SHREVEPORT, LA: $41.8M on 95,746 FEC receipts

What $41,792,825 on the Shreveport city field covers

$41,792,825 divided by 95,746 is about $437 per itemized line. That mean is arithmetic from the two packet facts. FEC.gov does not publish a median, a unique-donor count, or a party split on this city aggregate. LobbyVault reports $41,792,825 and 95,746.

Caddo Parish’s largest city sits on this string as a Red River filing city, not as a score of oil-patch races. 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.

A Shreveport total of $41,792,825 does not absorb Bossier City, Monroe, or Alexandria. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State LA stays on the citation. The 95,746 lines and the mean near $437 describe this key only.

Shreveport is a contributor city, not a residency audit

The city is the contributor-city value on FEC itemizations. Filers type it. LobbyVault does not geocode Shreveport against a municipal boundary file. A work address, a mail drop, or a household in a neighboring place that still typed SHREVEPORT can sit inside $41,792,825.

Amended reports can raise or lower both $41,792,825 and 95,746. If the live Shreveport hub reprints different figures, the newer FEC extract wins.

Not a New Orleans sum

New Orleans keeps a separate Louisiana hub. Adding New Orleans to Shreveport would be a recode. This packet publishes SHREVEPORT, LA only: $41,792,825 and 95,746 lines.

Baton Rouge is another separate city string when filers typed it. Quote the two packet facts for this key only.

What $41,792,825 from Shreveport omits

Unitemized federal contributions do not appear in $41,792,825. Many small gifts never become Schedule A city rows. Citing $41,792,825 as “all federal money from Shreveport” overstates the series.

Louisiana state campaigns file under state law. Those receipts are outside $41,792,825 and outside 95,746. Independent expenditures that never appear as contribution itemizations are outside both facts.

ZIP codes under the Shreveport city string

The ZIP directory cuts the same FEC itemized series by five-digit contributor ZIP. A Shreveport city total of $41,792,825 is not automatically the sum of ZIPs that the postal service assigns to Shreveport. Filers can type this city with a ZIP the postal service maps to Bossier City, and the reverse.

Do not treat a mean near $437 as proof that Shreveport ZIPs are “mid-dollar donor ZIPs.” This packet has no ZIP list and no income field. Shreveport will keep attracting queries that treat the city as a proxy for northwest Louisiana residents. FEC.gov stores a contributor-city field. $41,792,825 across 95,746 lines is what that field sums to in this aggregate. If the live hub reprints a different pair, the newer FEC extract wins. Open original reports on FEC.gov when a named Shreveport receipt matters.

How researchers should use the Shreveport hub

Start on the live Shreveport city page, then open ZIP pages if a postal cut is the real question. $41,792,825 is the city-string dollar total in this snapshot. 95,746 is the matching line count. Those two numbers move together when FEC.gov amends a receipt. They do not move because a researcher prefers Bossier City or Monroe as the “real” northwest Louisiana. Filers typed SHREVEPORT. LobbyVault indexed SHREVEPORT. Caddo Parish, the Red River, and “the Ark-La-Tex” are useful for maps and news copy. They are not FEC dimensions on this hub.

A mean near $437 is only $41,792,825 divided by 95,746. It is not a typical Shreveport household gift, not a typical energy-employee gift, and not a typical downtown-office gift. Occupation is a different FEC field. Recipient is a different FEC field. Party is a different FEC field. None of those fields are in this packet. Do not infer them from the mean. Do not infer turnout. Do not infer that Shreveport is more or less “politically active” than New Orleans because the line counts differ. New Orleans is a different city string with its own hub.

Cite the pair in one sentence: contributor city SHREVEPORT, LA, $41,792,825, 95,746 itemized federal contributions, source FEC.gov via LobbyVault. If a later extract on the live hub prints a different pair, discard this snapshot. Original PDFs and electronic filings remain on FEC.gov for any named Shreveport receipt that needs a line-by-line check. Louisiana non-federal filings never enter either fact. Unitemized federal gifts never enter either fact. Independent expenditures that are not contribution itemizations never enter either fact. That is the full scope of this city page.

Questions

What is Shreveport’s federal contribution total on LobbyVault?

Itemized FEC.gov receipts listing contributor city SHREVEPORT, LA total $41,792,825 across 95,746 contributions. That pair is a city-string roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of Shreveport residents. Unitemized gifts sit outside both figures.

How should I read Shreveport’s 95,746 contributions?

LobbyVault counts 95,746 itemized lines for SHREVEPORT, 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 $41,792,825.

Does Shreveport’s total include Bossier City or New Orleans?

Only if the filer typed SHREVEPORT. Bossier City, Monroe, and New Orleans are separate city strings when they appear that way on the receipt. $41,792,825 is the SHREVEPORT, LA match. The 95,746 lines follow the same rule. Metro labels are not an FEC dimension on this hub.

Where do the Shreveport facts come from?

Both facts come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $41,792,825 and 95,746 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 $437 is arithmetic from those two packet numbers.