WINSTON-SALEM, NC: $24.3M on 44,691 FEC receipts

Hyphen spelling is the entire key for $24,313,994

The headline pair is $24,313,994 and 44,691 lines. The implied average is about $544. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of this WINSTON-SALEM book.

Forsyth County filers typed WINSTON-SALEM with a hyphen and state NC. LobbyVault summed those rows. A space between Winston and Salem is a different stored string. Do not add this page to the space twin. 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.

If a newsroom map paints Winston-Salem as one municipality, the FEC file can still split the name. This extract’s only city total is $24,313,994 on 44,691 WINSTON-SALEM, NC rows, mean near $544. Greensboro is another string.

Why WINSTON-SALEM on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Winston-Salem give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city WINSTON-SALEM (hyphen) total $24,313,994 across 44,691 contributions. Dropping the spelling distinction inflates or double-counts the claim.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $24,313,994. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here.

Outside the WINSTON-SALEM itemized book

$24,313,994 is not spending by Winston-Salem candidates. A candidate who lives in the city can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged WINSTON-SALEM, NC can go to a committee anywhere.

A mean near $544 does not describe a median resident. Means move with a few large lines. This hyphenated book has fewer rows and a higher mean than the space twin; that is two keys, not a ranking.

Postal confusion with Greensboro, Kernersville, or the space twin is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $24,313,994 counts rows that stored WINSTON-SALEM, NC. 44,691 lines. About $544 each.

Do not add the space twin to $24,313,994

A second packet on this series stores WINSTON SALEM with a space and a different total. Adding the two pages would mix two keys. This guide quotes $24,313,994 and 44,691 only.

Comparing this mean to Greensboro is only valid on the same series: contributor city, itemized federal receipts. Mixing in North Carolina state data breaks the comparison.

A WINSTON-SALEM total of $24,313,994 does not absorb Greensboro or Kernersville. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State NC stays on the citation.

City total versus postal codes in NC

44,691 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 city 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 Winston-Salem politics sits outside the extract. This guide stays on the two numbers FEC.gov supplied for the hyphenated city field.

Source tables for $24,313,994

A mean of about $544 is division of $24,313,994 by 44,691. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident.

Internal links on this page go only to the city hub, the all-cities directory, and the ZIP directory. Those are the three paths that match this packet.

WINSTON-SALEM’s $24,313,994 across 44,691 contributions is a Forsyth County hyphenated city field, mean near $544. The space twin is a separate page. Greensboro is another string. Repeat gifts add rows. North Carolina state-office receipts are omitted. Cite $24,313,994 with 44,691 from FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

Researchers citing the hyphenated spelling should keep the space twin off the sentence unless they are adding two keys on purpose. The live city table can show named committees that this snapshot does not list. A later FEC extract can move $24,313,994 or 44,691 without this guide rewriting itself. Treat the mean near $544 as division only. North Carolina state-office receipts sit outside both packet facts. If a ZIP page disagrees with the city hub, quote both keys rather than forcing a match. Greensboro remains another string. The 44,691-line count still is not a headcount. Do not add $24,313,994 to the space page’s total.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city WINSTON-SALEM, NC?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city WINSTON-SALEM, NC—hyphenated spelling—total $24,313,994 across 44,691 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 the city. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

Is WINSTON-SALEM the same as WINSTON SALEM on FEC reports?

No. This extract is the hyphenated spelling WINSTON-SALEM with state NC: 44,691 lines and $24,313,994. The space string WINSTON SALEM is a different city key with its own total. Do not add the two pages. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 44,691 should not be quoted as a population.

Does the WINSTON-SALEM total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed WINSTON-SALEM with state NC. Office addresses and mail that list that spelling can be part of $24,313,994 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 44,691-line count follows the same rule.

Are WINSTON-SALEM numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $24,313,994 and 44,691 lines for WINSTON-SALEM, 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 $544 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.