BUILDER

Why Builder and 2012 are joined

LobbyVault’s industry keys include occupation-like strings that appear often enough to form buckets. Builder is one of those buckets. Crossing it with 2012 keeps every other occupation and every other cycle out of the dollar total. The result is $1,018,621 — a cell, not a verdict on construction as a class. Named-company keys such as a specific homebuilder are stored separately.

The same grouping, added across all stored cycles, is $16,832,191. The 2012 slice is about 6.1% of that stack. A presidential-year cell that is roughly one-sixteenth of a title bucket usually means the label is used in many other windows. It does not mean 2012 was quiet; the cycle hub holds that wider view without the Builder filter.

What the Builder string captures

Donors type titles. Some write builder, some write general contractor, some write a company name. Those strings do not collapse into one official taxonomy. People who listed a firm name land in employer groupings, not here. Mixing this page with Real Estate Developer 2014 would mix two title keys and two cycles.

217 donors are contributor identities whose matched text fell in this grouping, not a sample of one metro’s contractors. A filer who listed both a title and a company name may still land in only one rollup on this site.

Treat $16,832,191 as the denominator for the 6.1% share. Neighboring occupation strings keep their own facts. This page does not rank Builder against Real Estate Developer.

Questions

How much did Builder-labeled donors give in 2012?

FEC.gov aggregates show $1,018,621 in itemized individual contributions for the Builder grouping in the 2012 cycle, across 891 contributions and 217 donors. The label is a self-reported title bucket, not a contractor census.

Is this the same as Real Estate Developer?

No. Builder and Real Estate Developer are different occupation-style keys. The Developer 2014 join has its own 198 donors and $1,097,769. Combining the two would invent a construction total neither packet publishes as a join.

What share of the Builder total is 2012?

The grouping’s all-cycle sum is $16,832,191. $1,018,621 divided by that figure is about 6.1%. Other cycles make up the remainder.

Where is the overlay for this join?

Open Builder 2012 for the table, Builder for the grouping hub, and the 2012 election cycle for the year without this title filter. All FEC ties collects other two-dimension pages.