DEL MAR, CA: $17.8M on 63,152 FEC receipts

63,152 lines carrying $17,811,260

The headline pair is $17,811,260 and 63,152 lines. The implied average is about $282. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the DEL MAR book. San Diego County filers typed DEL MAR with state CA.

Del Mar is a two-word coastal string. La Jolla rows that list SAN DIEGO or LA JOLLA sit on other hubs. Solana Beach and Encinitas are neighboring North County keys, not subsets. 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 $17,811,260 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of DEL MAR gave. The 63,152 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints DEL MAR together with La Jolla, Solana Beach, and Encinitas, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $17,811,260 on 63,152 DEL MAR, CA rows, mean near $282. Keep the stored spelling DEL MAR in the citation.

Why DEL MAR on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Del Mar give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city DEL MAR, CA total $17,811,260 across 63,152 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. No. DEL MAR, CA is the stored two-word string. San Diego is a different city key.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $17,811,260. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $282 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

Outside the DEL MAR itemized book

$17,811,260 is not spending by DEL MAR candidates. A candidate who lives in DEL MAR can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged DEL MAR, CA can go to a committee anywhere. Unitemized federal gifts sit outside both packet facts.

Postal confusion with La Jolla, Solana Beach, and Encinitas is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $17,811,260 counts rows that stored DEL MAR, CA. 63,152 lines. About $282 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs. CA state-office receipts are omitted.

DEL MAR versus San Diego on the FEC tape

DEL MAR is a coastal North County mid-volume book. 63,152 lines produce $17,811,260, a mean near $282. That line count is not a unique-donor count. Comparing this mean to San Diego is only valid on the same series: contributor city, itemized federal receipts.

A DEL MAR total of $17,811,260 does not absorb La Jolla, Solana Beach, and Encinitas. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State CA stays on the citation so DEL MAR, CA is not merged with a same-named place elsewhere. Mixing in CA state-campaign data breaks the comparison.

City total versus postal codes in CA

63,152 city-field lines can spread across many ZIPs or cluster in a few. This packet does not list those ZIPs. Open the ZIP directory and the live DEL MAR hub rather than guessing the split. After an amendment wave, recheck both the city hub and any ZIP you compared. Snapshots drift independently.

Because this packet carries only city, state, dollar total, and contribution count, every other story about DEL MAR politics sits outside the extract. That includes candidate quality, issue fights, and local election results. This guide stays on the two numbers FEC.gov supplied for the city field: $17,811,260 and 63,152.

Source tables for $17,811,260

A mean of about $282 is division of $17,811,260 by 63,152. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of DEL MAR. Means move with a few large lines. Internal links on this page go only to the DEL MAR city hub, the all-cities directory, and the ZIP directory.

DEL MAR’s $17,811,260 across 63,152 contributions is a San Diego County city field, mean near $282. La Jolla is a neighboring string, not a subset. San Diego County is not summed here. Repeat gifts add rows. Cite $17,811,260 with 63,152 from FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault. If the live hub disagrees with this snapshot, the newer FEC extract controls.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city DEL MAR, CA?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city DEL MAR, CA total $17,811,260 across 63,152 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 Del Mar. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $282 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Is Del Mar counted as San Diego on this extract?

No. DEL MAR, CA is the stored two-word string. San Diego is a different city key. LobbyVault counts 63,152 itemized contributions for DEL MAR, CA against $17,811,260. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 63,152 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Del Mar total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed DEL MAR with state CA. Office addresses and mail that list Del Mar can be part of $17,811,260 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 63,152-line count follows the same rule.

Are Del Mar numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $17,811,260 and 63,152 lines for DEL MAR, CA. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from CA are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.