WEST HARTFORD, CT: $23.7M on 87,170 FEC receipts

West Hartford is not Hartford on the FEC city key

The headline pair is $23,728,546 and 87,170 lines. The implied average is about $272. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the West Hartford book.

Filers typed WEST HARTFORD with state CT. LobbyVault summed those rows. Hartford, East Hartford, and Farmington are other city strings. 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 West Hartford together with Hartford as one capital-area total, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $23,728,546 on 87,170 WEST HARTFORD, CT rows, mean near $272.

Why WEST HARTFORD on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in West Hartford give.” The honest citation is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city WEST HARTFORD, CT total $23,728,546 across 87,170 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. Treating the page as a Hartford merge inflates it further.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $23,728,546. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here.

Outside the West Hartford itemized book

$23,728,546 is not spending by West Hartford candidates. A candidate who lives in West Hartford can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged WEST HARTFORD, CT can go to a committee anywhere.

A mean near $272 does not describe a median resident of West Hartford. Means move with a few large lines.

Postal confusion with Hartford, East Hartford, or Farmington is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $23,728,546 counts rows that stored WEST HARTFORD, CT. 87,170 lines. About $272 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs.

West Hartford’s mid-volume Connecticut book

West Hartford sits on a mid-volume book: 87,170 lines produce $23,728,546, a mean near $272. That line count is not a unique-donor count.

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

A West Hartford total of $23,728,546 does not absorb Hartford, East Hartford, or Farmington. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State CT stays on the citation so WEST HARTFORD, CT is not merged with a same-named place elsewhere.

City total versus postal codes in CT

87,170 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 West Hartford 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 West Hartford 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 $23,728,546

A mean of about $272 is division of $23,728,546 by 87,170. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of West Hartford.

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

West Hartford’s $23,728,546 across 87,170 contributions is a Connecticut city field, mean near $272. Hartford and East Hartford are neighboring strings, not subsets. Repeat gifts add rows. Connecticut state-office receipts are omitted. Cite $23,728,546 with 87,170 from FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

Researchers citing West Hartford should keep the City of Hartford off the sentence unless they add that hub on purpose. The live West Hartford table can show named committees that this snapshot does not list. A later FEC extract can move $23,728,546 or 87,170 without this guide rewriting itself. Treat the mean near $272 as division only. Connecticut state-office receipts sit outside both packet facts. If a ZIP page for a West Hartford code disagrees with the city hub, quote both keys rather than forcing a match. East Hartford and Farmington remain other strings. The 87,170-line count still is not a headcount of West Hartford people.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city West Hartford, CT?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city WEST HARTFORD, CT total $23,728,546 across 87,170 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 the City of Hartford. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

Is West Hartford folded into Hartford’s FEC city total?

No. LobbyVault counts 87,170 itemized contributions for WEST HARTFORD, CT against $23,728,546. Hartford is a different city string. Repeat gifts, redesignations, and memo entries can add rows without adding new donors. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 87,170 should not be quoted as a population.

Does the West Hartford total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed WEST HARTFORD with state CT. Office addresses and mail that list West Hartford can be part of $23,728,546 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 87,170-line count follows the same rule.

Are West Hartford numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $23,728,546 and 87,170 lines for WEST 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. The mean of about $272 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.