SANTA FE, NM: $45.2M on 228,887 FEC receipts

Santa Fe’s volume relative to its dollars

Two hundred twenty-eight thousand eight hundred eighty-seven lines produce $45,157,907. Divide the pair and the mean itemized line is about $197. That is a high-volume city string on this extract. A thinner New Mexico city with similar dollars would show a higher mean; Santa Fe’s mean near $197 follows from the line count, not from a character study of the plaza.

Albuquerque, Tesuque, and Española are other New Mexico city strings. They are not inside $45,157,907 unless the filer typed SANTA FE. Santa Fe County is orientation, not an FEC roll-up.

Office addresses can share the Santa Fe city field with household streets. Totals can include a PAC or joint-fundraising address when that is what filers typed. The 228,887 lines are receipts, not unique persons.

Not an Albuquerque sum

Albuquerque keeps a separate New Mexico hub. Adding Albuquerque to Santa Fe would be a recode. This packet publishes SANTA FE, NM only: $45,157,907 and 228,887 lines.

State NM on the key is required in the citation. Recheck both facts on the live hub if a later extract lands.

Capital city versus postal map

FEC.gov stores whatever city appeared on the itemized receipt. SANTA FE plus NM is the match. Recoding into a Census place or a northern New Mexico label is a different dataset.

ZIP pages cut the same federal series by postal code. Summing Santa Fe-area ZIPs can diverge from $45,157,907 when some receipts used Tesuque or Eldorado as the city. The 228,887-line count follows the city field.

Limits of the Santa Fe aggregate

New Mexico state campaigns file under state law. Those receipts are outside $45,157,907 and outside 228,887. Unitemized federal gifts are omitted. Independent expenditures that never appear as contribution itemizations are outside both facts.

Nothing here estimates how Santa Fe voted. Occupation and recipient live on other FEC fields. Use the city table, then ZIP pages, then the cities index.

Citing SANTA FE, NM

Name FEC.gov, name contributor city, and print $45,157,907 with 228,887 together. Dropping the line count hides Santa Fe’s volume relative to a thinner city on similar dollars.

Santa Fe will keep attracting queries that treat the capital as a proxy for residents. FEC.gov stores a contributor-city field. $45,157,907 across 228,887 lines is what that field sums to in this aggregate. A mean near $197 follows from division. Unique donors are not in the packet. Party is not in the packet. If the live hub disagrees with this snapshot, trust the hub. Open original reports on FEC.gov when a named Santa Fe receipt matters.

How researchers should use the Santa Fe hub

Start on the live Santa Fe city page, then open ZIP pages if a postal cut is the real question. $45,157,907 is the city-string dollar total in this snapshot. 228,887 is the matching line count. Those two numbers move together when FEC.gov amends a receipt. They do not move because a researcher prefers Albuquerque or Tesuque as the “real” northern New Mexico. Filers typed SANTA FE. LobbyVault indexed SANTA FE. Santa Fe County, the plaza, and “the capital district” are useful for maps and news copy. They are not FEC dimensions on this hub.

A mean near $197 is only $45,157,907 divided by 228,887. It is not a typical Santa Fe household gift, not a typical gallery gift, and not a typical state-employee gift. Occupation is a different FEC field. Recipient is a different FEC field. Party is a different FEC field. None of those fields are in this packet. Do not infer them from the mean. Do not infer turnout. Do not infer that Santa Fe is more or less “politically active” than Albuquerque because the line counts differ. Albuquerque is a different city string with its own hub.

Cite the pair in one sentence: contributor city SANTA FE, NM, $45,157,907, 228,887 itemized federal contributions, source FEC.gov via LobbyVault. If a later extract on the live hub prints a different pair, discard this snapshot. Original PDFs and electronic filings remain on FEC.gov for any named Santa Fe receipt that needs a line-by-line check. New Mexico non-federal filings never enter either fact. Unitemized federal gifts never enter either fact. Independent expenditures that are not contribution itemizations never enter either fact. That is the full scope of this city page.

Questions

What is Santa Fe’s federal contribution total on LobbyVault?

Itemized FEC.gov receipts listing contributor city SANTA FE, NM total $45,157,907 across 228,887 contributions. That pair is a city-string roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of Santa Fe residents. Unitemized gifts sit outside both figures.

How should I read Santa Fe’s 228,887 contributions?

LobbyVault counts 228,887 itemized lines for SANTA FE, NM. 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 $45,157,907.

Does Santa Fe’s total include Albuquerque?

Only if the filer typed SANTA FE. Albuquerque, Tesuque, and Española are separate city strings when they appear that way on the receipt. $45,157,907 is the SANTA FE, NM match. The 228,887 lines follow the same rule. Metro labels are not an FEC dimension on this hub.

Where do the Santa Fe facts come from?

Both facts come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $45,157,907 and 228,887 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 $197 is arithmetic from those two packet numbers.