WEST PALM BEACH, FL: $46.2M on 105,344 FEC receipts

West Palm Beach’s volume relative to its dollars

One hundred five thousand three hundred forty-four lines produce $46,160,971. Divide the pair and the mean itemized line is about $438. Palm Beach keeps a separate Florida hub with a different line count. That contrast is a shape fact, not a character study of the Intracoastal.

Palm Beach, Boca Raton, and Jupiter are other Palm Beach County city strings. They are not inside $46,160,971 unless the filer typed WEST PALM BEACH. Palm Beach County is orientation, not an FEC roll-up.

Office addresses can share the West Palm Beach city field with household streets. Totals can include a PAC or joint-fundraising address when that is what filers typed. The 105,344 lines are receipts, not unique persons.

Not a Palm Beach sum

Palm Beach, Boca Raton, and Fort Lauderdale keep separate Florida hubs. Adding them to West Palm Beach would be a recode. This packet publishes WEST PALM BEACH, FL only: $46,160,971 and 105,344 lines.

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

WEST versus the island name

FEC.gov stores whatever city appeared on the itemized receipt. WEST PALM BEACH plus FL is the match. Dropping WEST recodes the key into Palm Beach. Recoding into a Census place is a different dataset.

ZIP pages cut the same federal series by postal code. Summing West Palm Beach-area ZIPs can diverge from $46,160,971 when some receipts used Palm Beach or Lake Worth as the city. The 105,344-line count follows the city field.

Limits of the West Palm Beach aggregate

Florida state campaigns file under state law. Those receipts are outside $46,160,971 and outside 105,344. Unitemized federal gifts are omitted. Independent expenditures that never appear as contribution itemizations are outside both facts.

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

Citing WEST PALM BEACH, FL

Name FEC.gov, name contributor city, and print $46,160,971 with 105,344 together. Keep WEST in the city name so the key is not merged with Palm Beach.

West Palm Beach will keep attracting queries that treat the city as a proxy for county residents. FEC.gov stores a contributor-city field. $46,160,971 across 105,344 lines is what that field sums to in this aggregate. A mean near $438 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 West Palm Beach receipt matters.

How researchers should use the West Palm Beach hub

Start on the live West Palm Beach city page, then open ZIP pages if a postal cut is the real question. $46,160,971 is the city-string dollar total in this snapshot. 105,344 is the matching line count. Those two numbers move together when FEC.gov amends a receipt. They do not move because a researcher prefers Palm Beach or Jupiter as the “real” county. Filers typed WEST PALM BEACH. LobbyVault indexed WEST PALM BEACH. Palm Beach County, the mainland, and “the Treasure Coast corridor” are useful for maps and news copy. They are not FEC dimensions on this hub.

A mean near $438 is only $46,160,971 divided by 105,344. It is not a typical West Palm Beach household gift, not a typical downtown-office gift, and not a typical island-adjacent 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 West Palm Beach is more or less “politically active” than Palm Beach because the line counts differ. Palm Beach is a different city string with its own hub.

Cite the pair in one sentence: contributor city WEST PALM BEACH, FL, $46,160,971, 105,344 itemized federal contributions, source FEC.gov via LobbyVault. Keep WEST in the city name. 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 West Palm Beach 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 West Palm Beach’s federal contribution total on LobbyVault?

Itemized FEC.gov receipts listing contributor city WEST PALM BEACH, FL total $46,160,971 across 105,344 contributions. That pair is a city-string roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of West Palm Beach residents. Unitemized gifts sit outside both figures.

How should I read West Palm Beach’s 105,344 contributions?

LobbyVault counts 105,344 itemized lines for WEST PALM BEACH, 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 $46,160,971.

Does West Palm Beach’s total include Palm Beach?

Only if the filer typed WEST PALM BEACH. Palm Beach, Boca Raton, and Jupiter are separate city strings when they appear that way on the receipt. $46,160,971 is the WEST PALM BEACH, FL match. The 105,344 lines follow the same rule. Metro labels are not an FEC dimension on this hub.

Where do the West Palm Beach facts come from?

Both facts come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $46,160,971 and 105,344 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 $438 is arithmetic from those two packet numbers.