GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY money in federal elections

Three-word auto legal name on Schedule A

LobbyVault ranks grouped employer text. GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY is the long form as stored. The $5,492,409 total is those itemized individual gifts. It is not vehicle-unit sales, not a UAW contract file, and not a NAICS rollup of all auto employers. People who typed GM, GENERAL MOTORS, GMC, or a plant-city name sit in other rows if stored that way.

The FEC field is not a plant-badge export. Hourly and salaried staff who used this exact three-word string share the key. LobbyVault does not recode those short brands into this company label. Occupation pages show titles stored beside the auto employer rather than adding them to the $5,492,409.

1,615 donors and 123,875 lines

1,615 unique donors produced 123,875 GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY contribution lines totaling $5,492,409. That is on the order of 77 itemized receipts per donor — among the densest repeat patterns in this dollar band. Dollars per line are correspondingly small. The packet does not publish a mean gift or a split among assembly, engineering, and salaried payrolls.

Party share is not on the industry headline. Independent expenditures and the company’s committee PAC filings are outside the $5,492,409 unless an individual receipt itself carries this employer string. Unitemized gifts never appear. Repeat names among 123,875 lines from 1,615 people are the expected reading of a payroll-style file.

Other auto employer strings stay out

FORD, STELLANTIS, and other automaker names are separate keys if donors typed them. Combining those rows with GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY would be a researcher-built Detroit-Three recode. This page stays at $5,492,409 for GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY only.

Occupation breakdowns list titles next to the auto employer. ENGINEER, ASSEMBLER, and RETIRED-style words remain other keys when the company name was omitted. State filings are omitted from the federal total.

Donor table

The GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY donor table lists disclosed names, amounts, and recipient committees. A large gift is a public individual contribution. LobbyVault does not attach a plant closing, a product recall, or a motive to that line. The 1,615 unique-person count is not an employee headcount from the company.

Follow committees on the table for party and office. This page does not assign a partisan percentage to the auto string. People who typed GM only are not in these 1,615 unless a receipt also grouped to GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY. Former employees who still type the three-word name remain in the cluster.

Source

FEC.gov via LobbyVault: $5,492,409, 123,875 contributions, 1,615 donors, top employer GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY. The ranking uses FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Compare other industry keys on the industry index. Use occupation pages for titles stored next to this employer.

Keep GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY’s $5,492,409, 123,875 contributions, and 1,615 donors on this three-word string. Short GM brands, other automakers, unitemized gifts, and committee PAC documents stay on their own records. The donor table lists disclosed recipients without converting the string into a NAICS vehicle-manufacturing total.

Why the line count is the story

Near this dollar total, many employer keys show a few thousand to a few tens of thousands of lines. GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY shows 123,875 lines from 1,615 people. Readers should treat that as a volume signal on itemized individual receipts, not as proof of a PAC transfer and not as a plant-by-plant census. The $5,492,409 is still the sum of those itemized gifts only.

Occupation pages remain the place to see titles stored beside the company name. The industry index remains the place to compare other auto strings. Source: FEC.gov via LobbyVault, self-reported employer text, not NAICS.

Keep GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY’s 1,615 donors and 123,875 lines on the three-word legal name. Short GM brands remain other keys. The donor table lists disclosed recipients for the $5,492,409 only.

Questions

How much have GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY-listed donors given federally?

LobbyVault attributes $5,492,409 to the GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY employer string, from 123,875 contributions and 1,615 donors. These are itemized individual receipts, not the company’s PAC and not a NAICS auto-manufacturing total. Unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.

Is this GM corporate political spending?

No. The $5,492,409 total is individual contributions whose employer text grouped to GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY. Corporate treasury and committee PAC filings are other FEC categories. LobbyVault does not fold those documents into this industry row. Figures are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.

Why are there so many contribution lines?

1,615 donors produced 123,875 lines, on the order of 77 receipts per person. That is a high-repeat itemized pattern, not a count of unique employees and not a PAC filing. The packet does not split assembly versus salaried payrolls. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.

Does this include people who wrote GM?

Only if the grouped employer text is GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY. GM and GENERAL MOTORS are separate keys if stored that way. A receipt counted here carries the three-word company string. Figures are limited to the FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.