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1 The receipt and expenditure amounts listed in this tabulation were obtained from the secreta
2 Northern California Finance Committee.

The absence of data covering expenditures of the major parties in a number of States results
4 This amount was estimated by the party State campaign committee chairman.
This amount represents consolidated expenditures by State and county campaign commit
S. Rept. 151, 75-1 (Face p. 27)

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points out, however, that receipts and expenditures in those States listed as not reporting are comparatively small, except, perhaps, in one or two instances, such as Illinois, and a fair estimate can be obtained from the figures presented of the volume of State expenditures. In the tabulation presented, contributions from and to national committees are shown where obtainable. These amounts, of course, appear in the receipts and expenditures of such national committees and would represent duplications in any consolidated totals of such expenditures. (The tabulation referred to above is on the folder facing this page.)

GENERAL SUMMARY

Summary of receipts and expenditures of national committees, State and miscellaneous

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1 These totals include a number of duplications of receipts and disbursements and are therefore somewhat larger than the actual amounts received and expended. State committees gave sums to national committees and vice versa. This injected an element of duplication which it was impossible for the committee fully to eliminate because of the lack of uniformity of accounting methods. There is no accounting practice in the United States today which presents so many complexities arising from lack of uniformity and completeness as that of political organizations.

COMMENTARY ON TOTALS AND COST PER VOTE

Using the above totals, without any attempt at deductions on account of duplications, it will be observed that the parties now operating in two or more States, and therefore required to file under the Corrupt Practices Act, expended a total of $14,841,530.04, for all purposes. The total number of popular votes cast for Presidential candidates of all parties was 45,646,817. The average expenditure per vote cast by national parties was $0.325.

The total expenditures by all State committees reporting was $7,876,533.74. On the basis of 45,646,817 votes cast for Presidential candidates of all parties the average expenditure per vote cast by the State committees was $0.17.

The miscellaneous political organizations listed expended a total of $1,255,266.04, which was an average expenditure per vote cast of $0.027.

By combining the figures of all political organizations reporting under the Corrupt Practices Act, the State committees, and the miscellaneous committees, the total receipts amount to $22,541,185.11, and total expenditures $23,973,329.82. The average expenditure per vote cast for Presidential candidates was $0.525.

The committee desires to state again that the total expenditures made by the national and State organizations as outlined above are not presented as representing the total or approximate total of all

expenditures during the past national campaign. They represent only those which the committee was able to obtain under the inadequate accounting procedure required by present statutes of those engaging in political activities, and because of the inability of the committee to compel full accounting in some cases without issuance of subpena, to which extent it did not go.

The tabulations do not include the tremendous volume of expenditures made in behalf of individual candidates by organizations created specifically for that purpose, nor by personal friends and interested supporters of such candidates. They do not include nor represent that vast body of expenditures made by organizations within individual State borders, especially created for a particular campaign and a definite purpose. Nor do these listed expenditures represent the mass of county and precinct expenditures by local politically-minded citizens and organizations.

The committee has exerted itself to collect and tabulate only such expenditures which present statutes, and its authority under Senate Resolution 225, could force into the open and make available to the public. It has done this to indicate to the Congress and our citizens generally what vast sums are expended in political campaigns, with the implications flowing therefrom.

The committee points out also that under its authority it could give no consideration to receipts and expenditures in congressional districts, which is within the province of the Special Committee to Investigate Campaign Expenditures in the House of Representatives. However, the total expenditures by State and national committees do include the amounts spent by these organizations in behalf of congressional candidates. The expenditures not accounted for would be those by the congressional committees, by the individual candidates themselves, and by committees organized personally in their behalf.

If the committee might venture an approximation of the total cost of the election of 1936, it would indicate a figure relatively double the sum which it has tabulated and presented. This takes into consideration all of the factors referred to above, and also certain assumptions based on experience of the committee during its inquiries and in handling its investigations and statistical program. Among these assumptions is that grounded in the knowledge that much money is handed from person to person in campaigns and never accounted for. There is no way of estimating the number of these cash transactions and the amounts of money involved. Whatever assumptions are made on that basis alone can only be guesses based on long political experience where actual cases have come to light.

COMPARISON OF TOTAL EXPENDITURES BY PARTIES

The previous summary combined the receipts and expenditures in three groups, viz, (1) national parties, (2) State committees, and (3) miscellaneous political organizations.

In the following compilation we combine the total receipts and expenditures of each national party with those of the same party in all of the States. Thus the total disbursement of the Republican organization through its national and State committees and miscellaneous organizations (but not including funds of county political units or others not reporting) was $14,198,202.92.

The following tabulation presents comparisons for leading parties in like manner:

Total receipts and expenditures of the various parties, campaign of 1936

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Expenditure per vote.-The Republican vote for Presidential electors was 16,679,583. The tabulated expenditure of $14,198,202.92 during the last campaign represents $0.85 per vote cast.

The Democratic vote for Presidential electors was 27,476,673. The tabulated expenditure of $9,228,406.85 during the last campaign represents $0.332 per vote cast.

The Socialist vote for Presidential electors during the past campaign was 187,720. The tabulated expenditure of $37,635.89 represents $0.20 per vote cast.

The Communist vote for Presidential electors during the past campaign was 80,159. The tabulated expenditures of $270,489.40 represents $3.37 per vote. The amount listed as expended represents the total cost of the Communist Party's organization as well as campaign work during the year 1936.

The Union Party vote for Presidential electcrs was 882,479. The tabulated expenditure of $94,742.07 during the past campaign represents $0.11 per vote cast.

INDIVIDUAL REPORTS OF CANDIDATES

Inasmuch as Senate Resolution 225 gave the committee jurisdiction over all Presidential, Vice Presidential, and senatorial candidates, the committee requested all such candidates to file expenditure reports periodically, and required all such candidates to file such periodic reports after their nomination. This perhaps is the first time any Senate committee has ever required Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates to file personal returns. Although senatorial candidates have previously been required to file with special expenditures committees, this committee endeavored to obtain more complete information, as shown by the following reports, which group the candidates alphabetically and also by States, and furnishes the nature of their expenditures, total votes received, and other information of special interest:

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