Agent political contributions from Louisiana

The Agent–Louisiana intersection

Occupation AGENT and donor state LA produce $519,123, 2,564 contributions, and 97 donors. The occupation hub is $11,103,127, 60,227 contributions, and 2,185 donors. Louisiana’s dollar share is about 4.7%; contribution share about 4.3% (2,564 of 60,227); donor share about 4.4% (97 of 2,185). Ninety-seven Louisiana donors sit inside 2,185 national AGENT donors. Contribution volume (2,564 of 60,227) is a high-frequency slice of a vague title.

INSURANCE AGENT, REAL ESTATE AGENT, and TALENT AGENT, if used, sit in other hubs. Do not stack AGENT with INSURANCE AGENT or REAL ESTATE AGENT into a single Louisiana professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

97 Louisiana donors produced 2,564 contributions, about 26.4 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 27.6 rows per donor nationally (60,227 contributions from 2,185 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this Louisiana cell is about $202, against about $184 nationwide. Louisiana’s $519,123 is not a Department of Insurance producer list and not an FBI headcount. The same four letters cover many jobs. Do not treat the cell as a single profession.

AGENT as a four-letter catch-all

AGENT is a filer-entered string. The FEC file does not say whether the filer meant insurance, real estate, sports, or another agency role. The $11,103,127 national total is AGENT only. 2,185 donors produced 60,227 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 60,227 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to Louisiana (LA). Sixty thousand two hundred twenty-seven national contributions make AGENT a high-volume bucket. This tie locates the Louisiana overlap.

Louisiana as donor state

97 Louisiana donors produced 2,564 contributions totaling $519,123. Donor state LA is the address on the record, not proof of a Louisiana license, and not a limit to Louisiana candidates. LA is the address on the itemized record, not proof of a Louisiana producer license, and not a map of which campaigns received the $519,123.

The Louisiana campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to LA. This join is only AGENT. The Agent occupation hub without Louisiana still holds about 95.3% of the $11,103,127. Louisiana’s state hub includes every occupation coded to LA. AGENT is only this filter.

What not to infer from Agent plus Louisiana

This page does not count licensed producers, rank agencies, or claim that Agent-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. AGENT is not INSURANCE AGENT even when filers meant a licensed producer.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. AGENT is not a producer-license extract. Donor state LA is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. License numbers are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Agent filter

Subtract the Louisiana dollars on this page from the national AGENT occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded AGENT in every other state combined. That remainder ($10,584,004) has no row-by-row breakdown here because those states are other ties. The occupation internal link holds the unlabeled-by-state total; the state internal link holds every occupation with this state code; the occupations index and the ties index place this pair among other joins built the same way.

A unique-donor count of 97 is not a person-level audit. The FEC aggregate can merge similar names or split one person who filed under variants. A contribution count of 2,564 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $519,123 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Louisiana dollars, or only the AGENT national total, drops a key. Ninety-seven donors producing 2,564 contributions is the fact to keep next to the $519,123 headline.

Related tables

Agent donations holds the $11,103,127 national occupation total. Louisiana campaign finance holds the state’s itemized individual activity across occupations. All occupations and all FEC ties collect other occupation-state pairs from the same two fields. CONSTRUCTION is a different Louisiana occupation tie in this slice.

Questions

How much have Agent donors in Louisiana given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation AGENT and state Louisiana total $519,123, from 2,564 contributions and 97 donors. Nationwide, AGENT-coded receipts are $11,103,127 from 60,227 contributions and 2,185 donors. Louisiana is about 4.7% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Does Agent mean insurance agent?

The file does not say. AGENT is the string on the form. Ninety-seven Louisiana donors used that label plus LA. Longer titles such as INSURANCE AGENT sit in other buckets if filers used them. The 97 Louisiana donors used occupation AGENT and state LA. Filers who wrote INSURANCE AGENT or REAL ESTATE AGENT may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Agent FEC money is from Louisiana?

About 4.7% of the $11,103,127 occupation total is in this Louisiana join ($519,123). Louisiana also accounts for about 4.3% of contributions (2,564 of 60,227) and about 4.4% of donors (97 of 2,185). The join is a catch-all title, not a single licensed profession.

Does this money go to Louisiana candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Louisiana. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $519,123 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to LA; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.