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Campaign money

Spending for and against candidates

Committees other than a candidate's own can spend unlimited amounts to support or oppose that candidate, as long as they do not coordinate with them. This is express advocacy, and it never appears in the candidate's own fundraising totals — so a race can be far more expensive than the candidates' filings suggest.

Spent supporting $13,627,900

Spent opposing $7,877,777

Filings 1,747

Totals above cover all 1,747 filings; the races below list the 800 most recent.

Governor

$17,131,742 across 140 filings

Showing the 40 largest of 140 filings.

Local Office

$290,645 across 384 filings

Showing the 40 largest of 384 filings.

Supreme Court

$173,331 across 72 filings

Showing the 40 largest of 72 filings.

State Senate State Senate, District No. 21

$167,688 across 9 filings

State Assembly

$131,256 across 36 filings

State Senate State Senate, District No. 31

$126,639 across 10 filings

State Senate State Senate, District No. 17

$114,653 across 8 filings

State Senate State Senate, District No. 05

$89,153 across 8 filings

State Senate State Senate, District No. 01

$85,670 across 6 filings

State Assembly State Assembly, District No. 12

$54,628 across 11 filings

State Assembly State Assembly, District No. 61

$53,765 across 11 filings

Secretary of State

$51,662 across 6 filings

State Assembly State Assembly, District No. 08

$39,752 across 20 filings

State Senate State Senate, District No. 11

$37,500 across 3 filings

State Assembly State Assembly, District No. 19

$30,800 across 6 filings

State Assembly State Assembly, District No. 30

$28,139 across 6 filings

State Assembly State Assembly, District No. 92

$27,865 across 7 filings

State Assembly State Assembly, District No. 88

$24,414 across 6 filings

State Assembly State Assembly, District No. 89

$16,792 across 6 filings

State Assembly State Assembly, District No. 21

$16,292 across 7 filings

State Assembly State Assembly, District No. 58

$14,249 across 3 filings

State Assembly State Assembly, District No. 50

$13,900 across 6 filings

State Senate

$13,147 across 7 filings

State Assembly State Assembly, District No. 37

$12,288 across 3 filings

State Assembly State Assembly, District No. 09

$11,592 across 5 filings

State Assembly State Assembly, District No. 74

$10,455 across 3 filings

Attorney General

$4,556 across 4 filings

Circuit Court Marathon County Circuit Court

$2,111 across 2 filings

State Treasurer

$65 across 2 filings

Lieutenant Governor

$33 across 1 filings

State Assembly State Assembly, District No. 10

$33 across 1 filings

State Assembly State Assembly, District No. 23

$33 across 1 filings

Conduit pass-throughs

A conduit collects earmarked money from individuals and forwards it to a candidate. The conduit files the transaction, but the money is not the conduit's own — the individuals chose the recipient. Shown by where the money actually landed.

Source: Wisconsin Ethics Commission campaign finance filings (campaignfinance.wi.gov). Committees register and report only after crossing statutory thresholds, and contributions below the itemization threshold are reported as totals rather than by donor, so these figures are the itemized, reported record — not necessarily all money spent. Full methodology