WESTFIELD, NJ: $23.0M on 47,075 FEC receipts

Reading $23,030,910 as a city-string roll-up

The headline pair is $23,030,910 and 47,075 lines. The implied average is about $489. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the Westfield, NJ book.

Union County’s Westfield string is separate from Cranford, Scotch Plains, and Mountainside on the FEC city key. Filers typed WESTFIELD 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 Westfield together with Cranford and Scotch Plains, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $23,030,910 on 47,075 WESTFIELD, NJ rows, mean near $489.

Why WESTFIELD, NJ on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Westfield give.” The honest citation is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city WESTFIELD, NJ total $23,030,910 across 47,075 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $23,030,910. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. State NJ is what keeps this page off Westfield, MA.

Outside the Westfield itemized book

$23,030,910 is not spending by Westfield candidates. A candidate who lives in Westfield can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged WESTFIELD, NJ can go to a committee anywhere.

A mean near $489 does not describe a median resident of Westfield. Means move with a few large lines.

Postal confusion with Cranford, Scotch Plains, or Mountainside is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $23,030,910 counts rows that stored WESTFIELD, NJ. 47,075 lines. About $489 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs.

Westfield, NJ versus other Union County strings

Westfield posts $23,030,910 on 47,075 lines, a mean near $489. That is fewer rows than several volume books with similar dollar totals. Fewer rows is not a unique-donor count.

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

A Westfield total of $23,030,910 does not absorb Cranford, Scotch Plains, or Mountainside. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State NJ stays on the citation so WESTFIELD, NJ is not merged with Westfield, MA.

City total versus postal codes in NJ

47,075 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 Westfield 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 Westfield 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.

Source tables for $23,030,910

A mean of about $489 is division of $23,030,910 by 47,075. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of Westfield.

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

Westfield’s $23,030,910 across 47,075 contributions is a Union County city field, mean near $489. Cranford and Scotch Plains are neighboring strings, not subsets. Repeat gifts add rows. New Jersey state-office receipts are omitted. Cite $23,030,910 with 47,075 from FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

Researchers citing Westfield, New Jersey, should keep Westfield, Massachusetts, and Union County off the sentence unless they add those objects on purpose. The live Westfield table can show named committees that this snapshot does not list. A later FEC extract can move $23,030,910 or 47,075 without this guide rewriting itself. Treat the mean near $489 as division only. New Jersey state-office receipts sit outside both packet facts. If a ZIP page for a Westfield code disagrees with the city hub, quote both keys rather than forcing a match. Cranford and Scotch Plains remain other strings. The 47,075-line count still is not a headcount of Westfield people.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city Westfield, NJ?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city WESTFIELD, NJ total $23,030,910 across 47,075 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 Westfield, Massachusetts. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

Is this Westfield, New Jersey or Westfield, Massachusetts?

This extract is WESTFIELD with state NJ: 47,075 lines and $23,030,910. Westfield, MA, would be a different city key. Repeat gifts, redesignations, and memo entries can add rows without adding new donors. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 47,075 should not be quoted as a population.

Does the Westfield total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed WESTFIELD with state NJ. Office addresses and mail that list Westfield can be part of $23,030,910 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 47,075-line count follows the same rule.

Are Westfield numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $23,030,910 and 47,075 lines for WESTFIELD, 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 $489 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.