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Bruce Poliquin

Republican candidate · 2022 general election · Maine

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Bruce Poliquin

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Campaign finance

FEC data through Dec 31, 2022. Covering the 2022 two-year cycle only.

The 2022 cycle at a glance

Total receipts
$3,671,940
Everything the campaign took in
Individual contributions
$2,409,822
Itemized and unitemized split not reported
PAC and other committees
$894,970
Received from political committees
Campaign spending
$3,566,163
Total disbursements
Cash on hand
$105,777
At the end of the reporting period

Where the money came from

These categories divide total receipts of $3,671,940 exactly once, so they add back up to the reported total.

Receipts by funding category for the 2022 cycle
Source Amount Share of receipts
Individual contributions $2,409,822 65.6%
PAC and other committee contributions $894,970 24.4%
Party committee contributions $5,000 0.1%
Candidate self-funding $20,091 0.5%
Loans $0 0.0%
Other receipts, including transfers $342,057 9.3%
Total receipts $3,671,940 100%

Financial position

Cash, debt, refunds, loans, and transfers as reported through Dec 31, 2022 for the 2022 cycle. These are factual reported values, not a judgement about whether a campaign is healthy, viable, or strong. Independent expenditures are never added to or subtracted from any of them: that money was never the campaign's.

Reported financial position for the 2022 cycle
Measure Amount
Cash on hand at coverage end $105,777
Debts and obligations owed by the committee $0
Debts and obligations owed to the committee Not reported
Contributions refunded to individuals $45,444
Contributions refunded to committees $4,750
Transfers received from other authorized committeesAlready raised money moving between the candidate's own committees, not new fundraising. $333,888
Transfers made to other authorized committees $79,135
Repayments of candidate loans $0
Repayments of other loans $0

Calculated from the reported values

Each row below is arithmetic MyRepTracker performed on the values above. Where the FEC published the figure itself, the row says so and no calculation was made.

Values calculated from the reported financial position, with the formula for each
Measure Amount How it was produced
Contributions net of refunds $3,279,689 Calculated as individual + committee + party + candidate contributions, minus contributions refunded to individuals and committees.
Operating expenditures net of offsets Not reported An input this calculation needs is not published by the source behind this record.
Outstanding candidate loans $0 Calculated as loans received from the candidate minus repayments of those loans.
Other outstanding loans $0 Calculated as other loans received minus repayments of those loans.
Total contributions refunded $50,194 Calculated as refunds to individuals plus refunds to committees.

Change since the previous filing

Both columns come from committee C00775296, so the two periods are comparable. A change is the difference between what 30G 2022 reported and what YE 2022 reported, and the direction is stated in words rather than shown only as a sign. 30G 2022 reported through Nov 28, 2022 and YE 2022 through Dec 31, 2022.

Financial position at the two most recent controlling filings of committee C00775296
Measure 30G 2022Reported through Nov 28, 2022 YE 2022Reported through Dec 31, 2022 Change
Cash on hand at period end $3,056 $3,056 No change
Debts owed by the committee $0 $0 No change
Contribution refunds in the period $0 $0 No change

Cash compared with one period's spending

Cash on hand of $105,777 set beside the $0 this campaign spent during YE 2022, through Dec 31, 2022. This is a ratio between two reported numbers over one named period. It is not a forecast of how long the money will last, and campaigns do not spend evenly across a cycle.

Outside spending

Independent expenditures are spending by other organizations that is not coordinated with the campaign. This money was never received or controlled by Bruce Poliquin. Supporting and opposing spending are kept apart rather than combined into one number, and neither is added to campaign receipts.

Spent supporting

$22,292
Independent expenditures in the 2022 cycle

Spent opposing

$6,852,176
Independent expenditures in the 2022 cycle

What the money was spent on

These spending categories were produced by taxonomy spend-1.2 and the current rules are spend-1.3, so they are withheld until this record is refreshed.

Political committees that contributed directly

Money received by the authorized campaign committee from PACs and other political committees. This is not outside spending.

