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House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s main campaign committee raised and spent more than $6 million in 2013-14, only to suffer a stunning primary defeat by Dave Brat.

Between May 22 and June 30 alone, Cantor for Congress spent more than $760,000, according to a filing Tuesday with the Federal Election Commission.

Brat, a little-known Randolph-Macon College professor, dwarfed in funding and in name recognition, defeated Cantor 56 percent to 44 percent in the June 10 primary.

Cantor reported $1.45 million in cash on hand as of June 30, the close of the reporting period.

He also reported that his campaign committee owed more than $325,000 in debts and obligations, much of it for administrative salaries and overhead. The debts include $36,882 to the Westin Richmond, where Cantor held his primary night event.

Cantor will step down as majority leader July 31. He will be succeeded in that post by California Rep. Kevin McCarthy.

The day after his primary defeat, Cantor pushed back at the notion that he spent too much time in Washington tending to the House rank and file and neglected the 7th District, which stretches from the Richmond suburbs to Orange and Spotsylvania counties.

“I was in my district every week,” Cantor said. “There is a balance between holding a leadership position and serving constituents at home.”

acain@timesdispatch.com (804) 649-6645 Twitter: @AndrewCainRTD Staff writer Olympia Meola contributed to this report.