Affiliation between state and local party committees

A state party committee and the registered local party committees within that state are presumed to be affiliated. That is, all contributions received and made by local party committees count against the state committee’s limits. This means that the state committee and local committees together may receive a maximum of $10,000 per calendar year from any one individual or non-multicandidate committee contributor. Similarly, the state committee and local committees together may not contribute more than $5,000 to a candidate per election, assuming the state party committee has qualified as a multicandidate committee. Visit the Commission’s Affiliation between party committees page for more information.