RICHMOND, VA

Richmond, VA: the itemized dollar total

Divide $89,411,164 by 231,271 and the average itemized line is about $387. Averages hide mixed line sizes. This packet has no distribution, so $387 is a mean, not a typical resident gift.

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. Virginia’s capital string is not Northern Virginia. Richmond on the receipt is the city field as typed.

Postal confusion with Henrico, Chesterfield, or McLean is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $89,411,164 counts rows that stored RICHMOND, VA in state VA. 231,271 lines. About $387 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs.

Volume and average on the Richmond book

Richmond sits in a mid-range mean band on this extract: about $387 from $89,411,164 divided by 231,271. The pair is a city-field average, not a ranking of political intensity.

A later extract can move Richmond across that description if large lines are refunded or if many small lines are added. Recheck $89,411,164 and 231,271 on the hub.

Questions

What does LobbyVault show for Richmond federal contributions?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city RICHMOND, VA total $89,411,164 across 231,271 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 Richmond. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

How should I read the 231,271 figure for RICHMOND, VA?

LobbyVault counts 231,271 itemized contributions for RICHMOND, VA. That is a line count, not a headcount of unique people. Repeat gifts, redesignations, and memo entries can add rows without adding new donors. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 231,271 should not be quoted as a population. The matching dollar total on the same extract is $89,411,164.

What city field does FEC use for Richmond?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed RICHMOND with state VA. Office addresses and mail that list Richmond can be part of $89,411,164 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 231,271-line count follows the same rule.

How current is the $89,411,164 total for Richmond?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $89,411,164 and 231,271 lines for RICHMOND, VA. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from VA are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $387 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.