What electrical contractor donors give in federal races

Mid-volume trades receipts

$6,243,964 is the occupation-level dollar total. 10,697 is the itemization count. 1,053 is the donor-record count. Dividing dollars by lines yields about $584 per contribution. Dividing by donors yields about $5,930 per donor record. The repeat rate is about 10 itemizations per donor record. About ten thousand lines from 1,053 donor records is a mid-volume trades key—more people than concentrated C-suite strings, fewer lines than some union-heavy occupations.

Those means are arithmetic, not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution, no party split, and no cycle series. A few large lines can lift $584 while most receipts stay smaller—or the reverse. This guide cites only the three harvested facts and the trivial ratios computed from them.

Mean dollars per line sit above high-frequency trades that post tens of thousands of small itemizations. The packet still has no median and no union-versus-owner split.

Self-reported contractor text, not a license list

ELECTRICIAN, ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR, and CONTRACTOR are different occupation keys if committees typed them that way. A donor who files ELECTRICIAN in one cycle and ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR in another is split across pages.

FEC Form 3 (candidate committees) and Form 3X (PACs and party committees) collect occupation as free text on itemized Schedule A. FEC.gov publishes what committees reported. There is no drop-down of job titles and no license check. LobbyVault groups rows whose occupation field equals ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR after indexing. ELECTRICIAN, CONTRACTOR, and GENERAL CONTRACTOR remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR.

What 1,053 donor records can and cannot show

1,053 donor records used ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR on at least one matching itemization. It is not a count of licensed electrical contractors. The FEC record does not check state contractor licenses. Retired owners and employees who borrow the firm title can all appear.

A person who listed ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR on some gifts and a neighboring title on others will appear in both occupation totals for the respective lines. Occupation is stored per transaction, not as a lifetime identity field. Address variants can also split one human into more than one donor record.

Occupation versus construction industry pages

Industry pages on LobbyVault group employer-side categories. Industry pages may group construction or specialty-trade employers. This occupation page groups only the job-title string ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR. Adding $6,243,964 to an industry total double-counts overlapping itemizations. Use one filter at a time unless you are tracing a single row.

Open the ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR occupation page for the indexed line list. Use the occupations index to place this string next to neighboring labels. Independent expenditures are not contributions and are not inside $6,243,964.

How to cite the electrical contractor key

A usable public-record citation names the exact string: ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR itemizations in FEC bulk data indexed on LobbyVault sum to $6,243,964 on 10,697 contributions from 1,053 donor records. Add that the figure is itemized occupation money. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code, so they never enter the total.

Source: FEC Form 3/3X schedules. The facts do not encode party. Recipient committees are a different join. Occupation is not a licensing roster and not a construction-industry total.

Treating ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR as typed trades language

ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR in this extract is $6,243,964 on 10,697 itemizations from 1,053 donor records, or $6.2 million in compact millions. Those dollars are itemized activity on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov bulk data. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code, so they never enter the total. Refunds and memo entries follow FEC presentation in the underlying schedules; this guide does not invent a fourth occupation-level fact. A state contractor board can list who may pull electrical permits. FEC itemizations list whoever typed ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR. The occupation field is donor-supplied free text, not a NAICS industry code and not a verified roster.

Arithmetic means on this key are about $584 per contribution and about $5,930 per donor record, with roughly 10 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. ELECTRICIAN, CONTRACTOR, and GENERAL CONTRACTOR remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR. Combining those keys without naming each source total changes the unit from one FEC string to a homemade cluster.

Industry pages group employer-side categories and should not be added to $6,243,964. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR, dollars equal $6,243,964, contributions equal 10,697, donors equal 1,053. Candidate and committee pages hold the recipient side. LobbyVault does not infer motive from the occupation column.

Researchers who need cycle cuts, employer text, or recipient lists should leave this guide and open the live occupation hub. This file restates harvested packet facts only. Compact millions ($6.2 million) are the same headline amount as $6,243,964, rounded to one decimal place. Keep the contribution count and the donor-record count in any sentence that quotes the dollars, so readers can see the shape of ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR in this extract. Exact-string matching is the method. Anything else is a different query.

Questions

How much have electrical contractor donors given in FEC records?

Itemizations that list ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR sum to $6,243,964 across 10,697 contributions and 1,053 donor records in the LobbyVault index of FEC bulk data. The total is an exact-string occupation filter. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does the FEC verify electrical contractor licenses?

No. Occupation is self-reported free text. ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR itemizations still sum to $6,243,964 from 10,697 contributions and 1,053 donor records. Quote those three facts; do not treat them as a license census. The occupation field is donor-typed on Form 3 and Form 3X. LobbyVault indexes exact strings from FEC.gov bulk data. Unitemized gifts never carry an occupation code.

Are electricians included?

Only if the occupation field equals ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR. ELECTRICIAN is a different key. This page is $6,243,964, 10,697 lines, and 1,053 donors for the contractor string. Cite the three packet facts with the exact occupation string. Source: FEC.gov Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault. Unitemized receipts are outside this total.

Where do I review individual gifts?

The ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR occupation page lists indexed itemizations. Verify amounts on FEC.gov. The occupation total is $6,243,964. Confirm surprising amounts on the committee report at FEC.gov. Occupation matching is exact-string only. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total. Industry pages group employers, not this occupation string.