ALBANY, NY: $20.7M on 65,131 FEC receipts

65,131 lines carrying $20,668,182

The headline pair is $20,668,182 and 65,131 lines. The implied average is about $317. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the ALBANY book. Albany County filers typed ALBANY with state NY.

ALBANY, NY is the Capital District city field, not Albany, Georgia or Albany, California. State NY must stay on the citation. Troy, New York and Schenectady are neighboring strings. This is not a merge with New York City. 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. Read $20,668,182 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of ALBANY gave. The 65,131 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints ALBANY together with Schenectady, Troy, and Colonie, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $20,668,182 on 65,131 ALBANY, NY rows, mean near $317. Keep the stored spelling ALBANY in the citation.

Why ALBANY on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Albany give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city ALBANY, NY total $20,668,182 across 65,131 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. This extract is ALBANY with state NY only. Albany, GA and Albany, CA are other FEC city keys.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $20,668,182. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $317 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

Outside the ALBANY itemized book

$20,668,182 is not spending by ALBANY candidates. A candidate who lives in ALBANY can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged ALBANY, NY can go to a committee anywhere. Unitemized federal gifts sit outside both packet facts.

Postal confusion with Schenectady, Troy, and Colonie is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $20,668,182 counts rows that stored ALBANY, NY. 65,131 lines. About $317 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs. NY state-office receipts are omitted.

ALBANY versus Buffalo on the FEC tape

ALBANY is a Capital District mid-volume book. 65,131 lines produce $20,668,182, a mean near $317. That line count is not a unique-donor count. Comparing this mean to Buffalo is only valid on the same series: contributor city, itemized federal receipts.

A ALBANY total of $20,668,182 does not absorb Schenectady, Troy, and Colonie. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State NY stays on the citation so ALBANY, NY is not merged with a same-named place elsewhere. Mixing in NY state-campaign data breaks the comparison.

City total versus postal codes in NY

65,131 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 ALBANY 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 ALBANY 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: $20,668,182 and 65,131.

Source tables for $20,668,182

A mean of about $317 is division of $20,668,182 by 65,131. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of ALBANY. Means move with a few large lines. Internal links on this page go only to the ALBANY city hub, the all-cities directory, and the ZIP directory.

ALBANY’s $20,668,182 across 65,131 contributions is a Albany County city field, mean near $317. Schenectady is a neighboring string, not a subset. Albany County is not summed here. Repeat gifts add rows. Cite $20,668,182 with 65,131 from FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault. If the live hub disagrees with this snapshot, the newer FEC extract controls.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city ALBANY, NY?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city ALBANY, NY total $20,668,182 across 65,131 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 Albany. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $317 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Which Albany is this $20.7M total?

This extract is ALBANY with state NY only. Albany, GA and Albany, CA are other FEC city keys. LobbyVault counts 65,131 itemized contributions for ALBANY, NY against $20,668,182. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 65,131 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Albany total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed ALBANY with state NY. Office addresses and mail that list Albany can be part of $20,668,182 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 65,131-line count follows the same rule.

Are Albany numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $20,668,182 and 65,131 lines for ALBANY, NY. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from NY are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.