CONSTRUCTION

Construction as stored text, 2012 as cycle

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Construction and 2012 — sum to $594,411. 535 itemized contributions and 168 unique donors produced it. The total is not an official organization disbursement and does not name recipients. Independent expenditures and committee transfers live in other FEC tables. 2012 is a presidential even-year window; that fact describes the FEC calendar, not which contests received the money.

Neither the Construction hub nor the 2012 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Construction is stored form text, not a verified employer file. 168 donors and 535 lines in 2012 matched that word. People who typed a firm name, BUILDER, or CONTRACTOR instead of Construction sit in other buckets. CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, BUILDER, CONTRACTOR, and GENERAL CONTRACTOR are other keys. This page is the exact grouped string Construction as stored.

5.7% of the Construction roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $10,512,594. The 2012 slice of $594,411 is about 5.7% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 94.3%. Treating 2012 as the Construction FEC story would ignore that remainder. The share is a scale check, not a peak-year ranking and not proof of a coordinated program.

Treat $10,512,594 as the denominator for the 5.7% share. It is not market capitalization, not revenue, not assets under management, and not proof of a multi-year political program. The industry hub is the year index for this string. This tie keeps 2012 from being folded silently into $10,512,594. Federal awards in other databases remain a different dataset; sharing a calendar year does not turn these gifts into contracts or grants.

Questions

How much did Construction donors give in 2012?

FEC.gov aggregates show $594,411 in itemized individual contributions for the Construction grouping in the 2012 cycle, across 535 contributions and 168 donors. That sum is not a PAC total, not an independent-expenditure total, and not the $10,512,594 all-cycle figure on the industry hub. Unitemized gifts sit outside this cell.

What share of Construction FEC money is 2012?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $10,512,594. The 2012 cell of $594,411 is about 5.7% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 94.3% on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Construction hub holds other cycles; the 2012 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Does this include only current Construction employees or licensees?

No. The bucket is the self-reported string Construction. The FEC does not verify licenses or current jobs. Neighboring spellings and titles sit in other groupings unless they were stored as this exact key. This join reports the string match for 2012 only, totaling $594,411 from 168 donors on 535 contribution lines.

Where is the overlay for the Construction 2012 join?

Open Construction 2012 for the cycle overlay, Construction for the grouping hub, and the 2012 election cycle for the year without this employer filter. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. This JSON file names the join; the overlay holds the itemized rows.