FARGO, ND

52,401 lines carrying $21,815,104

The headline pair is $21,815,104 and 52,401 lines. The implied average is about $416. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the FARGO book. Cass County filers typed FARGO with state ND.

Fargo is a Cass County, North Dakota city field. Moorhead, Minnesota sits across the river and is a different state key. West Fargo is a neighboring ND string stored separately when filers typed it. 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 $21,815,104 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of FARGO gave. The 52,401 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints FARGO together with West Fargo, Moorhead, and Dilworth, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $21,815,104 on 52,401 FARGO, ND rows, mean near $416. Keep the stored spelling FARGO in the citation.

Why FARGO on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Fargo give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city FARGO, ND total $21,815,104 across 52,401 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. No. MOORHEAD with state MN is a different FEC city key. This extract is FARGO, ND only.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $21,815,104. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $416 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city FARGO, ND?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city FARGO, ND total $21,815,104 across 52,401 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 Fargo. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $416 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Does Fargo’s total include Moorhead, Minnesota?

No. MOORHEAD with state MN is a different FEC city key. This extract is FARGO, ND only. LobbyVault counts 52,401 itemized contributions for FARGO, ND against $21,815,104. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 52,401 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Fargo total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed FARGO with state ND. Office addresses and mail that list Fargo can be part of $21,815,104 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 52,401-line count follows the same rule.

Are Fargo numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $21,815,104 and 52,401 lines for FARGO, ND. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from ND are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.