Average Cost to Run for House of Representatives

2020 U.S. Business firm Races Cost $86.8 1000000, A Record

Past SIMON D. SCHUSTER

Michigan Campaign Finance Network

LANSING ( June 21, 2021) — Elections for Michigan'due south U.South. House of Representatives seats were the well-nigh expensive of all time, costing at to the lowest degree $86.8 million in total, according to an analysis by the Michigan Entrada Finance Network.

The average cost of the election in each of Michigan'south xiv congressional districts inched up about $400,000 on average.

The $86.viii one thousand thousand full is a relatively small increase compared to 2018's $fourscore.8 million. Then Michigan had newly-minted status equally a battleground state and Democrats zeroed in on races in two key districts, the 8th and the 11th districts, which ultimately flipped in their favor. Those districts, although rated rubber for the Democrats past a number of prognosticators, nonetheless managed to draw a level of spending that would've been exceptional in 2016, when the total cost of Michigan's U.South. House races was $twoscore million.

Exterior groups played a substantial role in the election, accounting for nigh $25 million of the total. The Congressional Leadership Fund, a super PAC, was the top contained spender, paying $4.three one thousand thousand on ads aiding Republican candidates in the third, sixth and 11th districts. It's funded primarily by the nighttime coin American Action Network and organizations related to the late billionaire Sheldon Adelson. The Michael Bloomberg-backed House Majority PAC was the elevation exterior group helping Democrats, spending near $3.3 million between four districts.

Nearly $340,000 was spent on undisclosed ads on the social media platform Facebook which went unreported to the Federal Election Commission. The singlest largest spender was an ostensible news organization called Courier Newsroom, which devoted about $84,000 to promote Facebook posts with favorable coverage of U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Holly) between Feb and July 2020. MCFN and Bridge Magazine had previously reported on the nonprofit backside Courier and its ties to a major liberal dark money group, the Sixteen Thirty Fund.

A spreadsheet with a full breakdown of the spending is linked at the lesser of this article.

third District: $16.2 million

This time around there were no blockbuster races of national importance, though one came close: The tertiary district contest for the open seat between Republican Peter Meijer and Democrat Hillary Scholten was the most expensive race, costing $16.1 million.

It was a startling shift in a district that had been held by and then-U.Due south. Rep. Justin Amash, a libertarian who left the Republican party and raised relatively piddling. In 2022 the 3rd district election cost less than $1 million.

The race became a battleground relatively late in the entrada season as Democrats' prospects appeared to improve there. MCFN tracked at least $seven.seven one thousand thousand dollars in outside spending on Scholten and Meijer, eclipsing the combined $7.three one thousand thousand raised by the candidates.

The ads run by these groups were largely negative. The Autonomous Congressional Commission released an opposition inquiry report on Meijer which Scholten's entrada and several groups used to form attack ads.

The firm AdImpact reported ads aired on broadcast idiot box more than eleven,000 times during the primary and general election. A niggling more than than 1,000 involved Meijer's chief opponent, old state rep. Lynn Afendoulis.

Meijer claimed victory by nearly a well-nigh 6% margin, virtually 24,000 votes.

8th District: $15.six million

Spending in the 8th district was close backside the tertiary. Incumbent U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Holly) bested Republican Paul Junge and in the process accrued the largest fundraising haul of any congressional candidate, garnering more than $9.ane million throughout the ballot bicycle. Junge raised less than a 4th of that at $two.1 meg.

At to the lowest degree $2.four million was spent by nighttime money groups on broadcast ads in support of Slotkin, while all of the $i 1000000 in contained spending on television in Junge'due south favor went unreported to the FEC.

The race overall was a far cry from the more than $28 million that the 8th district election cost in 2018. Yet Slotkin'due south district still voted to reelect then-President Donald Trump, underscoring Democrats' tenuous concur on the area.

11th District: $14.7 one thousand thousand

U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Rochester Hills) won reelection to a second term confronting a claiming from Republican Eric Esshaki, an chaser, by a picayune more than 3% of the vote.

Nearly $6.5 1000000 of that full came from outside spending, compared to the $seven.2 1000000 raised past both candidates combined.

Late in the race the Congressional Leadership Fund spent more than $1.8 million on ads attacking Stevens, while Independence USA PAC, funded by billionaire Michael Bloomberg, spent at to the lowest degree $1.3 million on ads to support her, co-ordinate to AdImpact.

Other Races:

6th district — U.Due south. Rep. Fred Upton (R) vs. Jon Hoadley (D): $9.5 one thousand thousand

13th commune — U.Due south. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D) vs. David Dudenhoefer (R): $6.five million

10th commune — Lisa McClain (R)  vs. Kim Bizon (D): $6.4 million

7th district — U.Due south. Rep. Tim Walberg (R) vs Gretchen Driskell (D): $4.i million

2nd district — U.S. Rep. Pecker Huizenga vs. Bryan Berghoef (D): $3 million

1st district — U.South. Rep. Jack Bergman (R) vs. Dana Ferguson (D): $2.6 million

5th district — U.Due south. Rep. Dan Kildee (D) vs. Tim Kelly (R): $1.9 million

12th commune — U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell (D) vs. Jeff Jones (R): $1.8 one thousand thousand

4th district —  U.S. Rep. John Moolenaar (R) vs. Jerry Hilliard (D): $1.6 million

9th district — U.South. Rep. Andy Levin (D) vs. Charles Langworthy : $1.four one thousand thousand

14th district — U.S. Rep. Brenda Lawrence (D) vs. Robert Patrick (R): $1.1 million

(Titles reflect incumbency status at the fourth dimension of election. Winners are listed starting time.)

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Source: https://mcfn.org/node/7427/2020-us-house-races-cost-868-million-a-record