HARTFORD, CT: $19.2M on 63,507 FEC receipts

63,507 lines carrying $19,172,837

The headline pair is $19,172,837 and 63,507 lines. The implied average is about $302. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the HARTFORD book. Hartford County filers typed HARTFORD with state CT.

Hartford is the capital-city string as typed. West Hartford and East Hartford are different stored names. New Haven is a separate south-central key, not a merge with HARTFORD, 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. Read $19,172,837 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of HARTFORD gave. The 63,507 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints HARTFORD together with West Hartford, East Hartford, and Wethersfield, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $19,172,837 on 63,507 HARTFORD, CT rows, mean near $302. Keep the stored spelling HARTFORD in the citation.

Why HARTFORD on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Hartford give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city HARTFORD, CT total $19,172,837 across 63,507 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. Not when filers typed WEST HARTFORD. That is a different city string. This extract is HARTFORD, CT only.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $19,172,837. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $302 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

HARTFORD receipts versus local campaigns

A HARTFORD, CT tag records the contributor city on a federal itemization. It does not record where a HARTFORD candidate spent money. $19,172,837 can leave town. Unitemized federal gifts and CT state-office receipts sit outside the 63,507 lines.

Mail and office addresses that store HARTFORD still count. That is why West Hartford, East Hartford, and Wethersfield should not be treated as the same book. About $302 per line is arithmetic on $19,172,837 and 63,507.

Reading HARTFORD against New Haven

Place HARTFORD next to New Haven only if both figures are contributor-city itemized federal receipts. A capital-city mid-volume book: 63,507 lines, $19,172,837, mean near $302.

West Hartford, East Hartford, and Wethersfield remain other keys. Keep state CT so HARTFORD, CT is not added to a twin elsewhere. CT state-campaign totals are a different filing system than this FEC city extract.

CT ZIPs are not a substitute for HARTFORD

Do not back into a HARTFORD story from a ZIP you assume belongs there. This packet does not publish those codes. 63,507 city-field lines wait on the live hub and the ZIP directory for any geographic split.

Candidate quality, issue fights, and local election results are not in the packet. The extract’s numbers are $19,172,837 and 63,507 from FEC.gov for the city field HARTFORD, CT.

Packet facts for HARTFORD

$19,172,837 divided by 63,507 is about $302. Quote the pair. Quoting only the mean hides the line count. Repeat gifts add rows. Hartford County is the geography of the string, not a summed county total.

West Hartford is next door on a map and separate on the tape. Cite $19,172,837 with 63,507 from FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault. If the live HARTFORD hub disagrees with this snapshot, the newer FEC extract controls.

Researchers citing HARTFORD should keep state CT 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 $19,172,837 or 63,507 without this guide rewriting itself. Treat the mean near $302 as division only. West Hartford, East Hartford, and Wethersfield remain other strings. The 63,507-line count still is not a headcount.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city HARTFORD, CT?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city HARTFORD, CT total $19,172,837 across 63,507 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 Hartford. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $302 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Does Hartford’s total include West Hartford?

Not when filers typed WEST HARTFORD. That is a different city string. This extract is HARTFORD, CT only. LobbyVault counts 63,507 itemized contributions for HARTFORD, CT against $19,172,837. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 63,507 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Hartford total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed HARTFORD with state CT. Office addresses and mail that list Hartford can be part of $19,172,837 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 63,507-line count follows the same rule.

Are Hartford numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $19,172,837 and 63,507 lines for HARTFORD, 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.