ROANOKE, VA

Reading $23,711,591 as a city-string roll-up

The headline pair is $23,711,591 and 69,393 lines. The implied average is about $342. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the Roanoke book.

Roanoke’s string is separate from Salem, VA, Blacksburg, and Lynchburg on the FEC city key. Filers typed ROANOKE in the city field. LobbyVault summed rows with that string and state VA. 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 Roanoke together with Salem and Blacksburg, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $23,711,591 on 69,393 ROANOKE, VA rows, mean near $342.

Why ROANOKE, VA on the receipt is not a census of Roanoke

Searchers often want “how much did people in Roanoke give.” The honest citation is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city ROANOKE, VA total $23,711,591 across 69,393 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $23,711,591. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. State VA is what keeps this page off Roanoke Rapids, NC.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city Roanoke, VA?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city ROANOKE, VA total $23,711,591 across 69,393 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 Roanoke Rapids, NC. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

Is this Roanoke, Virginia or Roanoke Rapids?

This extract is ROANOKE with state VA: 69,393 lines and $23,711,591. Roanoke Rapids, NC, 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 69,393 should not be quoted as a population.

Does the Roanoke total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed ROANOKE with state VA. Office addresses and mail that list Roanoke can be part of $23,711,591 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 69,393-line count follows the same rule.

Are Roanoke numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $23,711,591 and 69,393 lines for ROANOKE, 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 $342 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.