Follow the money, 2016

1 race and 2 candidates with a figure filed in the records behind this page. Each figure is printed as filed, with the filing link.

Candidates run alphabetically by surname inside each race. Ohio rotates ballot order by precinct, so no order here is the ballot's.

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U.S. Senator from Ohio

November 8, 2016

Rob Portman

Republican

Totals as filed

Filer	Raised	Spent	Cash on hand	As of
FEC S0OH00133	$19,849,495	$25,276,524	$381,764	December 31, 2016

Filings: fec.gov · projects.propublica.org

From inside Ohio

None found in the records checked

Top donor entries, as filed

None found in the records checked

Outside spending, for and against

supporting $36,300,000 · as of November 2016
- Freedom Partners Action Fund · $9,400,000 · support
- Fighting For Ohio Fund · $9,260,000 · support
Filings: opensecrets.org · opensecrets.org

Ted Strickland

Democratic

Totals as filed

Filer	Raised	Spent	Cash on hand	As of
FEC C00573212	$10,736,947	$10,567,811	$169,136	December 31, 2016

Filings: fec.gov · fec.gov

From inside Ohio

None found in the records checked

Top donor entries, as filed

New York City-based attorneys, real-estate executives and financial-services professionals · $120,000 · campaign committee

Fourth-quarter 2015 individual donors, per FEC records analyzed by the Washington Free Beacon

Source: freebeacon.com
Washington, D.C.-based attorneys, lobbyists, consultants and CEOs · $54,000 · campaign committee

Fourth-quarter 2015 individual donors, per FEC records analyzed by the Washington Free Beacon

Source: freebeacon.com

Outside spending, for and against

supporting $5,900,000 · opposing $30,400,000 · as of November 2016
- Senate Majority PAC · $9,960,000 · support
Filing: opensecrets.org

The biggest donor entries across every race

One row per donor entry on record for this cycle, largest amount first. Some entries the records themselves describe as an aggregate across a cycle rather than a single filed contribution; each row's source says which.

Donor	Amount	To	Race	Through	Source
New York City-based attorneys, real-estate executives and financial-services professionals	$120,000	Ted Strickland	U.S. Senator from Ohio	campaign committee	freebeacon.com
Washington, D.C.-based attorneys, lobbyists, consultants and CEOs	$54,000	Ted Strickland	U.S. Senator from Ohio	campaign committee	freebeacon.com

Sources

Data from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0: Rob Portman · 2016 United States Senate election in Ohio · United States congressional Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction · Ted Strickland

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