Jay Vaingankar
Running for U.S. House District 12 — 2026 election
Raised · 2026 cycle
$357K
Source: FEC
As of July 2026, Jay Vaingankar is a Democratic candidate for U.S. House District 12 in New Jersey in the 2026 election. Federal Election Commission filings report $356,649 in total receipts for the 2026 cycle. All figures on this page are drawn from primary sources — FEC filings, congressional records, and STOCK Act disclosures — and link back to them.
Data last updated July 2026.
Jay Vaingankar ran as a Democratic candidate for the U.S. House in New Jersey's 12th Congressional District in 2026, losing the June 2 Democratic primary with 3.0% of the vote. An East Windsor, N.J. resident and University of Pennsylvania graduate, he served in the Biden administration as a field organizer on the 2020 campaign and then in the White House Office of Management and Administration on COVID-19 operations before becoming a Special Advisor in the Department of Energy's Office of Policy, where he worked on implementing clean-energy tax credits in the Inflation Reduction Act. After leaving the administration he became Director of Policy and Markets at Solar Landscape, a solar development company, before returning to New Jersey to run for Congress.
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Individual donors make up 79% of fundraising, with the remainder from PACs and party committees.
$357K
Total raised
$351K
Total spent
$5K
Cash on hand
Where the money comes from
Reflects money received by the campaign committee itself. “Loans and other receipts” covers candidate or bank loans, offsets to operating expenditures, interest and other non-contribution receipts reported to the FEC. Independent expenditures by super PACs are not included.
Totals through 2026-06-30 · Source: FEC