Michigan Senate Primary 2026: All the Money

7.1 — Race summary

Every cell to the dollar. "Grand total benefiting" = a candidate's own campaign disbursements + total outside spending benefiting that candidate. Receipts and expenditures are never added into a single figure. Attribution rule.

7.2 — Charts

Donuts are computed server-side from the same snapshot figures shown in each accompanying table; chart and table cannot disagree.

7.3 — Outside spending by committee

Every filer found by the candidate-level Schedule E pull is listed, not only the verified super PACs. Committee names link to their FEC pages. Spending that opposes one candidate is counted as benefiting the other. Attribution rule. Primary-period rows only; spending disseminated after primary day is listed in the appendix, §7.15.

7.4 — Outside spending by purpose category

Purpose categories are assigned from each expenditure's FEC description using a fixed keyword map. Unclassified share: 0.0%.

7.5 — Super PAC donors

7.6 — Campaign fundraising composition

Individual contributions combine itemized and small-dollar (unitemized) receipts as reported in each committee's FEC totals. Haley Stevens's House-to-Senate transfer is shown as its own labeled row and is not buried in totals.

7.7 — Campaign spending by category

Buckets are assigned from each disbursement's FEC purpose description using the same keyword map applied to outside spending.

7.8 — PACs giving directly to each campaign

Cash and in-kind contributions from PACs and other political committees to each campaign (FEC transaction types 24K and 24Z in the committee-to-candidate bulk file, memo entries excluded). The candidate's own authorized committees are left out — their transfers are the "transfers from authorized committees" line in §7.6. Independent expenditures (types 24A/24E) are never counted here; they appear only in the §7.3 ledger.

Also in this FEC file, shown elsewhere on this page

• $53,819,639 of independent expenditures (types 24E for, 24A against) — outside spending: primary-period rows are in the §7.3 ledger and the totals above, rows after primary day are in the §7.15 appendix. $32,851 of it, from 11 committee(s) that report IEs only on their regular reports and never appear in the FEC independent-expenditure file, was added from this file so it is not lost ($22,217 in the primary ledger and totals; $10,634 in the §7.15 appendix).
• $332,537 of coordinated party expenditures (type 24C) — listed in the coordinated-party table below.
• $260,750 from the candidates' own authorized committees (transfers and in-kind) — the "transfers from authorized committees" line in §7.6, not outside money.

Coordinated party expenditures

Spending by a party committee made in coordination with the campaign (FEC transaction type 24C). It is neither a contribution to the campaign nor independent spending, so it is shown on its own line and is not included in any total above.

7.9 — Earmarked contributions via conduits

Total earmarked to Haley Stevens through AIPAC PAC (overlay stat, not additive with §7.6 receipts): $39,987

This is an overlay statistic showing the conduit path of money already counted in §7.6 receipts; it is not added to any other total. AIPAC PAC contributions earmarked to a candidate pass through the traditional PAC as a conduit. ActBlue is a payment processor, mechanically different from an ideological bundler; no ActBlue conduit activity was observed in the current filings.

7.10 — Final-stretch tracker

(a) 24-hour independent-expenditure reports since July 16 (newest first)

(b) 48-hour contribution notices (Form 6), per campaign