This total will usually differ from the PAC figure in the summary above. The summary is what the campaign reported receiving in total; this ranking adds up the individual contributions that were itemized, which is a different record made at a different time. Neither is a correction of the other, and the gap is not an error in either one.

Top 5 of 229 shown $721,500 total · $50,000 shown here

Itemized rows as published by the FEC on Aug 16, 2026. The summary figures above come from the candidate's own reports through the coverage date.

Political committees ranked by direct contributions
Rank Committee Amount Share Transactions Last activity
1 ACPAC ACA INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE C00034785 $10,000 1.4% 2 Oct 10, 2022
2 KOCH INDUSTRIES, INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (KOCHPAC) C00236489 $10,000 1.4% 2 Jul 14, 2022
3 PIONEER POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE C00325357 $10,000 1.4% 2 Jun 30, 2022
4 RESPONSIBILITY AND FREEDOM WORK PAC (RFWPAC) C00368696 $10,000 1.4% 2 Aug 19, 2022
5 FREEDOM FUND C00390674 $10,000 1.4% 2 Oct 12, 2021
Show the complete list of 229 committees →

Organizations spending independently

Supporting Bruce Poliquin

All 2 shown $22,292 total

Itemized rows as published by the FEC on Aug 16, 2026. The summary figures above come from the candidate's own reports through the coverage date.

Organizations ranked by independent spending supporting this candidate
Rank Committee Amount Share Transactions Last activity
1 NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE VICTORY FUND C00509893 $12,292 55.1% 1 Oct 13, 2022
2 CONSERVATIVE ACTION COUNCIL INC C00778506 $10,000 44.9% 1 Jun 15, 2022

Opposing Bruce Poliquin

All 6 shown $6,852,176 total

Itemized rows as published by the FEC on Aug 16, 2026. The summary figures above come from the candidate's own reports through the coverage date.

Organizations ranked by independent spending opposing this candidate
Rank Committee Amount Share Transactions Last activity
1 House Majority PAC C00495028 $4,006,206 58.5% 24 Nov 1, 2022
2 DCCC C00000935 $2,414,717 35.2% 12 Oct 27, 2022
3 CENTER FORWARD COMMITTEE C00568444 $275,000 4.0% 1 Oct 18, 2022
4 CENTER FOR ESSENTIAL INFORMATION C00748798 $85,201 1.2% 3 Oct 8, 2022
5 VoteVets C00418897 $50,896 0.7% 2 Oct 25, 2022
6 Planned Parenthood Votes C00489799 $20,157 0.3% 2 Oct 31, 2022

What that outside spending purchased

Each independent expenditure carries a short description the spending committee wrote, and these categories are those descriptions sorted under taxonomy outside-1.0. Spending supporting Bruce Poliquin and spending opposing them are broken down separately and never combined, and every share below is a share of that one direction's total.

The largest category is usually "Advertising, medium not specified". That is not a leftover: it is spending the committee described only as a media buy or as advertising, without saying whether it aired on television, ran online, or arrived in the mail. MyRepTracker reports what was filed rather than assigning it a medium.

Supporting Bruce Poliquin

Independent spending supporting this candidate, by reported purpose for the 2022 cycle, ranked by amount
Purpose Amount % Share Transactions
Direct mail $12,292 55.1% 1
Broadcast, cable, and radio advertising $10,000 44.9% 1
Classified $22,292 100.0%
Unclassified filing descriptions $0 0.0%
Total independent spending $22,292 100% 2

Opposing Bruce Poliquin

Independent spending opposing this candidate, by reported purpose for the 2022 cycle, ranked by amount
Purpose Amount % Share Transactions
Broadcast, cable, and radio advertising $3,693,881 53.9% 12
Advertising, medium not specified Reported as a media buy or as advertising, with no medium named. $2,702,024 39.4% 15
Digital and online advertising $351,423 5.1% 13
Printed materials and signs $85,201 1.2% 3
Direct mail $19,647 0.3% 1
Classified $6,852,176 100.0%
Unclassified filing descriptions $0 0.0%
Total independent spending $6,852,176 100% 44

Who the committees behind this money were

Every committee here is placed by the registration it filed with the FEC for the 2022 cycle: its designation, its committee type, and the organizational form it reported. That is the FEC's own record and involves no judgement by MyRepTracker, so this covers every itemized dollar. A committee's registration can change between cycles, and each cycle is judged by its own.

