LANSING, MI

62,255 lines carrying $21,442,251

The headline pair is $21,442,251 and 62,255 lines. The implied average is about $344. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the LANSING book. Ingham County filers typed LANSING with state MI.

Lansing is the capital-city string as typed. East Lansing is a different FEC city key even though the campuses sit next to each other. Detroit and Grand Rapids are other Michigan strings. State MI stays on the citation. 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 $21,442,251 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of LANSING gave. The 62,255 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints LANSING together with East Lansing, Okemos, and Grand Rapids, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $21,442,251 on 62,255 LANSING, MI rows, mean near $344. Keep the stored spelling LANSING in the citation.

Why LANSING on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Lansing give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city LANSING, MI total $21,442,251 across 62,255 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. Only if the filer typed LANSING as the city. EAST LANSING is a different stored string. This packet publishes LANSING, MI only.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $21,442,251. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $344 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city LANSING, MI?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city LANSING, MI total $21,442,251 across 62,255 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 Lansing. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $344 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Is East Lansing included in the Lansing total?

Only if the filer typed LANSING as the city. EAST LANSING is a different stored string. This packet publishes LANSING, MI only. LobbyVault counts 62,255 itemized contributions for LANSING, MI against $21,442,251. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 62,255 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Lansing total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed LANSING with state MI. Office addresses and mail that list Lansing can be part of $21,442,251 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 62,255-line count follows the same rule.

Are Lansing numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $21,442,251 and 62,255 lines for LANSING, MI. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from MI are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.