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The Rising Cost Of Winning Votes: Data Sets

NOTE: All data is raw/not adjusted for inflation

CHART 1: Total amount spent on San Francisco elections, by year, going back to 1998.

Data is not adjusted for inflation. Source: SF OpenData, based on campaign finance reports filed with the San Francisco Ethics Commission.

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CHART 2: Total spent on television advertising in 2015. Source: SF OpenData, as reported to the SF Ethics Commission.

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CHART 3: Amounts spent by individual committees in 2015. Source: SF OpenData, based on campaign finance reports filed with SF Ethics Commission.

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