FT LAUDERDALE, FL: $23.8M on 62,884 FEC receipts

FT is the stored spelling for $23,841,914

The headline pair is $23,841,914 and 62,884 lines. The implied average is about $379. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the FT LAUDERDALE book.

Broward County filers typed FT LAUDERDALE with state FL. LobbyVault summed those rows. A spelled-out FORT LAUDERDALE row, if it exists, would be a different key. 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 Fort Lauderdale together with Miami and Hollywood, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $23,841,914 on 62,884 FT LAUDERDALE, FL rows, mean near $379. Keep FT in the citation.

Why FT LAUDERDALE on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Fort Lauderdale give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city FT LAUDERDALE, FL total $23,841,914 across 62,884 contributions. Dropping the FT spelling can send a reader to a different key.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $23,841,914. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here.

Outside the FT LAUDERDALE itemized book

$23,841,914 is not spending by Fort Lauderdale candidates. A candidate who lives in the city can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged FT LAUDERDALE, FL can go to a committee anywhere.

A mean near $379 does not describe a median resident. Means move with a few large lines.

Postal confusion with Hollywood, Pompano Beach, or Miami is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $23,841,914 counts rows that stored FT LAUDERDALE, FL. 62,884 lines. About $379 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs.

FT LAUDERDALE versus Miami on the FEC tape

FT LAUDERDALE is a mid-mean book on this extract: 62,884 lines produce $23,841,914, a mean near $379. Mid-mean is not the same as unique people.

Comparing this mean to Miami is only valid on the same series: contributor city, itemized federal receipts. Mixing in Florida state data breaks the comparison.

A FT LAUDERDALE total of $23,841,914 does not absorb Miami, Hollywood, or Pompano Beach. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State FL stays on the citation.

City total versus postal codes in FL

62,884 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 FT LAUDERDALE 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 Fort Lauderdale politics sits outside the extract. This guide stays on the two numbers FEC.gov supplied for the FT city field.

Source tables for $23,841,914

A mean of about $379 is division of $23,841,914 by 62,884. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident.

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

FT LAUDERDALE’s $23,841,914 across 62,884 contributions is a Broward County city field, mean near $379. Keep the FT abbreviation. Miami and Hollywood are neighboring strings, not subsets. Repeat gifts add rows. Florida state-office receipts are omitted. Cite $23,841,914 with 62,884 from FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

Researchers citing FT LAUDERDALE should keep the FT abbreviation in the sentence so readers do not hunt a spelled-out twin. The live city table can show named committees that this snapshot does not list. A later FEC extract can move $23,841,914 or 62,884 without this guide rewriting itself. Treat the mean near $379 as division only. Florida state-office receipts sit outside both packet facts. If a ZIP page disagrees with the city hub, quote both keys rather than forcing a match. Miami, Hollywood, and Pompano Beach remain other strings. The 62,884-line count still is not a headcount. Broward County is not summed here.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city FT LAUDERDALE, FL?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city FT LAUDERDALE, FL total $23,841,914 across 62,884 contributions in the LobbyVault aggregate. That figure is a city-string roll-up of federal Schedule A rows using the FT abbreviation, not a unique-donor count. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

Is FT LAUDERDALE the same as Fort Lauderdale on FEC reports?

This extract is the stored string FT LAUDERDALE with state FL: 62,884 lines and $23,841,914. A spelled-out FORT LAUDERDALE row, if FEC stored it, would be a different city key. Do not assume the two spellings are merged. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 62,884 should not be quoted as a population.

Does the FT LAUDERDALE total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed FT LAUDERDALE with state FL. Office addresses and mail that list that spelling can be part of $23,841,914 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 62,884-line count follows the same rule.

Are FT LAUDERDALE numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $23,841,914 and 62,884 lines for FT LAUDERDALE, FL. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from FL are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $379 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.