Gubernatorial Funding Sources: 2001-2025

Where do gubernatorial candidates get their money? A look at Republican and Democratic nominees for governor in recent years shows the main categories of campaign donations through June of each election year.

Sources: VPAP Research and Campaign Finance Reports on file with the Virginia Department of Elections

Methodology: Includes itemized cash and in-kind contributions made to a gubernatorial candidate's primary campaign committee. Contributions are for four year cycles starting three years preceding the election year through June 30th of the election year. Excluded are in-kind mail contributions from state party or caucus committees.

A donor can fit into only one category. Those categories are defined as the following:

• Single Interest: Labor unions and single-interest groups
• Business Donors: Companies, business trade groups that lobby state legislature
• Partisan: Party, candidate and partisan activist committees
• Virginia: Donors from Virginia that are not included in other categories
• Out of State: Donors from outside Virginia that are not included in other categories