SAN JOSE, CA: $68.9M on 399,162 FEC receipts

A high-volume South Bay book

Three hundred ninety-nine thousand one hundred sixty-two lines produce $68,874,731. Divide the pair and the mean itemized line is about $173. That is a volume shape: many receipts, a lower average than cities with similar dollars and fewer lines.

Volume is not unique people. Repeat givers can inflate 399,162 without adding donors. This packet publishes no unique-donor figure. $68,874,731 is still the dollar sum of those lines.

San Francisco, Palo Alto, Los Altos, and Santa Clara are other Bay Area city strings. They are not inside $68,874,731 unless the filer typed SAN JOSE. Santa Clara County is orientation, not an FEC roll-up.

San Jose is not the Bay Area

Adding San Francisco, Oakland, or Palo Alto to San Jose and calling the sum “Bay Area” is a recode this packet does not publish. Keep SAN JOSE, CA as the citation: $68,874,731 and 399,162 lines.

A PAC or joint-fundraising committee that listed San Jose stays in this bucket. LobbyVault does not strip those rows. Recheck both facts on the live hub after a later extract.

City field versus ZIP pages

Filers type a city. The Commission stores that string. Recoding San Jose into a Census place or a Silicon Valley map would be a different product.

ZIP pages cut the same federal series by postal code. Summing South Bay ZIPs will not reproduce $68,874,731 when some receipts used Santa Clara or Campbell as the city. The 399,162-line count follows the city field.

Limits of the San Jose aggregate

California state campaigns file under state law. Those receipts are outside $68,874,731 and outside 399,162. Unitemized federal gifts are omitted. Independent expenditures that never appear as contribution itemizations are outside both facts.

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

A San Jose citation that names FEC.gov and prints $68,874,731 without 399,162 hides one of the highest line counts in this batch, mean near $173. Santa Clara County maps do not replace the city field. Bay Area remains a research phrase.

If a later extract moves San Jose’s pair, the live hub is the authority. This guide is a snapshot. Open original reports on FEC.gov when a named San Jose receipt is the story. Unitemized gifts and California state filings remain outside $68,874,731 and 399,162.

Citing SAN JOSE, CA

Name FEC.gov, name contributor city, and print $68,874,731 with 399,162 together. Dropping the line count hides San Jose’s volume shape and the mean near $173.

If the live hub disagrees with this snapshot, trust the hub. Open original reports on FEC.gov when a named San Jose receipt matters.

San Jose’s $68,874,731 on 399,162 lines, mean near $173, is the high-volume South Bay book on this extract. Keep 399,162 in every citation or the volume shape disappears.

San Francisco and Palo Alto remain the neighboring hubs readers most often want to merge. This packet does not merge them. $68,874,731 is SAN JOSE only.

What a San Jose reader should carry

Carry FEC.gov, contributor city SAN JOSE, CA, $68,874,731, and 399,162 lines. The mean near $173 is optional arithmetic from those two packet facts. It is not a typical gift and not a median.

San Francisco, Palo Alto, Los Altos, Santa Clara, and Campbell stay off this page unless the filer typed SAN JOSE. California state-office receipts stay off this page. Unitemized federal gifts stay off this page.

Santa Clara County is orientation, not a roll-up. Bay Area is a research phrase. A high line count can include repeat givers. 399,162 is not a unique-donor census. $68,874,731 is still the dollar sum of those lines.

The live San Jose hub is the table. This guide is the footnote. If they disagree, trust the hub. Open original reports on FEC.gov when a named San Jose receipt matters. ZIP pages split a different field.

San Jose’s 399,162 lines behind $68,874,731, mean near $173, are among the highest line counts in this batch. Volume is the shape. Unique people are not in the packet.

San Francisco, Palo Alto, Los Altos, and Santa Clara remain other Bay Area hubs. Adding them to San Jose and calling the sum Silicon Valley is a recode. $68,874,731 is SAN JOSE only.

California state campaigns and unitemized federal gifts sit outside both facts. Santa Clara County is orientation. The San Jose hub holds the live table. ZIP pages regroup by postal code and will not automatically reproduce $68,874,731. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Quote $68,874,731 with 399,162.

Questions

What is San Jose’s federal contribution total on LobbyVault?

Itemized FEC.gov receipts listing contributor city SAN JOSE, CA total $68,874,731 across 399,162 contributions. That pair is a city-string roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of San Jose residents. Unitemized gifts sit outside both figures.

Why is San Jose’s line count high relative to the dollars?

This extract stores 399,162 itemized lines behind $68,874,731, a mean near $173. That is a volume book: many receipts, a lower average than cities with similar dollars and fewer lines. The packet has no unique-donor figure. Quote both facts together rather than the mean alone.

Does San Jose’s total include San Francisco or Palo Alto?

No, unless the filer typed SAN JOSE. San Francisco, Palo Alto, and Los Altos are separate city strings. $68,874,731 is the SAN JOSE, CA match. The 399,162 lines follow the same rule. Bay Area labels are not an FEC dimension on this hub. Bay Area labels are not an FEC dimension on this San Jose hub.

Where do the San Jose facts come from?

Both facts come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $68,874,731 and 399,162 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 $173 is arithmetic from those two packet numbers.