MCALLEN, TX: $19.7M on 50,051 FEC receipts

50,051 lines carrying $19,692,529

The headline pair is $19,692,529 and 50,051 lines. The implied average is about $393. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the MCALLEN book. Hidalgo County filers typed MCALLEN with state TX.

McAllen is a Hidalgo County Rio Grande Valley string. Brownsville and Edinburg are neighboring keys. Houston and Dallas rows do not sit inside MCALLEN, TX. State TX stays on the citation. 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 $19,692,529 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of MCALLEN gave. The 50,051 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints MCALLEN together with Edinburg, Mission, and Brownsville, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $19,692,529 on 50,051 MCALLEN, TX rows, mean near $393. Keep the stored spelling MCALLEN in the citation.

Why MCALLEN on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Mcallen give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city MCALLEN, TX total $19,692,529 across 50,051 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. No. MCALLEN, TX is the stored Hidalgo County string. Brownsville is a different city key.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $19,692,529. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $393 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

Outside the MCALLEN itemized book

$19,692,529 is not spending by MCALLEN candidates. A candidate who lives in MCALLEN can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged MCALLEN, TX can go to a committee anywhere. Unitemized federal gifts sit outside both packet facts.

Postal confusion with Edinburg, Mission, and Brownsville is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $19,692,529 counts rows that stored MCALLEN, TX. 50,051 lines. About $393 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs. TX state-office receipts are omitted.

MCALLEN versus Brownsville on the FEC tape

MCALLEN is a Rio Grande Valley mid-volume book. 50,051 lines produce $19,692,529, a mean near $393. That line count is not a unique-donor count. Comparing this mean to Brownsville is only valid on the same series: contributor city, itemized federal receipts.

A MCALLEN total of $19,692,529 does not absorb Edinburg, Mission, and Brownsville. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State TX stays on the citation so MCALLEN, TX is not merged with a same-named place elsewhere. Mixing in TX state-campaign data breaks the comparison.

City total versus postal codes in TX

50,051 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 MCALLEN 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 MCALLEN 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: $19,692,529 and 50,051.

Source tables for $19,692,529

A mean of about $393 is division of $19,692,529 by 50,051. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of MCALLEN. Means move with a few large lines. Internal links on this page go only to the MCALLEN city hub, the all-cities directory, and the ZIP directory.

MCALLEN’s $19,692,529 across 50,051 contributions is a Hidalgo County city field, mean near $393. Edinburg is a neighboring string, not a subset. Hidalgo County is not summed here. Repeat gifts add rows. Cite $19,692,529 with 50,051 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 MCALLEN, TX?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city MCALLEN, TX total $19,692,529 across 50,051 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 Mcallen. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $393 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Is McAllen folded into Brownsville on this extract?

No. MCALLEN, TX is the stored Hidalgo County string. Brownsville is a different city key. LobbyVault counts 50,051 itemized contributions for MCALLEN, TX against $19,692,529. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 50,051 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Mcallen total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed MCALLEN with state TX. Office addresses and mail that list Mcallen can be part of $19,692,529 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 50,051-line count follows the same rule.

Are Mcallen numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $19,692,529 and 50,051 lines for MCALLEN, TX. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from TX are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.