BIRMINGHAM, AL: $100.7M on 262,780 FEC receipts

How FEC.gov stored BIRMINGHAM as a city

Birmingham’s city-field extract shows $100,682,535 across 262,780 contributions. Treat $383 as a derived average. It is not an FEC-published statistic with its own schedule.

Cite $100,682,535 only as itemized federal receipts tagged BIRMINGHAM, AL. Central Alabama orients Birmingham. Montgomery state-office reports are a different filing system. 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.

Keep Hoover, Mountain Brook, and Vestavia Hills off the Birmingham citation unless the receipt actually stored those cities. $100,682,535 is the BIRMINGHAM, AL string alone. 262,780 itemized rows and about $383 per row are the shape of that string, not of the metro map.

Neighboring labels that are not Birmingham

Neighboring municipalities are not included unless filers typed BIRMINGHAM, AL. Suburb names, county names, and metro nicknames are different keys when they appear as the city field.

Cite the city field, the dollar total, and the line count together. Two of the three is an incomplete citation of BIRMINGHAM, AL.

BIRMINGHAM, AL on Schedule A, not on a voter file

LobbyVault’s city hub for BIRMINGHAM, AL is the live table for this string. This guide’s $100,682,535 and 262,780 are a snapshot of FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

Unitemized federal gifts are omitted from $100,682,535. State-office campaigns in AL are omitted. Mixing those systems with the FEC city book produces a total no agency published.

Metro shorthand that folds Hoover or Mountain Brook into Birmingham is a recode. FEC.gov stored BIRMINGHAM, AL. $100,682,535 across 262,780 contributions, mean near $383, belongs to that spelling. Vestavia Hills is a different key if it appears as the city field.

Volume and average on the Birmingham book

Birmingham sits in a mid-range mean band on this extract: about $383 from $100,682,535 divided by 262,780. The pair is a city-field average, not a ranking of political intensity.

LobbyVault leaves the shape as arithmetic. BIRMINGHAM, AL remains a city string with $100,682,535 and 262,780 attached.

Readers who live near Hoover or Mountain Brook still need the city string as filed. A Birmingham mailing habit is not the FEC dimension. BIRMINGHAM, AL sums to $100,682,535 on 262,780 lines (about $383 each). Vestavia Hills remains outside that pair.

AL ZIP directory next to Birmingham

Keep $100,682,535 on the city citation. Keep ZIP totals on ZIP citations. Adding them double-counts every row that has both a city and a ZIP, which is most itemized rows.

Postal boundaries change. FEC city strings do not automatically follow annexations. BIRMINGHAM, AL is the string as stored on the extract.

Repeat the constraint when you reuse $100,682,535: itemized, federal, contributor city BIRMINGHAM, AL, 262,780 lines, FEC.gov via LobbyVault. That sentence is long on purpose. Short slogans about Birmingham money usually drop a limit that changes the meaning.

Birmingham versus Hoover is a different-key problem, not a suburb ranking. Mountain Brook and Vestavia Hills follow the same rule. Quote $100,682,535 and 262,780 for BIRMINGHAM, AL only. The mean near $383 does not travel with a neighbor’s name.

Annexation stories about Hoover, Mountain Brook, or Vestavia Hills do not rewrite $100,682,535. FEC city strings do not auto-follow city-limit changes. 262,780 contributions tagged BIRMINGHAM, AL stay on this page until a filer types a different city. About $383 per line is still division.

FEC.gov as the control for BIRMINGHAM, AL

This prose is a snapshot. Committees still file. Refunds still post. $100,682,535 can rise or fall. 262,780 can lengthen or shrink. The live table is the place to look after an amendment.

Do not add estimated unitemized amounts to $100,682,535. This packet has no such estimate.

Birmingham’s $100,682,535 on 262,780 lines is the Alabama city string, mean near $383. Hoover, Mountain Brook, and Vestavia Hills are neighboring names and separate keys if that is what was typed. Jefferson County geography orients; it does not expand the city field to the whole metro. Montgomery state-office reports are a different filing system and sit outside $100,682,535. The 262,780-line count is itemized federal contributions, not a headcount. This packet has no industry table, so steel-history geography is not an FEC finding. Open the Birmingham FEC page for committee names. Cite $100,682,535, 262,780, and BIRMINGHAM, AL as a triple from FEC.gov.

Questions

What is the FEC donation total for BIRMINGHAM, AL?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city BIRMINGHAM, AL total $100,682,535 across 262,780 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 Birmingham. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

Is 262,780 a count of Birmingham donors?

LobbyVault counts 262,780 itemized contributions for BIRMINGHAM, AL. 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 262,780 should not be quoted as a population. The matching dollar total on the same extract is $100,682,535.

Is BIRMINGHAM, AL a residency total?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed BIRMINGHAM with state AL. Office addresses and mail that list Birmingham can be part of $100,682,535 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 262,780-line count follows the same rule.

What is the source for BIRMINGHAM, AL campaign money figures?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $100,682,535 and 262,780 lines for BIRMINGHAM, AL. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from AL are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $383 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.