PORTLAND, ME

State ME keeps Portland off Oregon

The headline pair is $22,964,666 and 60,520 lines. The implied average is about $379. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the Portland, ME book.

Cumberland County’s Portland string is separate from South Portland, Westbrook, and Scarborough on the FEC city key. Filers typed PORTLAND in the city field. LobbyVault summed rows with that string and state ME. 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 Portland together with South Portland as one harbor total, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $22,964,666 on 60,520 PORTLAND, ME rows, mean near $379.

Why PORTLAND, ME on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Portland give.” The honest citation is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city PORTLAND, ME total $22,964,666 across 60,520 contributions. Dropping “itemized,” “contributor city,” and state ME inflates or misplaces the claim onto Oregon.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $22,964,666. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. State ME is what keeps this page off Portland, OR.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city Portland, ME?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city PORTLAND, ME total $22,964,666 across 60,520 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 Portland, Oregon. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

Is this Portland, Maine or Portland, Oregon?

This extract is PORTLAND with state ME: 60,520 lines and $22,964,666. Portland, OR, would be a different city key. Repeat gifts, redesignations, and memo entries can add rows without adding new donors. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 60,520 should not be quoted as a population.

Does the Portland, ME total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed PORTLAND with state ME. Office addresses and mail that list Portland can be part of $22,964,666 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 60,520-line count follows the same rule.

Are Portland, ME numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $22,964,666 and 60,520 lines for PORTLAND, ME. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from ME are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $379 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.