STOCKTON, CA

Reading $25,144,829 as a city-string roll-up

The headline pair is $25,144,829 and 76,156 lines. The implied average is about $330. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the Stockton book.

San Joaquin County’s Stockton string is separate from Lodi, Manteca, and Tracy on the FEC city key. Filers typed STOCKTON in the city field. LobbyVault summed rows with that string and state CA. 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.

If a newsroom map paints Stockton together with Lodi and Manteca, the FEC file still splits them. Tracy too. This extract’s only city total is $25,144,829 on 76,156 STOCKTON, CA rows, mean near $330.

Why STOCKTON on the receipt is not a census of Stockton

Searchers often want “how much did people in Stockton give.” The honest citation is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city STOCKTON, CA total $25,144,829 across 76,156 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $25,144,829. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city Stockton, CA?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city STOCKTON, CA total $25,144,829 across 76,156 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 Stockton. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

What does the Stockton contribution count mean?

LobbyVault counts 76,156 itemized contributions for STOCKTON, CA. 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 76,156 should not be quoted as a population. The matching dollar total on the same extract is $25,144,829.

Does the Stockton total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed STOCKTON with state CA. Office addresses and mail that list Stockton can be part of $25,144,829 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 76,156-line count follows the same rule.

Are Stockton numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $25,144,829 and 76,156 lines for STOCKTON, 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. The mean of about $330 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.