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DATA COVERAGE not externally verified tier raw_mirror vintage 2026-08-27 coverage 1980-2024 · 2026 Midterms in flight! money live · figures computing (best estimates)
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Quist, Robert E.

candidate · H8MT00077
Quist, Robert E. MT · DEM · House · MT · open-seat
The seat — demographics, elections & money for this district full page ↗

Person: Quist, Robert E. · every race, every cycle

cycle 2018
1 cycles2 committees24 contributing committees276 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 (6 filers, order not yet known)

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Quist, Robert E. (this candidate) open-seat 24
Heenan, John challenger 2
Kier, Grant challenger 2
Moss, Lynda Bourque challenger 1
Pettinato, Jared Scott Mr. challenger
Williams, Kathleen challenger 52

REP · primary contest (3 filers, order not yet known)

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Gianforte, Greg incumbent 148
Rosendale, Matt Mr. challenger 149
Zinke, Ryan K incumbent 324

LIB

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Swanson, Elinor 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.

Campaign contact

KALISPELL, MT, 59901

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) 97% · Super PACs 2% · PACs 1%

Source typeContributionsAmount
Conduits (ActBlue / WinRed)295183$5,807,974
Super PACs10$114,945
PACs731$78,984
Total (committee-sourced)$6,001,902

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.

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 · HOWARD, LINDA

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

Committees

authorized
CommitteeRoleType
Rob Quist For Montana Principal campaign committee H
Intermountain Campaign Coalition Unauthorized / leadership PAC N

Money in

committee & PAC contributions

Contributing committees & PACs · 2018:

Committee / PACContributedContributionsCycles
ActblueActBlue · conduit $5,807,974 295,183 2018
League Of Conservation Voters Action Fund $30,318 707 2018
Moveon.Org Political Action $112,445 9 2018
Planned Parenthood Action Fund Inc Pac, Dba Planned Parenthood Federal Pac $3,267 5 2018
Joint Action Committee For Political Affairs $-1,000 1 2018
International Brotherhood Of Electrical Workers Political Action Committee $5,000 1 2018
American Postal Workers Union Committee On Political Action $2,500 1 2018
American Federation Of Govt. Empl. Political Action Committee $5,000 1 2018
America 2.0 Pac $1,000 1 2018
Engineers Political Education Committee (Epec)/International Union Of Operating Engineers $2,500 1 2018
Ua Union Plumbers & Pipefitters Vote! Pac (United Association Of Journeymen And Apprentices Of The Plumbing & Pipefitting Industry Of The United States And Canada) $5,000 1 2018
Seiu Cope (Service Employees International Union Committee On Political Education) $2,500 1 2018
Jobs, Opportunities And Education Pac (Joe-Pac) $2,000 1 2018
Inland Empire Strikes Pac; The $1,000 1 2018
Montpac-Montana Medical Association (Mma) $500 1 2018
Nea Fund For Children And Public Education $5,000 1 2018
Madison Pac; The $2,000 1 2018
United Food And Commercial Workers International Union Active Ballot Club $2,500 1 2018
Communications Workers Of America - Cope Political Contributions Committee $5,000 1 2018
National Committee To Preserve Social Security & Medicare Pac $2,554 1 2018
International Association Of Firefighters Interested In Registration And Education Pac $1,000 1 2018
Conservative Campaign Committee $346 1 2018
International Association Of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail And Transportation Workers Political Action League $2,500 1 2018
Int'L Association Of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental And Reinforcing Iron Workers (Ipal) $1,000 1 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 — 295,183 of 295,924 contributions · 97% of dollars ($5,807,974).

ConduitAmount
ActBlue$5,807,974

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

4 of this candidate's 24 top committee funders also fund the other side.

Committee / PACOverall givingD / R
Montpac-Montana Medical Association (Mma) 50% / 50%
Engineers Political Education Committee (Epec)/International Union Of Operating Engineers 78% / 22%
International Association Of Firefighters Interested In Registration And Education Pac 82% / 18%
Int'L Association Of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental And Reinforcing Iron Workers (Ipal) 83% / 17%

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

Super PAC spending

outside money

Supporting: 5 committees · 53 expenditures · $350,808  ·  Opposing: 5 · 73 · $3,033,391

CommitteeStanceAmount
Republican National Committee opposes $944,058
Progressive Turnout Project supports $191,676
Nrcc opposes $1,812,603
National Rifle Association Of America Political Victory Fund opposes $271,622
Hmp supports $152,427
Conservative Campaign Committee opposes $2,116
People For The American Way supports $1,350
Intermountain Campaign Coalition supports $845
Moveon.Org Political Action supports $4,510
Susan B Anthony List Inc opposes $2,992

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

36% 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
Glacier Bank $1,294 95
Actblue Technical Services $223,125 62
Facebook $31,444 56
Paychex $313,626 53 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Montana Democratic Party $90,338 19
Paypal $485 18
Google.Com $5,129 17 004 (Advertising)
Mothership Strategies $1,068,672 16
Campaign Compliance, Inc. $37,611 16
Cenex $464 14
Canal Partners Media $2,602,315 13
Visa $36,077 13

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)53
004 (Advertising)17

Disbursement categories by payment count; dollar rollups held.

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