ERIE, PA: $15.7M on 45,175 FEC receipts

45,175 lines carrying $15,725,960

The headline pair is $15,725,960 and 45,175 lines. The implied average is about $348. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the ERIE book. Erie County filers typed ERIE with state PA.

ERIE, PA is a northwestern Pennsylvania city field, not Erie, Colorado. State PA is required in the citation. Pittsburgh is a different Allegheny County key. Buffalo sits in New York and is another string. 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 $15,725,960 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of Erie gave. The 45,175 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints Erie together with Buffalo, Pittsburgh, and Erie, Colorado, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $15,725,960 on 45,175 ERIE, PA rows, mean near $348. Keep the stored spelling ERIE in the citation.

Why ERIE on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Erie give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city ERIE, PA total $15,725,960 across 45,175 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. This extract is ERIE with state PA. Erie, CO is a different FEC city-and-state key. Pittsburgh is another Pennsylvania string.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $15,725,960. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $348 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

Outside the ERIE itemized book

$15,725,960 is not spending by Erie candidates. A candidate who lives in Erie can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged ERIE, PA can go to a committee anywhere. Unitemized federal gifts sit outside both packet facts.

Postal confusion with Buffalo, Pittsburgh, and Erie, Colorado is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $15,725,960 counts rows that stored ERIE, PA. 45,175 lines. About $348 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs. PA state-office receipts are omitted.

ERIE versus Pittsburgh on the FEC tape

ERIE is a Lake Erie mid-volume book in Erie County on Lake Erie in northwestern Pennsylvania. 45,175 lines produce $15,725,960, a mean near $348. That line count is not a unique-donor count. Comparing this mean to Pittsburgh is only valid on the same series: contributor city, itemized federal receipts.

A Erie total of $15,725,960 does not absorb Buffalo, Pittsburgh, and Erie, Colorado. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State PA stays on the citation so ERIE, PA is not merged with a same-named place elsewhere. Mixing in PA state-campaign data breaks the comparison.

City total versus postal codes in PA

45,175 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 Erie 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 Erie 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: $15,725,960 and 45,175.

Source tables for $15,725,960

A mean of about $348 is division of $15,725,960 by 45,175. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of Erie. Means move with a few large lines. Internal links on this page go only to the Erie city hub, the all-cities directory, and the ZIP directory.

Erie’s $15,725,960 across 45,175 contributions is a Erie County city field, mean near $348. Buffalo is a neighboring string, not a subset. Erie County is not summed here. Repeat gifts add rows. Cite $15,725,960 with 45,175 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 ERIE, PA?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city ERIE, PA total $15,725,960 across 45,175 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 Erie. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $348 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Is this Erie, Colorado?

No. This extract is ERIE with state PA. Erie, CO is a different FEC city-and-state key. Pittsburgh is another Pennsylvania string. LobbyVault counts 45,175 itemized contributions for ERIE, PA against $15,725,960. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 45,175 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Erie total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed ERIE with state PA. Office addresses and mail that list Erie can be part of $15,725,960 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 45,175-line count follows the same rule.

Are Erie numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $15,725,960 and 45,175 lines for ERIE, PA. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from PA are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.