WESTFIELD, NJ

Reading $23,030,910 as a city-string roll-up

The headline pair is $23,030,910 and 47,075 lines. The implied average is about $489. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the Westfield, NJ book.

Union County’s Westfield string is separate from Cranford, Scotch Plains, and Mountainside on the FEC city key. Filers typed WESTFIELD in the city field. LobbyVault summed rows with that string and state NJ. 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 Westfield together with Cranford and Scotch Plains, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $23,030,910 on 47,075 WESTFIELD, NJ rows, mean near $489.

Why WESTFIELD, NJ on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Westfield give.” The honest citation is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city WESTFIELD, NJ total $23,030,910 across 47,075 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $23,030,910. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. State NJ is what keeps this page off Westfield, MA.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city Westfield, NJ?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city WESTFIELD, NJ total $23,030,910 across 47,075 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 Westfield, Massachusetts. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

Is this Westfield, New Jersey or Westfield, Massachusetts?

This extract is WESTFIELD with state NJ: 47,075 lines and $23,030,910. Westfield, MA, 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 47,075 should not be quoted as a population.

Does the Westfield total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed WESTFIELD with state NJ. Office addresses and mail that list Westfield can be part of $23,030,910 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 47,075-line count follows the same rule.

Are Westfield numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $23,030,910 and 47,075 lines for WESTFIELD, NJ. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from NJ are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $489 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.