WEST HARTFORD, CT

West Hartford is not Hartford on the FEC city key

The headline pair is $23,728,546 and 87,170 lines. The implied average is about $272. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the West Hartford book.

Filers typed WEST HARTFORD with state CT. LobbyVault summed those rows. Hartford, East Hartford, and Farmington are other city strings. 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 West Hartford together with Hartford as one capital-area total, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $23,728,546 on 87,170 WEST HARTFORD, CT rows, mean near $272.

Why WEST HARTFORD on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in West Hartford give.” The honest citation is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city WEST HARTFORD, CT total $23,728,546 across 87,170 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. Treating the page as a Hartford merge inflates it further.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $23,728,546. 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 West Hartford, CT?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city WEST HARTFORD, CT total $23,728,546 across 87,170 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 the City of Hartford. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

Is West Hartford folded into Hartford’s FEC city total?

No. LobbyVault counts 87,170 itemized contributions for WEST HARTFORD, CT against $23,728,546. Hartford is a different city string. Repeat gifts, redesignations, and memo entries can add rows without adding new donors. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 87,170 should not be quoted as a population.

Does the West Hartford total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed WEST HARTFORD with state CT. Office addresses and mail that list West Hartford can be part of $23,728,546 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 87,170-line count follows the same rule.

Are West Hartford numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $23,728,546 and 87,170 lines for WEST HARTFORD, 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 $272 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.