Ohio State Board of Elections Contributions Database

Source Information


The Ohio Secretary of State maintains a database of contributions, expenditures and loans for Statewide candidates and PACs, state political parties, General Assembly candidates and legislative campaign funds. The database is searchable online. The Secretary of State site also has lots of other helpful information like tables outlining contribution limits.


The CFIC thanks Curtis Mayhew of the Ohio Secretary of State's office for his help with this data set.

Database Information


Ohio Secretary of State -- contributions from 1990 to 1998.
Posted 11/16/98

This database contains information on contributions to statewide candidates, as well as candidates running for House and Senate seats. There are 1,389,707 records covering races from January 1990 through December 1997.
There are 18 dbf tables, six each for Candidates, PACs, and Party Commitees.
  • Download data (48MB zipped, expands to 525 MB)
  • For faxed copies of the record layouts (paper only) email us at cfic-l@campaignfinance.org


    • The Ohio Citizen Action's 1990-1996 Database


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    FEC Data
    OhioFEC, provided by American University, lists individual contributions to all Ohio Congressional candidates. Visit the American University Campaign Finance site for FEC data analysis, contributions from PACS, and contributions broken down by senate/house candidate.

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