Contributed to Bruce Poliquin

Committees itemized $721,500 in contributions to this campaign.

Political committees contributing to this campaign, grouped by who the FEC says runs them in the 2022 cycle, ranked by amount
Kind of committee Amount % Share Committees Transactions
Leadership PACs $437,450 60.6% 131 185
Other candidates' committees $93,900 13.0% 43 63
Non-connected committees $89,150 12.4% 27 36
Trade association PACs $42,000 5.8% 14 17
Corporate PACs $36,000 5.0% 9 12
Membership organization PACs $18,000 2.5% 4 8
Party committees $5,000 0.7% 1 1
Itemized total for this direction $721,500

Spent supporting Bruce Poliquin

Committees itemized $22,292 in independent spending supporting Bruce Poliquin.

Independent spenders supporting this candidate, grouped by who the FEC says runs them in the 2022 cycle, ranked by amount
Kind of committee Amount % Share Committees Transactions
Non-connected committees $22,292 100.0% 2 2
Itemized total for this direction $22,292

Spent opposing Bruce Poliquin

Committees itemized $6,852,176 in independent spending opposing Bruce Poliquin.

Independent spenders opposing this candidate, grouped by who the FEC says runs them in the 2022 cycle, ranked by amount
Kind of committee Amount % Share Committees Transactions
Non-connected committees $4,437,459 64.8% 5 32
Party committees $2,414,717 35.2% 1 12
Itemized total for this direction $6,852,176

What interests those committees advance

The FEC publishes no industry or interest field, so unlike the section above this one is a claim MyRepTracker makes. A committee is placed here only when there is a document behind the claim that a reader can open: its own statement of organization, its own published mission statement, or a named third party. Every assignment carries that document on the committee's own page. A committee's name is never evidence of anything.

Categorized is not the same as reviewed. Most of these sectors were assigned by machine from the committee's own filing rather than read by a person. Each committee's own page says which of the two its assignment is, and names the document behind it either way.

Coverage is partial on purpose, and the part that is not covered is shown at full size rather than left out. Leadership PACs, party committees, and other candidates' committees are excluded outright: their giving is an officeholder's or a party's decision, so no interest label describes it. Categories are taxonomy interest-1.7.

Contributed to Bruce Poliquin

Committees itemized $721,500 in contributions to this campaign. $536,350 of that came from leadership PACs, party committees, and other candidates' committees, which are not interest groups. Of the remaining $185,150, committees categorized as advancing an interest account for $78,500 and committees not yet categorized account for $106,650.

Political committees contributing to this campaign, grouped by the interest they are categorized as advancing in the 2022 cycle, ranked by amount
Interest Amount % Share Committees Transactions
Pro-Republican Party Ideological and single-issue $20,000 10.8% 2 4
Construction Construction $16,000 8.6% 4 4
Food and beverage Agriculture $12,000 6.5% 5 5
Insurance Finance, insurance, and real estate $11,500 6.2% 3 6
Commercial banking Finance, insurance, and real estate $6,000 3.2% 2 2
Oil and gas Energy and natural resources $6,000 3.2% 3 3
Electric utilities Energy and natural resources $2,500 1.4% 1 1
Trucking Transportation $2,500 1.4% 1 1
Real estate Finance, insurance, and real estate $1,000 0.5% 1 1
Securities and investment Finance, insurance, and real estate $1,000 0.5% 1 1
Leadership PACs, party committees, and other candidates' committees Not part of the base the shares beside it are taken over. $536,350 Not applicable 175 249
Committees not yet categorized $106,650 57.6% 31 45
Base the shares are taken over $185,150 100%
Itemized total for this direction $721,500

Spent supporting Bruce Poliquin

Committees itemized $22,292 in independent spending supporting Bruce Poliquin. Of that, committees categorized as advancing an interest account for $0 and committees not yet categorized account for $22,292.

