Campaign Contributions in Prosecutorial Elections, 2014-2017

This dataset record contains the Database of Campaign Contributions in Prosecutorial Elections, which is intended as a resource for the study of campaign finance in the election of state and local prosecutors. The database identifies the candidates who ran for local or state-wide prosecutorial office. It also identifies who contributed to prosecutor elections and the amount of their donations. Campaign contribution information is often publicly available, but the format of that information varies from state to state, the information is often scattered across multiple sources and the information is sometimes incomplete. This single nationwide database will allow sustained study about who contributes to prosecutor campaigns and the amount of contributions. The database was created by the Prosecutors and Politics Project at the University of North Carolina School of Law. The Politics and Prosecutors Project is a non-partisan initiative that studies elected prosecutors in the United States. Creating the database required the collection, compilation, and analysis from many state and county sources. The resulting database includes records of elections from 2014-2017 in each state that elects either an Attorney General or local prosecutors, as well as records of hundreds of thousands of distinct contributions to their campaigns. The creation of the Database of Campaign Contributions in Prosecutorial Elections was made possible by a generous gift from the Vital Projects Fund, Inc.