CHARLESTON, WV: $28.9M on 58,413 FEC receipts

Kanawha Valley capital string

Fifty-eight thousand four hundred thirteen lines produce $28,899,789. Divide the pair and the mean itemized line is about $495. That mean is arithmetic from the two packet facts. FEC.gov does not publish a median on this city aggregate.

Huntington, Morgantown, and Wheeling keep separate West Virginia hubs. They are not inside $28,899,789 unless the filer typed CHARLESTON. Kanawha County is orientation, not an FEC roll-up.

West Virginia, not South Carolina

Charleston, SC is a different city key. This packet publishes CHARLESTON, WV only: $28,899,789 and 58,413 lines. Folding the two states would be a recode. Capital status does not expand the city field into a statewide total.

Recheck both facts on the live hub if a later extract lands. Cite WV with the city name every time.

City field versus postal map

FEC.gov stores whatever city appeared on the itemized receipt. CHARLESTON plus WV is the match. Recoding into a Census place or a Kanawha Valley MSA label is a different dataset.

ZIP pages cut the same federal series by postal code. Summing capital-region ZIPs can diverge from $28,899,789 when some receipts used South Charleston or Dunbar as the city. The 58,413-line count follows the city field.

Limits of the Charleston aggregate

West Virginia state campaigns file under state law. Those receipts are outside $28,899,789 and outside 58,413. Unitemized federal gifts are omitted. Independent expenditures that never appear as contribution itemizations are outside both facts.

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

Citing CHARLESTON, WV

Name FEC.gov, name contributor city with WV, and print $28,899,789 with 58,413 together. Dropping the state invites confusion with Charleston, SC.

Office addresses can share the Charleston city field with household streets. Totals can include a PAC or joint-fundraising address when that is what filers typed. The 58,413 lines are receipts, not unique persons. If the live hub disagrees with this snapshot, trust the hub. Open original reports on FEC.gov when a named Charleston receipt matters.

How researchers should use the Charleston hub

Start on the live Charleston city page, then open ZIP pages if a postal cut is the real question. $28,899,789 is the city-string dollar total in this snapshot. 58,413 is the matching line count. Those two numbers move together when FEC.gov amends a receipt. They do not move because a researcher prefers Huntington as the “real” West Virginia. Filers typed CHARLESTON with WV. LobbyVault indexed that pair.

A mean near $495 is only $28,899,789 divided by 58,413. Occupation, recipient, and party are different FEC fields. None of those fields are in this packet. Cite the pair: contributor city CHARLESTON, WV, $28,899,789, 58,413 itemized federal contributions, source FEC.gov via LobbyVault. West Virginia non-federal filings never enter either fact.

South Charleston, Dunbar, and Nitro sit on neighboring Kanawha River streets. They enter $28,899,789 only if the filer typed CHARLESTON. The 58,413 lines are the West Virginia capital string. Charleston, SC is a different state key. Print WV every time.

The mean near $495 is $28,899,789 divided by 58,413. Capital status does not create a statewide total. West Virginia non-federal filings stay outside. Cite CHARLESTON, WV with both packet facts. Recheck the live hub. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Print WV in every Charleston citation. $28,899,789 and 58,413 are the West Virginia key. Charleston, SC is out. South Charleston is out unless a filer typed CHARLESTON. The mean near $495 is a quotient. Capital status is not a statewide roll-up. West Virginia state filings stay outside. Cite both packet facts. Recheck the live hub. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Keep CHARLESTON, WV, $28,899,789, and 58,413 in one citation. Print WV so Charleston, SC cannot be confused with this hub. The mean near $495 is those two numbers divided. Huntington remains a separate string. Capital status does not create a statewide total. West Virginia non-federal filings remain outside. Unitemized federal gifts remain outside. Independent expenditures that are not contribution itemizations remain outside. Start on the live city page. Open ZIP pages for a postal cut. Open FEC.gov for a named Charleston receipt.

Questions

What is Charleston, WV’s federal contribution total on LobbyVault?

Itemized FEC.gov receipts listing contributor city CHARLESTON, WV total $28,899,789 across 58,413 contributions. That pair is a city-string roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of Charleston residents. Unitemized gifts sit outside both figures.

Is this Charleston, South Carolina?

No. The packet key is CHARLESTON, WV. State WV is required in the citation. $28,899,789 and 58,413 lines are the West Virginia match only. A South Carolina Charleston string is a different city key when filers typed it that way.

Does Charleston’s total include Huntington?

Only if the filer typed CHARLESTON. Huntington, Morgantown, and Wheeling are separate city strings when they appear that way on the receipt. $28,899,789 is the CHARLESTON, WV match. The 58,413 lines follow the same rule. Kanawha County is not an FEC dimension on this hub.

Where do the Charleston facts come from?

Both facts come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $28,899,789 and 58,413 lines. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. West Virginia non-federal filings are outside the pair. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $495 is arithmetic from those two packet numbers.