LAFAYETTE, CA: $19.2M on 55,580 FEC receipts

55,580 lines carrying $19,230,041

The headline pair is $19,230,041 and 55,580 lines. The implied average is about $346. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the LAFAYETTE book. Contra Costa County filers typed LAFAYETTE with state CA.

LAFAYETTE, CA is an East Bay Contra Costa string, not Lafayette, Louisiana. State CA must stay on the citation. Orinda and Walnut Creek are neighboring keys. Oakland is a different Alameda string. 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 $19,230,041 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of LAFAYETTE gave. The 55,580 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints LAFAYETTE together with Orinda, Moraga, and Walnut Creek, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $19,230,041 on 55,580 LAFAYETTE, CA rows, mean near $346. Keep the stored spelling LAFAYETTE in the citation.

Why LAFAYETTE on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Lafayette give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city LAFAYETTE, CA total $19,230,041 across 55,580 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. This extract is LAFAYETTE with state CA only. Lafayette, LA is a different FEC city key. Orinda is a neighboring string, not a subset.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $19,230,041. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $346 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

What $19,230,041 does not cover

Unitemized federal gifts never enter $19,230,041 or the 55,580-line count. CA state-office filings are also omitted. A candidate based in LAFAYETTE can raise from other cities; a LAFAYETTE, CA row can travel to a committee in any state.

Orinda, Moraga, and Walnut Creek share a map with LAFAYETTE and still need their own hubs. The 55,580 lines stored as LAFAYETTE, CA are the only rows in this extract. About $346 each is division, not a household typical.

Same-name cities and the CA key

State CA is part of the match. LAFAYETTE, CA is not merged with a same-named place in another state. LAFAYETTE is an East Bay mid-volume book; 55,580 lines produce $19,230,041, mean near $346.

Oakland is a comparison only on the same series: contributor city, itemized federal receipts. Orinda, Moraga, and Walnut Creek are other strings when typed. Mixing CA state-campaign data with $19,230,041 breaks the comparison.

How 55,580 lines sit next to ZIP pages

The city field and the ZIP field are independent FEC columns. 55,580 LAFAYETTE rows may cluster in a few codes or scatter. This packet lists neither those ZIPs nor a split. Use the ZIP directory and the live LAFAYETTE hub.

Amendments can move the city hub and a ZIP page on different clocks. Recheck both before publishing a comparison. This guide’s facts remain $19,230,041 and 55,580 for contributor city LAFAYETTE, CA.

Citing LAFAYETTE, CA from FEC.gov

Report $19,230,041 with 55,580 lines and name FEC.gov as the source, indexed on LobbyVault. The mean near $346 is $19,230,041 divided by 55,580. Do not call that a typical LAFAYETTE resident.

Links on this page go to the LAFAYETTE hub, the all-cities directory, and the ZIP directory. Orinda is a neighbor, not a subset. Contra Costa County is not totaled here. If the live hub disagrees with this snapshot, the newer FEC extract controls.

Researchers citing LAFAYETTE should keep state CA in the sentence so readers do not hunt a same-named place. The live city table can show named committees that this snapshot does not list. A later FEC extract can move $19,230,041 or 55,580 without this guide rewriting itself. Treat the mean near $346 as division only. Orinda, Moraga, and Walnut Creek remain other strings. The 55,580-line count still is not a headcount.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city LAFAYETTE, CA?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city LAFAYETTE, CA total $19,230,041 across 55,580 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 Lafayette. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $346 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Which Lafayette is this $19.2M total?

This extract is LAFAYETTE with state CA only. Lafayette, LA is a different FEC city key. Orinda is a neighboring string, not a subset. LobbyVault counts 55,580 itemized contributions for LAFAYETTE, CA against $19,230,041. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 55,580 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Lafayette total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed LAFAYETTE with state CA. Office addresses and mail that list Lafayette can be part of $19,230,041 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 55,580-line count follows the same rule.

Are Lafayette numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $19,230,041 and 55,580 lines for LAFAYETTE, 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.