MURRYSVILLE, PA: $39.5M on 10,835 FEC receipts

A thin line count on large dollars

Ten thousand eight hundred thirty-five lines produce $39,547,475. Divide the pair and the mean itemized line is about $3,650. That mean is not a typical household gift. It is $39,547,475 divided by a small line count. Pittsburgh is a separate Pennsylvania hub. Murrysville’s pair is not a Pittsburgh suburb recode.

Export, Delmont, and Monroeville are other Westmoreland-area city strings. They are not inside $39,547,475 unless the filer typed MURRYSVILLE. Westmoreland County is orientation, not an FEC roll-up.

Why 10,835 matters more than the slogan

Dropping the line count and quoting only $39,547,475 hides the thin-book shape. Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on a nearby dollar total, carries 47,828 lines. Murrysville is the thinner file on this extract. The contrast is a shape fact, not a character study.

A PAC or joint-fundraising address can dominate a thin book when filers typed MURRYSVILLE. The 10,835 lines remain receipts, not unique persons. Recheck both facts on the live hub after a later extract.

City field versus ZIP pages

Filers type a city. The Commission stores that string. ZIP pages cut the same federal series by postal code. Summing Murrysville-area ZIPs will not reproduce $39,547,475 when some receipts used another label.

The 10,835-line count follows the city field. A later extract that adds or removes a few large rows will move the mean quickly because the denominator is small.

What this table omits

Pennsylvania state campaigns file under state law. Those receipts sit outside $39,547,475 and outside 10,835. Unitemized federal gifts are omitted. Independent expenditures that never appear as contribution itemizations are outside both facts.

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

Citing MURRYSVILLE, PA

Name FEC.gov, name contributor city, and print $39,547,475 with 10,835 together. The mean near $3,650 is optional arithmetic. It is not a typical gift size.

If the live hub disagrees with this snapshot, trust the hub. Open original reports on FEC.gov when a named Murrysville receipt matters. Pittsburgh remains a different hub.

How to read a thin city book

Start on the live Murrysville page. $39,547,475 is the city-string dollar total in this snapshot. 10,835 is the matching line count. Those two numbers move together when FEC.gov amends a receipt. A handful of large rows can swing both the total and the mean. That is why the line count belongs in every citation.

Do not infer turnout, party, or occupation from a high mean. Those fields are not in this packet. If a later extract on the live hub prints a different pair, discard this snapshot. Original filings remain on FEC.gov.

Carry FEC.gov, contributor city MURRYSVILLE, PA, $39,547,475, and 10,835 lines. The mean near $3,650 is optional arithmetic from a thin denominator. It is not a typical gift from a household, a Main Street office, or a Westmoreland commuter. Pittsburgh stays off this page unless the filer typed MURRYSVILLE. Pennsylvania state-office receipts stay off this page. Unitemized federal gifts stay off this page. Westmoreland County is orientation, not a roll-up. A thin line count can still include repeat givers. 10,835 is not a unique-donor census. $39,547,475 is still the dollar sum of those lines. Quote both. The live Murrysville hub is the table. This guide is the footnote. If they disagree, trust the hub. Open original reports on FEC.gov when a named Murrysville receipt matters. ZIP pages split a different field. Occupation lives on other FEC fields.

Murrysville’s pair is $39,547,475 and 10,835 lines. Print both. Bethlehem, on a nearby dollar total, carries 47,828 lines and a mean near $799. That contrast is a shape fact about two Pennsylvania city strings. It is not a ranking of towns. Pittsburgh stays on its own hub. A later extract that adds or removes a few large rows will move Murrysville’s mean quickly because 10,835 is a small denominator. That is why the line count belongs in every citation. Pennsylvania non-federal filings never enter either fact. Independent expenditures that are not contribution itemizations never enter either fact. If a later extract on the live hub prints a different pair, discard this snapshot. Original filings remain on FEC.gov.

Questions

What does LobbyVault show for Murrysville federal contributions?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city MURRYSVILLE, PA total $39,547,475 across 10,835 contributions. That pair is a city-string roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of Murrysville residents. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

Why is Murrysville’s mean so high?

The mean near $3,650 is $39,547,475 divided by 10,835 lines. Murrysville’s line count is thin relative to the dollar total. That arithmetic is not a typical household gift and not a unique-donor figure. Repeat gifts and memo entries can still add rows. This packet publishes no unique-donor count.

Does Murrysville’s total include Pittsburgh?

No, unless the filer typed MURRYSVILLE. Pittsburgh is a separate Pennsylvania city hub. $39,547,475 is the MURRYSVILLE, PA match. The 10,835 lines follow the same rule. County and metro labels are not an FEC dimension on this hub.

How current is Murrysville’s $39,547,475 figure?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $39,547,475 and 10,835 lines. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Pennsylvania non-federal filings are outside the pair. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission’s filing controls.