NEW ORLEANS, LA: $96.6M on 234,379 FEC receipts

The NEW ORLEANS, LA contributor-city book

234,379 itemized contributions produced $96,628,564 under the NEW ORLEANS, LA city key. About $412 per line follows from division. Repeat givers can lengthen 234,379 without adding new people; this packet has no unique-donor figure.

State LA on the same row keeps NEW ORLEANS, LA distinct from same-named cities elsewhere. Orleans Parish orients New Orleans. Louisiana state campaigns sit outside FEC.gov itemizations. 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.

Annexation stories about Metairie, Kenner, or Gretna do not rewrite $96,628,564. FEC city strings do not auto-follow city-limit changes. 234,379 contributions tagged NEW ORLEANS, LA stay on this page until a filer types a different city. About $412 per line is still division.

Volume and average on the New Orleans book

New Orleans sits in a mid-range mean band on this extract: about $412 from $96,628,564 divided by 234,379. The pair is a city-field average, not a ranking of political intensity.

The shape is two numbers. $96,628,564 without 234,379 looks like a single pile of money. 234,379 without $96,628,564 looks like a turnout figure. Together they are an itemized city book.

Federal itemized only: the LA city caveat

Refunds, redesignations, and amendments can move both dollars and the 234,379-line count after this snapshot. Treat the figures as currently indexed, not as a closed book.

Researchers who need names should open the New Orleans FEC page rather than dividing $96,628,564 by a guessed household count.

If a newsroom map paints New Orleans together with Metairie and Kenner, the FEC file still splits them. Gretna too. This extract’s only city total is $96,628,564 on 234,379 NEW ORLEANS, LA rows, mean near $412.

City string versus people who live in New Orleans

234,379 is a line count. Households that give twice, redesignations, and memo entries can add rows. Without a unique-donor field in this packet, do not quote 234,379 as a population of New Orleans donors.

The all-cities directory ranks the same series. Compare line counts as filing shape, not as a claim that one city is more politically active. FEC.gov does not score activity.

Postal confusion with Metairie, Kenner, or Gretna is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $96,628,564 counts rows that stored NEW ORLEANS, LA in state LA. 234,379 lines. About $412 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs.

Where New Orleans rows split by ZIP

City and ZIP are different FEC fields. A row can carry city NEW ORLEANS, LA and a ZIP that readers associate with a neighbor. Both fields are stored as filed. LobbyVault’s city page sums the city field.

The all-cities directory is the ranking view of the same city series. New Orleans’s 234,379 lines are comparable to other cities only as filing volume, not as turnout.

Line count 234,379 and dollars $96,628,564 should move together in a reader’s notes. If a later story quotes only one, check the hub. An amendment can change either figure. Snapshot prose cannot update itself.

A New Orleans total of $96,628,564 does not absorb Metairie, Kenner, or Gretna. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State LA stays on the citation so NEW ORLEANS, LA is not merged with a same-named place elsewhere. The 234,379 lines and the mean near $412 describe this key only.

Live hub versus this New Orleans snapshot

The New Orleans FEC page holds the live $96,628,564 and 234,379 as currently indexed. The all-cities directory ranks other city strings. The ZIP directory opens a different field. If a later extract disagrees, FEC.gov controls.

If you quote $96,628,564, quote 234,379 in the same breath. A dollar total without a line count hides whether New Orleans is a volume book or a concentration book.

New Orleans is stored as NEW ORLEANS with a space, state LA. $96,628,564 across 234,379 contributions belongs to that spelling. Metairie, Kenner, and Gretna are different strings. Orleans Parish is orientation, not a license to add Jefferson Parish rows. Louisiana state campaigns sit outside FEC.gov city totals. A mean near $412 is the average itemized row, not a neighborhood split of the city. This packet has no flood-zone or industry field. Do not hang those stories on the city total. Cite the two-word name with the space. Shortening to NOLA is not the FEC key. Open the New Orleans FEC page for names. Quote $96,628,564 with 234,379.

Questions

What is the FEC donation total for NEW ORLEANS, LA?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city NEW ORLEANS, LA total $96,628,564 across 234,379 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 New Orleans. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

Is 234,379 a count of New Orleans donors?

LobbyVault counts 234,379 itemized contributions for NEW ORLEANS, LA. 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 234,379 should not be quoted as a population. The matching dollar total on the same extract is $96,628,564.

Is NEW ORLEANS, LA a residency total?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed NEW ORLEANS with state LA. Office addresses and mail that list New Orleans can be part of $96,628,564 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 234,379-line count follows the same rule.

What is the source for NEW ORLEANS, LA campaign money figures?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $96,628,564 and 234,379 lines for NEW ORLEANS, LA. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from LA are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $412 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.