MONTCLAIR, NJ: $26.7M on 71,397 FEC receipts

Reading $26,718,106 as a city-string roll-up

The headline pair is $26,718,106 and 71,397 lines. The implied average is about $374. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the Montclair book.

Essex County’s Montclair string is separate from Bloomfield and Glen Ridge on the FEC city key. Keep the books apart. Filers typed MONTCLAIR in the city field. LobbyVault summed rows with that string and state NJ. 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 Montclair together with Bloomfield and Glen Ridge, the FEC file still splits them. Upper Montclair as a neighborhood label is not auto-merged either. This extract’s only city total is $26,718,106 on 71,397 MONTCLAIR, NJ rows, mean near $374.

Why MONTCLAIR on the receipt is not a census of Montclair

Searchers often want “how much did people in Montclair give.” The honest citation is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city MONTCLAIR, NJ total $26,718,106 across 71,397 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $26,718,106. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here.

Outside the Montclair itemized book

$26,718,106 is not spending by Montclair candidates. A candidate who lives in Montclair can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged MONTCLAIR, NJ can go to a committee anywhere.

A mean near $374 does not describe a median resident of Montclair. Means move with a few large lines.

Postal confusion with Bloomfield, Glen Ridge, or a neighborhood stamp is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $26,718,106 counts rows that stored MONTCLAIR, NJ. 71,397 lines. About $374 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs.

Montclair’s mid-mean line book

Montclair is a mid-mean book on this extract: 71,397 lines produce $26,718,106, a mean near $374. Neither a thin PAC stack nor a 100,000-line volume file. Mid-mean is not the same as unique people.

Comparing Montclair’s mean to another city is only valid on the same series: contributor city, itemized federal receipts. Mixing in New Jersey state data breaks the comparison.

A Montclair total of $26,718,106 does not absorb Bloomfield or Glen Ridge. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State NJ stays on the citation so MONTCLAIR, NJ is not merged with a same-named place elsewhere. The 71,397 lines and the mean near $374 describe this key only.

City total versus postal codes in NJ

71,397 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 Montclair 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 Montclair politics sits outside the extract. That includes candidate quality, issue fights, and local election results. Those subjects have other documents. This guide stays on the two numbers FEC.gov supplied for the city field.

Source tables for $26,718,106

A mean of about $374 is division of $26,718,106 by 71,397. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of Montclair.

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

Montclair’s $26,718,106 across 71,397 contributions is an Essex County city field, mean near $374. Bloomfield is next door on the map and separate on the FEC key. Glen Ridge is another string. Essex County is not summed here. Repeat gifts add rows. New Jersey state-office receipts are omitted. Cite $26,718,106 with 71,397 from FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

Researchers citing Montclair should keep Essex County off the sentence unless they add other city hubs. The live Montclair table can show named committees that this snapshot does not list. A later FEC extract can move $26,718,106 or 71,397 without this guide rewriting itself. Treat the mean near $374 as division only. New Jersey municipal elections and county party accounts sit outside both packet facts. If a ZIP page for a Montclair code disagrees with the city hub, quote both keys rather than forcing a match. Glen Ridge and Bloomfield remain other strings. The 71,397-line count still is not a headcount of Montclair people.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city Montclair?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city MONTCLAIR, NJ total $26,718,106 across 71,397 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 Montclair. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

What does the Montclair contribution count mean?

LobbyVault counts 71,397 itemized contributions for MONTCLAIR, NJ. 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 71,397 should not be quoted as a population. The matching dollar total on the same extract is $26,718,106.

Does the Montclair total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed MONTCLAIR with state NJ. Office addresses and mail that list Montclair can be part of $26,718,106 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 71,397-line count follows the same rule.

Are Montclair numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $26,718,106 and 71,397 lines for MONTCLAIR, NJ. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from NJ are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $374 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.