WEST DES MOINES, IA: $17.7M on 52,827 FEC receipts

52,827 lines carrying $17,726,058

The headline pair is $17,726,058 and 52,827 lines. The implied average is about $336. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the WEST DES MOINES book. Polk County filers typed WEST DES MOINES with state IA.

WEST DES MOINES is the three-word suburban spelling as stored. DES MOINES without WEST is a different city key. Clive and Urbandale are neighboring Polk strings, not subsets of this $17.7M book. 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. Read $17,726,058 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of WEST DES MOINES gave. The 52,827 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints WEST DES MOINES together with Des Moines, Clive, and Urbandale, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $17,726,058 on 52,827 WEST DES MOINES, IA rows, mean near $336. Keep the stored spelling WEST DES MOINES in the citation.

Why WEST DES MOINES on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in West Des Moines give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city WEST DES MOINES, IA total $17,726,058 across 52,827 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. No. Keep the WEST DES MOINES spelling. DES MOINES is a separate city string when filers typed it.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $17,726,058. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $336 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

WEST DES MOINES receipts versus local campaigns

A WEST DES MOINES, IA tag records the contributor city on a federal itemization. It does not record where a WEST DES MOINES candidate spent money. $17,726,058 can leave town. Unitemized federal gifts and IA state-office receipts sit outside the 52,827 lines.

Mail and office addresses that store WEST DES MOINES still count. That is why Des Moines, Clive, and Urbandale should not be treated as the same book. About $336 per line is arithmetic on $17,726,058 and 52,827.

Reading WEST DES MOINES against Des Moines

Place WEST DES MOINES next to Des Moines only if both figures are contributor-city itemized federal receipts. A west-metro mid-volume book: 52,827 lines, $17,726,058, mean near $336.

Des Moines, Clive, and Urbandale remain other keys. Keep state IA so WEST DES MOINES, IA is not added to a twin elsewhere. IA state-campaign totals are a different filing system than this FEC city extract.

IA ZIPs are not a substitute for WEST DES MOINES

Do not back into a WEST DES MOINES story from a ZIP you assume belongs there. This packet does not publish those codes. 52,827 city-field lines wait on the live hub and the ZIP directory for any geographic split.

Candidate quality, issue fights, and local election results are not in the packet. The extract’s numbers are $17,726,058 and 52,827 from FEC.gov for the city field WEST DES MOINES, IA.

Packet facts for WEST DES MOINES

$17,726,058 divided by 52,827 is about $336. Quote the pair. Quoting only the mean hides the line count. Repeat gifts add rows. Polk County is the geography of the string, not a summed county total.

Des Moines is next door on a map and separate on the tape. Cite $17,726,058 with 52,827 from FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault. If the live WEST DES MOINES hub disagrees with this snapshot, the newer FEC extract controls.

Researchers citing WEST DES MOINES should keep state IA in the sentence so readers do not hunt a same-named place. The live city table can show named committees that this snapshot does not list. A later FEC extract can move $17,726,058 or 52,827 without this guide rewriting itself. Treat the mean near $336 as division only. Des Moines, Clive, and Urbandale remain other strings. The 52,827-line count still is not a headcount.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city WEST DES MOINES, IA?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city WEST DES MOINES, IA total $17,726,058 across 52,827 contributions in the LobbyVault aggregate. That figure is a city-string roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of people who live in West Des Moines. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $336 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Is West Des Moines the same FEC key as Des Moines?

No. Keep the WEST DES MOINES spelling. DES MOINES is a separate city string when filers typed it. LobbyVault counts 52,827 itemized contributions for WEST DES MOINES, IA against $17,726,058. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 52,827 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the West Des Moines total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed WEST DES MOINES with state IA. Office addresses and mail that list West Des Moines can be part of $17,726,058 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 52,827-line count follows the same rule.

Are West Des Moines numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $17,726,058 and 52,827 lines for WEST DES MOINES, IA. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from IA are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.