LINCOLN, MA: $18.5M on 45,129 FEC receipts

45,129 lines carrying $18,465,610

The headline pair is $18,465,610 and 45,129 lines. The implied average is about $409. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the LINCOLN book. Middlesex County filers typed LINCOLN with state MA.

LINCOLN, MA is a Middlesex town string, not Lincoln, Nebraska. State MA must stay on the citation. Concord and Lexington are neighboring keys. Boston rows sit under BOSTON. 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 $18,465,610 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of LINCOLN gave. The 45,129 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints LINCOLN together with Concord, Lexington, and Weston, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $18,465,610 on 45,129 LINCOLN, MA rows, mean near $409. Keep the stored spelling LINCOLN in the citation.

Why LINCOLN on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Lincoln give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city LINCOLN, MA total $18,465,610 across 45,129 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. This extract is LINCOLN with state MA only. Lincoln, NE is a different FEC city key. Concord is a neighboring string, not a subset.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $18,465,610. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $409 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

What $18,465,610 does not cover

Unitemized federal gifts never enter $18,465,610 or the 45,129-line count. MA state-office filings are also omitted. A candidate based in LINCOLN can raise from other cities; a LINCOLN, MA row can travel to a committee in any state.

Concord, Lexington, and Weston share a map with LINCOLN and still need their own hubs. The 45,129 lines stored as LINCOLN, MA are the only rows in this extract. About $409 each is division, not a household typical.

Same-name cities and the MA key

State MA is part of the match. LINCOLN, MA is not merged with a same-named place in another state. LINCOLN is a Middlesex mid-volume book; 45,129 lines produce $18,465,610, mean near $409.

Boston is a comparison only on the same series: contributor city, itemized federal receipts. Concord, Lexington, and Weston are other strings when typed. Mixing MA state-campaign data with $18,465,610 breaks the comparison.

How 45,129 lines sit next to ZIP pages

The city field and the ZIP field are independent FEC columns. 45,129 LINCOLN rows may cluster in a few codes or scatter. This packet lists neither those ZIPs nor a split. Use the ZIP directory and the live LINCOLN hub.

Amendments can move the city hub and a ZIP page on different clocks. Recheck both before publishing a comparison. This guide’s facts remain $18,465,610 and 45,129 for contributor city LINCOLN, MA.

Citing LINCOLN, MA from FEC.gov

Report $18,465,610 with 45,129 lines and name FEC.gov as the source, indexed on LobbyVault. The mean near $409 is $18,465,610 divided by 45,129. Do not call that a typical LINCOLN resident.

Links on this page go to the LINCOLN hub, the all-cities directory, and the ZIP directory. Concord is a neighbor, not a subset. Middlesex County is not totaled here. If the live hub disagrees with this snapshot, the newer FEC extract controls.

Researchers citing LINCOLN should keep state MA 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 $18,465,610 or 45,129 without this guide rewriting itself. Treat the mean near $409 as division only. Concord, Lexington, and Weston remain other strings. The 45,129-line count still is not a headcount.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city LINCOLN, MA?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city LINCOLN, MA total $18,465,610 across 45,129 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 Lincoln. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $409 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Which Lincoln is this $18.5M total?

This extract is LINCOLN with state MA only. Lincoln, NE is a different FEC city key. Concord is a neighboring string, not a subset. LobbyVault counts 45,129 itemized contributions for LINCOLN, MA against $18,465,610. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 45,129 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Lincoln total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed LINCOLN with state MA. Office addresses and mail that list Lincoln can be part of $18,465,610 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 45,129-line count follows the same rule.

Are Lincoln numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $18,465,610 and 45,129 lines for LINCOLN, MA. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from MA are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.