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2026 federal candidate record

Sandra Van Scotter

California U.S. House District 20

Democratic Party

Sandra Van Scotter was on the ballot for California U.S. House District 20 on November 3, 2026, according to the state’s official candidate list. The campaign-finance records below come from FEC filings.

On the November ballot · Challenger · FEC H6CA20228

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November 3 election heldSee reported results for California Totals come from California’s election authority and stay unofficial until certified.
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On the November ballot · Official November list ↗ · checked 2026-10-15

Direct answer · 2025–2026 cycle

How much has Sandra Van Scotter raised?

$47,739.09 in total campaign receipts.

$28,513.33 is reported as individual contributions. Total receipts can also include transfers, offsets, loans, and other FEC receipt categories, so it is broader than donations alone.

Total receipts
$47,739
Total spending
$42,429
Cash on hand
-$1,680

Through · Last successful import

Negative cash balance reported in the FEC summary; see source filing.

Official sourceFederal Election Commission · data through .

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Filing-driven activity & election calendar

Sandra Van Scotter 2026 timeline

REAL DATES

This chronology combines dated FEC filing coverage with the official 2026 congressional election calendar. It does not predict qualification, outcomes, or whether a conditional runoff will occur.

Scheduled primary election

Congressional primary date listed in the FEC's 2026 calendar.

Official election schedule · schedule subject to change
Latest included campaign summary

End date of the candidate financial summary in Election.org's current FEC bulk-data release.

FEC · included source coverage
Federal general election

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Official election schedule · schedule subject to change

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Campaign finance details
Campaign money

Sandra Van Scotter campaign finance details

FEC BULK DATA
2025–2026 federal-cycle totals through October 14, 2026.
MetricReported amountWhat it means
Total receipts$47,739.09All campaign receipts reported in the FEC summary, not only individual donations.
Individual contributions$28,513.33Contributions reported in the FEC individual-contribution category.
Candidate contributions$9,906.96Contributions from the candidate in the summary record.
Total disbursements$42,428.82Campaign spending and other disbursements reported for the cycle.
Cash on hand-$1,680.31Reported campaign cash remaining at the end of the covered period.
Debts owed by campaign$1,479.46Outstanding debts the campaign reported owing.
Net cash after reported debt-$3,159.77Election.org calculation: cash on hand minus debts owed by the campaign.

Dollar amounts preserve the cents in the FEC record. These figures are campaign-finance totals, not personal wealth, polling, odds, endorsements, or Election.org scores.

Campaign money graph
Money graph · dates, geography, and operating expenditures

How money moved through Sandra Van Scotter

FEC ITEMIZED FILES

These panels show privacy-thresholded itemized individual-receipt activity and amendment-normalized operating expenditures. They are descriptive slices of filings—not a complete substitute for the official financial summary.

Where itemized contributor addresses were reported

State is taken from the contributor address on the FEC row. It does not prove residence, citizenship, employer location, or the ultimate economic source of funds.

0.0% of published positive state-cell amounts outside California
California6 distinct reported contributors · 7 rows$1,745.00100.0%

Only committee/state groups with at least 5 distinct reported contributors are published. Percentages divide by the sum of all positive published, privacy-thresholded committee/state cells, including cells beyond the top 12 shown. Zero and negative state cells are excluded from this denominator; these shares do not describe all contributions or all campaign receipts.

Source: FEC individual-contributions bulk file ↗, imported .

Reported operating-expenditure categories

FEC filer-selected categories from Schedule B operating expenditures. Memo-code X rows are excluded because the FEC says they are not included in the itemization total.

4 published categories
Solicitation and Fundraising Expenses1 current organization-payment row$3,500.00
Travel Expenses33 current organization-payment rows$1,620.35
Administrative/Salary/Overhead Expenses2 current organization-payment rows$1,253.00
Campaign Materials1 current organization-payment row$399.71

Top organization payees in operating expenditures

Organization payees only. Election.org excludes individual payees and conservatively normalizes names; similar names are not asserted to be one legal entity.

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Sole Strategies1 current itemized payment · latest 2026-05-27
$3,500.00
Love S 39233 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-30
$1,620.35
La Cresta Demographics1 current itemized payment · latest 2026-05-12
$1,000.00
Print Dirt Cheap1 current itemized payment · latest 2026-06-30
$399.71
Greater Tehachapi Chamber Of Commerce1 current itemized payment · latest 2026-06-22
$253.00

Source: FEC operating expenditures bulk file, checked 2026-10-16. These totals cover published current organization-payment rows after amendment normalization and are not equivalent to the committee’s total disbursements.

Calculated financial context
Transparent calculations

What the reported totals show

59.7%Individual-contribution shareIndividual contributions ÷ total receipts
88.9%Spending-to-receipts ratioTotal disbursements ÷ total receipts
-$3,159.77Net cash after debtCash on hand − debts owed by campaign

These are Election.org calculations from the displayed FEC totals, included to make the filing easier to understand. They are descriptive, not a score or comparison.

Official filing details
Official record

Candidate filing details

2026 CYCLE
Candidate
Sandra Van Scotter
Office sought
U.S. House — California District 20
Party affiliation
Democratic Party
Incumbency
Challenger
Candidate status
Current candidate
Principal committee
SANDRA VAN SCOTTER FOR CONGRESS →
FEC candidate ID
H6CA20228
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Source & freshness

SourceFederal Election Commission ↗

Cycle2025–2026

Finance throughOctober 14, 2026

Dataset checkedOctober 29, 2026

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