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Nelson, Bill

candidate · S8FL00166
Nelson, Bill FL · DEM · Senate · FL · incumbent
The seat — demographics, elections & money for this district full page ↗

Person: Nelson, Bill · every race, every cycle

12 cycles7 committees425 contributing committees112 vendors

Raised — contributing committees / cycle

Spent — vendor payments / cycle

IE support — independent expenditures for this candidate / cycle

Transferred out — other candidates funded / cycle

All four, combined -- 2016-2028

20162028
Raised Spent IE support Transferred out

2016–2028 · entity counts (money-dark); dollar trends light up at the flip. "Raised" is committee-routed contributions only — individual donors stay held pending the privacy decision, and there is no distinct bundler surface yet (#2488).

In this race

2018

DEM · primary contest (2 filers, order not yet known)

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Nelson, Bill (this candidate) incumbent 430
Lyles, Tamika challenger 1

REP · primary contest (2 filers, order not yet known)

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
De La Fuente, Roque "Rocky" challenger
Scott, Rick Sen challenger 341

UNK

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Janowski, Edward John Jr. challenger

Every candidate on file for this race. A party with more than one filer is a live primary contest -- who becomes that party's nominee isn't in the data yet. Cash on hand is the official FEC filing figure, as of the filing's own coverage date -- not a live estimate. The remaining columns are money-dark proxies (counts, not dollars); a dash means no data on file for that candidate yet. Click a column heading to sort.

In the 2018 Senate field

FL

Nelson, Bill ranks #14 of 529 Senate candidates nationally in 2018.

#CandidateStatePartyRaised
1 Sanders, Bernard VT IND $56,355,723
2 Brown, Sherrod OH DEM $43,945,698
3 Tester, R. Jon MT DEM $41,514,204
4 McSally, Martha AZ REP $38,525,275
5 Murphy, Christopher S CT DEM $31,406,433
6 Warren, Elizabeth MA DEM $30,998,675
7 Baldwin, Tammy WI DEM $30,006,651
8 Casey, Robert P. Jr. PA DEM $26,183,788
14 Nelson, Bill (this candidate) FL DEM $17,948,401

The national Senate field for 2018, ranked by money raised. Party affiliation shown as filed — third-party and state-party labels (DFL, WFP, etc.) are not merged into DEM/REP.

Campaign contact

ORLANDO, FL, 32827

Website, phone and social accounts arrive with the campaign-contact ingest (FEC F1 + social sources).

Money raised vs spent

coming

Raised-vs-spent over time — the per-cycle totals surface is coming.

Where the money comes from

by source type

Conduits (ActBlue / WinRed) 90% · PACs 10% · Super PACs 0% · Party committees 0%

Source typeContributionsAmount
Conduits (ActBlue / WinRed)478901$16,105,621
PACs841$1,757,420
Super PACs24$20,544
Party committees1$2,000
Total (committee-sourced)$17,885,585

Money received from committees, split by the type of the paying committee (PAC, Super PAC, party, joint-fundraising, conduit). Individual (person) giving is aggregated separately with privacy suppression and is not included here.

Transfers in

from committees
Payer typeTransfersAmount
Joint-fundraising committees7$367,318
Total$367,318

Committee-to-committee transfers received by this candidate's principal committee, split by the type of the sending committee.

Individual-donor conduit dependency

lifetime

23% by dollars

149664 of 242708 individual contributions on file routed through a conduit, lifetime -- not per-cycle (the underlying edge source can't be cleanly split by year). Conduit dollars are the true donor's money, passed through a platform; not double-counted.

PAC vs. individual money

by dollars

Individual (direct) 84% · Committee-routed (PAC / party / JFA / conduit) 16%

242708 individual contributions to this candidate's principal committee vs 479767 committee-routed contributions across every committee this candidate has authorized ($95,218,851 vs $17,885,585). Two different grains -- individual money is scoped to the principal committee only; committee-routed money spans every authorized committee -- combined here as the closest count-first read of PAC- vs individual-dependence available today. Part of the funding-concentration strip (#2730); donor-sector concentration and top-vendor share are not yet available.

Where the money goes

beneficiaries

Money disbursed by this candidate's principal committee: contributions to other candidates (the "raises big, then funds allies" signal), transfers to committees by destination type, vendor spending, and independent expenditures made.

Where the donors are

precinct-floored · suppressed
Partial data. About 15% of donor money is geocoded, concentrated in 9 states (AK, AL, AR, AZ, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL). Every other state — including the largest donor states (CA, NY, TX) — currently has zero geocoded rows. A blank state means not yet geocoded, never no donors here. Not a complete picture of donor geography.
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Aggregated itemized individual giving, geocoded to donor home address, suppressed for privacy (small or single-donor-dominated cells withheld). Unitemized giving has no geography.

Who runs it

Treasurer · GAGNON, PEGGY

Board / senior staff arrive from the payroll-disbursement derivation.

