RALEIGH, NC: $90.1M on 240,299 FEC receipts

How FEC.gov stored RALEIGH as a city

Raleigh’s city-field extract shows $90,097,051 across 240,299 contributions. Treat $375 as a derived average. It is not an FEC-published statistic with its own schedule.

Cite $90,097,051 only as itemized federal receipts tagged RALEIGH, NC. North Carolina’s capital string is not Durham or Chapel Hill. Wake County geography is orientation only. 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 Durham, Cary, or Chapel Hill do not rewrite $90,097,051. FEC city strings do not auto-follow city-limit changes. 240,299 contributions tagged RALEIGH, NC stay on this page until a filer types a different city. About $375 per line is still division.

Neighboring labels that are not Raleigh

Neighboring municipalities are not included unless filers typed RALEIGH, 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 RALEIGH, NC.

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

LobbyVault’s city hub for RALEIGH, NC is the live table for this string. This guide’s $90,097,051 and 240,299 are a snapshot of FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

Unitemized federal gifts are omitted from $90,097,051. 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 Raleigh together with Durham and Cary, the FEC file still splits them. Chapel Hill too. This extract’s only city total is $90,097,051 on 240,299 RALEIGH, NC rows, mean near $375.

Volume and average on the Raleigh book

Raleigh sits in a mid-range mean band on this extract: about $375 from $90,097,051 divided by 240,299. The pair is a city-field average, not a ranking of political intensity.

LobbyVault leaves the shape as arithmetic. RALEIGH, NC remains a city string with $90,097,051 and 240,299 attached.

Postal confusion with Durham, Cary, or Chapel Hill is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $90,097,051 counts rows that stored RALEIGH, NC in state NC. 240,299 lines. About $375 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs.

NC ZIP directory next to Raleigh

Keep $90,097,051 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. RALEIGH, NC is the string as stored on the extract.

Repeat the constraint when you reuse $90,097,051: itemized, federal, contributor city RALEIGH, NC, 240,299 lines, FEC.gov via LobbyVault. That sentence is long on purpose. Short slogans about Raleigh money usually drop a limit that changes the meaning.

A Raleigh total of $90,097,051 does not absorb Durham, Cary, or Chapel Hill. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State NC stays on the citation so RALEIGH, NC is not merged with a same-named place elsewhere. The 240,299 lines and the mean near $375 describe this key only.

Keep Durham, Cary, and Chapel Hill off the Raleigh citation unless the receipt actually stored those cities. $90,097,051 is the RALEIGH, NC string alone. 240,299 itemized rows and about $375 per row are the shape of that string, not of the metro map.

FEC.gov as the control for RALEIGH, NC

This prose is a snapshot. Committees still file. Refunds still post. $90,097,051 can rise or fall. 240,299 can lengthen or shrink. The live table is the place to look after an amendment.

Do not add estimated unitemized amounts to $90,097,051. This packet has no such estimate.

Raleigh’s $90,097,051 on 240,299 lines is the North Carolina capital string, mean near $375. Durham, Cary, and Chapel Hill are different keys. Wake County is orientation, not a Triangle roll-up. Charlotte is a separate North Carolina city book. Do not add the two and call the sum North Carolina. State-office campaigns in North Carolina are omitted from this FEC city total. The 240,299 contributions are itemized federal rows. A mean near $375 is $90,097,051 divided by 240,299. Report both numbers. Cite RALEIGH, NC, $90,097,051, and 240,299 from FEC.gov via LobbyVault.

Questions

What is the FEC donation total for RALEIGH, NC?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city RALEIGH, NC total $90,097,051 across 240,299 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 Raleigh. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

Is 240,299 a count of Raleigh donors?

LobbyVault counts 240,299 itemized contributions for RALEIGH, 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 240,299 should not be quoted as a population. The matching dollar total on the same extract is $90,097,051.

Is RALEIGH, NC a residency total?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed RALEIGH with state NC. Office addresses and mail that list Raleigh can be part of $90,097,051 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 240,299-line count follows the same rule.

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

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $90,097,051 and 240,299 lines for RALEIGH, 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 $375 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.