: 39,359
- Principal Committees by total
- Principal Committees by avg
- Individual contributors by total
- Individual contributors by average >= 5 contributions
- Recipient Committees by total
- Recipient Committees by average
- States by overall total
- States by average
- Zipcodes by overall total
- Zipcodes by average >= 250 contributions
- Direct contributions to ActBlue
- Future nominee contributions
- Form types breakdown
- Iowa Caucus Data Pull
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For quicker reporting and easier consumation, the data has been broken down into separate csv files by state. Take a look at the state volume analysis to see how many transactions are available for your state.
fyi: in order to reduce the csv file size, recipient committees have been abstracted down to their FEC id.
- Contributions by State
- individual id - contributor individual id
- location id - the contribution origin location. multiple individuals may be at the same location
- first name - contributor's first initial
- last name - contributor's last
- amount - contribution amount
- contributed date - the date that this contribution was made
- recipient committee fec id - the FEC committee id of the
- transction id - the transaction id filed by ActBlue
- contribution aggregate - total aggregate this individual has given
- memo - memo text for the contribution. may contain additional insights
- zip code - the zipcode where contribution originated
- state - the state where the contribution came from
- Recipient Committees
- fec id - the committee FEC id. you can match this field to the recipient commitee fec id in state contributions
- name - committee name
- candidate fec id - if attached to a candidate, the candidate's FEC id
- candidate name - name of candidate attached to this committee
- affilation - candidate / committeee affiliation. democrat, republican, etc.
- office - office which this candidate holds or is seeking
- state - state where this office is located
- district - state district that this candidate is representing if House candidate
- incumbent or challenger? - is this candidate an (i) incumbent, (c) challenger or (o) open seat
- is authorized committee? - is this a committee authorized by the candidate
- is principal committee? - is this a principal committee directly attached to a candidate