FAIRFIELD, CT

Reading $24,944,085 as a city-string roll-up

The headline pair is $24,944,085 and 88,352 lines. The implied average is about $282. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the Fairfield, CT book.

Fairfield’s string is separate from Bridgeport, Westport, and Southport on the FEC city key. Filers typed FAIRFIELD in the city field. LobbyVault summed rows with that string and state CT. 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 Fairfield together with Bridgeport and Westport, the FEC file still splits them. Southport as a neighborhood label is not auto-merged either. This extract’s only city total is $24,944,085 on 88,352 FAIRFIELD, CT rows, mean near $282.

Why FAIRFIELD, CT on the receipt is not a census of Fairfield

Searchers often want “how much did people in Fairfield give.” The honest citation is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city FAIRFIELD, CT total $24,944,085 across 88,352 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $24,944,085. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. State CT is what keeps this page off Fairfield, CA.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city Fairfield, CT?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city FAIRFIELD, CT total $24,944,085 across 88,352 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 Fairfield. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

Is this Fairfield, Connecticut or another Fairfield?

This extract is FAIRFIELD with state CT: 88,352 lines and $24,944,085. Fairfield, CA, and Fairfield, IA, would be different city keys. Repeat gifts, redesignations, and memo entries can add rows without adding new donors. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 88,352 should not be quoted as a population.

Does the Fairfield total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed FAIRFIELD with state CT. Office addresses and mail that list Fairfield can be part of $24,944,085 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 88,352-line count follows the same rule.

Are Fairfield numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $24,944,085 and 88,352 lines for FAIRFIELD, CT. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from CT are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $282 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.