FAIRFIELD, CT: $24.9M on 88,352 FEC receipts

Reading $24,944,085 as a city-string roll-up

The headline pair is $24,944,085 and 88,352 lines. The implied average is about $282. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the Fairfield, CT book.

Fairfield’s string is separate from Bridgeport, Westport, and Southport on the FEC city key. Filers typed FAIRFIELD in the city field. LobbyVault summed rows with that string and state CT. 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 Fairfield together with Bridgeport and Westport, the FEC file still splits them. Southport as a neighborhood label is not auto-merged either. This extract’s only city total is $24,944,085 on 88,352 FAIRFIELD, CT rows, mean near $282.

Why FAIRFIELD, CT on the receipt is not a census of Fairfield

Searchers often want “how much did people in Fairfield give.” The honest citation is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city FAIRFIELD, CT total $24,944,085 across 88,352 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $24,944,085. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. State CT is what keeps this page off Fairfield, CA.

Outside the Fairfield itemized book

$24,944,085 is not spending by Fairfield candidates. A candidate who lives in Fairfield can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged FAIRFIELD, CT can go to a committee anywhere.

A mean near $282 does not describe a median resident of Fairfield. Means move with a few large lines.

Postal confusion with Bridgeport, Westport, or Southport is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $24,944,085 counts rows that stored FAIRFIELD, CT. 88,352 lines. About $282 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs.

Fairfield, CT versus other Gold Coast strings

Fairfield sits on a mid-volume book: 88,352 lines produce $24,944,085, a mean near $282. That line count is not a unique-donor count.

Comparing Fairfield’s mean to Westport is only valid on the same series: contributor city, itemized federal receipts. Mixing in Connecticut state data breaks the comparison.

A Fairfield total of $24,944,085 does not absorb Bridgeport, Westport, or Southport. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State CT stays on the citation so FAIRFIELD, CT is not merged with Fairfield, CA or Fairfield, IA.

City total versus postal codes in CT

88,352 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 Fairfield 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 Fairfield 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 $24,944,085

A mean of about $282 is division of $24,944,085 by 88,352. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of Fairfield.

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

Fairfield’s $24,944,085 across 88,352 contributions is a Connecticut city field, mean near $282. Bridgeport and Westport are neighboring strings, not subsets. Fairfield County is not summed here. Repeat gifts add rows. Connecticut state-office receipts are omitted. Cite $24,944,085 with 88,352 from FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

Researchers citing Fairfield, Connecticut, should keep Fairfield County and Bridgeport off the sentence unless they add those hubs on purpose. The live Fairfield table can show named committees that this snapshot does not list. A later FEC extract can move $24,944,085 or 88,352 without this guide rewriting itself. Treat the mean near $282 as division only. Connecticut state-office receipts sit outside both packet facts. If a ZIP page for a Fairfield code disagrees with the city hub, quote both keys rather than forcing a match. Fairfield, California, is a different state field. Westport remains another string. The 88,352-line count still is not a headcount of Fairfield people.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city Fairfield, CT?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city FAIRFIELD, CT total $24,944,085 across 88,352 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 Fairfield. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

Is this Fairfield, Connecticut or another Fairfield?

This extract is FAIRFIELD with state CT: 88,352 lines and $24,944,085. Fairfield, CA, and Fairfield, IA, would be different city keys. Repeat gifts, redesignations, and memo entries can add rows without adding new donors. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 88,352 should not be quoted as a population.

Does the Fairfield total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed FAIRFIELD with state CT. Office addresses and mail that list Fairfield can be part of $24,944,085 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 88,352-line count follows the same rule.

Are Fairfield numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $24,944,085 and 88,352 lines for FAIRFIELD, CT. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from CT are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $282 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.