STOCKTON, CA: $25.1M on 76,156 FEC receipts

Reading $25,144,829 as a city-string roll-up

The headline pair is $25,144,829 and 76,156 lines. The implied average is about $330. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the Stockton book.

San Joaquin County’s Stockton string is separate from Lodi, Manteca, and Tracy on the FEC city key. Filers typed STOCKTON in the city field. LobbyVault summed rows with that string and state CA. 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.

If a newsroom map paints Stockton together with Lodi and Manteca, the FEC file still splits them. Tracy too. This extract’s only city total is $25,144,829 on 76,156 STOCKTON, CA rows, mean near $330.

Why STOCKTON on the receipt is not a census of Stockton

Searchers often want “how much did people in Stockton give.” The honest citation is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city STOCKTON, CA total $25,144,829 across 76,156 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $25,144,829. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here.

Outside the Stockton itemized book

$25,144,829 is not spending by Stockton candidates. A candidate who lives in Stockton can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged STOCKTON, CA can go to a committee anywhere.

A mean near $330 does not describe a median resident of Stockton. Means move with a few large lines.

Postal confusion with Lodi, Manteca, or Tracy is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $25,144,829 counts rows that stored STOCKTON, CA. 76,156 lines. About $330 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs. This packet is not Stockton, another state’s same name.

Stockton’s Central Valley mid-mean book

Stockton is a mid-mean book on this extract: 76,156 lines produce $25,144,829, a mean near $330. Mid-mean is not the same as unique people.

Comparing Stockton’s mean to Sacramento or a Bay Area city is only valid on the same series: contributor city, itemized federal receipts. Mixing in California state data breaks the comparison.

A Stockton total of $25,144,829 does not absorb Lodi, Manteca, or Tracy. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State CA stays on the citation so STOCKTON, CA is not merged with a same-named place elsewhere.

City total versus postal codes in CA

76,156 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 Stockton 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 Stockton 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.

Source tables for $25,144,829

A mean of about $330 is division of $25,144,829 by 76,156. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of Stockton.

Internal links on this page go only to the Stockton city hub, the all-cities directory, and the ZIP directory. Those are the three paths that match this packet.

Stockton’s $25,144,829 across 76,156 contributions is a San Joaquin County city field, mean near $330. Lodi, Manteca, and Tracy are neighboring strings, not subsets. San Joaquin County is not summed here. Repeat gifts add rows. California state-office receipts are omitted. Cite $25,144,829 with 76,156 from FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

Researchers citing Stockton should keep San Joaquin County and Sacramento off the sentence unless they add those hubs on purpose. The live Stockton table can show named committees that this snapshot does not list. A later FEC extract can move $25,144,829 or 76,156 without this guide rewriting itself. Treat the mean near $330 as division only. California state-office receipts sit outside both packet facts. If a ZIP page for a Stockton code disagrees with the city hub, quote both keys rather than forcing a match. Lodi, Manteca, and Tracy remain other strings. The 76,156-line count still is not a headcount of Stockton people.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city Stockton, CA?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city STOCKTON, CA total $25,144,829 across 76,156 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 Stockton. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

What does the Stockton contribution count mean?

LobbyVault counts 76,156 itemized contributions for STOCKTON, CA. 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 76,156 should not be quoted as a population. The matching dollar total on the same extract is $25,144,829.

Does the Stockton total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed STOCKTON with state CA. Office addresses and mail that list Stockton can be part of $25,144,829 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 76,156-line count follows the same rule.

Are Stockton numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $25,144,829 and 76,156 lines for STOCKTON, 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. The mean of about $330 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.