BIRMINGHAM, AL

How FEC.gov stored BIRMINGHAM as a city

Birmingham’s city-field extract shows $100,682,535 across 262,780 contributions. Treat $383 as a derived average. It is not an FEC-published statistic with its own schedule.

Cite $100,682,535 only as itemized federal receipts tagged BIRMINGHAM, AL. Central Alabama orients Birmingham. Montgomery state-office reports are a different filing system. The city total can include a PAC or joint-fundraising committee address when that is the city filers typed. LobbyVault does not recode those rows out of the city string.

Keep Hoover, Mountain Brook, and Vestavia Hills off the Birmingham citation unless the receipt actually stored those cities. $100,682,535 is the BIRMINGHAM, AL string alone. 262,780 itemized rows and about $383 per row are the shape of that string, not of the metro map.

Neighboring labels that are not Birmingham

Neighboring municipalities are not included unless filers typed BIRMINGHAM, AL. Suburb names, county names, and metro nicknames are different keys when they appear as the city field.

Cite the city field, the dollar total, and the line count together. Two of the three is an incomplete citation of BIRMINGHAM, AL.

Questions

What is the FEC donation total for BIRMINGHAM, AL?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city BIRMINGHAM, AL total $100,682,535 across 262,780 contributions in the LobbyVault aggregate. That figure is a city-string roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of people who live in Birmingham. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

Is 262,780 a count of Birmingham donors?

LobbyVault counts 262,780 itemized contributions for BIRMINGHAM, AL. That is a line count, not a headcount of unique people. Repeat gifts, redesignations, and memo entries can add rows without adding new donors. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 262,780 should not be quoted as a population. The matching dollar total on the same extract is $100,682,535.

Is BIRMINGHAM, AL a residency total?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed BIRMINGHAM with state AL. Office addresses and mail that list Birmingham can be part of $100,682,535 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 262,780-line count follows the same rule.

What is the source for BIRMINGHAM, AL campaign money figures?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $100,682,535 and 262,780 lines for BIRMINGHAM, AL. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from AL are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $383 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.