United States 2026 · Every advertiser

Steve Ehlmann for County Executive

This page ran 2 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram between 4 August 2026 and 5 August 2026. Meta reports $1.2–1.4K of spend, which makes it the 12,267th largest advertiser of the 24,034 pages in our data. Advertiser type: Candidate. Most of its spend was on the Republicans’ side. Race: Local.

Data from the Meta Ad Library, pulled 4 November 2026. Election on 3 November 2026. · Every ad of this page in Meta’s Ad Library ↗

2

ads

$1.3K

reported spend, range $1.2–1.4K

0.0%

of spend on federal races

$650

median spend per ad

Spend by week the ad started

3 Aug
7 Sep
5 Oct
 Spend still counting
2 Nov

Tone

Attack
50%
Promotional
50%

Share of the 2 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.

Most attacked

  • Bill Eigel$450

Targets as the ads name them, by spend; the spellings of Donald Trump are counted together, other names as written.

Topics

Candidate profile
50%
Corruption & governance
50%

Spend by race: Local 100%.

Spend by ad language: English 100%.

The costliest ads

The highest-spend ad of each distinct text, as it ran.

  • Thank you St. Charles County! I'm honored to be given the chance to keep delivering real and positive results for the good people of St. Charles County. Let's get back to work!

    5 August 2026 · Steve Ehlmann for County Executive · $800 – $899 · 80K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library

  • Bill Eigel, running for St. Charles County Executive, has been fined by the Missouri Ethics Commission for Campaign Finance violations. "After reading reports and reviewing Bill Eigel's MEC filings I concluded that Eigel had violated Missouri Law. I personally filed the complaint. The Ethics Commission agreed with the complaint and fined him thousands." John Maupin, First Chairman of the Missouri Ethics Commission.

    4 August 2026 · Steve Ehlmann for County Executive · $400 – $499 · 15K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

Figures cover domestic political ads paid in dollars, from 4 May 2026. Spend is the sum of Meta’s range midpoints; impressions above one million are reported as “1M+”, so impression figures are floors. Each ad counts in the week its delivery started, with its lifetime spend at our last pull; ads still running before the vote are counted as of 31 October 2026.

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Steve Ehlmann for County Executive: political ads on Facebook and Instagram before the 2026 US midterms · Vipima