WAYZATA, MN: $41.8M on 72,461 FEC receipts

Wayzata’s mean on a mid-size file

Seventy-two thousand four hundred sixty-one lines produce $41,812,850. Divide the pair and the mean itemized line is about $577. Edina and Minneapolis keep separate Minnesota hubs with different line counts. That contrast is a shape fact, not a character study of Lake Minnetonka.

Minnetonka, Plymouth, and Orono are other Hennepin County city strings. They are not inside $41,812,850 unless the filer typed WAYZATA. Hennepin County is orientation, not an FEC roll-up.

Office addresses can share the Wayzata city field with household streets. Totals can include a PAC or joint-fundraising address when that is what filers typed. The 72,461 lines are receipts, not unique persons.

Not a Minneapolis sum

Minneapolis, Edina, and Bloomington keep separate Minnesota hubs. Adding them to Wayzata would be a recode. This packet publishes WAYZATA, MN only: $41,812,850 and 72,461 lines.

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

Lake town versus postal map

FEC.gov stores whatever city appeared on the itemized receipt. WAYZATA plus MN is the match. Recoding into a Census place or a lake-metro label is a different dataset.

ZIP pages cut the same federal series by postal code. Summing Wayzata-area ZIPs can diverge from $41,812,850 when some receipts used Minnetonka or Orono as the city. The 72,461-line count follows the city field.

Limits of the Wayzata aggregate

Minnesota state campaigns file under state law. Those receipts are outside $41,812,850 and outside 72,461. Unitemized federal gifts are omitted. Independent expenditures that never appear as contribution itemizations are outside both facts.

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

Citing WAYZATA, MN

Name FEC.gov, name contributor city, and print $41,812,850 with 72,461 together. Dropping the line count hides Wayzata’s mid-size file relative to Minneapolis’s larger book.

Wayzata will keep attracting queries that treat a lake town as a proxy for residents. FEC.gov stores a contributor-city field. $41,812,850 across 72,461 lines is what that field sums to in this aggregate. A mean near $577 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 Wayzata receipt matters.

How researchers should use the Wayzata hub

Start on the live Wayzata city page, then open ZIP pages if a postal cut is the real question. $41,812,850 is the city-string dollar total in this snapshot. 72,461 is the matching line count. Those two numbers move together when FEC.gov amends a receipt. They do not move because a researcher prefers Minnetonka or Orono as the “real” lake town. Filers typed WAYZATA. LobbyVault indexed WAYZATA. Hennepin County, Lake Minnetonka, and “the west metro” are useful for maps and news copy. They are not FEC dimensions on this hub.

A mean near $577 is only $41,812,850 divided by 72,461. It is not a typical Wayzata household gift, not a typical lake-road gift, and not a typical downtown-Wayzata 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 Wayzata is more or less “politically active” than Minneapolis because the line counts differ. Minneapolis is a different city string with its own hub.

Cite the pair in one sentence: contributor city WAYZATA, MN, $41,812,850, 72,461 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 Wayzata receipt that needs a line-by-line check. Minnesota 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. Orono and Minnetonka remain separate city strings even when a lake address sits a few blocks from downtown Wayzata on this extract.

Questions

What is Wayzata’s federal contribution total on LobbyVault?

Itemized FEC.gov receipts listing contributor city WAYZATA, MN total $41,812,850 across 72,461 contributions. That pair is a city-string roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of Wayzata residents. Unitemized gifts sit outside both figures.

How should I read Wayzata’s 72,461 contributions?

LobbyVault counts 72,461 itemized lines for WAYZATA, MN. 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 $41,812,850.

Does Wayzata’s total include Minneapolis or Minnetonka?

Only if the filer typed WAYZATA. Minneapolis, Minnetonka, and Plymouth are separate city strings when they appear that way on the receipt. $41,812,850 is the WAYZATA, MN match. The 72,461 lines follow the same rule. Metro labels are not an FEC dimension on this hub.

Where do the Wayzata facts come from?

Both facts come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $41,812,850 and 72,461 lines. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Minnesota non-federal filings are outside the pair. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $577 is arithmetic from those two packet numbers.