Who raised what, from the state’s own filings.

How to read this

Figures come from the campaign finance reports filed with the Idaho Secretary of State through its Sunshine portal (sunshine.voteidaho.gov), which holds all reports filed since Dec. 20, 2023. Candidates running in 2026, and political committees giving to 2026 candidates or measures, file monthly reports due the 10th of the next month. Each account uses its latest monthly report; for every account here that is the September report, covering Sept. 1 to Sept. 30, 2026 (due Oct. 10). Each figure is for that one month only. It is never a total for the campaign, and periods are not added together; the report's own election-cycle (candidates) or year-to-date (committees) column is kept separately in 'to_date' for statewide accounts. 'Raised' is line 2 of the report's Summary Page, total contributions: itemized and unitemized contributions, in-kind contributions, interest and anonymous contributions, less returned contributions. Loans are line 3 and are never in 'raised'. 'Spent' is line 5, total expenditures, which includes in-kind expenditures and loan and debt payments; independent expenditures and electioneering communications (line 4) are kept apart. 'Cash on hand' is line 6, the ending cash balance. Statewide candidates and measure committees are read from the report PDF; legislative candidates from the Financial Summary panel of each Sunshine profile, which shows the same figures (it matched the PDF for every statewide account). Statewide offices on the 2026 ballot: governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, state controller, state treasurer, attorney general and superintendent of public instruction; candidates are every approved general election candidate on the Secretary of State's 2026 General list, names as listed there. Measure committees are the political committees whose own expenditure records tag a 2026 statewide measure with a support or oppose stance; Idaho's committee registration form names no measure.

Raised, spent and cash on hand are different measures from the same reports and are never added together. Loans are shown on their own and are not counted as money raised. Periods differ between accounts when committees file on different schedules.

Source: Idaho Secretary of State, Sunshine campaign finance portal.

What is not here yet

• Every figure covers one month (through 2026-09-30). Activity since then appears so far only in 48-hour reports of contributions of $1,000 or more (Timed Contribution Reports, listed in the saved report lists but not used); the October report (Oct. 1-31) is due Nov. 10, 2026, after the Nov. 3 election.
• Campaign-to-date totals were not computed by adding reports. The statewide accounts carry the report's own election-cycle-to-date (candidates) or year-to-date (committees) column in 'to_date'; legislative accounts do not, because their report PDFs were not saved.
• Legislative candidates' figures were read from the Financial Summary panel of each Sunshine profile (saved JSON), not from the report PDFs, which were not saved for them (except four whose panel described a no-activity report filed ahead for a later month; their September report PDFs were saved and read). For all 30 statewide and committee accounts the panel and the PDF agree.
• Committees for or against the 2026 measures are identified from the measure tag on their own expenditure records. Idaho's political committee registration form (Political Treasurer Appointment & Certification) names no measure, so a committee that has not yet reported spending tagged to a measure, or tagged it differently, would not be found this way. For example, Idaho Students for Life Ballot PAC (filer 3936) reports 2026 expenditures but tags none of them to a measure; what it works on was not asked.
• No political committee tags spending to HJR 6 or to the advisory question on House Bill 932; HJR 6 is tagged only by party central committees (see other_measure_spending). Spending on the measures by committees that did not tag it, and by groups that report outside Sunshine, is not yet checked.
• Several committees with measure-tagged spending (for example Citizens Alliance of Idaho PAC, Senate Republican PAC of Idaho and the Idaho Farm Bureau Federation PAC) are general political committees; their figures cover all of their activity, not only the measure.
• Kevin A Jones (state treasurer) has two 2026 Sunshine registrations; the active one (filer 2276) is used. Both showed no money raised or spent.
• Sunshine's API (api-sunshine.voteidaho.gov, behind Cloudflare) refuses requests sent with a script's default user agent (Cloudflare error 1010). All pulls used curl with the browser user agent the shared brief specifies for every pull; no CAPTCHA, challenge page or rate limit was met. The editor may want to confirm this is acceptable.
• The legacy Sunshine site (sunshine.sos.idaho.gov), which holds data from the system used before Dec. 2023, was not used for figures; when opened on Oct. 27, 2026 (read, not saved) its page data gave a database update time of 2026-08-16 and its candidate list lacked several 2026 general election candidates (for example Lori Hickman and Rakesh Mohan).
• Complaints, late-filing fees and Secretary of State actions involving these candidates and committees are not yet checked.
• Independent expenditures by other filers for or against the statewide candidates are not summarized here (they are in the saved bulk expenditure files).

Gaps in the campaign finance records as of the date checked.