Minnesota E-Democracy

Election '96

Campaign Finance Data

Minnesota E-Democracy is proud to present this searchable database of Federal Election Commission data.

From here, you can search for information about candidates, campaigns, committees, contributors or contributions, or various subcategories of any of these.

About the data
Introduction to the search form
More Help
Begin searching
Acknowledgements

Information about the Data

FEC data comes from the Federal Election Commision internet site. Data currently available is from January 1, 1995 through September 1996 (the latest data available from the FEC).

This database contains information on constributions fitting any of the following criteria:

All contributions over $200 to Minnesota candidates for:
U.S. House
U.S. Senate
(money could have come from anywhere)

All contributions over $200 from anyone or any campaign with a Minnesota address to any candidate in any state for:
President
U.S. House
U.S. Senate

All $200+ contributions to and from Minnesota Political Action Committees
Please note that transfers between committees are supposed to be reported by both committees, and so may appear to be duplicated.

This database includes only contributions of $200 and up
This may cause occasional discrepancies between results from this database and search results from the full FEC database.

For more information about how to search the database,
or to see examples of various searches, visit the Help Page.

A brief introduction to the search form

Candidates: Search on who got the money (e.g. Barkley)
Campaign: Search by the specific campaign (house, senate, president, state, and district)
Committees: Search by the committee that contributed the money (e.g. Education in name and Labor is SIG will give you the labor Political Action Committees with "Education" in their name--warning, there are a lot of them); * Because of the way the data is set up, the Special Interest Group field
does not work if anything is in the candidate field.
Contributors/Contributions: Search by the names or locations of people who contributed.
Occupation is usually the business name.

To begin searching data, go to the Search Form.

Thanks to the following people for their help with this project:

Programming and computer facilities for this page provided by the River Project of the Minneapolis Telecommunications Network (Special thanks to Marv for the Programming).
FEC data downloaded and cleaned up by Jules Goldstein.
Introduction and help pages designed by Christine Tlougan.
FEC data comes from the Federal Election Commision internet site.

To search more FEC data, connect to FECInfo, a page that provides search options for the national FEC database. (Note: their searches are not as detailed.)

Send comments to: e-democracy@freenet.msp.mn.us

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