ROCKVILLE, MD: $43.3M on 141,383 FEC receipts

Rockville’s volume relative to its dollars

One hundred forty-one thousand three hundred eighty-three lines produce $43,294,162. Divide the pair and the mean itemized line is about $306. Bethesda and Potomac keep separate Maryland hubs with different line counts. That contrast is a shape fact, not a character study of I-270.

Bethesda, Gaithersburg, and Silver Spring are other Montgomery County city strings. They are not inside $43,294,162 unless the filer typed ROCKVILLE. Montgomery County is orientation, not an FEC roll-up.

Office addresses can share the Rockville city field with household streets. Totals can include a PAC or joint-fundraising address when that is what filers typed. The 141,383 lines are receipts, not unique persons.

Not a Bethesda or D.C. sum

Bethesda, Baltimore, and Washington keep separate hubs. Adding them to Rockville would be a recode. This packet publishes ROCKVILLE, MD only: $43,294,162 and 141,383 lines.

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

County seat versus postal map

FEC.gov stores whatever city appeared on the itemized receipt. ROCKVILLE plus MD is the match. Recoding into a Census place or a National Capital Region label is a different dataset.

ZIP pages cut the same federal series by postal code. Summing Rockville-area ZIPs can diverge from $43,294,162 when some receipts used North Bethesda or Gaithersburg as the city. The 141,383-line count follows the city field.

Limits of the Rockville aggregate

Maryland state campaigns file under state law. Those receipts are outside $43,294,162 and outside 141,383. Unitemized federal gifts are omitted. Independent expenditures that never appear as contribution itemizations are outside both facts.

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

Citing ROCKVILLE, MD

Name FEC.gov, name contributor city, and print $43,294,162 with 141,383 together. Dropping the line count hides Rockville’s volume on a mid-forty-million dollar book.

Rockville will keep attracting queries that treat the county seat as a proxy for Montgomery County residents. FEC.gov stores a contributor-city field. $43,294,162 across 141,383 lines is what that field sums to in this aggregate. A mean near $306 follows from division. Unique donors are not in the packet. Party is not in the packet. If the live hub disagrees with this snapshot, trust the hub. Open original reports on FEC.gov when a named Rockville receipt matters.

How researchers should use the Rockville hub

Start on the live Rockville city page, then open ZIP pages if a postal cut is the real question. $43,294,162 is the city-string dollar total in this snapshot. 141,383 is the matching line count. Those two numbers move together when FEC.gov amends a receipt. They do not move because a researcher prefers Bethesda or Gaithersburg as the “real” Montgomery. Filers typed ROCKVILLE. LobbyVault indexed ROCKVILLE. Montgomery County, the Red Line, and “the I-270 corridor” are useful for maps and news copy. They are not FEC dimensions on this hub.

A mean near $306 is only $43,294,162 divided by 141,383. It is not a typical Rockville household gift, not a typical biotech-employee gift, and not a typical county-seat 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 Rockville is more or less “politically active” than Bethesda because the line counts differ. Bethesda is a different city string with its own hub.

Cite the pair in one sentence: contributor city ROCKVILLE, MD, $43,294,162, 141,383 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 Rockville receipt that needs a line-by-line check. Maryland 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. North Bethesda remains a separate city string when filers typed that name instead of ROCKVILLE.

Questions

What is Rockville’s federal contribution total on LobbyVault?

Itemized FEC.gov receipts listing contributor city ROCKVILLE, MD total $43,294,162 across 141,383 contributions. That pair is a city-string roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of Rockville residents. Unitemized gifts sit outside both figures.

How should I read Rockville’s 141,383 contributions?

LobbyVault counts 141,383 itemized lines for ROCKVILLE, MD. 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 $43,294,162.

Does Rockville’s total include Bethesda or Gaithersburg?

Only if the filer typed ROCKVILLE. Bethesda, Gaithersburg, and Silver Spring are separate city strings when they appear that way on the receipt. $43,294,162 is the ROCKVILLE, MD match. The 141,383 lines follow the same rule. Metro labels are not an FEC dimension on this hub.

Where do the Rockville facts come from?

Both facts come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $43,294,162 and 141,383 lines. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Maryland non-federal filings are outside the pair. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $306 is arithmetic from those two packet numbers.