RICHMOND, VA: $89.4M on 231,271 FEC receipts

Richmond, VA: the itemized dollar total

Divide $89,411,164 by 231,271 and the average itemized line is about $387. Averages hide mixed line sizes. This packet has no distribution, so $387 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. Virginia’s capital string is not Northern Virginia. Richmond on the receipt is the city field as typed.

Postal confusion with Henrico, Chesterfield, or McLean is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $89,411,164 counts rows that stored RICHMOND, VA in state VA. 231,271 lines. About $387 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs.

Volume and average on the Richmond book

Richmond sits in a mid-range mean band on this extract: about $387 from $89,411,164 divided by 231,271. The pair is a city-field average, not a ranking of political intensity.

A later extract can move Richmond across that description if large lines are refunded or if many small lines are added. Recheck $89,411,164 and 231,271 on the hub.

The FEC city field behind RICHMOND, VA

FEC.gov stores whatever city string appeared on the itemized receipt. RICHMOND, VA is that string plus state VA. 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 Richmond city total is not the sum of every ZIP that postal service maps to Richmond; it is the sum of rows that typed this city string.

A Richmond total of $89,411,164 does not absorb Henrico, Chesterfield, or McLean. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State VA stays on the citation so RICHMOND, VA is not merged with a same-named place elsewhere. The 231,271 lines and the mean near $387 describe this key only.

Finer grain than RICHMOND, VA

Use ZIP pages to see concentration inside a metro without replacing $89,411,164. Adding selected ZIPs and calling the sum “Richmond” is a recode. FEC.gov did not publish that recode on this city packet.

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

A complete RICHMOND, VA footnote names FEC.gov as the source, names contributor city as the dimension, and prints $89,411,164 and 231,271 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.

Keep Henrico, Chesterfield, and McLean off the Richmond citation unless the receipt actually stored those cities. $89,411,164 is the RICHMOND, VA string alone. 231,271 itemized rows and about $387 per row are the shape of that string, not of the metro map.

Limits of the RICHMOND, VA aggregate

State and local campaigns in VA file under state law. Those receipts are outside $89,411,164 and outside the 231,271 line count. Adding them by hand would mix disclosure systems.

The source for $89,411,164 and 231,271 is FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault. If a later bulk file disagrees, the Commission’s filing controls.

Metro shorthand that folds Henrico or Chesterfield into Richmond is a recode. FEC.gov stored RICHMOND, VA. $89,411,164 across 231,271 contributions, mean near $387, belongs to that spelling. McLean is a different key if it appears as the city field.

A complete RICHMOND, VA citation

Title, H1, and table on the live hub should show the same $89,411,164 and 231,271 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 Richmond hub matters to a story.

Richmond’s $89,411,164 on 231,271 lines is RICHMOND, VA, mean near $387. Northern Virginia names such as McLean are different keys. Henrico and Chesterfield are county labels, not this city string. Virginia’s capital is orientation. Virginia state-office filings are omitted from the federal city book. Richmond, California would be a different state key — always include VA. The 231,271 contributions are itemized lines, not unique donors. Do not treat the capital label as a statewide Virginia total. Cite $89,411,164 with 231,271. Open the Richmond FEC page after amendments.

Questions

What does LobbyVault show for Richmond federal contributions?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city RICHMOND, VA total $89,411,164 across 231,271 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 Richmond. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

How should I read the 231,271 figure for RICHMOND, VA?

LobbyVault counts 231,271 itemized contributions for RICHMOND, VA. 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 231,271 should not be quoted as a population. The matching dollar total on the same extract is $89,411,164.

What city field does FEC use for Richmond?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed RICHMOND with state VA. Office addresses and mail that list Richmond can be part of $89,411,164 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 231,271-line count follows the same rule.

How current is the $89,411,164 total for Richmond?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $89,411,164 and 231,271 lines for RICHMOND, VA. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from VA are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $387 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.