{"id":480,"date":"2019-12-02T22:12:45","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T22:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/maryland\/?post_type=resource&p=480"},"modified":"2024-06-04T23:39:22","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T23:39:22","slug":"campaigns-in-maryland-does-it-still-cost-a-lot-to-win","status":"publish","type":"resource","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/maryland\/resources\/campaigns-in-maryland-does-it-still-cost-a-lot-to-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Campaigns in Maryland: Does it Still Cost a lot to Win?"},"template":"","class_list":["post-480","resource","type-resource","status-publish","hentry","resource_type-report"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"Common Cause Maryland has analyzed legislative candidates\u2019 fundraising totals from the 2018 election cycle. This report is a sequel to our report \u201cCampaigns in Maryland: An Analysis of Fundraising by Winning State Legislators, 2011-2014.\u201d","featured_image":"","resource_type":259,"authors":"","related_issues":[92,444],"related_work":false,"location":23},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":true,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":"","name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":[{"file_download":true,"link":null,"file":17042}]}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"From the years 2015-2018, Senators, on average, received a contribution total of $266,000.00. This amount of contributions was a slight decrease from the 2014 election cycle, but it is still a significant amount of money raised for state senate seats on average. Delegates received an average contribution total of $125,499.00, which is a 64% increase from the 2014 election where the average amount fundraised was $79,878.00.\r\n\r\n\"\"\"\"\r\n\r\nMost of the trends from the 2014 election cycle were present in the 2018 election cycle, including the county and region having a correlation with the amount that candidates were fundraising. Also, there were various candidates self-funding parts of their campaigns in small and large amounts. Overall, a consistent trend is the rise in cost of elections.\r\n\r\nBradford produced the report by using the state\u2019s campaign finance database to gather each winning candidate\u2019s total contributions from January 2015 through December 2018. 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