VIRGINIA BEACH, VA: $41.6M on 118,624 FEC receipts

Virginia Beach’s volume relative to its dollars

One hundred eighteen thousand six hundred twenty-four lines produce $41,596,980. Divide the pair and the mean itemized line is about $351. That mean is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a ranking of Hampton Roads giving. FEC.gov does not publish a median or a unique-donor count on this city aggregate.

Norfolk, Chesapeake, and Newport News are other Hampton Roads city strings. They are not inside $41,596,980 unless the filer typed VIRGINIA BEACH. Hampton Roads is orientation, not an FEC roll-up.

Office addresses can share the Virginia Beach city field with household streets. Totals can include a PAC or joint-fundraising address when that is what filers typed. The 118,624 lines are receipts, not unique persons.

Not a Norfolk sum

Norfolk, Richmond, and Arlington keep separate Virginia hubs. Adding them to Virginia Beach would be a recode. This packet publishes VIRGINIA BEACH, VA only: $41,596,980 and 118,624 lines.

State VA on the key is required in the citation. Recheck both facts on the live hub if a later extract lands.

Independent city versus postal map

FEC.gov stores whatever city appeared on the itemized receipt. VIRGINIA BEACH plus VA is the match. Recoding into a Census place or a Tidewater metro label is a different dataset.

ZIP pages cut the same federal series by postal code. Summing Virginia Beach-area ZIPs can diverge from $41,596,980 when some receipts used Norfolk or Chesapeake as the city. The 118,624-line count follows the city field.

Limits of the Virginia Beach aggregate

Virginia state campaigns file under state law. Those receipts are outside $41,596,980 and outside 118,624. Unitemized federal gifts are omitted. Independent expenditures that never appear as contribution itemizations are outside both facts.

Nothing here estimates how Virginia Beach voted. Occupation and recipient live on other FEC fields. Use the city table, then ZIP pages, then the cities index.

Citing VIRGINIA BEACH, VA

Name FEC.gov, name contributor city, and print $41,596,980 with 118,624 together. Dropping the line count hides Virginia Beach’s volume on a mid-forty-million dollar book.

Virginia Beach will keep attracting queries that treat the city as a proxy for Hampton Roads residents. FEC.gov stores a contributor-city field. $41,596,980 across 118,624 lines is what that field sums to in this aggregate. A mean near $351 follows from division. Unique donors are not in the packet. Party is not in the packet. If the live hub disagrees with this snapshot, trust the hub. Open original reports on FEC.gov when a named Virginia Beach receipt matters.

How researchers should use the Virginia Beach hub

Start on the live Virginia Beach city page, then open ZIP pages if a postal cut is the real question. $41,596,980 is the city-string dollar total in this snapshot. 118,624 is the matching line count. Those two numbers move together when FEC.gov amends a receipt. They do not move because a researcher prefers Norfolk or Chesapeake as the “real” Hampton Roads. Filers typed VIRGINIA BEACH. LobbyVault indexed VIRGINIA BEACH. The independent city, the oceanfront, and “Hampton Roads” are useful for maps and news copy. They are not FEC dimensions on this hub.

A mean near $351 is only $41,596,980 divided by 118,624. It is not a typical Virginia Beach household gift, not a typical military-adjacent gift, and not a typical oceanfront gift. Occupation is a different FEC field. Recipient is a different FEC field. Party is a different FEC field. None of those fields are in this packet. Do not infer them from the mean. Do not infer turnout. Do not infer that Virginia Beach is more or less “politically active” than Norfolk because the line counts differ. Norfolk is a different city string if filers typed it.

Cite the pair in one sentence: contributor city VIRGINIA BEACH, VA, $41,596,980, 118,624 itemized federal contributions, source FEC.gov via LobbyVault. If a later extract on the live hub prints a different pair, discard this snapshot. Original PDFs and electronic filings remain on FEC.gov for any named Virginia Beach receipt that needs a line-by-line check. Virginia non-federal filings never enter either fact. Unitemized federal gifts never enter either fact. Independent expenditures that are not contribution itemizations never enter either fact. That is the full scope of this city page.

Questions

What is Virginia Beach’s federal contribution total on LobbyVault?

Itemized FEC.gov receipts listing contributor city VIRGINIA BEACH, VA total $41,596,980 across 118,624 contributions. That pair is a city-string roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of Virginia Beach residents. Unitemized gifts sit outside both figures.

How should I read Virginia Beach’s 118,624 contributions?

LobbyVault counts 118,624 itemized lines for VIRGINIA BEACH, VA. That is a line count, not a headcount of unique people. Repeat gifts and memo entries can add rows without adding donors. This packet publishes no unique-donor figure. The matching dollar total is $41,596,980.

Does Virginia Beach’s total include Norfolk or Chesapeake?

Only if the filer typed VIRGINIA BEACH. Norfolk, Chesapeake, and Newport News are separate city strings when they appear that way on the receipt. $41,596,980 is the VIRGINIA BEACH, VA match. The 118,624 lines follow the same rule. Metro labels are not an FEC dimension on this hub.

Where do the Virginia Beach facts come from?

Both facts come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $41,596,980 and 118,624 lines. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Virginia non-federal filings are outside the pair. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $351 is arithmetic from those two packet numbers.