ROANOKE, VA: $23.7M on 69,393 FEC receipts

Reading $23,711,591 as a city-string roll-up

The headline pair is $23,711,591 and 69,393 lines. The implied average is about $342. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the Roanoke book.

Roanoke’s string is separate from Salem, VA, Blacksburg, and Lynchburg on the FEC city key. Filers typed ROANOKE in the city field. LobbyVault summed rows with that string and state VA. 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.

If a newsroom map paints Roanoke together with Salem and Blacksburg, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $23,711,591 on 69,393 ROANOKE, VA rows, mean near $342.

Why ROANOKE, VA on the receipt is not a census of Roanoke

Searchers often want “how much did people in Roanoke give.” The honest citation is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city ROANOKE, VA total $23,711,591 across 69,393 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $23,711,591. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. State VA is what keeps this page off Roanoke Rapids, NC.

Outside the Roanoke itemized book

$23,711,591 is not spending by Roanoke candidates. A candidate who lives in Roanoke can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged ROANOKE, VA can go to a committee anywhere.

A mean near $342 does not describe a median resident of Roanoke. Means move with a few large lines.

Postal confusion with Salem, Blacksburg, or Lynchburg is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $23,711,591 counts rows that stored ROANOKE, VA. 69,393 lines. About $342 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs.

Roanoke versus Salem, VA on the FEC tape

Roanoke is a mid-mean book on this extract: 69,393 lines produce $23,711,591, a mean near $342. Mid-mean is not the same as unique people.

Comparing Roanoke’s mean to Salem, VA, is only valid on the same series: contributor city, itemized federal receipts. Mixing in Virginia state data breaks the comparison.

A Roanoke total of $23,711,591 does not absorb Salem, Blacksburg, or Lynchburg. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State VA stays on the citation so ROANOKE, VA is not merged with Roanoke Rapids, NC.

City total versus postal codes in VA

69,393 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 Roanoke 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 Roanoke 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.

Source tables for $23,711,591

A mean of about $342 is division of $23,711,591 by 69,393. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of Roanoke.

Internal links on this page go only to the Roanoke city hub, the all-cities directory, and the ZIP directory. Those are the three paths that match this packet.

Roanoke’s $23,711,591 across 69,393 contributions is a southwest Virginia city field, mean near $342. Salem and Blacksburg are neighboring strings, not subsets. Repeat gifts add rows. Virginia state-office receipts are omitted. Cite $23,711,591 with 69,393 from FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

Researchers citing Roanoke, Virginia, should keep Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, off the sentence. The live Roanoke table can show named committees that this snapshot does not list. A later FEC extract can move $23,711,591 or 69,393 without this guide rewriting itself. Treat the mean near $342 as division only. Virginia state-office receipts sit outside both packet facts. If a ZIP page for a Roanoke code disagrees with the city hub, quote both keys rather than forcing a match. Salem, VA, Blacksburg, and Lynchburg remain other strings. The 69,393-line count still is not a headcount of Roanoke people.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city Roanoke, VA?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city ROANOKE, VA total $23,711,591 across 69,393 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 Roanoke Rapids, NC. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

Is this Roanoke, Virginia or Roanoke Rapids?

This extract is ROANOKE with state VA: 69,393 lines and $23,711,591. Roanoke Rapids, NC, would be a different city key. Repeat gifts, redesignations, and memo entries can add rows without adding new donors. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 69,393 should not be quoted as a population.

Does the Roanoke total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed ROANOKE with state VA. Office addresses and mail that list Roanoke can be part of $23,711,591 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 69,393-line count follows the same rule.

Are Roanoke numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $23,711,591 and 69,393 lines for ROANOKE, 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 $342 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.