METAIRIE, LA: $32.9M on 70,191 FEC receipts

What the Metairie dollar total actually counts

Seventy thousand one hundred ninety-one itemized lines produce $32,905,168. Divide those two packet facts and the mean receipt is about $469. That mean is arithmetic, not a typical gift and not a unique-donor figure. FEC.gov does not publish a median on this city aggregate.

New Orleans, Kenner, and Harahan are neighboring Louisiana city strings. They sit outside $32,905,168 unless a filer typed METAIRIE. Jefferson Parish is map orientation. It is not an FEC roll-up on this hub.

East Bank suburb, not a metro merge

Queries often treat Metairie as a stand-in for the New Orleans metro. FEC.gov stores whatever city appeared on the receipt. This packet publishes METAIRIE, LA only: $32,905,168 and 70,191 lines.

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

City field versus ZIP pages

FEC.gov matches the city field as typed. METAIRIE plus LA is the key. Recoding into a Census designated place or an MSA label is a different dataset.

ZIP pages cut the same federal series by postal code. Summing East Bank ZIPs can diverge from $32,905,168 when some receipts used New Orleans or Kenner as the city. The 70,191-line count follows the city field, not the parish line.

What sits outside the Metairie book

Louisiana state campaigns file under state law. Those receipts are outside $32,905,168 and outside 70,191. Unitemized federal gifts are omitted. Independent expenditures that never appear as contribution itemizations are outside both facts.

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

Citing METAIRIE, LA

Name FEC.gov, name contributor city, and print $32,905,168 with 70,191 together. Dropping the line count hides volume on a low-thirty-million dollar book.

Office streets can share the Metairie city field with household addresses. Totals can include a PAC or joint-fundraising address when that is what filers typed. The 70,191 lines are receipts, not unique persons. If the live hub disagrees with this snapshot, trust the hub. Open original reports on FEC.gov when a named Metairie receipt matters.

How researchers should use the Metairie hub

Start on the live Metairie city page, then open ZIP pages if a postal cut is the real question. $32,905,168 is the city-string dollar total in this snapshot. 70,191 is the matching line count. Those two numbers move together when FEC.gov amends a receipt. They do not move because a researcher prefers New Orleans as the “real” metro. Filers typed METAIRIE. LobbyVault indexed METAIRIE.

A mean near $469 is only $32,905,168 divided by 70,191. It is not a typical Metairie household gift. Occupation, recipient, and party are different FEC fields. None of those fields are in this packet. Cite the pair in one sentence: contributor city METAIRIE, LA, $32,905,168, 70,191 itemized federal contributions, source FEC.gov via LobbyVault.

Jefferson Parish mail routes cross Kenner, Harahan, and New Orleans. None of those names enter $32,905,168 unless the filer typed METAIRIE. The 70,191 lines follow the same rule. A researcher who wants a parish cut must build it from ZIP pages or from original FEC.gov reports, not from this city hub. The mean near $469 does not describe a typical East Bank household. It does not describe a typical Metairie office gift. Repeat gifts and memo entries can add rows without adding donors, which is why 70,191 is a line count.

Cite METAIRIE, LA with both packet facts in one sentence and name FEC.gov as the source. If a later extract on the live hub prints a different pair, discard this snapshot. Unitemized federal gifts never enter either fact. Independent expenditures that are not contribution itemizations never enter either fact. Louisiana non-federal filings never enter either fact. That is the full scope of this city page.

A researcher comparing Metairie to New Orleans should keep two hubs on the table. $32,905,168 is not a metro sum. 70,191 is not a metro line count. The East Bank of Jefferson Parish is useful for orientation and useless as an FEC dimension. Print the contributor city, the dollars, and the line count. Name FEC.gov. Leave unique donors, party, occupation, and turnout out of the sentence because this packet does not contain them.

Questions

What is Metairie’s federal contribution total on LobbyVault?

Itemized FEC.gov receipts listing contributor city METAIRIE, LA total $32,905,168 across 70,191 contributions. That pair is a city-string roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of Metairie residents. Unitemized gifts sit outside both figures.

How should I read Metairie’s 70,191 contributions?

LobbyVault counts 70,191 itemized lines for METAIRIE, LA. 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 $32,905,168.

Does Metairie’s total include New Orleans?

Only if the filer typed METAIRIE. New Orleans, Kenner, and Harahan are separate city strings when they appear that way on the receipt. $32,905,168 is the METAIRIE, LA match. The 70,191 lines follow the same rule. Parish labels are not an FEC dimension on this hub.

Where do the Metairie facts come from?

Both facts come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $32,905,168 and 70,191 lines. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Louisiana non-federal filings are outside the pair. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $469 is arithmetic from those two packet numbers.