Independent spenders supporting this candidate, grouped by the interest they are categorized as advancing in the 2022 cycle, ranked by amount
Interest Amount % Share Committees Transactions
Committees not yet categorized $22,292 100.0% 2 2
Base the shares are taken over $22,292 100%
Itemized total for this direction $22,292

Spent opposing Bruce Poliquin

Committees itemized $6,852,176 in independent spending opposing Bruce Poliquin. $2,414,717 of that came from leadership PACs, party committees, and other candidates' committees, which are not interest groups. Of the remaining $4,437,459, committees categorized as advancing an interest account for $4,332,102 and committees not yet categorized account for $105,358.

Independent spenders opposing this candidate, grouped by the interest they are categorized as advancing in the 2022 cycle, ranked by amount
Interest Amount % Share Committees Transactions
Pro-Democratic Party Ideological and single-issue $4,006,206 90.3% 1 24
Democracy and election reform Ideological and single-issue $275,000 6.2% 1 1
Veterans Ideological and single-issue $50,896 1.1% 1 2
Leadership PACs, party committees, and other candidates' committees Not part of the base the shares beside it are taken over. $2,414,717 Not applicable 1 12
Committees not yet categorized $105,358 2.4% 2 5
Base the shares are taken over $4,437,459 100%
Itemized total for this direction $6,852,176

Last-minute contributions reported before an election

In the days just before an election, a campaign must tell the FEC within 48 hours about any contribution or loan of $1,000 or more. These notices arrive faster than the regular reporting schedule, and the same money is reported again in the report covering those days. Nothing here is added to receipts: it is a preview of money the ordinary reports will carry, not money beside them.

Reported on notices

$166,600
Across 12 notices, received May 30, 2022 to Nov 4, 2022

Still only provisional

$0
Every notice is now covered by a regular report

The most recent notice was filed on Nov 5, 2022. A notice stops being the only record of its money once a regular report covers the same days; those are marked reconciled below and the amounts appear in Bruce Poliquin's reported totals through the ordinary schedule.

48-hour notices filed for the 2022 cycle, newest first
Filed Amount Entries Covers State Filing
Nov 5, 2022 $19,300 9 Nov 4 to Nov 4, 2022 Covered by a regular report FEC filing ↗
Nov 3, 2022 $16,300 6 Nov 2 to Nov 3, 2022 Covered by a regular report FEC filing ↗
Oct 30, 2022 $5,000 1 Oct 30 to Oct 30, 2022 Covered by a regular report FEC filing ↗
Oct 27, 2022 $28,300 10 Oct 25 to Oct 27, 2022 Covered by a regular report FEC filing ↗
Oct 25, 2022 $10,500 5 Oct 24 to Oct 24, 2022 Covered by a regular report FEC filing ↗
Oct 22, 2022 $8,800 4 Oct 20 to Oct 21, 2022 Covered by a regular report FEC filing ↗
Jun 13, 2022 $4,000 3 Jun 10 to Jun 11, 2022 Covered by a regular report FEC filing ↗
Jun 10, 2022 $24,700 11 Jun 8 to Jun 9, 2022 Covered by a regular report FEC filing ↗
Jun 8, 2022 $22,600 13 Jun 6 to Jun 8, 2022 Covered by a regular report FEC filing ↗
Jun 6, 2022 $2,500 2 Jun 4 to Jun 4, 2022 Covered by a regular report FEC filing ↗

The 10 most recent notices of 12 are listed. The amount and count above cover all of them.

Where the individual money was reported from

Contributions from individuals that the campaign itemized, grouped by the state each contributor gave as their address. Contributions of $200 or less in aggregate are not itemized and carry no address, so they are not here at all. These places account for $2,228,979 of the $2,743,710 this campaign reported from individuals and from transfers by its other authorized committees, across 2,039 itemized contributions.

