POTOMAC, MD: $97.9M on 173,515 FEC receipts

Potomac, MD: the itemized dollar total

Divide $97,890,043 by 173,515 and the average itemized line is about $564. Averages hide mixed line sizes. This packet has no distribution, so $564 is a mean, not a typical resident gift.

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. Montgomery County, Maryland, orients Potomac. It is not a ranking of D.C. influence.

Readers who live near Bethesda or Rockville still need the city string as filed. A Potomac mailing habit is not the FEC dimension. POTOMAC, MD sums to $97,890,043 on 173,515 lines (about $564 each). Chevy Chase remains outside that pair.

Volume and average on the Potomac book

Potomac sits in a mid-range mean band on this extract: about $564 from $97,890,043 divided by 173,515. The pair is a city-field average, not a ranking of political intensity.

A later extract can move Potomac across that description if large lines are refunded or if many small lines are added. Recheck $97,890,043 and 173,515 on the hub.

The FEC city field behind POTOMAC, MD

FEC.gov stores whatever city string appeared on the itemized receipt. POTOMAC, MD is that string plus state MD. Recoding rows into a Census place would be a new dataset. This page does not do that recode.

ZIP pages under the same state cut the same series more finely. A Potomac city total is not the sum of every ZIP that postal service maps to Potomac; it is the sum of rows that typed this city string.

Potomac versus Bethesda is a different-key problem, not a suburb ranking. Rockville and Chevy Chase follow the same rule. Quote $97,890,043 and 173,515 for POTOMAC, MD only. The mean near $564 does not travel with a neighbor’s name.

Finer grain than POTOMAC, MD

Use ZIP pages to see concentration inside a metro without replacing $97,890,043. Adding selected ZIPs and calling the sum “Potomac” is a recode. FEC.gov did not publish that recode on this city packet.

State MD on the city key is required in the citation so Potomac is not confused with a same-named city in another state.

A complete POTOMAC, MD footnote names FEC.gov as the source, names contributor city as the dimension, and prints $97,890,043 and 173,515 as a pair. Leaving off any of those parts turns a public-record total into a slogan. LobbyVault’s job on this page is the pair, the dimension, and the link to the live table.

Annexation stories about Bethesda, Rockville, or Chevy Chase do not rewrite $97,890,043. FEC city strings do not auto-follow city-limit changes. 173,515 contributions tagged POTOMAC, MD stay on this page until a filer types a different city. About $564 per line is still division.

Limits of the POTOMAC, MD aggregate

State and local campaigns in MD file under state law. Those receipts are outside $97,890,043 and outside the 173,515 line count. Adding them by hand would mix disclosure systems.

The source for $97,890,043 and 173,515 is FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault. If a later bulk file disagrees, the Commission’s filing controls.

If a newsroom map paints Potomac together with Bethesda and Rockville, the FEC file still splits them. Chevy Chase too. This extract’s only city total is $97,890,043 on 173,515 POTOMAC, MD rows, mean near $564.

A complete POTOMAC, MD citation

Title, H1, and table on the live hub should show the same $97,890,043 and 173,515 this guide cites. If they do not, the hub was rebuilt from a newer extract. Trust the hub over this paragraph.

Guides do not replace filings. Open original reports on FEC.gov when a named receipt on the Potomac hub matters to a story.

Potomac’s $97,890,043 on 173,515 lines is a Montgomery County, Maryland city string, mean near $564. Bethesda, Rockville, and Chevy Chase are neighboring keys, not subsets of POTOMAC. Do not fold those books into a single downcounty total. FEC.gov stored city names. Maryland state-office filings are omitted. Proximity to Washington is orientation. It is not an FEC score of influence. The 173,515 contributions are itemized lines. Repeat gifts add rows. A mean near $564 is arithmetic from $97,890,043 divided by 173,515. Cite contributor city Potomac, MD and both figures together.

Questions

What does LobbyVault show for Potomac federal contributions?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city POTOMAC, MD total $97,890,043 across 173,515 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 Potomac. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

How should I read the 173,515 figure for POTOMAC, MD?

LobbyVault counts 173,515 itemized contributions for POTOMAC, MD. 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 173,515 should not be quoted as a population. The matching dollar total on the same extract is $97,890,043.

What city field does FEC use for Potomac?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed POTOMAC with state MD. Office addresses and mail that list Potomac can be part of $97,890,043 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 173,515-line count follows the same rule.

How current is the $97,890,043 total for Potomac?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $97,890,043 and 173,515 lines for POTOMAC, MD. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from MD are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $564 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.