LAFAYETTE, CA

55,580 lines carrying $19,230,041

The headline pair is $19,230,041 and 55,580 lines. The implied average is about $346. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the LAFAYETTE book. Contra Costa County filers typed LAFAYETTE with state CA.

LAFAYETTE, CA is an East Bay Contra Costa string, not Lafayette, Louisiana. State CA must stay on the citation. Orinda and Walnut Creek are neighboring keys. Oakland is a different Alameda string. 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. Read $19,230,041 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of LAFAYETTE gave. The 55,580 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints LAFAYETTE together with Orinda, Moraga, and Walnut Creek, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $19,230,041 on 55,580 LAFAYETTE, CA rows, mean near $346. Keep the stored spelling LAFAYETTE in the citation.

Why LAFAYETTE on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Lafayette give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city LAFAYETTE, CA total $19,230,041 across 55,580 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. This extract is LAFAYETTE with state CA only. Lafayette, LA is a different FEC city key. Orinda is a neighboring string, not a subset.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $19,230,041. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $346 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city LAFAYETTE, CA?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city LAFAYETTE, CA total $19,230,041 across 55,580 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 Lafayette. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $346 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Which Lafayette is this $19.2M total?

This extract is LAFAYETTE with state CA only. Lafayette, LA is a different FEC city key. Orinda is a neighboring string, not a subset. LobbyVault counts 55,580 itemized contributions for LAFAYETTE, CA against $19,230,041. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 55,580 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Lafayette total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed LAFAYETTE with state CA. Office addresses and mail that list Lafayette can be part of $19,230,041 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 55,580-line count follows the same rule.

Are Lafayette numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $19,230,041 and 55,580 lines for LAFAYETTE, CA. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from CA are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.