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

How to read this

Each candidate figure sums every report the Registry files under election year 2026, through the account's latest report; senators with four-year terms can include reports back to 2023. Governor is the only statewide office Tennessee elects in 2026. All candidates the Registry lists for 2026 appear, including people who lost a primary, withdrew or filed nothing. Loans are shown apart and never counted as raised. Ballot-measure committees file scanned forms, and only a few could be read; see their notes.

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: Tennessee Registry of Election Finance, Bureau of Ethics and Campaign Finance, Online Campaign Finance search.

What is not here yet

• Raised counts contributions only, so it can sit far below spending when a campaign runs on loans. David E. Hatley's reports show $3,318.10 raised, $9,052,277.65 spent and $12,000,000.00 in loans, all outstanding on his latest report; John Rose's show $2,073,094.80 raised, $15,445,439.44 spent and $13,749,803.78 in loans. Loans are shown separately and are not money raised; these reports show no repayment of them.
• Spent includes any repayment of loans the report lists. No governor's account reports a loan repayment, so no governor's spent figure includes one; loan_payments leaves out loans a report marks as written off, because no money was paid.
• Trenton Strode appears twice in the Registry's candidate search, for Senate District 15 and for House District 42, under one account (ID 11821) with the same reports, so the same money shows on both rows. It is not added together; the candidate list has him on the ballot for House District 42.
• Ballot-measure committees: the Registry posts their reports as scanned PDFs on its Registered Referendum Committees page, and tn.gov refused many workspace requests (HTTP 403). Saved and read: Tennesseans Protecting Tennessee 3rd quarter, Yes on 2 1st quarter, Marsy's Law 2nd quarter, plus two treasurer forms. Not read: Yes on 2 year-end, 2nd and 3rd quarter; Marsy's Law year-end, 1st and 3rd quarter; treasurer forms for Tennesseans Protecting Tennessee and Vote Yes on 1. The figures shown for Yes on 2 and Marsy's Law are therefore old and for one period only.
• No pre-referendum report (through Oct. 24, 2026) appears on the Registry's page for any committee on the three amendments as of Nov. 8, 2026.
• The Registry's page was read through a web reader and not saved, because direct requests were refused. Its layout nests some committees under another committee's heading; committees were matched to amendments from their own forms where read.
• Vote Yes on 1 has no financial report on the Registry's page. Its side comes from its name. Tennesseans Protecting Tennessee's form does not say for or against Amendment 1, so no side is given.
• Amendment 3 (crime victims' rights) and the Marsy's Law committee are matched by subject, since the committee's form gives no amendment number. Amendment numbers were checked against a news report because the Secretary of State's site could not be opened; the official text was not read.
• Other filers' spending on the amendments (PACs, tax-exempt groups, individuals) was not searched. The Registry's PAC search has no field linking a PAC to a measure.
• Registry filing-date PDF and PAC page were read, not saved (direct requests refused). The Registry's 2026 campaign finance summary page could not be opened at all; its contents are not used.
• The candidate search reports Registry-assigned account IDs; legislative candidates' November ballot status is not set here, because the state's candidate lists could not be opened (see data/tn/elections-2026/candidates.json). Governor ballot status comes from the national candidate data.
• Accounts in the Registry search with no 2026 report are listed in accounts_with_no_2026_report; that shows only what the Registry shows on Nov. 8, 2026.
• Some reports display only beginning balance, loans and ending balance, with no contribution or expenditure totals. Those reports add nothing to raised or spent, so affected accounts (reports_without_totals above 0) are understated, and accounts made up only of such reports show blank figures rather than $0.
• Two accounts have a report whose beginning balance differs from the prior report's ending balance (listed in checks.mismatches: Lindsey Patrick-Wright, Ron Travis). Figures are shown as filed; no reason was looked up.
• Reports filed by hand may be posted late; figures are what the search displayed on the pull date.

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