CHARLOTTE, NC: $124.5M on 320,767 FEC receipts

How FEC.gov stored CHARLOTTE as a city

Charlotte’s city-field extract shows $124,542,868 across 320,767 contributions. Treat $388 as a derived average. It is not an FEC-published statistic with its own schedule.

Cite $124,542,868 only as itemized federal receipts tagged CHARLOTTE, NC. North Carolina’s largest city is a filing label here. Mecklenburg geography orients readers; it does not score the receipts. 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.

Annexation stories about Concord, Gastonia, or Rock Hill do not rewrite $124,542,868. FEC city strings do not auto-follow city-limit changes. 320,767 contributions tagged CHARLOTTE, NC stay on this page until a filer types a different city. About $388 per line is still division.

Neighboring labels that are not Charlotte

Neighboring municipalities are not included unless filers typed CHARLOTTE, NC. Suburb names, county names, and metro nicknames are different keys when they appear as the city field.

Cite the city field, the dollar total, and the line count together. Two of the three is an incomplete citation of CHARLOTTE, NC.

CHARLOTTE, NC on Schedule A, not on a voter file

LobbyVault’s city hub for CHARLOTTE, NC is the live table for this string. This guide’s $124,542,868 and 320,767 are a snapshot of FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

Unitemized federal gifts are omitted from $124,542,868. State-office campaigns in NC are omitted. Mixing those systems with the FEC city book produces a total no agency published.

If a newsroom map paints Charlotte together with Concord and Gastonia, the FEC file still splits them. Rock Hill too. This extract’s only city total is $124,542,868 on 320,767 CHARLOTTE, NC rows, mean near $388.

Volume and average on the Charlotte book

Charlotte sits in a mid-range mean band on this extract: about $388 from $124,542,868 divided by 320,767. The pair is a city-field average, not a ranking of political intensity.

LobbyVault leaves the shape as arithmetic. CHARLOTTE, NC remains a city string with $124,542,868 and 320,767 attached.

Postal confusion with Concord, Gastonia, or Rock Hill is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $124,542,868 counts rows that stored CHARLOTTE, NC in state NC. 320,767 lines. About $388 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs.

NC ZIP directory next to Charlotte

Keep $124,542,868 on the city citation. Keep ZIP totals on ZIP citations. Adding them double-counts every row that has both a city and a ZIP, which is most itemized rows.

Postal boundaries change. FEC city strings do not automatically follow annexations. CHARLOTTE, NC is the string as stored on the extract.

Repeat the constraint when you reuse $124,542,868: itemized, federal, contributor city CHARLOTTE, NC, 320,767 lines, FEC.gov via LobbyVault. That sentence is long on purpose. Short slogans about Charlotte money usually drop a limit that changes the meaning.

A Charlotte total of $124,542,868 does not absorb Concord, Gastonia, or Rock Hill. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State NC stays on the citation so CHARLOTTE, NC is not merged with a same-named place elsewhere. The 320,767 lines and the mean near $388 describe this key only.

Keep Concord, Gastonia, and Rock Hill off the Charlotte citation unless the receipt actually stored those cities. $124,542,868 is the CHARLOTTE, NC string alone. 320,767 itemized rows and about $388 per row are the shape of that string, not of the metro map.

FEC.gov as the control for CHARLOTTE, NC

This prose is a snapshot. Committees still file. Refunds still post. $124,542,868 can rise or fall. 320,767 can lengthen or shrink. The live table is the place to look after an amendment.

Do not add estimated unitemized amounts to $124,542,868. This packet has no such estimate.

Charlotte’s $124,542,868 across 320,767 contributions is a Mecklenburg city-string book, not a Charlotte metro blend. Concord, Gastonia, and Rock Hill are different keys — Rock Hill is even a different state. North Carolina state-office filings never enter the FEC city total. A mean near $388 is $124,542,868 divided by 320,767. Report it as arithmetic. Banking-center geography orients readers; this packet has no employer table to prove an industry mix. Named receipts on the Charlotte hub are where occupation and employer appear, if they appear. Cite contributor city CHARLOTTE, NC, the dollar total, and the line count in one sentence. Amendments can move both numbers; recheck the live hub.

Questions

What is the FEC donation total for CHARLOTTE, NC?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city CHARLOTTE, NC total $124,542,868 across 320,767 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 Charlotte. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

Is 320,767 a count of Charlotte donors?

LobbyVault counts 320,767 itemized contributions for CHARLOTTE, NC. 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 320,767 should not be quoted as a population. The matching dollar total on the same extract is $124,542,868.

Is CHARLOTTE, NC a residency total?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed CHARLOTTE with state NC. Office addresses and mail that list Charlotte can be part of $124,542,868 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 320,767-line count follows the same rule.

What is the source for CHARLOTTE, NC campaign money figures?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $124,542,868 and 320,767 lines for CHARLOTTE, NC. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from NC are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $388 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.