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Peter Oberacker

Republican · New York Senate District 51 · On the Nov 3 ballot for US House, New York District 19 · vs. Josh Riley (D)
Raised
$1.4M
Cash on hand
$23K
First race on record
2024
Age
63
Races
Won 1 of 1

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Spectrum

Centrist is the middle of the scale, not of Congress. How this works

By donors (CFscore, 2022 cycle)

Research estimate from Stanford DIME 4.0. Source

Matched by name only, so it could be the wrong person.

Method and limits

Published score 0.989 on a scale from −2.0 to 2.0, where 0 is the center. 371 donors. License: ODC-BY 1.0.

Places a candidate by who gave them money; candidates who share donors sit close together.

Reflects the donor network, not votes or views, and comes from past cycles, not a 2026 reading.

Now

Career

YearRaceResultShareLost to, or other round
2024State Senate, NYWon59.3%

Races in our results files. Other offices, earlier years and most primaries can be missing. A general that went to a runoff counts as neither a win nor a loss. Some races are matched to this person by name and seat, not by an ID, so one could belong to someone with the same name.

Money

FEC, through Oct 14, 2026

Spent $1.4M · Debts owed $100K

Where the money came from

  • Individuals$551K
  • PACs and other committees$291K
  • Party committees$17K
  • Candidate’s own money$0
  • Loans from the candidate$130K
  • Transfers from the candidate’s other committees$428K

As the campaign reported to the FEC through Oct 14, 2026. Bars compare these lines. Some money has no line here, so they may not add up to the total raised. Source: FEC candidate summary.

Committees giving to this campaign

86 committees reported giving $302K.

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The largest 20 are listed. Refunds the committees reported are taken out. Independent spending isn’t included. These figures come from the committees’ own reports, so they can differ from the campaign’s lines above, sometimes by a lot. Source: FEC committee-to-candidate file, dated Oct 25, 2026.

Reports through Oct 14, 2026. Matched to the FEC by name, party and seat, so it could be the wrong person.

How these are counted

Later filings are not in yet. Totals for the 2025 to 2026 cycle. Raised $1,424,571. Cash on hand $23,155. Spent $1,401,415. Debts owed $100,000. Individuals $551,058. PACs and other committees $291,000. Party committees $17,000. Candidate’s own money $0. Loans from the candidate $130,000. Other loans $0. Transfers from the candidate’s other committees $427,548. Main committee: Peter for Ny Inc. No individual donor names are shown.

More about Peter Oberacker

Offices held (2 terms and offices)

  • State Senate, New York
  • State Senate, New York

Sources (9 sources)

  • Ballot listing, elections.ny.gov

    Name, party, office and status. Retrieved Oct 7, 2026.

  • Open States people (current) CSVs

    Who holds the seat. Retrieved Oct 28, 2026. License: CC0-1.0 (Open States people data).

    Compiled by Open States volunteers and staff (rosters from state legislature sites) from official returns. Not an official source.

  • FEC bulk data 2025-2026: all-candidates summary (weball26), candidate master (cn), candidate-committee linkage (ccl), committee master (cm)

    Federal 2026 candidates: money totals (web/data/people/money) and the MN federal filing list. Bulk files, no API and no key. Retrieved Oct 31, 2026. License: US government work, public domain. Totals and committee names only; no donor names or addresses are stored.

  • FEC bulk data 2025-2026: contributions from committees to candidates (pas226)

    Federal 2026 candidates: committees giving to each candidate (web/data/people/money-types). Bulk file, no API and no key. Retrieved Oct 31, 2026. License: US government work, public domain. Committee totals only; the individual contributions file is not used.

  • Stanford DIME public v4.0, recipients file (CFscores)

    CFscores for candidates and officials; web/data/ideology/dime.json and aggregate.json. A research estimate by Adam Bonica, not an official measure. Retrieved Oct 29, 2026. License: ODC-BY 1.0.

    Compiled by Adam Bonica, Stanford University Libraries (built from campaign finance filings) from official returns. Not an official source.

    Bonica, Adam. 2024. Database on Ideology, Money in Politics, and Elections: Public version 4.0 [Computer file]. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Libraries. https://data.stanford.edu/dime .

  • Election Wrld 2026 candidate files (state election office lists)

    Race record. Retrieved Oct 29, 2026. License: state public records; see each row's sourceUrl.

  • Election Wrld state legislative returns (web/data/results/sld); each row names its upstream source

    Race record. Retrieved Oct 29, 2026. License: see sources.json.

  • FEC candidate master file (cnYY.zip bulk download)

    Race record. Retrieved Oct 29, 2026. License: US government work, public domain.

  • Election Wrld officials files (web/data/officials)

    Race record. Retrieved Oct 29, 2026. License: see sources.json.

  • Age: Wikidata, counted to Nov 3, 2026. A community-edited source, not an official record. We show the age, never the birth date.
  • First win in our records: State Senate district 51, 2020-11-03. Basis: first win in our records (Election Wrld results files; earlier wins may exist outside them).

Officials files, 2026 candidate files, returns files, DIME, FEC candidate master and congress-legislators terms, as of 2026-10-29. Nothing about jobs, retirement, or reasons is recorded or inferred.

Not available for Peter Oberacker: a voting record, a background.

DataSources: FEC, DIME (ODC-BY), Results filesData as of Oct 29, 2026Photo credits