SAINT LOUIS, MO: $83.8M on 245,693 FEC receipts

What $83,810,982 on the Saint Louis city field covers

$83,810,982 divided by 245,693 is about $341 per itemized line. That mean is arithmetic from the two packet facts. FEC.gov does not publish a median, a unique-donor count, or a party split on this city aggregate. LobbyVault reports $83,810,982 and 245,693.

FEC stored SAINT LOUIS, not St. Louis. The spelled-out city string is the key; do not merge ST LOUIS variants here. 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.

Saint Louis versus Clayton is a different-key problem, not a suburb ranking. University City and St. Charles follow the same rule. Quote $83,810,982 and 245,693 for SAINT LOUIS, MO only. The mean near $341 does not travel with a neighbor’s name.

Saint Louis is a contributor city, not a residency audit

The city is the contributor-city value on FEC itemizations. Filers type it. LobbyVault does not geocode Saint Louis against a municipal boundary file. A work address, a mail drop, or a household in a neighboring place that still typed SAINT LOUIS can sit inside $83,810,982.

Amended reports can raise or lower both $83,810,982 and 245,693. If the live Saint Louis hub reprints different figures, the newer FEC extract wins.

Volume and average on the Saint Louis book

Saint Louis sits in a mid-range mean band on this extract: about $341 from $83,810,982 divided by 245,693. The pair is a city-field average, not a ranking of political intensity.

Do not convert that shape into a story about Saint Louis culture. FEC.gov did not interview anyone. It stored city, dollars, and a line count.

What $83,810,982 from Saint Louis omits

Unitemized federal contributions do not appear in $83,810,982. Many small gifts never become Schedule A city rows. Citing $83,810,982 as “all federal money from Saint Louis” overstates the series.

LobbyVault does not impute missing city strings. Blank or nonstandard city values are not silently folded into Saint Louis.

ZIP codes under the Saint Louis city string

The ZIP directory cuts the same FEC itemized series by five-digit contributor ZIP. A Saint Louis city total of $83,810,982 is not automatically the sum of ZIPs that the postal service assigns to Saint Louis. Filers can type this city with a ZIP the postal service maps elsewhere, and the reverse.

Do not treat a high mean as proof that Saint Louis ZIPs are “wealthy donor ZIPs.” This packet has no ZIP list and no income field.

Saint Louis will keep attracting “how much did Saint Louis give” queries because searchers use city as a proxy for residents. FEC.gov does not use city that way. It stores a contributor-city field. $83,810,982 across 245,693 lines is what that field sums to in this aggregate. A mean near $341 follows from division. Unique donors are not in the packet. Party is not in the packet. Use the all-cities directory only to compare other strings on the same series. Use ZIP pages for a different field. If the live hub reprints a different $83,810,982 or 245,693, the newer FEC extract wins and this snapshot is stale.

How to cite Saint Louis without inflating the city

The accurate sentence is: itemized federal receipts with contributor city SAINT LOUIS, MO total $83,810,982 across 245,693 contributions, according to FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault. Shorthand such as “Saint Louis donated $83,810,982” drops the itemized-only limit and the contributor-city definition.

No motive is attached to the Saint Louis city field. FEC.gov stored a string. LobbyVault summed it. That is the whole method on this page.

Saint Louis is stored as SAINT LOUIS, not St. Louis and not ST LOUIS. $83,810,982 across 245,693 contributions belongs to that spelled-out string. A close variant, if FEC stored it separately, is a different aggregate. This page does not merge aliases. Clayton, University City, and St. Charles are other keys. Missouri state campaigns are omitted. A mean near $341 is the average itemized row. Kansas City, MO is a different Missouri book. Keep the two citations apart. Cite SAINT LOUIS, MO exactly as stored. The Saint Louis FEC page holds the live $83,810,982 / 245,693 table.

Questions

How much federal campaign money is tied to Saint Louis, MO?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city SAINT LOUIS, MO total $83,810,982 across 245,693 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 Saint Louis. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

How many FEC contributions are tagged to Saint Louis?

LobbyVault counts 245,693 itemized contributions for SAINT LOUIS, MO. 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 245,693 should not be quoted as a population. The matching dollar total on the same extract is $83,810,982.

Does the Saint Louis total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed SAINT LOUIS with state MO. Office addresses and mail that list Saint Louis can be part of $83,810,982 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 245,693-line count follows the same rule.

Where does LobbyVault get Saint Louis totals?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $83,810,982 and 245,693 lines for SAINT LOUIS, MO. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from MO are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $341 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.