TYLER, TX: $22.5M on 61,548 FEC receipts

61,548 lines carrying $22,499,970

The headline pair is $22,499,970 and 61,548 lines. The implied average is about $366. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the TYLER book. Smith County filers typed TYLER with state TX.

Tyler is an East Texas Smith County concentration, not a DFW annex. Longview is a neighboring string with its own total. Dallas and Houston rows do not sit inside TYLER, TX. 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 $22,499,970 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of TYLER gave. The 61,548 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints TYLER together with Longview, Kilgore, and Lindale, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $22,499,970 on 61,548 TYLER, TX rows, mean near $366. Keep the stored spelling TYLER in the citation.

Why TYLER on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Tyler give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city TYLER, TX total $22,499,970 across 61,548 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. Dallas is a different city string. Tyler’s packet facts are Smith County rows stored as TYLER, TX only.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $22,499,970. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $366 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

Outside the TYLER itemized book

$22,499,970 is not spending by TYLER candidates. A candidate who lives in TYLER can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged TYLER, TX can go to a committee anywhere. Unitemized federal gifts sit outside both packet facts.

Postal confusion with Longview, Kilgore, and Lindale is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $22,499,970 counts rows that stored TYLER, TX. 61,548 lines. About $366 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs. TX state-office receipts are omitted.

TYLER versus Dallas on the FEC tape

TYLER is an East Texas mid-volume book. 61,548 lines produce $22,499,970, a mean near $366. That line count is not a unique-donor count. Comparing this mean to Dallas is only valid on the same series: contributor city, itemized federal receipts.

A TYLER total of $22,499,970 does not absorb Longview, Kilgore, and Lindale. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State TX stays on the citation so TYLER, 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

61,548 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 TYLER 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 TYLER 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: $22,499,970 and 61,548.

Source tables for $22,499,970

A mean of about $366 is division of $22,499,970 by 61,548. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of TYLER. Means move with a few large lines. Internal links on this page go only to the TYLER city hub, the all-cities directory, and the ZIP directory.

TYLER’s $22,499,970 across 61,548 contributions is a Smith County city field, mean near $366. Longview is a neighboring string, not a subset. Smith County is not summed here. Repeat gifts add rows. Cite $22,499,970 with 61,548 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 TYLER, TX?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city TYLER, TX total $22,499,970 across 61,548 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 Tyler. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $366 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Is Tyler folded into Dallas on this extract?

Dallas is a different city string. Tyler’s packet facts are Smith County rows stored as TYLER, TX only. LobbyVault counts 61,548 itemized contributions for TYLER, TX against $22,499,970. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 61,548 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Tyler total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed TYLER with state TX. Office addresses and mail that list Tyler can be part of $22,499,970 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 61,548-line count follows the same rule.

Are Tyler numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $22,499,970 and 61,548 lines for TYLER, 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.