ALBUQUERQUE, NM: $78.1M on 386,703 FEC receipts

A high-volume Albuquerque book

Three hundred eighty-six thousand seven hundred three lines produce $78,078,048. Divide the pair and the mean itemized line is about $202. That is a volume shape: many receipts, a lower average than cities with similar dollars and fewer lines.

Volume is not unique people. Repeat givers, redesignations, and memo entries can inflate 386,703 without adding donors. This packet publishes no unique-donor figure. $78,078,048 is still the dollar sum of those lines.

Santa Fe, Rio Rancho, and Las Cruces are other New Mexico city strings. They are not inside Albuquerque unless the filer typed ALBUQUERQUE. Bernalillo County is orientation, not an FEC roll-up on this page.

Reading the $202 mean without a typical-gift story

About $202 per line is arithmetic from $78,078,048 and 386,703. The packet has no median and no size bins. A few large receipts can sit next to many small ones. Do not quote $202 as what an Albuquerque resident usually gave.

A later extract can raise or lower that mean if large lines are refunded or if small lines pile up. Recheck both facts on the live hub.

Contributor city, not a New Mexico statewide total

State NM on the key identifies the Albuquerque string. It does not convert this page into a statewide book. Other NM cities keep their own hubs. $78,078,048 is ALBUQUERQUE only.

The city total can include a PAC or joint-fundraising address when that is what filers typed. LobbyVault leaves those rows in the city string. The 386,703-line count follows the same rule.

ZIP cuts versus the Albuquerque city string

ZIP pages split federal itemizations by postal code. Adding ZIPs that postal maps assign to Albuquerque will not automatically reproduce $78,078,048, because some receipts use other city labels. The 386,703 lines are the literal city-field match.

A complete citation names FEC.gov, names contributor city, and prints $78,078,048 with 386,703 together. Leaving off the line count hides Albuquerque’s volume shape.

Limits and source

New Mexico state campaigns file under state law. Those receipts are outside $78,078,048 and outside 386,703. Unitemized federal gifts are omitted. Independent expenditures that never appear as contribution itemizations are outside both facts.

If title, H1, and table on the live hub disagree with this snapshot, trust the hub. Open original reports on FEC.gov when a named Albuquerque receipt matters. Source: FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

Albuquerque’s volume shape is the fact that distinguishes $78,078,048 from cities with similar dollars on fewer lines. Keep 386,703 in the same sentence as the dollars or the comparison disappears.

Santa Fe remains the other large New Mexico city string readers most often want to merge. This packet does not merge it. $78,078,048 is ALBUQUERQUE only.

What an Albuquerque reader should carry

Carry FEC.gov, contributor city ALBUQUERQUE, NM, $78,078,048, and 386,703 lines. The mean near $202 is optional arithmetic from those two packet facts. It is not a typical gift and not a median.

Rio Rancho, Santa Fe, and Las Cruces stay off this page unless the filer typed ALBUQUERQUE. New Mexico state-office receipts stay off this page. Unitemized federal gifts stay off this page. Bernalillo County is orientation, not a roll-up.

A high line count can include repeat givers, redesignations, and memo entries. 386,703 is not a unique-donor census. $78,078,048 is still the dollar sum of those lines. Quote both.

The live Albuquerque hub is the table. This guide is the footnote. If they disagree, trust the hub. Open original reports on FEC.gov when a named Albuquerque receipt matters. ZIP pages split a different field. The cities index lists other New Mexico labels.

Albuquerque’s 386,703 lines behind $78,078,048 put this hub in a small set of volume books on the extract. Readers who quote only the dollars will make Albuquerque look like Detroit. Readers who quote only the lines will make it look like a headcount. The pair is the citation.

Repeat givers can sit in 386,703 more than once. Redesignations and memo entries can add rows without adding people. This packet publishes no unique-donor figure. $78,078,048 remains the dollar sum. The mean near $202 is arithmetic from those two facts and nothing else.

Santa Fe, Rio Rancho, and Las Cruces keep their own hubs. Bernalillo County is not a substitute for the city string. New Mexico state campaigns file under state law and sit outside both facts. Unitemized federal gifts sit outside both facts. Open the Albuquerque city table for names on this string, then ZIP pages for postal cuts, then FEC.gov for the original receipt.

Questions

What does LobbyVault report for Albuquerque federal contributions?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city ALBUQUERQUE, NM total $78,078,048 across 386,703 contributions. That pair is a city-string roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of Albuquerque residents. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

Why is Albuquerque’s line count so high relative to the dollars?

This extract stores 386,703 itemized lines behind $78,078,048, a mean near $202. That is a volume book: many receipts, a lower average than cities with similar dollars and fewer lines. The packet has no unique-donor figure and no size distribution. Quote both facts together rather than the mean alone.

Does the Albuquerque total include Santa Fe or Rio Rancho?

Only if the filer typed ALBUQUERQUE as the city. Santa Fe and Rio Rancho are separate city strings when they appear that way on the receipt. $78,078,048 is the ALBUQUERQUE, NM match. The 386,703 lines follow the same rule. County and metro labels are not FEC dimensions on this hub. Bernalillo County and metro labels are not FEC dimensions on this Albuquerque hub.

How current is Albuquerque’s $78,078,048 figure?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $78,078,048 and 386,703 lines. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. New Mexico non-federal filings are outside the pair. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $202 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.