LONG BEACH, CA: $53.1M on 180,882 FEC receipts

Long Beach’s line count next to its dollars

One hundred eighty thousand eight hundred eighty-two lines produce $53,135,454. Divide the pair and the mean itemized line is about $294. That mean is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a ranking of harbor-area giving. FEC.gov does not publish a median or a unique-donor count on this city aggregate.

Signal Hill, San Pedro, and Torrance are other Los Angeles County city strings. They are not inside $53,135,454 unless the filer typed LONG BEACH. Los Angeles County is orientation, not an FEC roll-up.

Office addresses can share the Long Beach city field with household streets. Totals can include a PAC or joint-fundraising address when that is what filers typed. The 180,882 lines are receipts, not unique persons.

Not a Los Angeles sum

Los Angeles, Santa Monica, and Beverly Hills keep separate California hubs. Adding them to Long Beach would be a recode. This packet publishes LONG BEACH, CA only: $53,135,454 and 180,882 lines.

State CA on the key is required in the citation. Recheck both facts on the live hub if a later extract lands.

City string versus postal map

FEC.gov stores whatever city appeared on the itemized receipt. LONG BEACH plus CA is the match. Recoding into a Census place or a port-district map is a different dataset.

ZIP pages cut the same federal series by postal code. Summing Long Beach-area ZIPs can diverge from $53,135,454 when some receipts used Lakewood or Signal Hill as the city. The 180,882-line count follows the city field.

Limits of the Long Beach aggregate

California state campaigns file under state law. Those receipts are outside $53,135,454 and outside 180,882. Unitemized federal gifts are omitted. Independent expenditures that never appear as contribution itemizations are outside both facts.

Nothing here estimates how Long Beach voted. Occupation and recipient live on other FEC fields. Use the city table, then ZIP pages, then the cities index.

Citing LONG BEACH, CA

Name FEC.gov, name contributor city, and print $53,135,454 with 180,882 together. Dropping the line count hides Long Beach’s volume on a mid-fifty-million dollar book.

Long Beach will keep attracting queries that treat the city as a proxy for residents of the harbor. FEC.gov stores a contributor-city field. $53,135,454 across 180,882 lines is what that field sums to in this aggregate. A mean near $294 follows from division. Unique donors are not in the packet. Party is not in the packet. If the live hub disagrees with this snapshot, trust the hub. Open original reports on FEC.gov when a named Long Beach receipt matters.

How researchers should use the Long Beach hub

Start on the live Long Beach city page, then open ZIP pages if a postal cut is the real question. $53,135,454 is the city-string dollar total in this snapshot. 180,882 is the matching line count. Those two numbers move together when FEC.gov amends a receipt. They do not move because a researcher prefers San Pedro or Signal Hill as the “real” harbor. Filers typed LONG BEACH. LobbyVault indexed LONG BEACH. Los Angeles County, the port complex, and “greater Long Beach” are useful for maps and news copy. They are not FEC dimensions on this hub.

A mean near $294 is only $53,135,454 divided by 180,882. It is not a typical Long Beach household gift, not a typical port-worker gift, and not a typical aerospace-employee gift. Occupation is a different FEC field. Recipient is a different FEC field. Party is a different FEC field. None of those fields are in this packet. Do not infer them from the mean. Do not infer turnout. Do not infer that Long Beach is more or less “politically active” than Los Angeles because the line counts differ. Los Angeles is a different city string with its own hub.

Cite the pair in one sentence: contributor city LONG BEACH, CA, $53,135,454, 180,882 itemized federal contributions, source FEC.gov via LobbyVault. If a later extract on the live hub prints a different pair, discard this snapshot. Original PDFs and electronic filings remain on FEC.gov for any named Long Beach receipt that needs a line-by-line check. California non-federal filings never enter either fact. Unitemized federal gifts never enter either fact. Independent expenditures that are not contribution itemizations never enter either fact. That is the full scope of this city page.

Questions

What is Long Beach’s federal contribution total on LobbyVault?

Itemized FEC.gov receipts listing contributor city LONG BEACH, CA total $53,135,454 across 180,882 contributions. That pair is a city-string roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of Long Beach residents. Unitemized gifts sit outside both figures.

How should I read Long Beach’s 180,882 contributions?

LobbyVault counts 180,882 itemized lines for LONG BEACH, CA. That is a line count, not a headcount of unique people. Repeat gifts and memo entries can add rows without adding donors. This packet publishes no unique-donor figure. The matching dollar total is $53,135,454.

Does Long Beach’s total include Los Angeles or Signal Hill?

Only if the filer typed LONG BEACH. Los Angeles, Signal Hill, and San Pedro are separate city strings when they appear that way on the receipt. $53,135,454 is the LONG BEACH, CA match. The 180,882 lines follow the same rule. Metro labels are not an FEC dimension on this hub.

Where do the Long Beach facts come from?

Both facts come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $53,135,454 and 180,882 lines. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. California non-federal filings are outside the pair. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $294 is arithmetic from those two packet numbers.