The total amount raised by all six Democratic candidates combined in the third quarter of 2015 was $123.2 million (or an average of $20.53 million per candidate). For the 15 Republican candidates, it was $143.5 million (or an average of $9.57 million per candidate.
Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders raised more money (donated directly to their campaigns, and subject to giving limits) than any other candidates of either party. Clinton raised $29.5 million, and Sanders raised $26.2 million. The Democrat raising the least amount of money was Chafee (with only about $0.02 million).
Most of the donations to both were from small donors (giving $200 or less). The Democrat raising the least amount of money was Chafee (with only about $0.02 million). Clinton raised $27.1 from individuals, while Sanders raised $26.2 million from individuals.
Ben Carson was third with $20.8 million in 3rd quarter donations. Jeb Bush (with $13.4 million) and Ted Cruz (with $12.2 million) were fourth and fifth, and the only other candidates to reach double-figure millions in donations. The Republican raising the least amount of money was Gilmore (with only $0.01million).
The Republican candidates struggled to appeal to small donors. Carson and Cruz led the others -- with Carson getting 60% of his money from small donors, and Cruz getting 44% from small donors. Fiorina got nearly half of her donations from small donors, but only raised $6.8 million. Jeb Bush got only 6.5% of his donations from small donors.
The money raised by all the candidates is represented in the chart above.
But while the Republicans lag behind in donations to individual campaigns (and in the percentage of donations from small donors), they have a huge lead in the amount of money collected by super-PAC's and other outside sources. Those outside sources won't have to report again until January of 2016, but by mid-year, a whopping $234 million was given to support Republicans while only $17 million was to support Democrats.
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