United States 2026 · Parties and candidates · House, Minnesota 6
Doug Chapin
Result: Lost · 44.2% Unofficial count as of 6 November 2026.
Doug Chapin’s FEC committees ran 33 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram from 1 page between 28 August 2026 and 22 October 2026. Meta reports $32.7–41.3K of spend. That makes Doug Chapin the 227th largest spender of the 1181 federal candidates with ads. Running for House, Minnesota 6. Party: Democrats.
Data from the Meta Ad Library, pulled 4 November 2026. Election on 3 November 2026.
33
ads on 1 page
$37K
reported spend, range $32.7–41.3K
100%
of spend on federal races
$650
median spend per ad
Meta and Google side by side
On MetaFacebook · Instagram
$37K
33 ads on 1 page, midpoint of Meta’s ranges, 4 May 2026 to 31 October 2026
- Largest page
- Doug Chapin for Congress · $37K
- Federal races
- 100%
- Median spend per ad
- $650
- Attack ads, of text ads
- 61%
On Google and YouTubeSearch · YouTube · Display
$6.4–7.5K
2 ads from 1 verified advertiser account, Google’s ranges, 4 May 2026 to 4 November 2026
- Against Meta spend
- 0.2×
- Formats
- 2 text
- Impressions
- 18K–24K
- Targeting declared
- no age or gender
- States named
- Minnesota
- Last ad shown
- 4 Nov
Google advertiser accounts
| Advertiser | Ads | Formats | States | First ad | Last ad | Spend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOUG CHAPIN FOR CONGRESS | 2 | 2 text | MN | 29 Aug | 4 Nov | $6.4–7.5K |
Google publishes no ad text; the link on each account opens its ads in Google’s Ads Transparency Center. An account is tied to this page by its FEC committee; a party page lists its 1 largest.
Spend by week the ad started
Tone
Share of the 33 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.
Most attacked
- Tom Emmer$11.7K
- the President and Tom Emmer$4K
Targets as the ads name them, by spend; the spellings of Donald Trump are counted together, other names as written.
Topics
Spend by race: Federal 100%.
Spend by ad language: English 100%.
FEC committees
| FEC committee | Ads | Spend ($) |
|---|---|---|
| DOUG CHAPIN FOR CONGRESS C00909531 | 33 | $37K |
The committees whose ads count for the candidate, as the FEC names them.
The costliest ads
The highest-spend ad of each distinct text, as it ran.
Doug Chapin will put Minnesota families first, from lowering healthcare costs to protecting reproductive freedom to defending social security.
28 August 2026 · Doug Chapin for Congress · $5–6K · 350K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library
Doug Chapin has spent his career protecting elections and American democracy. Now he's ready to take that fight straight to Congress.
28 September 2026 · Doug Chapin for Congress · $4.5–5K · 300K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library
Tom Emmer recently claimed that it's ""less than $2 a pound for ground beef.” The tariffs and the Iran War costs are continuing to skyrocket for working families, but Emmer is so far out of touch he doesn't have a clue how expensive things are thanks to his failed leadership.
18 September 2026 · Doug Chapin for Congress · $2–2.5K · 150K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
Tom Emmer recently claimed that it's "less than $2 a pound for ground beef.” The tariffs and the Iran War costs are continuing to skyrocket for working families, but Emmer is so far out of touch he doesn't have a clue how expensive things are thanks to his failed leadership.
28 September 2026 · Doug Chapin for Congress · $2–2.5K · 150K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
"Backwards and poor." That's what the President and Tom Emmer thinks of Minnesotans like you who are worried about the impacts of AI Data Centers being built in our communities.
28 September 2026 · Doug Chapin for Congress · $1.5–2K · 100K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
Tom Emmer is focused on his career instead of on Minnesota, and that means he's just a rubber stamp for the President's dangerous policies.
16 October 2026 · Doug Chapin for Congress · $1.5–2K · 250K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
Pages that ran the ads
| Page | Ads | Spend ($) |
|---|---|---|
| Doug Chapin for Congress | 33 | $37K |
Each name opens the page’s Vipima page, with its own figures and its link to Meta’s 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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