Committees

authorized
CommitteeRoleType
Florida 2000 Joint fundraising X
Florida Senate 2006 Joint fundraising X
Florida Senate 2012 Joint fundraising N
Florida Senate Recount 2018 Joint fundraising N
Senate Impact: Fl & Nv Joint fundraising S
Sunshine State Pac Joint fundraising N
Bill Nelson For Us Senate Principal campaign committee S

Money in

committee & PAC contributions

Contributing committees & PACs · 2018:

Committee / PACContributedContributionsCycles
ActblueActBlue · conduit $16,105,621 478,901 2018
National Association Of Broadcasters Political Action Committee (Nabpac) $22,425 22 2018
Common Power $3,044 16 2018
League Of Conservation Voters Action Fund $21,250 11 2018
National Air Traffic Controllers Association Pac $11,500 8 2018
Lockheed Martin Corporation Employees' Political Action Committee $8,000 8 2018
Rockwell Collins Inc. Employee Pac $7,500 7 2018
Finseca Pac $8,000 6 2018
Duke Energy Corporation Pac $2,000 6 2018
United Parcel Service, Inc. Pac (Upspac) $8,000 6 2018
Fedex Corporation Political Action Committee $6,500 6 2018
Cencora, Inc. Pac $9,000 6 2018
National Association Of Postal Supervisors Pac $6,000 6 2018
Motorola Solutions, Inc. Political Action Committee $8,000 6 2018
National Active And Retired Federal Employees Association Political Action Com (Narfe-Pac) $10,000 6 2018
Echostar Corporation And Dish Network Corporation Pac (Echostar Dish Network Pac) $7,000 5 2018
Bhfs-E, Pc Pac (Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck Political Action Committee) $5,000 5 2018
Professional Aviation Safety Specialists Pac $7,500 5 2018
Aflac Political Action Committee (Aflac Pac) $8,000 5 2018
Express Scripts Inc. Political Fund (A/K/A Express Scripts Pac) $7,500 5 2018
National Association Of Insurance And Financial Advisors Political Action Comm $7,500 5 2018
Toyota Motor North America, Inc Political Action Committee (Toyota/Lexus Pac) $8,000 5 2018
National Telecommunications Cooperative Association Rural Broadband Pac $5,000 5 2018
The Coca-Cola Company Nonpartisan Committee For Good Government $6,500 5 2018
Green Mountain Pac $15,000 5 2018

Committee & PAC contributions to this candidate. Individual donors remain held (donor-privacy decision).

Conduit dependency

via ActBlue / WinRed

100% of committee-routed contributions to this candidate (2018) arrive through conduit infrastructure — 478,901 of 479,767 contributions · 90% of dollars ($16,105,621).

ConduitAmount
ActBlue$16,105,621

Conduits (ActBlue, WinRed) are passthroughs — individuals give through them to candidates. This is the share of committee-routed contributions flowing over that infrastructure. Donor-level pass-through to the ultimate recipient is tracked separately (in progress).

Cross-party support

who funds both sides

32 of this candidate's 40 top committee funders also fund the other side.

Committee / PACOverall givingD / R
Basf Corporation Employees Political Action Committee 50% / 50%
Echostar Corporation And Dish Network Corporation Pac (Echostar Dish Network Pac) 50% / 50%
Honeywell International Political Action Committee 50% / 50%
National Association Of Realtors Political Action Committee 50% / 50%
Aflac Political Action Committee (Aflac Pac) 51% / 49%
Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. Employees Political Action Committee (Hiipac) 49% / 51%
K&L Gates Llp Political Action Committee (Dc) 51% / 49%
Day & Zimmermann Inc Federal Pac (Aka 'Daypac - Federal') 48% / 52%
National Association Of Broadcasters Political Action Committee (Nabpac) 48% / 52%
Cencora, Inc. Pac 47% / 53%
Intelsat Us Llc Political Action Committee 47% / 53%
Employees Of Rtx Corporation Political Action Committee 46% / 54%

Each committee's overall giving split by recipient party (by dollars).

Super PAC spending

outside money

Supporting: 37 committees · 391 expenditures · $17,664,424  ·  Opposing: 10 · 90 · $31,218,684

CommitteeStanceAmount
Center For Popular Democracy Action supports $211,357
For Our Future supports $1,198,340
Unidosus Action Pac supports $317,414
New Republican Pac opposes $29,538,077
Priorities Usa Action supports $4,187,145
Planned Parenthood Votes supports $83,205
Win Justice supports $1,262,793
Colorofchange Pac supports $7,410
Afscme Working Families Fund supports $154,695
Americans For Prosperity opposes $72,104
Seiu Cope (Service Employees International Union Committee On Political Education) supports $189,993
Americans For Prosperity Action, Inc. (Afp Action) Dba Cva Action And Dba Libre Action opposes $1,295,233
Blackpac supports $671,297
United For Progress Pac supports $61,785
Florida Consumer Action supports $60,051

Independent expenditures for or against this candidate. 2016 excluded (known IE undercount).

73% of this candidate's receipts + outside spending is outside money (independent expenditures for/against, as a share of receipts plus outside spending).

Money out — top vendors

$ shown
VendorPaidPaymentsCategory
Actblue Technical Services $401,992 78 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Paycor $386,523 27 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Regions Bank $79,866 20 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Democracy Engine Llc $6,820 20 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Regions Bank $419,702 19 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Al Media $1,623,085 16 004 (Advertising)
Canal Partners Media, Llc $20,061,080 16 004 (Advertising)
Suntrust Bankcard $55,671 15 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Ztribeca $409,363 15 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Emc Research $427,988 12
Anne Lewis Strategies Llc $387,400 12 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Auditech Associates, Llc $115,500 11 001 (Administrative / overhead)

Payment counts from the principal committee; dollar totals held. Arc maps of where money goes arrive with the geo layer.

Top expenditure categories

$ held
CategoryPayments
001 (Administrative / overhead)254
004 (Advertising)62
007 (Campaign events)1

Disbursement categories by payment count; dollar rollups held.

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