Federal candidate · 2025–2026 cycle

Cait Conley

Party
Democratic
Running for
U.S. House · New York District 17
Filing address
Ossining, NY (city and state on the FEC filing)
FEC filing name
CONLEY, CAIT
Next election
Primary June 23, 2026 · General November 3, 2026 (Wikipedia, checked October 22, 2026; confirm with your state election office)
Map of New York with the 2026 district highlighted

New York, District 17

DemocraticU.S. House · New York District 17ChallengerGeneral-election nominee

FEC candidate ID H6NY17171 · Principal campaign committee: CAIT FOR NEW YORK

Total raised$9,665,461.10
Total spent$8,521,205.64
Cash on hand$1,144,255.46
Debts owed by the campaign$0.00
Loans from the candidate$0.00

2025–2026 cycle totals through September 30, 2026, from the FEC’s candidate summary file. This is a dated snapshot, not live reporting; the FEC’s page for this candidate is the official source.

Where the money comes from

Individual contributions: $8,464,600.26PACs and other committees: $499,039.59Party committees: $10,483.11Candidate’s own money (contributions and loans): $7,000.00Transfers from joint fundraising and the candidate’s other committees: $670,166.76Other receipts (loans from others, refunds, interest): $14,171.38
  • Individual contributions$8,464,600.2688%
  • PACs and other committees$499,039.595%
  • Party committees$10,483.110%
  • Candidate’s own money (contributions and loans)$7,000.000%
  • Transfers from joint fundraising and the candidate’s other committees$670,166.767%
  • Other receipts (loans from others, refunds, interest)$14,171.380%

Self-funding: $7,000.00 (0% of money raised): $7,000.00 given and $0.00 lent by the candidate.

Individual money

  • Contributions of $200 or less (small-dollar, including unitemized)$1,863,477.1037%
  • Contributions over $200$3,156,039.9163%
  • Itemized from inside New York$1,747,929.9254%
  • Itemized from other states$1,495,404.4046%

Top out-of-state sources of itemized individual money: California $427,389.90 · Massachusetts $214,987.88 · District of Columbia $108,823.84 · Connecticut $106,196.48 · Virginia $102,825.78. States with fewer than 10 contributions are not listed.

FEC-computed totals by contribution size and state, retrieved October 22, 2026. No individual contributor is named.

Raised and spent over time

$5.5M$0 APRIL QUARTERLY: raised $335,161.09APRIL QUARTERLY: spent $19,382.61JULY QUARTERLY: raised $480,363.99JULY QUARTERLY: spent $182,355.11OCTOBER QUARTERLY: raised $526,255.68OCTOBER QUARTERLY: spent $189,685.86YEAR-END: raised $572,357.28YEAR-END: spent $296,204.14APRIL QUARTERLY: raised $731,119.82APRIL QUARTERLY: spent $422,874.12PRE-PRIMARY: raised $612,939.86PRE-PRIMARY: spent $1,206,722.50JULY QUARTERLY: raised $1,060,279.50JULY QUARTERLY: spent $681,076.51OCTOBER QUARTERLY: raised $5,346,983.88OCTOBER QUARTERLY: spent $5,522,904.792025-032025-092026-032026-06

Raised per report Spent per report Cash on hand

PAC and committee contributors

93 committees reported giving $341,474.00 to this candidate, as filed by the giving committees through October 18, 2026. Timing differs from the campaign’s own reports, so this list may not match the totals above.

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Outside spending

  • Independent expenditures supporting Cait Conley$1,767,617.31
  • Independent expenditures opposing Cait Conley$1,532,951.81

FEC totals for the 2026 cycle, including groups that are not political committees, retrieved October 24, 2026.

Independent expenditures by committees that are not part of the campaign, as reported by those committees. This money is spent separately, not given to the candidate.

The race

New York U.S. House, District 17, 2026 · 9 registered candidates

CandidateRaisedCash on handThrough
Cait Conley (D)$9,665,461.10$1,144,255.462026-09-30
Peter Chatzky (D)$11,707,921.60$789.362026-06-30
Michael Vincent Lawler (R)$10,317,627.15$1,959,524.062026-10-14
Beth Davidson (D)$2,231,647.35$33,657.712026-09-30
Jessica Reinmann (D)$655,476.09$0.002026-07-06
John Sullivan (D)$485,608.86$2,273.292026-09-30
Mike Sacks (D)$298,002.05$0.002026-09-30
John Cappello (D)$79,637.17$447.202026-09-30

Polling and ratings

Race ratings

No published race ratings found.

Recent polls

PollsterDatesSampleMargin of errorResults
McLaughlin & Associates (R)September 28–30, 2026400 (LV)± 4.9%Mike Lawler 50% · Cait Conley 47%
Emerson CollegeSeptember 27–29, 2026400 (LV)± 4.9%Mike Lawler 46% · Cait Conley 48%
co/efficient (R)July 20–22, 20261,292 (LV)± 2.7%Mike Lawler 50% · Cait Conley 45%
FM3 Research (D)June 27 – July 1, 2026509 (LV)–Mike Lawler 45% · Cait Conley 51%

Ratings and polls as listed on Wikipedia: 2026 United States House of Representatives elections in New York (retrieved October 22, 2026), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. TerraCivic does not rate races or compute its own average.

Sources and updates

  • Money: FEC bulk data (candidate summary, committee master, committee-to-candidate contributions), retrieved October 23, 2026. FEC candidate page · Principal campaign committee: CAIT FOR NEW YORK.
  • Polling, ratings and candidate status: Wikipedia, retrieved October 22, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
  • Status shown above comes from the race’s Wikipedia page.

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