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Ben Ray Luján

Democrat U.S. Senate · NM · cycle 2020 · data as of 2026-11-02 · 2026 races in NM
94.9%
Direct-contributionshare
Aggregate-only · no individual donor names on the card

What the money says

Plain language · cited

Raised $9,295,578 in the 2020 cycle. FEC ↗ Placed at approximately the 48th percentile among other U.S. Senate members this cycle.

35.1% of individual money came from small-dollar donors under $200. PACs supplied 15.5% of contributions. FEC ↗

Direct contributions — individuals, PACs, and party — make up 94.9% of receipts (excluding self-funding and loans); the rest is transfers from other committees and other receipts, also disclosed. FEC ↗

Auto-generated from the data above

Funding is spread across individual and committee sources, with no single category standing out from the rest of the U.S. Senate.

Funding profile

Unweighted · never a blended score
Small-donor (grassroots) share35.1%
From the unitemized (sub-$200) total, which reconciles exactly against FEC's individual-contribution figure. Small gifts that ActBlue/WinRed itemize aren't counted here — see the size-based measure below.
Small-dollar by transaction size47.7%
Share of itemized + unitemized contributions received in individual transactions under $200 (FEC schedule_a/by_size), counting each gift by its own amount — so it captures small repeat donors the unitemized field hides. Its denominator is raw itemized receipts, so it reads conservatively.
PAC share of contributions15.5%
Committee & JFC transfer share4.9%
Share of receipts (excluding self-funding and loans) that arrived as transfers from joint-fundraising and other authorized committees rather than direct contributions — reported in the sending committees’ filings, never undisclosed “dark” money. This bar is the transfer component only, not the whole non-direct remainder — a determined 0% means no transfer receipts (other complement receipts such as offsets may still exist); “—” means no external receipts to decompose.
In-state contributor share26.5%
Share of itemized individual dollars from in-state donors — unitemized (<$200) contributions have no state breakdown.
Top-20 donor concentration2.9%
Share from the 20 largest individual donors this 2-year period, by exact name — a neutral concentration measure, approximate (recurring small-dollar donors may be undercounted), not a score.

How the money splits

Exact, from FEC aggregates

Individual contributions

Small-dollar (<$200) vs. larger itemized giving
35.1%
64.9%
Small-dollar under $200Itemized $200+

All contributions

Individuals vs. political action committees
84.5%
15.5%
IndividualsPACs

Funding mix & position over time

Across every election cycle on record

Small-dollar share up from 7.3% (2008) to 39.8% (2026) A cycle with too little reported money to trust any ratio is left out entirely; a cycle where one specific figure can't be computed (e.g. an all-itemizing committee has no small-dollar figure to read) is left out of just that line. Includes cycles run for a different chamber.

Small-dollar share
2008 7.3%2010 14.1%2012 10.2%2014 7.9%2016 11.3%2018 15%2020 35.1%2022 28.6%2024 24.2%2026 39.8%
Direct-contribution share
2008 99.8%2010 97%2012 99.9%2014 99.5%2016 99.9%2018 98.8%2020 94.9%2022 94.7%2024 98.2%2026 82.6%
PAC share of contributions
2008 28.4%2010 47.5%2012 53%2014 63.3%2016 67.5%2018 69.2%2020 15.5%2022 12.5%2024 20%2026 37.4%
Cash on hand
2008 $50K2010 $57K2012 $314K2014 $537K2016 $769K2018 $381K2020 $79K2022 $584K2024 $1.2M2026 $4.4M

Committee assignments

congress-legislators (CC0)

Current committee and subcommittee seats, from the public congressional record. Listed independently of the funding figures on this page — a committee seat is not evidence of why any contribution was made.

Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Minority
Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry — Conservation, Forestry, Natural Resources, and Biotechnology
Minority
Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry — Food and Nutrition, Specialty Crops, Organics, and Research
Ranking Member
Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry — Rural Development, Energy, and Credit
Minority
Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Minority
Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation — Telecommunications and Media
Ranking Member
Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation — Consumer Protection, Technology, and Data Privacy
Minority
Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation — Surface Transportation, Freight, Pipelines, and Safety
Minority
Senate Committee on Finance
Minority
Senate Committee on Finance — Energy, Natural Resources, and Infrastructure
Minority
Senate Committee on Finance — Health Care
Minority
Senate Committee on Finance — Taxation and IRS Oversight
Minority
Senate Committee on Indian Affairs
Minority
Senate Committee on the Budget
Minority
United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control
Minority

Outside spending

Separate FEC filings · not counted above

Outside groups reported $1.9M in independent expenditures naming this candidate this cycle: $1.5M supporting, $404K opposing (FEC Schedule E). These are filed by the groups themselves, not this candidate's committee, and are not part of the receipts above. FEC ↗

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS CONGRESSIONAL FUND FEC ↗
$1.5M supporting
COMMON SENSE NEW MEXICO FEC ↗
$404K opposing
DREAMS IN ACTION NM FEC ↗
$13K supporting
INDIVISIBLE ACTION FEC ↗
$12K supporting
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE FEC ↗
$11K supporting

Individual-donor detail

Held for the deep-table phase. v1 shows aggregate figures only — by design, not by omission.
NameCity / StateEmployerOccupationAmountDateStreet addressPhone

Statutory notice. When individual detail ships, street address and phone are never shown, and the data may not be used to solicit contributions or for any commercial purpose (52 U.S.C. §30111(a)(4)). Named individuals appear only here in the deep table — never on a shareable card — each with a match-confidence indicator.