ERIE, PA

45,175 lines carrying $15,725,960

The headline pair is $15,725,960 and 45,175 lines. The implied average is about $348. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the ERIE book. Erie County filers typed ERIE with state PA.

ERIE, PA is a northwestern Pennsylvania city field, not Erie, Colorado. State PA is required in the citation. Pittsburgh is a different Allegheny County key. Buffalo sits in New York and is another string. 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 $15,725,960 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of Erie gave. The 45,175 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints Erie together with Buffalo, Pittsburgh, and Erie, Colorado, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $15,725,960 on 45,175 ERIE, PA rows, mean near $348. Keep the stored spelling ERIE in the citation.

Why ERIE on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Erie give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city ERIE, PA total $15,725,960 across 45,175 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. This extract is ERIE with state PA. Erie, CO is a different FEC city-and-state key. Pittsburgh is another Pennsylvania string.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $15,725,960. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $348 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city ERIE, PA?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city ERIE, PA total $15,725,960 across 45,175 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 Erie. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $348 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Is this Erie, Colorado?

No. This extract is ERIE with state PA. Erie, CO is a different FEC city-and-state key. Pittsburgh is another Pennsylvania string. LobbyVault counts 45,175 itemized contributions for ERIE, PA against $15,725,960. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 45,175 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Erie total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed ERIE with state PA. Office addresses and mail that list Erie can be part of $15,725,960 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 45,175-line count follows the same rule.

Are Erie numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $15,725,960 and 45,175 lines for ERIE, PA. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from PA are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.