Election Day: Tuesday, Nov 3

Who's on your ballot, and where their money comes from.

Type your ZIP code. You'll see everything on your ballot that we cover, at a glance: who's running for Congress and where their money came from, and in California, who funded each side of every proposition.

A ZIP code can cover two districts; a street address is exact. ZIP codes, towns and your location are matched in your browser, which downloads a map file for your area from this site, named by the first three digits of your ZIP or by your state. A typed street address goes from your browser to the U.S. Census Bureau's address service, which sees it and your IP address; this site never receives it. Nothing is saved; only your state and district go in this page's link, so Back and sharing work.

Follow the big money

The money riverThe 10 biggest givers, and every candidate their money reached. What the givers ask Congress forTheir own lobbying reports, and how members voted on those bills. The boardThe campaigns and PACs that raised the most.

More: why so many of the same names?

Most company, union and trade-group PACs give to both parties. See the same sponsors on both podiums →

Sources

How the sponsor numbers are counted: only PACs run by a company, union, trade group, membership group or cooperative (the FEC calls it the PAC's "connected organization"), and only their direct contributions to candidates' own campaign committees (FEC transaction type 24K), refunds subtracted. Not counted: donations from individuals that a PAC forwarded (earmarks), lawmakers' own leadership PACs, ideological PACs with no sponsoring organization, super PACs, and party money. "Both parties" means at least one Democratic and one Republican candidate; Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party counts as Democratic. The typical-member figure is the median among voting members of Congress with at least 20 such PACs. These are the FEC's processed records, which can trail what campaigns have filed by a few weeks. Your ballot: candidate lists come from Wikipedia's race tables, matched to FEC candidate records by name, state and district; a candidate with no match hasn't registered with the FEC (anyone who raises or spends $5,000 or less doesn't have to). Each candidate's breakdown uses the FEC summary of their own campaign: "small gifts" is contributions from people who gave $200 or less in all (the FEC's "unitemized" contributions), "big checks" is contributions from people who gave more, "PACs and committees" is everything from PACs and other political committees (including ones with no sponsoring organization), "party" is party committees, "own money" is the candidate's contributions and loans, "joint fundraising" is transfers from joint fundraising committees, and "other" is the rest. "Big money" is big checks plus PACs, committees and parties, as a share of everything donors and PACs gave; joint fundraising and own money aren't counted either way. Under $5,000 from donors and PACs (the FEC's registration threshold), no share is shown. The small-gift and joint-fundraising figures come from the FEC's candidate summary file; where it doesn't match the other FEC summary, the old "people" line is shown instead. Candidates are listed by how much they've raised. Statewide measures in the 38 other states with measures on the Nov 3 ballot: the list and wording come from each state's official measure list or voter guide; each side's money is every committee registered with the state to support or oppose the measure, with the total it reported and the date that report runs through, from the state's own campaign-finance records (Utah's Taxpayer Shield PAC is the one figure from a secondary source, Ballotpedia, because the state's site couldn't be read; the pop-up says so). A general-purpose group that wasn't formed for the measure is shown by what it reported spending on it, without its donors. Where a state's records can't be searched by measure, so a committee could exist without our finding it, the page says "no committee found" and explains that, instead of "no committee". Collected and then independently re-checked Nov 1, 2026. California propositions: each side's total is the FPPC's sum of the top contributors to committees that raised $1 million or more for that side; a measure without such a committee shows none. A contribution to a committee working on several measures counts toward each of them (marked *), and money one committee passes to another can appear twice, as it does in the FPPC's own totals. Individuals are named only when they gave more than $100,000 to one side; smaller gifts from individuals are added up without names, and the people the state lists as a contributing committee's own top donors are named as the state lists them. A named person gets a "billionaire" tag when their Forbes real-time profile showed a net worth of $1 billion or more on Oct 31, 2026; every named person on every side was checked the same way. Forbes lists a family fortune under one person, so a spouse isn't tagged unless Forbes shows their own net worth. Billionaire money is shown two ways: given by those people directly, and given by committees whose state-listed top donors include one of them (the committee's whole gift is counted there, since the state doesn't say how much of it came from each donor). "The name vs. the money" shows each committee's name as registered and the share of its listed top contributions that came from its largest one or two contributors. "The fine print" quotes the Attorney General's official title and summary. "Name check" lists any committee where one or two sources supply at least 75% of its listed top contributions, and at least $100,000, and its registered name mentions neither, by a word or by initials (a "sponsored by" phrase counts only when its words match one of those sources; two names that describe their funders in general terms, "labor unions" and "education and labor organizations", aren't listed). It compares only the name with the state filings, where these committees disclosed their donors as the law requires. The rule is applied to every committee on both sides, and the featured source is the one behind the most listed committees. The Johnson page counts differently (it includes his leadership PAC and forwarded donations), so its totals differ.