WINSTON SALEM, NC: $24.7M on 60,919 FEC receipts

Space spelling is the entire key for $24,671,623

The headline pair is $24,671,623 and 60,919 lines. The implied average is about $405. 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 space and state NC. LobbyVault summed those rows. A hyphen between Winston and Salem is a different stored string. Do not add this page to the hyphenated 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 $24,671,623 on 60,919 WINSTON SALEM, NC rows, mean near $405. 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 (space) total $24,671,623 across 60,919 contributions. Dropping the spelling distinction inflates or double-counts the claim.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $24,671,623. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here.

Outside the WINSTON SALEM itemized book

$24,671,623 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 $405 does not describe a median resident. Means move with a few large lines.

Postal confusion with Greensboro, Kernersville, or the hyphenated twin is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $24,671,623 counts rows that stored WINSTON SALEM, NC. 60,919 lines. About $405 each.

Do not add the hyphenated twin to $24,671,623

A second packet on this series stores WINSTON-SALEM with a hyphen and a different total. Adding the two pages would mix two keys. This guide quotes $24,671,623 and 60,919 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 $24,671,623 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

60,919 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 space-spelled city field.

Source tables for $24,671,623

A mean of about $405 is division of $24,671,623 by 60,919. 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 WINSTON SALEM city hub, the all-cities directory, and the ZIP directory. Those are the three paths that match this packet.

WINSTON SALEM’s $24,671,623 across 60,919 contributions is a Forsyth County space-spelled city field, mean near $405. The hyphenated twin is a separate page. Greensboro is another string. Repeat gifts add rows. North Carolina state-office receipts are omitted. Cite $24,671,623 with 60,919 from FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

Researchers citing the space spelling should keep the hyphenated 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 $24,671,623 or 60,919 without this guide rewriting itself. Treat the mean near $405 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 60,919-line count still is not a headcount. Do not add $24,671,623 to the hyphenated page’s total.

Questions

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

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city WINSTON SALEM, NC—space spelling, no hyphen—total $24,671,623 across 60,919 contributions in the LobbyVault aggregate. That figure is a city-string roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

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

No. This extract is the space spelling WINSTON SALEM with state NC: 60,919 lines and $24,671,623. The hyphenated 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 60,919 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 $24,671,623 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 60,919-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: $24,671,623 and 60,919 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 $405 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.