Context

I wanted to make the US Campaign Finance data available to everyone in an easily analyzable form to study it more effectively.

Content

This dataset contains information about candidates, committees, PACs (political action committees), House & Senate campaigns & about transactions, contributions by individuals & committees & operating & independent expenditures for US elections from Jan 2015 to Dec 2016. This dataset was created by downloading the bulk dataset from the FEC website page here & then, creating csv files using the correct headers. You will also find data description links from the bulk dataset FEC page linked above.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to the US Federal Election Commission (FEC) for providing this data in an easily accessible form. Their website is here. Please follow their data usage policies as stated on this page. Here's a brief note on their bulk data download page if that helps (but refer to the above page for completeness): > Anyone can inspect and copy reports and statements filed by political committees. But the names and addresses of individual contributors may not be sold or used for commercial purposes or to solicit contributions or donations.