PORTLAND, ME: $23.0M on 60,520 FEC receipts

State ME keeps Portland off Oregon

The headline pair is $22,964,666 and 60,520 lines. The implied average is about $379. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the Portland, ME book.

Cumberland County’s Portland string is separate from South Portland, Westbrook, and Scarborough on the FEC city key. Filers typed PORTLAND in the city field. LobbyVault summed rows with that string and state ME. 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.

If a newsroom map paints Portland together with South Portland as one harbor total, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $22,964,666 on 60,520 PORTLAND, ME rows, mean near $379.

Why PORTLAND, ME on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Portland give.” The honest citation is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city PORTLAND, ME total $22,964,666 across 60,520 contributions. Dropping “itemized,” “contributor city,” and state ME inflates or misplaces the claim onto Oregon.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $22,964,666. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. State ME is what keeps this page off Portland, OR.

Outside the Portland, ME itemized book

$22,964,666 is not spending by Portland candidates. A candidate who lives in Portland can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged PORTLAND, ME can go to a committee anywhere.

A mean near $379 does not describe a median resident of Portland. Means move with a few large lines.

Postal confusion with South Portland, Westbrook, or Scarborough is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $22,964,666 counts rows that stored PORTLAND, ME. 60,520 lines. About $379 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs.

Portland, ME versus Portland, OR

Portland, ME, posts $22,964,666 on 60,520 lines, a mean near $379. Portland, OR, is a different city key with a much larger line count on this series. Do not merge them because the names match.

Comparing this mean to South Portland is only valid on the same series: contributor city, itemized federal receipts. Mixing in Maine state data breaks the comparison.

A Portland, ME, total of $22,964,666 does not absorb South Portland, Westbrook, or Scarborough. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State ME stays on the citation.

City total versus postal codes in ME

60,520 city-field lines can spread across many ZIPs or cluster in a few. This packet does not list those ZIPs. Open the ZIP directory and the live Portland hub rather than guessing the split.

After an amendment wave, recheck both the city hub and any ZIP you compared. Snapshots drift independently.

Because this packet carries only city, state, dollar total, and contribution count, every other story about Portland politics sits outside the extract. That includes candidate quality, issue fights, and local election results. This guide stays on the two numbers FEC.gov supplied for the city field.

Source tables for $22,964,666

A mean of about $379 is division of $22,964,666 by 60,520. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of Portland.

Internal links on this page go only to the Portland city hub, the all-cities directory, and the ZIP directory. Those are the three paths that match this packet.

Portland’s $22,964,666 across 60,520 contributions is a Cumberland County city field, mean near $379. South Portland is next door on the map and separate on the FEC key. Repeat gifts add rows. Maine state-office receipts are omitted. Cite $22,964,666 with 60,520 from FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

Researchers citing Portland, Maine, should keep Portland, Oregon, and South Portland off the sentence unless they add those objects on purpose. The live Portland table can show named committees that this snapshot does not list. A later FEC extract can move $22,964,666 or 60,520 without this guide rewriting itself. Treat the mean near $379 as division only. Maine state-office receipts sit outside both packet facts. If a ZIP page for a Portland code disagrees with the city hub, quote both keys rather than forcing a match. Westbrook and Scarborough remain other strings. The 60,520-line count still is not a headcount of Portland people.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city Portland, ME?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city PORTLAND, ME total $22,964,666 across 60,520 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 Portland, Oregon. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

Is this Portland, Maine or Portland, Oregon?

This extract is PORTLAND with state ME: 60,520 lines and $22,964,666. Portland, OR, would be a different city key. Repeat gifts, redesignations, and memo entries can add rows without adding new donors. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 60,520 should not be quoted as a population.

Does the Portland, ME total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed PORTLAND with state ME. Office addresses and mail that list Portland can be part of $22,964,666 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 60,520-line count follows the same rule.

Are Portland, ME numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $22,964,666 and 60,520 lines for PORTLAND, ME. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from ME are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $379 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.