FARGO, ND: $21.8M on 52,401 FEC receipts

52,401 lines carrying $21,815,104

The headline pair is $21,815,104 and 52,401 lines. The implied average is about $416. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the FARGO book. Cass County filers typed FARGO with state ND.

Fargo is a Cass County, North Dakota city field. Moorhead, Minnesota sits across the river and is a different state key. West Fargo is a neighboring ND string stored separately when filers typed it. 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. Read $21,815,104 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of FARGO gave. The 52,401 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints FARGO together with West Fargo, Moorhead, and Dilworth, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $21,815,104 on 52,401 FARGO, ND rows, mean near $416. Keep the stored spelling FARGO in the citation.

Why FARGO on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Fargo give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city FARGO, ND total $21,815,104 across 52,401 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. No. MOORHEAD with state MN is a different FEC city key. This extract is FARGO, ND only.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $21,815,104. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $416 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

Outside the FARGO itemized book

$21,815,104 is not spending by FARGO candidates. A candidate who lives in FARGO can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged FARGO, ND can go to a committee anywhere. Unitemized federal gifts sit outside both packet facts.

Postal confusion with West Fargo, Moorhead, and Dilworth is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $21,815,104 counts rows that stored FARGO, ND. 52,401 lines. About $416 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs. ND state-office receipts are omitted.

FARGO versus Bismarck on the FEC tape

FARGO is a Red River mid-volume book. 52,401 lines produce $21,815,104, a mean near $416. That line count is not a unique-donor count. Comparing this mean to Bismarck is only valid on the same series: contributor city, itemized federal receipts.

A FARGO total of $21,815,104 does not absorb West Fargo, Moorhead, and Dilworth. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State ND stays on the citation so FARGO, ND is not merged with a same-named place elsewhere. Mixing in ND state-campaign data breaks the comparison.

City total versus postal codes in ND

52,401 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 FARGO 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 FARGO politics sits outside the extract. That includes candidate quality, issue fights, and local election results. This guide stays on the two numbers FEC.gov supplied for the city field: $21,815,104 and 52,401.

Source tables for $21,815,104

A mean of about $416 is division of $21,815,104 by 52,401. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of FARGO. Means move with a few large lines. Internal links on this page go only to the FARGO city hub, the all-cities directory, and the ZIP directory.

FARGO’s $21,815,104 across 52,401 contributions is a Cass County city field, mean near $416. West Fargo is a neighboring string, not a subset. Cass County is not summed here. Repeat gifts add rows. Cite $21,815,104 with 52,401 from FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault. If the live hub disagrees with this snapshot, the newer FEC extract controls.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city FARGO, ND?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city FARGO, ND total $21,815,104 across 52,401 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 Fargo. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $416 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Does Fargo’s total include Moorhead, Minnesota?

No. MOORHEAD with state MN is a different FEC city key. This extract is FARGO, ND only. LobbyVault counts 52,401 itemized contributions for FARGO, ND against $21,815,104. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 52,401 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Fargo total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed FARGO with state ND. Office addresses and mail that list Fargo can be part of $21,815,104 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 52,401-line count follows the same rule.

Are Fargo numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $21,815,104 and 52,401 lines for FARGO, ND. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from ND are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.