By the Numbers: Campaign Finance

These figures represent the amount oil and natural gas companies, interest groups, their employees and political action committees spent on federal elections during each two-year election cycle. Totals for 2004 are through June.

Overall Campaign Contributions: $67,877,039

Campaign Contributions by Cycle   $14.56 $24.18 $20.38 $8.76   1998 2000 2002 2004   Contributions by Party   Party Amount %   Democrat $16,516,792 24.33%   Republican $49,714,256 73.24%   Other $1,645,991 2.42%

Campaign Contributions by Party Red = Republican, Blue = Democrat   $10.13 $3.80 $18.21 $5.56 $14.97 $5.13 $6.40 $2.03   1998 1998 2000 2000 2002 2002 2004 2004   Top Contributors Companies Amount ChevronTexaco Corp $4,559,621 El Paso Corp $4,223,592 Enron Corp $3,938,448 Koch Industries Inc $3,892,905 BP plc $3,833,140 ExxonMobil Corp $3,827,591 Dominion Resources Inc $3,494,832 Marathon Oil Corp $2,673,540 Entergy Corp $2,608,216 ConocoPhillips $2,064,475