Texas Campaign Finance Transaction Records

Individual campaign finance transactions reported to the Texas Ethics Commission. Each row details a filer's transaction, which can be a loan, expenditure, credit, pledge, or contribution. The data is provided by the City of Austin and was last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze expenditure patterns across different filers to identify major spending categories.
• Track contribution sources and amounts to map financial support for campaigns.
• Model the distribution of transaction types, such as loans versus pledges, for financial disclosure audits.
• Identify filers with high volumes of credit transactions to assess campaign debt structures.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from official Texas Ethics Commission C/OH forms, ensuring regulatory compliance.
• Includes multiple transaction types: loans, expenditures, credits, pledges, and contributions.
• Maintained and updated by the City of Austin, a government organization.

Limitations

• The specific number of rows and columns is unknown, limiting assessment of scale and feature depth.
• Data may be incomplete if filers have not submitted required reports to the Commission.

Provenance

Source

Texas Ethics Commission C/OH forms, aggregated by the City of Austin.

Collection Method

Reported by individual political filers as required by state law.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

State of Texas, United States.