Christopher Murphy

Democrat U.S. Senate · CT · cycle 2024 · data as of 2026-11-02 · 2026 races in CT

94.7%

Direct-contributionshare

Aggregate-only · no individual donor names on the card

What the money says

Plain language · cited

Raised $12,786,118 in the 2024 cycle. FEC ↗ Placed at approximately the 53rd percentile among other U.S. Senate members this cycle.

29% of individual money came from small-dollar donors under $200. PACs supplied 0.4% of contributions. FEC ↗

Direct contributions — individuals, PACs, and party — make up 94.7% 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

PACs supplied 0.4% of contributions here — a smaller PAC share than most campaigns in the U.S. Senate.

Funding profile

Unweighted · never a blended score

Small-donor (grassroots) share29%

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 size43.5%

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 contributions0.4%

Committee & JFC transfer share2.1%

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 share52.4%

Share of itemized individual dollars from in-state donors — unitemized (<$200) contributions have no state breakdown.

Top-20 donor concentration2.6%

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

29%

71%

Small-dollar under $200Itemized $200+

All contributions

Individuals vs. political action committees

99.6%

0.4%

IndividualsPACs

Funding mix & position over time

Across every election cycle on record

Small-dollar share up from 16.7% (2006) to 66.9% (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

2006 16.7%2008 10.5%2010 12.7%2012 15.5%2014 23.3%2016 32.3%2018 31.6%2020 60.5%2022 32.6%2024 29%2026 66.9%

Direct-contribution share

2006 99.5%2008 97.3%2010 99.6%2012 97.6%2014 96.7%2016 99.8%2018 96.8%2020 88.9%2022 100%2024 94.7%2026 92.2%

PAC share of contributions

2006 22.5%2008 34.2%2010 33.6%2012 16.5%2014 23.2%2016 13.4%2018 11.4%2020 0.2%2022 0.4%2024 0.4%2026 0%

Cash on hand

2006 $51K2008 $75K2010 $30K2012 $107K2014 $106K2016 $1.1M2018 $4.8M2020 $4.8M2022 $3.9M2024 $5.5M2026 $11.5M

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 Appropriations

Minority

Senate Committee on Appropriations — Department of Defense

Minority

Senate Committee on Appropriations — Department of Homeland Security

Ranking Member

Senate Committee on Appropriations — Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies

Minority

Senate Committee on Appropriations — State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs

Minority

Senate Committee on Appropriations — Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies

Minority

Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

Minority

Senate Committee on Foreign Relations — Europe and Regional Security Cooperation

Ranking Member

Senate Committee on Foreign Relations — Near East, South Asia, Central Asia, and Counterterrorism

Minority

Senate Committee on Foreign Relations — Western Hemisphere, Transnational Crime, Civilian Security, Democracy, Human Rights, and Global Women's Issues

Minority

Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

Minority

Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions — Employment and Workplace Safety

Minority

Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions — Primary Health and Retirement Security

Minority

Outside spending

Separate FEC filings · not counted above

Outside groups reported $170 in independent expenditures naming this candidate this cycle: $170 supporting, $0 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 ↗

MOVEON.ORG POLITICAL ACTION FEC ↗

$160 supporting

SIERRA CLUB INDEPENDENT ACTION FEC ↗

$10 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.