WASHINGTON — Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota raised more than $5.2 million over the first seven weeks of her presidential bid, her campaign said on Monday.

Her total, for the first quarter of the year, puts her well short of the leading fund-raisers in the Democratic field, though she appeared to have come in just ahead of Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey, who said on Sunday that he had raised more than $5 million since the beginning of February.

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Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont leads the field with a total of $18.2 million raised in the first quarter, his campaign said last week. Senator Kamala Harris of California raised $12 million, former Representative Beto O’Rourke of Texas raised $9.4 million, and Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., raised more than $7 million, according to announcements from those campaigns.

Presidential candidates must disclose their first-quarter fund-raising to the Federal Election Commission by April 15, but some campaigns reveal some information about their fund-raising before the deadline.

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