Akin Gump and the 2012 FEC election cycle

Akin Gump as stored text, 2012 as cycle

Employer and occupation groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — AKIN GUMP and 2012 — sum to $543,322. 371 itemized contributions and 113 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. Cite FEC.gov for this intersection.

Neither the Akin Gump hub nor the 2012 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Akin Gump is law-firm employer text, not a verified payroll file. 113 donors and 371 lines in 2012 matched that stored string. People who typed a neighboring spelling sit in other buckets. Named affiliates and related titles are other keys. This page is the exact string AKIN GUMP.

The join exists so a reader does not treat $4,959,676 (all cycles for this string) as the 2012 story, and does not treat the 2012 cycle hub as a Akin Gump-only list. Two filters, one cell: $543,322.

11.0% of the Akin Gump roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $4,959,676. The 2012 slice of $543,322 is about 11.0% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 89.0% ($4,416,354). Treating 2012 as the entire Akin Gump FEC story would ignore that remainder. The industry hub is the year index for this string.

Treat $4,959,676 as the denominator for the 11.0% share. It is not market capitalization, not revenue, and not proof of a multi-year political program. This tie keeps 2012 from being folded silently into $4,959,676. Neighboring spellings are not added into either figure.

371 contributions from 113 donors

Dividing $543,322 by 371 contributions yields about $1,464 per itemized gift. Dividing by 113 donors yields about $4,808 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 3.3. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split. FEC.gov itemized individual receipts are the universe.

113 unique donors are contributor identities, not a headcount of employees, licensees, or members. Retirees and household members who reuse a workplace or title can appear. Repeat gifts raise the contribution count faster than the donor count.

2012 as the cycle dimension

The 2012 election cycle hub includes every stored employer and occupation for that window. Akin Gump is one cell in that matrix. This packet does not publish a cycle-wide denominator, so no national share is stated. Open the 2012 election cycle to drop the employer filter and Akin Gump to drop the year.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $543,322 cell because the cycle is a two-year tag, not a single Tuesday. That mechanical fact is easy to forget when a searcher wants an election-night number. The overlay is where dates become visible. This join publishes the cycle total, the 371 contributions, the 113 unique donors, and the 11.0% share of $4,959,676.

What the Commission does not verify

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $543,322. Federal awards in other databases are different datasets. Sharing an employer string and a calendar year does not turn these gifts into contracts or grants. The page is law-firm employer text, not Akin Gump PAC, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld as the full legal name, or every Akin Gump LLP spelling stored separately.

Correlation between an employer string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 113 donors, and 371 contributions. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. Live hubs override this snapshot. If the overlay disagrees, the overlay and FEC.gov control.

Citing Akin Gump and 2012 together

Start with $543,322, then Akin Gump 2012 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2012 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: AKIN GUMP, 2012, $543,322, 371 contributions, 113 donors, 11.0% of $4,959,676, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string.

The 11.0% share, the 113-donor count, and the $1,464 mean gift belong to this intersection. Carry them onto a successor label or a sibling employer word and they stop being facts from this packet. This prose is a packet snapshot. 371 itemized contributions totaling $543,322 average about $1,464 per line. Unitemized gifts never appear. Campaign contributions are not federal awards.

Questions

How much did Akin Gump donors give in 2012?

FEC.gov aggregates show $543,322 in itemized individual contributions for the Akin Gump grouping in the 2012 cycle, across 371 contributions and 113 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $4,959,676 all-cycle figure. Independent expenditures are not included.

What share of Akin Gump FEC money is 2012?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $4,959,676. The 2012 cell of $543,322 is about 11.0% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 89.0% ($4,416,354) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell.

Does this include only currently employed Akin Gump donors?

No. The bucket is the self-reported string AKIN GUMP. The FEC does not verify licenses, current jobs, or corporate identity. Related phrases may sit in other groupings. This join reports the string match for 2012 only, totaling $543,322 from 113 donors across 371 contributions.

Where is the overlay for the Akin Gump 2012 join?

Open Akin Gump 2012 for the cycle overlay, Akin Gump 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. Cite FEC.gov for $543,322, 371 contributions, and 113 donors.