Repealing the Citizen’s United ruling and denying large corporations the ability to buy elections has long been a rallying cry on the left, but what happens when your candidate gets the most money in donations and a self-financed conservative with no real super PAC comes in and takes the cake?

That’s what happened this year, Donald Trump’s unorthodox campaign managed to put him over the top of 16 other Republicans and eventually Hillary Clinton to become the president-elect.

Here’s a breakdown of some of the biggest donations in the 2016 elections:

Republicans raked in some serious cash

Source: FEC

Source: FEC

According to Open Secrets, several candidates who barely made a dent in the primaries raked in many millions of dollars.

Jeb Bush, in combination with his Right to Rise USA super PAC,  netted $155,822,452 and barely won four delegates in the process. Rivals Marco Rubio and Sen. Ted Cruz gathered  $162,500,053 and $143,008,247, respectively.

The most money dumped into the GOP primaries came out of Texas, where $45,144,845 was spent on the Republicans. California came in second with $32,420,371 and donations coming from Florida totaled $28,551,497.

Democrats raked even more cash than the GOP

Source: FEC

Source: FEC

Federal Election Commission tallies show an incredulous $497,808,791 raised by Hillary For America, and outside groups chipped in $189,453,103 for a grand total of $687 million. Wow.
That’s almost double what Trump hauled in.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, meanwhile, raised over $228 million after tapping in to grassroots activism that famously averaged $27 per donation.

And the winner is …Donald Trump!

Flickr/Gage Skidmore

Flickr/Gage Skidmore

Trump was the single biggest GOP donor — spending over $66,000,000 on his own campaign. The real-estate mogul actually spent far less on advertising and won the presidency with a fraction of the fundraising that rival Hillary Clinton had.

Billionaire Tom Steyer dropped a cool $67,286,217 to try and elect Democrats who’d stand firm on climate change, an issue he is on a quixotic quest to try and solve.
Las Vegas casino magnate Sheldon Adelson spent an unsuprisingly large amount on GOP candidates, dumping $47,357,200 of his own money into the race. Donald Sussman and Fred Eychaner, both liberals, dropped $39,134,400 and $34,274,991 into the race. Trump ally Robert Mercer and billionaire Paul Singer both spent over $23,000,000 in cash on GOP candidates.