Anchorage, AK political money in the 2012 election cycle

How Anchorage meets the 2012 election cycle

$263,329 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city ANCHORAGE with state AK, and election cycle 2012. LobbyVault stores that join so a reader can open the Anchorage, AK city hub and the 2012 election cycle hub without treating either page as a substitute for this one. The city hub answers how much itemized money this city string has produced across cycles. The cycle hub answers how much itemized money that two-year federal window produced nationally. This page answers only the intersection: Anchorage, AK in 2012.

378 is a receipt count for that intersection, not a unique-donor census. A person who gave twice is two lines. A PAC or joint-fundraising address that stored ANCHORAGE is in the same city field as a household street. Arithmetic mean per line is about $697 ($263,329 ÷ 378). That mean is division, not a typical resident and not a median.

2012 is a presidential election cycle. That calendar label does not explain $263,329. This packet does not carry party splits, committee names, or occupation mix for the join. Cite the two packet dollars — $263,329 for the 2012 slice and $68.8 million for the Anchorage, AK book — and stop before assigning motive.

The Anchorage, AK side of the join

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city ANCHORAGE in Alaska totals $68.8 million ($68,822,517). $263,329 is 0.4% of that city book. A small share does not mean 2012 was quiet in Anchorage; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. The remaining $68,559,188 in the city book sits in other even-year tags. The live Anchorage, AK table is the place to compare other years. This snapshot lists one cycle.

The stored city sits in the Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska. Eagle River are separate FEC city keys and are not rolled into ANCHORAGE. State AK stays on the citation so Anchorage is not merged with a same-named place in another state. A repeated city name under another state code is a different FEC key. $68.8 million is the AK key only. Donor city is not recipient city: committees that received these gifts can file from anywhere in the FEC system.

The 2012 cycle side for Alaska filers in Anchorage

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2012 cycle is not a calendar year of January gifts only; it is the Commission's cycle tag on itemized receipts. 378 Anchorage, AK lines in that window produced $263,329. National 2012 activity — every city — lives on the 2012 election cycle hub, not here. A presidential label marks the even-year window that includes a presidential general election, not a finding about turnout in Anchorage.

Alaska campaign-finance pages roll up the state, including cities that are not Anchorage. Do not add $263,329 to a state total from that hub; the state page already contains this city when the same extract is used. All FEC ties is the directory of other city-cycle and city-industry joins. None of those pages converts $263,329 into spending by Anchorage candidates. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted from both $263,329 and the $68.8 million city book.

What $263,329 does not measure

$263,329 is itemized federal individual contributions with contributor city ANCHORAGE. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold sit outside it. State-office campaigns in Alaska file under state law and sit outside it. Independent-expenditure totals are a different FEC table. A candidate who lives in Anchorage can raise money from other cities; those gifts are not this join. PAC transfers and committee-to-committee activity are other files.

City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed ANCHORAGE is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Anchorage. LobbyVault does not rewrite the city field into a Census place or a residency test. Treat 378 as lines that stored this string in 2012. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed.

Reading Anchorage and 2012 together without mixing tables

Correlation is not causation. $263,329 beside $68.8 million does not mean 2012 caused the city book or that Anchorage drove the 2012 cycle. The join is a filter: city string plus cycle tag. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Anchorage, AK hub or the live 2012 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls. This snapshot is not a third disclosure system.

Internal links on this page go to Anchorage, AK, the 2012 election cycle, Alaska campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Use those four doors. Do not paste $263,329 into a USAspending award story; FEC receipts and federal obligations are different statutes. This packet has no award dollars, and itemized giving is not a proxy for public opinion in Alaska.

A 0.4% cut of the Anchorage stack

0.4% of $68.8 million is a slice, not a ranking. Put another way, $263,329 of the $68,822,517 city stack was tagged 2012, and $68,559,188 was tagged other cycles. Those percentages are $263,329 divided by $68,822,517 and $68,559,188 divided by $68,822,517. They are not shares of Alaska totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters. Dollar share (0.4%) and row volume (378 itemized gifts) are separate facts.

Do not treat 0.4% as Anchorage's share of the 2012 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts. Adjacent midterm windows for the same city string are other joins. This URL isolates Anchorage × 2012 only: $263,329, 378 receipts, mean about $697. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

Questions

How much did Anchorage, AK donors give in 2012?

Itemized FEC individual contributions listing contributor city ANCHORAGE and cycle 2012 total $263,329 across 378 receipts in this LobbyVault extract. That is the city-cycle join, not the all-cycle Anchorage, AK book of $68.8 million. Unitemized gifts and Alaska state-office filings sit outside both figures.

Is $263,329 all of Anchorage's federal political money?

No. $68.8 million ($68,822,517) is the all-cycle itemized book for contributor city ANCHORAGE in AK. The 2012 slice is $263,329, 0.4% of that book. Other cycles hold $68,559,188. 378 is a 2012 receipt count, not a unique-donor count.

Did Anchorage, AK 2012 donations stay in Alaska?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Anchorage, AK; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $263,329 by office, state of the committee, or party. A AK city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Alaska races.

How many Anchorage, AK contributions were itemized in 2012?

378 itemized contribution records sum to $263,329. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $697 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.