FORT LAUDERDALE, FL: $51.4M on 120,318 FEC receipts

Fort Lauderdale’s volume relative to its dollars

One hundred twenty thousand three hundred eighteen lines produce $51,390,297. Divide the pair and the mean itemized line is about $427. Miami and Boca Raton keep separate Florida hubs with their own line counts. That contrast is a shape fact, not a character study of the Intracoastal.

Hollywood, Pompano Beach, and Plantation are other Broward city strings. They are not inside $51,390,297 unless the filer typed FORT LAUDERDALE. Broward County is orientation, not an FEC roll-up.

Office addresses can share the Fort Lauderdale city field with household streets. Totals can include a PAC or joint-fundraising address when that is what filers typed. The 120,318 lines are receipts, not unique persons.

Not a South Florida sum

Miami, West Palm Beach, and Miami Beach keep separate Florida hubs. Adding them to Fort Lauderdale would be a recode. This packet publishes FORT LAUDERDALE, FL only: $51,390,297 and 120,318 lines.

State FL on the key is required in the citation. Recheck both facts on the live hub if a later extract lands.

City string versus postal map

FEC.gov stores whatever city appeared on the itemized receipt. FORT LAUDERDALE plus FL is the match. Recoding into a Census place or a tri-county metro label is a different dataset.

ZIP pages cut the same federal series by postal code. Summing Fort Lauderdale-area ZIPs can diverge from $51,390,297 when some receipts used Oakland Park or Wilton Manors as the city. The 120,318-line count follows the city field.

Limits of the Fort Lauderdale aggregate

Florida state campaigns file under state law. Those receipts are outside $51,390,297 and outside 120,318. Unitemized federal gifts are omitted. Independent expenditures that never appear as contribution itemizations are outside both facts.

Nothing here estimates how Fort Lauderdale voted. Occupation and recipient live on other FEC fields. Use the city table, then ZIP pages, then the cities index.

Citing FORT LAUDERDALE, FL

Name FEC.gov, name contributor city, and print $51,390,297 with 120,318 together. Dropping the line count hides Fort Lauderdale’s volume on a mid-fifty-million dollar book.

Fort Lauderdale will keep attracting queries that treat the city as a proxy for Broward residents. FEC.gov stores a contributor-city field. $51,390,297 across 120,318 lines is what that field sums to in this aggregate. A mean near $427 follows from division. Unique donors are not in the packet. Party is not in the packet. If the live hub disagrees with this snapshot, trust the hub. Open original reports on FEC.gov when a named Fort Lauderdale receipt matters.

How researchers should use the Fort Lauderdale hub

Start on the live Fort Lauderdale city page, then open ZIP pages if a postal cut is the real question. $51,390,297 is the city-string dollar total in this snapshot. 120,318 is the matching line count. Those two numbers move together when FEC.gov amends a receipt. They do not move because a researcher prefers Hollywood or Pompano Beach as the “real” Broward. Filers typed FORT LAUDERDALE. LobbyVault indexed FORT LAUDERDALE. Broward County, the Intracoastal, and “greater Fort Lauderdale” are useful for maps and news copy. They are not FEC dimensions on this hub.

A mean near $427 is only $51,390,297 divided by 120,318. It is not a typical Fort Lauderdale household gift, not a typical marina gift, and not a typical downtown-office gift. Occupation is a different FEC field. Recipient is a different FEC field. Party is a different FEC field. None of those fields are in this packet. Do not infer them from the mean. Do not infer turnout. Do not infer that Fort Lauderdale is more or less “politically active” than Miami because the line counts differ. Miami is a different city string with its own hub.

Cite the pair in one sentence: contributor city FORT LAUDERDALE, FL, $51,390,297, 120,318 itemized federal contributions, source FEC.gov via LobbyVault. If a later extract on the live hub prints a different pair, discard this snapshot. Original PDFs and electronic filings remain on FEC.gov for any named Fort Lauderdale receipt that needs a line-by-line check. Florida non-federal filings never enter either fact. Unitemized federal gifts never enter either fact. Independent expenditures that are not contribution itemizations never enter either fact. That is the full scope of this city page.

Questions

What is Fort Lauderdale’s federal contribution total on LobbyVault?

Itemized FEC.gov receipts listing contributor city FORT LAUDERDALE, FL total $51,390,297 across 120,318 contributions. That pair is a city-string roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of Fort Lauderdale residents. Unitemized gifts sit outside both figures.

How should I read Fort Lauderdale’s 120,318 contributions?

LobbyVault counts 120,318 itemized lines for FORT LAUDERDALE, FL. That is a line count, not a headcount of unique people. Repeat gifts and memo entries can add rows without adding donors. This packet publishes no unique-donor figure. The matching dollar total is $51,390,297.

Does Fort Lauderdale’s total include Hollywood or Miami?

Only if the filer typed FORT LAUDERDALE. Hollywood, Pompano Beach, and Miami are separate city strings when they appear that way on the receipt. $51,390,297 is the FORT LAUDERDALE, FL match. The 120,318 lines follow the same rule. Metro labels are not an FEC dimension on this hub.

Where do the Fort Lauderdale facts come from?

Both facts come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $51,390,297 and 120,318 lines. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Florida non-federal filings are outside the pair. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $427 is arithmetic from those two packet numbers.