MARIETTA, GA: $41.0M on 158,193 FEC receipts

Marietta’s volume relative to its dollars

One hundred fifty-eight thousand one hundred ninety-three lines produce $41,028,369. Divide the pair and the mean itemized line is about $259. Atlanta keeps a separate Georgia hub with a larger dollar book. That contrast is a shape fact, not a character study of Cobb County.

Atlanta, Roswell, and Smyrna are other metro Atlanta city strings. They are not inside $41,028,369 unless the filer typed MARIETTA. Cobb County is orientation, not an FEC roll-up.

Office addresses can share the Marietta city field with household streets. Totals can include a PAC or joint-fundraising address when that is what filers typed. The 158,193 lines are receipts, not unique persons.

Not an Atlanta sum

Atlanta, Savannah, and Augusta keep separate Georgia hubs. Adding them to Marietta would be a recode. This packet publishes MARIETTA, GA only: $41,028,369 and 158,193 lines.

State GA on the key is required in the citation so MARIETTA, GA is not merged with Marietta, Ohio. Recheck both facts on the live hub if a later extract lands.

County seat versus postal map

FEC.gov stores whatever city appeared on the itemized receipt. MARIETTA plus GA is the match. Recoding into a Census place or an Atlanta-metro label is a different dataset.

ZIP pages cut the same federal series by postal code. Summing Marietta-area ZIPs can diverge from $41,028,369 when some receipts used Kennesaw or Smyrna as the city. The 158,193-line count follows the city field.

Limits of the Marietta aggregate

Georgia state campaigns file under state law. Those receipts are outside $41,028,369 and outside 158,193. Unitemized federal gifts are omitted. Independent expenditures that never appear as contribution itemizations are outside both facts.

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

Citing MARIETTA, GA

Name FEC.gov, name contributor city, and print $41,028,369 with 158,193 together. Dropping the line count hides Marietta’s volume on a forty-one-million dollar book.

Marietta will keep attracting queries that treat the county seat as a proxy for Cobb residents. FEC.gov stores a contributor-city field. $41,028,369 across 158,193 lines is what that field sums to in this aggregate. A mean near $259 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 Marietta receipt matters.

How researchers should use the Marietta hub

Start on the live Marietta city page, then open ZIP pages if a postal cut is the real question. $41,028,369 is the city-string dollar total in this snapshot. 158,193 is the matching line count. Those two numbers move together when FEC.gov amends a receipt. They do not move because a researcher prefers Atlanta or Smyrna as the “real” Cobb. Filers typed MARIETTA. LobbyVault indexed MARIETTA. Cobb County, the Square, and “the northwest Atlanta suburbs” are useful for maps and news copy. They are not FEC dimensions on this hub.

A mean near $259 is only $41,028,369 divided by 158,193. It is not a typical Marietta household gift, not a typical Lockheed-adjacent gift, and not a typical Square-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 Marietta is more or less “politically active” than Atlanta because the line counts differ. Atlanta is a different city string with its own hub.

Cite the pair in one sentence: contributor city MARIETTA, GA, $41,028,369, 158,193 itemized federal contributions, source FEC.gov via LobbyVault. Keep GA on the citation so the key is not merged with Marietta, Ohio. 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 Marietta receipt that needs a line-by-line check. Georgia 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 Marietta’s federal contribution total on LobbyVault?

Itemized FEC.gov receipts listing contributor city MARIETTA, GA total $41,028,369 across 158,193 contributions. That pair is a city-string roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of Marietta residents. Unitemized gifts sit outside both figures.

How should I read Marietta’s 158,193 contributions?

LobbyVault counts 158,193 itemized lines for MARIETTA, GA. 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 $41,028,369.

Does Marietta’s total include Atlanta or Smyrna?

Only if the filer typed MARIETTA. Atlanta, Roswell, and Smyrna are separate city strings when they appear that way on the receipt. $41,028,369 is the MARIETTA, GA match. The 158,193 lines follow the same rule. Metro labels are not an FEC dimension on this hub.

Where do the Marietta facts come from?

Both facts come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $41,028,369 and 158,193 lines. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Georgia non-federal filings are outside the pair. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $259 is arithmetic from those two packet numbers.