CARTER, COLE

DemocraticFEC reportedDemocratic candidate · U.S. House · Pennsylvania · District 3 · Election 2026 · Open seatH6PA03237

Overview

Raised: $95.9K
Spent: $84.7K
Cash on hand: $11.2K
Debts owed: $0

OpenFEC processed candidate totals through Dec 31, 2025, across every authorized committee; figures change when amended reports are filed.

Raised is total receipts and Spent is total disbursements as reported for the candidate's authorized committees together; both can include transfers, loans and refunds. Cash on hand and debts are the balances at the end of the last report. The comparison is the same figure for 2023–2024.

Race forecast

Rating: Safe D
Predicted margin: D+83.8

VotePredictor forecasts this race as of November 12, 2026, giving the Democrat a 99% chance. Cole Carter is not one of the two candidates it forecasts. No polls of the race: based on the district's lean, incumbency and the national environment, with published race ratings.

The Democrat’s chance of winning

Data

Date	Chance of winning
Sep 25, 2026	99%
Nov 12, 2026	99%

As VotePredictor published it each day since September 25, 2026, including changes to its model.

Forecast by VotePredictor , updated daily. Its probabilities stay between 1% and 99%; no race is called before it is decided.

Compliance review indicators

2 open

Automated review indicators, not findings of a violation. Exact reported records are linked; identity is not independently verified. Reported lobbyist-bundling disclosures are not counted as issues.

Latest cycle-wide scan: Nov 5, 2026 · Index refreshed: Nov 5, 2026. Coverage is limited to loaded records and implemented checks.

Scan coverage and freshness

Receipt eligibility: last successful scan Nov 5, 2026 · latest scheduled check skipped (Nov 5, 2026).
Integrity: last successful scan Nov 5, 2026 · latest scheduled check succeeded (Nov 5, 2026).
Fundraising patterns: last successful scan Nov 5, 2026 · latest scheduled check skipped (Nov 5, 2026).

0 receipt eligibility · 2 integrity · 0 fundraising patterns

Operating expenditures concentrated at one payee →Associated amount: $70,000
CARTER, COLE received 82.6% of positive itemized operating spending in COLE CARTER FOR CONGRESS's report. This is a concentration pattern for review.
Evidence date: Oct 20, 2025
Financial integrity review →Associated amount: $0
The FEC issued 2 notice(s) to COLE CARTER FOR CONGRESS about reports it had not filed, most recently on 2026-07-30, and no filing covering those periods appears in the loaded archive.
Evidence date: Jul 30, 2026

Across the cycle, some findings could not be linked safely to entities; ambiguous identities are withheld.

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Candidate & race

Office & constituency: U.S. House · Pennsylvania · District 3
Reported party: Democratic
Election year: 2026
Race status: Open seat
Candidate status: Current candidate
Principal campaign committee: COLE CARTER FOR CONGRESS (C00918946)

The principal campaign committee is the reported connection to this candidate. Transaction details below cover that committee; candidate-wide totals can also cover other authorized committees.

Money in

Who's funding Cole Carter? Read the article →

Sources

Unitemized individual contributions$5,947
Candidate contributions$90K

Top contributors

CARTER, COLE$90K4 contributions

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Sources are the candidate's reported totals by line; the lists rank the principal committee's itemized receipts of $200 or more and exclude memo entries.

Money out

Spending by kind

Operating expenditures$84.7K

Largest operating payments

CARTER, COLE$35KIN-KIND - TECHNICAL SERVICES · Oct 20, 2025
CARTER, COLE$25KIN-KIND - MARKETING · Oct 20, 2025
CARTER, COLE$10KIN-KIND - VIDEO PRODUCTION · Oct 20, 2025
META$922ADVERTISING · Dec 21, 2025
META$802ADVERTISING · Dec 15, 2025
META$748ADVERTISING · Dec 17, 2025
META$604ADVERTISING · Dec 4, 2025
META$510ADVERTISING · Dec 28, 2025
META$501ADVERTISING · Dec 11, 2025
GOOGLE$500ADVERTISING · Dec 31, 2025

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Payments are the principal committee's reported transactions, largest first.

Over time

Itemized receipts and reported spending by month: $90K raised and $0 spent over 1 month.

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Financial timeline

2025–2026 election cycle · dated records

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Money network · top contributors and recipients as a graph

Records

Registration

Office sought: U.S. House
State / district: Pennsylvania · District 3
Party affiliation: Democratic
Race status: Open seat
Candidate status: Current candidate
Election year: 2026
Registration snapshot cycle: 2025–2026
Cycles loaded: 2026
Registered address: PO BOX 18813 · PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, 19119
Compliance screening: View review flags

Relationships

FEC-reported relationships

Registration evidence · 2025–2026

Reported relationships are not contributions or transfers. They do not establish that any money changed hands. The reporting committee and related entity are shown separately. Only loaded relationship types are shown; this is not a complete organization chart.

COLE CARTER FOR CONGRESSC00918946 Authorized candidateCARTER, COLEH6PA03237
FEC reportedLoaded: Sep 7, 2026Official FEC source ↗
Cycle-specific FEC candidate–committee linkage. The date is local ingestion, not the original filing date.

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Filings

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Reconciliation

Coverage: Oct 20, 2025 to Dec 31, 2025
Contribution refunds: $0
Debts owed by committees: $0
Last report: YEAR-END

Source and provenance

Source agencyFederal Election Commission

Local row ingestedSep 6, 2026

Source row hash59ab8ae4ccfff7ca39f8b4d8634b138861d3299ad93d782434a5a224080befb0

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