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Sanders, Bernard

candidate · S4VT00033
Sanders, Bernard VT · IND · Senate · VT · incumbent
The seat — demographics, elections & money for this district full page ↗

Person: Sanders, Bernard · every race, every cycle

11 cycles4 committees19 contributing committees867 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

REP

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Zupan, Lawrence challenger

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

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Sanders, Bernard (this candidate) incumbent 25
Peacock, Brad Joseph 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

VT

Sanders, Bernard ranks #1 of 529 Senate candidates nationally in 2018.

#CandidateStatePartyRaised
1 Sanders, Bernard (this candidate) 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

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

BURLINGTON, VT, 05401

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) 100% · PACs 0% · Super PACs 0%

Source typeContributionsAmount
Conduits (ActBlue / WinRed)2179653$32,378,782
PACs142$128,033
Super PACs5$33,056
Total (committee-sourced)$32,539,871

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.

Individual-donor conduit dependency

lifetime

73% by dollars

871388 of 895687 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) 50% · Committee-routed (PAC / party / JFA / conduit) 50%

895687 individual contributions to this candidate's principal committee vs 2179800 committee-routed contributions across every committee this candidate has authorized ($32,943,875 vs $32,539,871). 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 · HAGGARD, LORA

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

Committees

authorized
CommitteeRoleType
Sail To Victory 2006 Joint fundraising S
Send Bernie And Peter To Washington 2006 Joint fundraising H
Friends Of Bernie Sanders Principal campaign committee S
Collective Actions Pac Unauthorized / leadership PAC O

Money in

committee & PAC contributions

Contributing committees & PACs · 2018:

Committee / PACContributedContributionsCycles
ActblueActBlue · conduit $9,031,852 426,518 2018
League Of Conservation Voters Action Fund $1,563 83 2018
Jstreetpac $6,120 9 2018
Moveon.Org Political Action $33,056 5 2018
National Association Of Letter Carriers Of U.S.A. Political Fund (Letter Carrier Political Fund) $10,000 3 2018
Nea Fund For Children And Public Education $5,000 3 2018
D.R.I.V.E. - Democrat, Republican, Independent Voter Education (The Pac Of The International Brotherhood Of Teamsters) $1,800 2 2018
Transport Workers Union Of America Political Contributions Committee $8,500 2 2018
Int'L Association Of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental And Reinforcing Iron Workers (Ipal) $5,000 1 2018
American Federation Of Govt. Empl. Political Action Committee $5,000 1 2018
Political Action Committee Of The International Alliance Of Theatrical Stage Employees $2,000 1 2018
Seiu Cope (Service Employees International Union Committee On Political Education) $5,000 1 2018
International Union Of Painters And Allied Trades Political Action Together Political Committee $5,000 1 2018
Communications Workers Of America - Cope Political Contributions Committee $1,500 1 2018
United Steelworkers Political Action Fund $2,000 1 2018
Engineers Political Education Committee (Epec)/International Union Of Operating Engineers $5,000 1 2018
Purpose Pac $5,000 1 2018
Brotherhood Of Locomotive Engineers & Trainmen Pac Fund $4,000 1 2018
National Nurses United Pac - A Fund For A Healthy America $2,500 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 — 426,518 of 426,636 contributions · 99% of dollars ($9,031,852).

ConduitAmount
ActBlue$9,031,852

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

7 of this candidate's 25 top committee funders also fund the other side.

Committee / PACOverall givingD / R
Chamber Of Digital Commerce Political Action Committee 44% / 56%
Air Line Pilots Association Pac 60% / 40%
Aksm Urology Political Action Committee 'Aksm Urology Pac' 22% / 78%
Engineers Political Education Committee (Epec)/International Union Of Operating Engineers 78% / 22%
National Association Of Letter Carriers Of U.S.A. Political Fund (Letter Carrier Political Fund) 78% / 22%
Int'L Association Of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental And Reinforcing Iron Workers (Ipal) 83% / 17%
Transportation Trades Department Afl-Cio Political Action Committee (Ttd/Pac) 84% / 16%

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

Super PAC spending

outside money

Supporting: 3 committees · 3 expenditures · $114  ·  Opposing: 0 · 0 · —

CommitteeStanceAmount
Sierra Club Political Committee supports $10
Planned Parenthood Votes supports $36
Nea Advocacy Fund supports $68

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

0% 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
Gusto $1,221,693 139
Gusto $1,548,695 135
First Bank Merchant Services $216,470 110
Gusto $1,401,767 75
Adp $453,194 70
With The Ranks, Llc $232,048 61
First Bank Merchant Services, Llc $33,402 55
With The Ranks, Llc $120,000 48
Ngp $522,400 48
Bankcard Center $4,744 45
People'S United Bank $32,658 44
M&T Bank $8,568 41

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

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