MIDLAND, TX: $82.3M on 108,952 FEC receipts

Midland, TX: the itemized dollar total

Divide $82,334,215 by 108,952 and the average itemized line is about $756. Averages hide mixed line sizes. This packet has no distribution, so $756 is a mean, not a typical resident gift.

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. West Texas orients Midland. Odessa is a different city string. Energy geography is not an FEC finding.

Annexation stories about Odessa, Fort Worth, or Lubbock do not rewrite $82,334,215. FEC city strings do not auto-follow city-limit changes. 108,952 contributions tagged MIDLAND, TX stay on this page until a filer types a different city. About $756 per line is still division.

Volume and average on the Midland book

Midland sits in a mid-range mean band on this extract: about $756 from $82,334,215 divided by 108,952. The pair is a city-field average, not a ranking of political intensity.

A later extract can move Midland across that description if large lines are refunded or if many small lines are added. Recheck $82,334,215 and 108,952 on the hub.

The FEC city field behind MIDLAND, TX

FEC.gov stores whatever city string appeared on the itemized receipt. MIDLAND, TX is that string plus state TX. Recoding rows into a Census place would be a new dataset. This page does not do that recode.

ZIP pages under the same state cut the same series more finely. A Midland city total is not the sum of every ZIP that postal service maps to Midland; it is the sum of rows that typed this city string.

If a newsroom map paints Midland together with Odessa and Fort Worth, the FEC file still splits them. Lubbock too. This extract’s only city total is $82,334,215 on 108,952 MIDLAND, TX rows, mean near $756.

Finer grain than MIDLAND, TX

Use ZIP pages to see concentration inside a metro without replacing $82,334,215. Adding selected ZIPs and calling the sum “Midland” is a recode. FEC.gov did not publish that recode on this city packet.

State TX on the city key is required in the citation so Midland is not confused with a same-named city in another state.

A complete MIDLAND, TX footnote names FEC.gov as the source, names contributor city as the dimension, and prints $82,334,215 and 108,952 as a pair. Leaving off any of those parts turns a public-record total into a slogan. LobbyVault’s job on this page is the pair, the dimension, and the link to the live table.

Postal confusion with Odessa, Fort Worth, or Lubbock is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $82,334,215 counts rows that stored MIDLAND, TX in state TX. 108,952 lines. About $756 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs.

Limits of the MIDLAND, TX aggregate

State and local campaigns in TX file under state law. Those receipts are outside $82,334,215 and outside the 108,952 line count. Adding them by hand would mix disclosure systems.

The source for $82,334,215 and 108,952 is FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault. If a later bulk file disagrees, the Commission’s filing controls.

A Midland total of $82,334,215 does not absorb Odessa, Fort Worth, or Lubbock. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State TX stays on the citation so MIDLAND, TX is not merged with a same-named place elsewhere. The 108,952 lines and the mean near $756 describe this key only.

A complete MIDLAND, TX citation

Title, H1, and table on the live hub should show the same $82,334,215 and 108,952 this guide cites. If they do not, the hub was rebuilt from a newer extract. Trust the hub over this paragraph.

Guides do not replace filings. Open original reports on FEC.gov when a named receipt on the Midland hub matters to a story.

Midland’s $82,334,215 on 108,952 lines yields a mean near $756, a higher average on a shorter list than many large Texas cities. Odessa is a different city string. Do not publish a Permian Basin FEC total by adding the two. West Texas geography orients. This packet has no oil-and-gas employer field, so energy stories need named receipts, not the city sum. Texas state campaigns are omitted. The 108,952-line count is not unique donors. Fort Worth is a separate Texas key. Keep the citations apart. Cite MIDLAND, TX, $82,334,215, and 108,952 together. The Midland FEC page is the live pair.

Questions

What is the FEC donation total for MIDLAND, TX?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city MIDLAND, TX total $82,334,215 across 108,952 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 Midland. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

Is 108,952 a count of Midland donors?

LobbyVault counts 108,952 itemized contributions for MIDLAND, TX. 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 108,952 should not be quoted as a population. The matching dollar total on the same extract is $82,334,215.

Is MIDLAND, TX a residency total?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed MIDLAND with state TX. Office addresses and mail that list Midland can be part of $82,334,215 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 108,952-line count follows the same rule.

What is the source for MIDLAND, TX campaign money figures?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $82,334,215 and 108,952 lines for MIDLAND, 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. The mean of about $756 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.