From Maine

$755,137
33.9% of the itemized money that has a place

From everywhere else

$1,473,842
66.1% of the itemized money that has a place

Money from outside Maine is not money from outside the country, and neither figure is evidence that anything unlawful happened. People may contribute to campaigns in states they do not live in, and United States citizens living abroad may contribute at all.

What kind of place it came from

Itemized individual contributions by kind of place, 2022 cycle
Kind of place Amount Contributions Share
States and the District of ColumbiaContributors who gave an address in one of the fifty states or the District of Columbia. $2,225,979 2,037 99.9%
United States territoriesPuerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands. $3,000 2 0.1%

Places, largest first

Top 10 of 46 places shown as bars. Every place is in the table below.

  • Maine this campaign's state $755,137
  • Florida $317,681
  • Massachusetts $240,270
  • New York $157,817
  • Connecticut $118,950
  • Virginia $84,527
  • Texas $68,926
  • California $66,411
  • District of Columbia $49,250
  • New Jersey $29,100
Every place with itemized individual contributions reported for the 2022 cycle
Place Amount Contributions Share
Maine this campaign's state $755,137 701 33.9%
Florida $317,681 213 14.3%
Massachusetts $240,270 148 10.8%
New York $157,817 86 7.1%
Connecticut $118,950 61 5.3%
Virginia $84,527 99 3.8%
Texas $68,926 85 3.1%
California $66,411 71 3.0%
District of Columbia $49,250 51 2.2%
New Jersey $29,100 32 1.3%
South Carolina $26,961 18 1.2%
New Hampshire $26,400 14 1.2%
Maryland $24,240 65 1.1%
Ohio $22,727 52 1.0%
Indiana $21,300 11 1.0%
Georgia $20,200 21 0.9%
Louisiana $19,341 42 0.9%
Tennessee $18,780 21 0.8%
Arkansas $17,502 9 0.8%
Rhode Island $17,100 7 0.8%
Pennsylvania $16,461 34 0.7%
Illinois $14,600 43 0.7%
Minnesota $11,600 3 0.5%
Montana $10,800 4 0.5%
Alabama $10,300 28 0.5%
Michigan $7,372 19 0.3%
North Carolina $7,250 8 0.3%
Wyoming $6,800 3 0.3%
Kansas $5,800 3 0.3%
Vermont $5,800 3 0.3%
Mississippi $3,550 6 0.2%
Washington $3,493 16 0.2%
Missouri $3,200 2 0.1%
Iowa $3,000 3 0.1%
Virgin Islands $3,000 2 0.1%
Nevada $2,900 1 0.1%
Oregon $2,266 11 0.1%
Nebraska $2,175 8 0.1%
Kentucky $2,025 3 0.1%
Oklahoma $1,702 6 0.1%
New Mexico $1,118 4 0.1%
Utah $416 7 <0.1%
Colorado $250 1 <0.1%
Hawaii $240 9 <0.1%
Arizona $216 4 <0.1%
South Dakota $25 1 <0.1%
Reported with a place $2,228,979 2,039 100%

Contributions are transactions, not people: one contributor giving every month is counted once for each contribution. No contributor's name, address, employer, or occupation is stored or shown anywhere on this site.

How this compares

Compared with U.S. House campaigns in Maine, 2022 cycle: 6 campaigns with a complete Federal Election Commission record for the cycle. This is a position in that group, not a score, a grade, or a judgement about the campaign.

Total receipts

Everything the authorized campaign committee took in for this cycle, including contributions, loans, and transfers.

  • This campaign $3,671,940
  • Cohort median $515,335
Total receipts for this campaign and for U.S. House campaigns in Maine, 2022 cycle
Measure Value
This campaign $3,671,940
Lowest in the cohort-$22
25th percentile$0
Median$515,335
75th percentile$3,671,940
Highest in the cohort$6,068,685
Campaigns counted 6

4 of the 6 campaigns counted reported less than this one, which puts it at the 67th percentile of the cohort. Campaigns reporting the same value sit at the same position.

