MIDLAND, MI: $20.8M on 61,559 FEC receipts

61,559 lines carrying $20,836,630

The headline pair is $20,836,630 and 61,559 lines. The implied average is about $338. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the MIDLAND book. Midland County filers typed MIDLAND with state MI.

MIDLAND, MI is a central-Michigan city field, not Midland, Texas. State MI is required in the citation. Saginaw and Bay City are neighboring Michigan strings with their own hubs. 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 $20,836,630 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of MIDLAND gave. The 61,559 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints MIDLAND together with Saginaw, Bay City, and Midland, Texas, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $20,836,630 on 61,559 MIDLAND, MI rows, mean near $338. Keep the stored spelling MIDLAND in the citation.

Why MIDLAND on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Midland give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city MIDLAND, MI total $20,836,630 across 61,559 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. No. This extract is MIDLAND with state MI. Midland, TX is a different FEC city-and-state key.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $20,836,630. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $338 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

Outside the MIDLAND itemized book

$20,836,630 is not spending by MIDLAND candidates. A candidate who lives in MIDLAND can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged MIDLAND, MI can go to a committee anywhere. Unitemized federal gifts sit outside both packet facts.

Postal confusion with Saginaw, Bay City, and Midland, Texas is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $20,836,630 counts rows that stored MIDLAND, MI. 61,559 lines. About $338 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs. MI state-office receipts are omitted.

MIDLAND versus Saginaw on the FEC tape

MIDLAND is a central Michigan mid-volume book. 61,559 lines produce $20,836,630, a mean near $338. That line count is not a unique-donor count. Comparing this mean to Saginaw is only valid on the same series: contributor city, itemized federal receipts.

A MIDLAND total of $20,836,630 does not absorb Saginaw, Bay City, and Midland, Texas. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State MI stays on the citation so MIDLAND, MI is not merged with a same-named place elsewhere. Mixing in MI state-campaign data breaks the comparison.

City total versus postal codes in MI

61,559 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 MIDLAND 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 MIDLAND 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: $20,836,630 and 61,559.

Source tables for $20,836,630

A mean of about $338 is division of $20,836,630 by 61,559. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of MIDLAND. Means move with a few large lines. Internal links on this page go only to the MIDLAND city hub, the all-cities directory, and the ZIP directory.

MIDLAND’s $20,836,630 across 61,559 contributions is a Midland County city field, mean near $338. Saginaw is a neighboring string, not a subset. Midland County is not summed here. Repeat gifts add rows. Cite $20,836,630 with 61,559 from FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault. If the live hub disagrees with this snapshot, the newer FEC extract controls.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city MIDLAND, MI?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city MIDLAND, MI total $20,836,630 across 61,559 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 Midland. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $338 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Is this Midland, Texas?

No. This extract is MIDLAND with state MI. Midland, TX is a different FEC city-and-state key. LobbyVault counts 61,559 itemized contributions for MIDLAND, MI against $20,836,630. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 61,559 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Midland total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed MIDLAND with state MI. Office addresses and mail that list Midland can be part of $20,836,630 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 61,559-line count follows the same rule.

Are Midland numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $20,836,630 and 61,559 lines for MIDLAND, MI. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from MI are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.