MORRISTOWN, NJ: $27.0M on 61,714 FEC receipts

Morristown’s volume in Morris County

Sixty-one thousand seven hundred fourteen lines produce $27,016,219. Divide the pair and the mean itemized line is about $438. Madison, Short Hills, and Summit are other nearby city strings. They are not inside $27,016,219 unless the filer typed MORRISTOWN.

Newark and Princeton keep separate New Jersey hubs. Morris County is orientation, not an FEC roll-up. $27,016,219 is the MORRISTOWN, NJ match only.

Not Newark, Manhattan, or a Morris County recode

The city is the contributor-city value on FEC itemizations. Filers type it. LobbyVault does not geocode Morristown against a municipal boundary file. A work address, a mail drop, or a household in a neighboring place that still typed MORRISTOWN can sit inside $27,016,219.

Adding Newark or New York to Morristown would be a recode. This packet publishes MORRISTOWN, NJ only: $27,016,219 and 61,714 lines. The 61,714 lines are receipts, not unique persons. A Madison household typed as MORRISTOWN sits inside the pair; a Morristown household typed as SUMMIT does not. Amended reports can raise or lower both $27,016,219 and 61,714. If the live Morristown hub reprints different figures, the newer FEC extract wins.

Keep NJ on the Morristown citation

Morristown, Tennessee is another city string. State NJ stays on the citation so MORRISTOWN, NJ is not merged with it. The 61,714 lines and the mean near $438 describe this key only. A citation that drops NJ invites a merge with Morristown, Tennessee. Recheck both facts on the live hub if a later extract lands.

Office addresses can share the Morristown city field with household streets. Totals can include a PAC or joint-fundraising address when that is what filers typed. LobbyVault does not recode those rows out of the city string. The 61,714 lines remain receipts, not unique persons.

What $27,016,219 from Morristown omits

Unitemized federal contributions do not appear in $27,016,219. Many small gifts never become Schedule A city rows. Citing $27,016,219 as “all federal money from Morristown” overstates the series. The 61,714 lines are the itemized book only.

New Jersey state campaigns file under state law. Those receipts are outside $27,016,219 and outside 61,714. Independent expenditures that never appear as contribution itemizations are outside both facts. County freeholder and municipal races that never become federal Schedule A rows sit outside both facts as well.

ZIP codes under the Morristown city string

The ZIP directory cuts the same FEC itemized series by five-digit contributor ZIP. A Morristown city total of $27,016,219 is not automatically the sum of ZIPs the postal service assigns to Morristown. Filers can type this city with a ZIP mapped to Madison or Morris Plains, and the reverse. A researcher who adds those postal pages to this hub is mixing two cuts of the same series.

Do not treat a mean near $438 as proof that Morristown ZIPs are mid-dollar donor ZIPs. This packet has no ZIP list and no income field. 61,714 is a line count. $27,016,219 is a dollar sum. Those two numbers move together when FEC.gov amends a receipt. They do not move because a map prefers Newark or Short Hills as the “real” North Jersey. If the live hub reprints a different pair, the newer FEC extract wins.

Citing MORRISTOWN, NJ

Cite the pair in one sentence: contributor city MORRISTOWN, NJ, $27,016,219, 61,714 itemized federal contributions, source FEC.gov via LobbyVault. Name FEC.gov and print dollars with line count together. Name state NJ so readers do not merge this hub with Morristown, Tennessee. Morris County, the Green, and “the train line” are useful for maps and news copy. They are not FEC dimensions on this hub.

A mean near $438 is only $27,016,219 divided by 61,714. It is not a typical Morristown household gift, not a typical downtown-office gift, and not a typical Morris County gift. Occupation, recipient, and party live on other FEC fields. None of those fields are in this packet. Do not infer turnout. Do not infer that Morristown is more or less politically active than Princeton because the line counts differ. Princeton is a different city string with its own hub. Original PDFs and electronic filings remain on FEC.gov for any named Morristown receipt that needs a line-by-line check.

Questions

What is Morristown’s federal contribution total on LobbyVault?

Itemized FEC.gov receipts listing contributor city MORRISTOWN, NJ total $27,016,219 across 61,714 contributions. That pair is a city-string roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of Morristown residents. Unitemized gifts sit outside both figures.

How should I read Morristown’s 61,714 contributions?

LobbyVault counts 61,714 itemized lines for MORRISTOWN, NJ. That is a line count, not a headcount of unique people. Repeat gifts and memo entries can add rows without adding donors. This packet publishes no unique-donor figure. The matching dollar total is $27,016,219.

Does Morristown’s total include Newark or Short Hills?

Only if the filer typed MORRISTOWN. Newark, Short Hills, and Summit are separate city strings when they appear that way on the receipt. $27,016,219 is the MORRISTOWN, NJ match. The 61,714 lines follow the same rule. Metro labels are not an FEC dimension on this hub.

Where do the Morristown facts come from?

Both facts come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $27,016,219 and 61,714 lines. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. New Jersey non-federal filings are outside the pair. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $438 is arithmetic from those two packet numbers.