CANTON, OH: $19.6M on 33,935 FEC receipts

33,935 lines carrying $19,591,702

The headline pair is $19,591,702 and 33,935 lines. The implied average is about $577. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the CANTON book. Stark County filers typed CANTON with state OH.

CANTON, OH is a Stark County city field, not Canton, Michigan or Canton, Georgia. State OH must stay on the citation. North Canton, if filers typed that name, is a different string. Akron is a neighboring key. 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 $19,591,702 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of CANTON gave. The 33,935 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints CANTON together with Akron, Massillon, and North Canton, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $19,591,702 on 33,935 CANTON, OH rows, mean near $577. Keep the stored spelling CANTON in the citation.

Why CANTON on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Canton give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city CANTON, OH total $19,591,702 across 33,935 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. This extract is CANTON with state OH only. Canton, MI and Canton, GA are other FEC city keys. North Canton is a different string when typed.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $19,591,702. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $577 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

Outside the CANTON itemized book

$19,591,702 is not spending by CANTON candidates. A candidate who lives in CANTON can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged CANTON, OH can go to a committee anywhere. Unitemized federal gifts sit outside both packet facts.

Postal confusion with Akron, Massillon, and North Canton is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $19,591,702 counts rows that stored CANTON, OH. 33,935 lines. About $577 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs. OH state-office receipts are omitted.

CANTON versus Akron on the FEC tape

CANTON is a Stark County mid-volume book. 33,935 lines produce $19,591,702, a mean near $577. That line count is not a unique-donor count. Comparing this mean to Akron is only valid on the same series: contributor city, itemized federal receipts.

A CANTON total of $19,591,702 does not absorb Akron, Massillon, and North Canton. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State OH stays on the citation so CANTON, OH is not merged with a same-named place elsewhere. Mixing in OH state-campaign data breaks the comparison.

City total versus postal codes in OH

33,935 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 CANTON 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 CANTON 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: $19,591,702 and 33,935.

Source tables for $19,591,702

A mean of about $577 is division of $19,591,702 by 33,935. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of CANTON. Means move with a few large lines. Internal links on this page go only to the CANTON city hub, the all-cities directory, and the ZIP directory.

CANTON’s $19,591,702 across 33,935 contributions is a Stark County city field, mean near $577. Akron is a neighboring string, not a subset. Stark County is not summed here. Repeat gifts add rows. Cite $19,591,702 with 33,935 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 CANTON, OH?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city CANTON, OH total $19,591,702 across 33,935 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 Canton. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $577 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Which Canton is this $19.6M total?

This extract is CANTON with state OH only. Canton, MI and Canton, GA are other FEC city keys. North Canton is a different string when typed. LobbyVault counts 33,935 itemized contributions for CANTON, OH against $19,591,702. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 33,935 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Canton total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed CANTON with state OH. Office addresses and mail that list Canton can be part of $19,591,702 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 33,935-line count follows the same rule.

Are Canton numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $19,591,702 and 33,935 lines for CANTON, OH. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from OH are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.