MADISON, WI

$84,769,139 is a Schedule A city total

FEC.gov indexed 275,867 itemized rows to contributor city MADISON, WI. Their sum is $84,769,139. The mean near $307 describes the average row, not a household and not a census tract.

Wisconsin’s capital string is not Milwaukee. Dane County geography orients; it does not grade the receipts. The 275,867-line count is a contribution-line total. It is not a headcount of Madison residents. 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.

Metro shorthand that folds Milwaukee or Middleton into Madison is a recode. FEC.gov stored MADISON, WI. $84,769,139 across 275,867 contributions, mean near $307, belongs to that spelling. Fitchburg is a different key if it appears as the city field.

How to read the WI city key for Madison

City-name spelling is part of the key. MADISON with state WI is the unit. A close spelling, a neighborhood abbreviation, or a merged metro label is a different aggregate if FEC stored it differently.

Independent expenditures that mention a Madison race can be paid by a committee with a different city on its own reports. Those disbursements do not move $84,769,139. Keep independent-expenditure tables separate from this city total.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city Madison?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city MADISON, WI total $84,769,139 across 275,867 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 Madison. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

What does the Madison contribution count mean?

LobbyVault counts 275,867 itemized contributions for MADISON, WI. 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 275,867 should not be quoted as a population. The matching dollar total on the same extract is $84,769,139.

Can committee addresses appear in the Madison city total?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed MADISON with state WI. Office addresses and mail that list Madison can be part of $84,769,139 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 275,867-line count follows the same rule.

Are Madison numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $84,769,139 and 275,867 lines for MADISON, WI. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from WI are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $307 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.