TULSA, OK: $128.6M on 270,118 FEC receipts

Reading $128,640,043 as a city-string roll-up

The headline pair is $128,640,043 and 270,118 lines. The implied average is about $476. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the Tulsa book.

Northeastern Oklahoma geography orients the map. FEC.gov stored a city string, not a regional politics grade. Filers typed TULSA in the city field. LobbyVault summed rows with that string and state OK. 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.

Metro shorthand that folds Broken Arrow or Jenks into Tulsa is a recode. FEC.gov stored TULSA, OK. $128,640,043 across 270,118 contributions, mean near $476, belongs to that spelling. Bixby is a different key if it appears as the city field.

Why TULSA on the receipt is not a census of Tulsa

Searchers often want “how much did people in Tulsa give.” The honest citation is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city TULSA, OK total $128,640,043 across 270,118 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $128,640,043. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here.

Outside the Tulsa itemized book

$128,640,043 is not spending by Tulsa candidates. A candidate who lives in Tulsa can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged TULSA, OK can go to a committee anywhere.

A mean near $476 does not describe a median resident of Tulsa. Means move with a few large lines.

Readers who live near Broken Arrow or Jenks still need the city string as filed. A Tulsa mailing habit is not the FEC dimension. TULSA, OK sums to $128,640,043 on 270,118 lines (about $476 each). Bixby remains outside that pair.

Volume and average on the Tulsa book

Tulsa sits in a mid-range mean band on this extract: about $476 from $128,640,043 divided by 270,118. The pair is a city-field average, not a ranking of political intensity.

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

Tulsa versus Broken Arrow is a different-key problem, not a suburb ranking. Jenks and Bixby follow the same rule. Quote $128,640,043 and 270,118 for TULSA, OK only. The mean near $476 does not travel with a neighbor’s name.

City total versus postal codes in OK

270,118 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 Tulsa 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 Tulsa politics sits outside the extract. That includes candidate quality, issue fights, and local election results. Those subjects have other documents. This guide stays on the two numbers FEC.gov supplied for the city field.

Source tables for $128,640,043

A mean of about $476 is division of $128,640,043 by 270,118. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of Tulsa.

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

Tulsa’s $128,640,043 sits on the TULSA city key with state OK. Broken Arrow, Jenks, and Bixby are not auto-included. Oil-patch geography is a map note, not an FEC industry code on this page. The packet has no employer roll-up, so energy-sector stories need named receipts on the Tulsa hub, not the city total. Two hundred seventy thousand one hundred eighteen lines is a volume mark; the mean near $476 is the other mark. Quote both. Oklahoma City is a different city string with its own guide. Do not add the two Oklahoma books and call the sum “Oklahoma.” FEC.gov did not publish that recode here. Unitemized federal gifts and Oklahoma state campaigns remain outside $128,640,043.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city Tulsa?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city TULSA, OK total $128,640,043 across 270,118 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 Tulsa. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

What does the Tulsa contribution count mean?

LobbyVault counts 270,118 itemized contributions for TULSA, OK. That is a line count, not a headcount of unique people. Repeat gifts, redesignations, and memo entries can add rows without adding new donors. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 270,118 should not be quoted as a population. The matching dollar total on the same extract is $128,640,043.

Can committee addresses appear in the Tulsa city total?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed TULSA with state OK. Office addresses and mail that list Tulsa can be part of $128,640,043 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 270,118-line count follows the same rule.

Are Tulsa numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $128,640,043 and 270,118 lines for TULSA, OK. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from OK are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $476 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.