Share of receipts from political committees

Direct contributions from PACs and other political committees as a share of total receipts. Campaigns reporting no receipts at all have no share and are left out of this measure.

  • This campaign 24.4%
  • Cohort median 12.1%
Share of receipts from political committees for this campaign and for U.S. House campaigns in Maine, 2022 cycle
Measure Value
This campaign 24.4%
Lowest in the cohort0.0%
25th percentile5.5%
Median12.1%
75th percentile24.4%
Highest in the cohort49.4%
Campaigns counted 5

3 of the 5 campaigns counted reported less than this one, which puts it at the 60th percentile of the cohort. Campaigns reporting the same value sit at the same position.

Cash on hand

The balance reported at the end of the coverage period. Campaigns report at different times, so this compares balances as of each campaign's own coverage end.

  • This campaign $105,777
  • Cohort median $21,752
Cash on hand for this campaign and for U.S. House campaigns in Maine, 2022 cycle
Measure Value
This campaign $105,777
Lowest in the cohort$0
25th percentile$0
Median$21,752
75th percentile$105,777
Highest in the cohort$404,275
Campaigns counted 6

4 of the 6 campaigns counted reported less than this one, which puts it at the 67th percentile of the cohort. Campaigns reporting the same value sit at the same position.

Outside spending supporting

Independent expenditures by other organizations supporting the candidate. This money was never received or controlled by the campaign.

  • This campaign $22,292
  • Cohort median $2
Outside spending supporting for this campaign and for U.S. House campaigns in Maine, 2022 cycle
Measure Value
This campaign $22,292
Lowest in the cohort$0
25th percentile$0
Median$2
75th percentile$22,292
Highest in the cohort$3,624,242
Campaigns counted 6

4 of the 6 campaigns counted reported less than this one, which puts it at the 67th percentile of the cohort. Campaigns reporting the same value sit at the same position.

Outside spending opposing

Independent expenditures by other organizations opposing the candidate, not coordinated with any campaign.

  • This campaign $6,852,176
  • Cohort median $0
Outside spending opposing for this campaign and for U.S. House campaigns in Maine, 2022 cycle
Measure Value
This campaign $6,852,176
Lowest in the cohort$0
25th percentile$0
Median$0
75th percentile$5,178,199
Highest in the cohort$6,852,176
Campaigns counted 6

5 of the 6 campaigns counted reported less than this one, which puts it at the 83th percentile of the cohort. Campaigns reporting the same value sit at the same position.

Every comparison is drawn from one two-year cycle and one office. Only campaigns whose FEC record for that cycle is complete are counted; the rest are reported beside the cohort and are never counted as zero. One authorized committee is counted once however many candidacies report it, so where a candidate's committees are all reported by another FEC record, that record supplies the figures for both. A campaign is never compared with another cycle, with a career total, or with a candidate for a different office.

What these numbers mean

Receipts are not the same as contributions
Total receipts include everything the campaign took in, such as contributions, loans, and transfers. Contributions are only the money given by people and committees.
Direct contributions are not outside spending
A direct contribution is money received by the campaign's own authorized committee. An independent expenditure is money another organization spent on its own, without coordinating with the campaign. The Federal Election Commission treats these as different activities, and so does this page.
The organizations named here are political committees
Direct rankings count what one political committee gave to a campaign; outside-spending rankings count what a committee spent independently. A separate conduit section groups individual contributions only when the campaign's memo record supplies a registered conduit committee's FEC ID. It never attributes donors to employers or interest groups, and it never exposes contributor names. Sites using broader attribution rules may therefore report different organization totals.
A cycle may be only partly reported
Filings arrive throughout a two-year cycle. A current cycle shows only what has been filed and processed through the coverage date shown above, so it is not comparable with a finished cycle.
This view is cycle specific
It covers the 2022 two-year cycle only.

Source: Federal Election Commission ↗. MyRepTracker ingests FEC records directly and does not add its own influence, risk, or corruption score.