Wichita, KS: $115.3M on 210,063 FEC receipts

How FEC.gov stored Wichita as a city

Wichita’s city-field extract shows $115,332,696 across 210,063 contributions. Treat $549 as a derived average. It is not an FEC-published statistic with its own schedule.

Cite $115,332,696 only as itemized federal receipts tagged Wichita, KS. South-central Kansas orients Wichita on a map. FEC.gov did not publish a Kansas-ideology reading of the city field. 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.

Readers who live near Derby or Andover still need the city string as filed. A Wichita mailing habit is not the FEC dimension. Wichita, KS sums to $115,332,696 on 210,063 lines (about $549 each). Park City remains outside that pair.

Neighboring labels that are not Wichita

Neighboring municipalities are not included unless filers typed Wichita, KS. Suburb names, county names, and metro nicknames are different keys when they appear as the city field.

Cite the city field, the dollar total, and the line count together. Two of the three is an incomplete citation of Wichita, KS.

Wichita, KS on Schedule A, not on a voter file

LobbyVault’s city hub for Wichita, KS is the live table for this string. This guide’s $115,332,696 and 210,063 are a snapshot of FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

Unitemized federal gifts are omitted from $115,332,696. State-office campaigns in KS are omitted. Mixing those systems with the FEC city book produces a total no agency published.

Wichita versus Derby is a different-key problem, not a suburb ranking. Andover and Park City follow the same rule. Quote $115,332,696 and 210,063 for Wichita, KS only. The mean near $549 does not travel with a neighbor’s name.

Volume and average on the Wichita book

Wichita sits in a mid-range mean band on this extract: about $549 from $115,332,696 divided by 210,063. The pair is a city-field average, not a ranking of political intensity.

LobbyVault leaves the shape as arithmetic. Wichita, KS remains a city string with $115,332,696 and 210,063 attached.

Annexation stories about Derby, Andover, or Park City do not rewrite $115,332,696. FEC city strings do not auto-follow city-limit changes. 210,063 contributions tagged Wichita, KS stay on this page until a filer types a different city. About $549 per line is still division.

KS ZIP directory next to Wichita

Keep $115,332,696 on the city citation. Keep ZIP totals on ZIP citations. Adding them double-counts every row that has both a city and a ZIP, which is most itemized rows.

Postal boundaries change. FEC city strings do not automatically follow annexations. Wichita, KS is the string as stored on the extract.

Repeat the constraint when you reuse $115,332,696: itemized, federal, contributor city Wichita, KS, 210,063 lines, FEC.gov via LobbyVault. That sentence is long on purpose. Short slogans about Wichita money usually drop a limit that changes the meaning.

If a newsroom map paints Wichita together with Derby and Andover, the FEC file still splits them. Park City too. This extract’s only city total is $115,332,696 on 210,063 Wichita, KS rows, mean near $549.

Postal confusion with Derby, Andover, or Park City is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $115,332,696 counts rows that stored Wichita, KS in state KS. 210,063 lines. About $549 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs.

FEC.gov as the control for Wichita, KS

This prose is a snapshot. Committees still file. Refunds still post. $115,332,696 can rise or fall. 210,063 can lengthen or shrink. The live table is the place to look after an amendment.

Do not add estimated unitemized amounts to $115,332,696. This packet has no such estimate.

This packet stores the city as Wichita, mixed case, with state KS. The dollar pair is still $115,332,696 across 210,063 contributions. Cite the city the way the extract stored it. Recoding to WICHITA does not change the math; merging Derby or Andover would. South-central Kansas orients a map. It does not assign an industry to the city total. A mean near $549 sits above many volume cities and below the Peninsula concentration books. Kansas state campaigns are omitted. Wichita is not Kansas City, MO and not Kansas City, KS. Those are other keys. The Wichita FEC page holds the live line list. Quote $115,332,696 with 210,063 from FEC.gov via LobbyVault.

Questions

What does LobbyVault show for Wichita federal contributions?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city Wichita, KS total $115,332,696 across 210,063 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 Wichita. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

How should I read the 210,063 figure for Wichita, KS?

LobbyVault counts 210,063 itemized contributions for Wichita, KS. That is a line count, not a headcount of unique people. Repeat gifts, redesignations, and memo entries can add rows without adding new donors. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 210,063 should not be quoted as a population. The matching dollar total on the same extract is $115,332,696.

What city field does FEC use for Wichita?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed Wichita with state KS. Office addresses and mail that list Wichita can be part of $115,332,696 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 210,063-line count follows the same rule.

How current is the $115,332,696 total for Wichita?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $115,332,696 and 210,063 lines for Wichita, KS. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from KS are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $549 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.