Birmingham, AL political money — 2010 cycle

The city-cycle join for BIRMINGHAM in 2010

LobbyVault isolates contributor city BIRMINGHAM (AL) crossed with cycle 2010. The isolated total is $214,920 on 206 itemized Schedule A lines. Put beside the city book of $100,682,535, the 2010 window is 0.2% of Birmingham, AL itemized individual dollars in this extract. $100,467,615 remains in other even-year tags on the same city key.

A JOIN page exists because two tables meet. Opening only Birmingham, AL hides the year. Opening only 2010 election cycle hides the city. Opening Alabama campaign finance mixes Birmingham, AL with every other Alabama city. All FEC ties is the index of other two-dimension pages. None of those four URLs is a duplicate of $214,920.

The packet facts stop at city, state, city-wide total, cycle, cycle total, and contribution count. No donor names appear here because none appear in the packet. No committee list appears here because none appears in the packet. FEC.gov is the source system; LobbyVault is an index of aggregates.

Where Birmingham, AL sits in the FEC city field

BIRMINGHAM is an address string, not a metro statistical area. Jefferson County, Alabama is the usual map location for this key. Nearby labels — Hoover, Mountain Brook, and Vestavia Hills — stay out unless a filer typed BIRMINGHAM. those suburbs are separate FEC city keys and are not rolled into BIRMINGHAM. $100,682,535 therefore does not equal “the metro’s political money.”

The all-cycle city total mixes presidential windows and midterm windows. $214,920 is only the 2010 tag. Do not add $214,920 to $100,682,535; the city book already contains this slice. Subtracting is valid: $100,682,535 − $214,920 = $100,467,615 in other cycles. Adding would double-count.

2010 as a two-year FEC window

2010 on an FEC receipt is an even-year cycle code. 2010 is a midterm election cycle. Itemized Birmingham, AL dollars inside that code: $214,920. Itemized Birmingham, AL rows inside that code: 206. The cycle hub still mixes every U.S. city. This join does not.

Amended filings can move either dollar figure after this snapshot. If the live Birmingham, AL hub or the live 2010 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls. This snapshot is not a third disclosure system.

Itemized rows versus unique people

206 itemized contributions totaling $214,920 is the operational definition of this page. The FEC file can list the same household on multiple dates, to multiple committees, and under spelling variants of BIRMINGHAM. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Birmingham versus other Alabama cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,043 uses only the two numbers in the join: $214,920 and 206 rows. It is a trivial ratio, not a finding about wealth, turnout, or ideology. Employer and occupation strings on those receipts are other joins. This city-cycle page does not break the $214,920 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. Unitemized gifts and Alabama state-office filings sit outside $214,920.

Repeat the filters in one sentence: contributor city BIRMINGHAM, state AL, election cycle 2010, itemized dollars $214,920, itemized rows 206, all-cycle city dollars $100,682,535. Any citation that drops the cycle or drops the city is a different claim. 2010 is a midterm election cycle. That label is a two-year FEC window, not a reason the dollars moved and not a ranking of Jefferson County, Alabama against other places.

State pages still mix other Alabama cities

Alabama campaign finance still mixes cities. The 2010 cycle still mixes states. Birmingham, AL still mixes years. Only this path applies both filters. All FEC ties is the catalog of other filter pairs (city-industry, occupation-cycle, and the rest).

FEC receipts are not USAspending obligations. Do not claim that $214,920 funded federal awards in Alabama or in Jefferson County, Alabama. Different datasets, same country, no cash pipeline in this packet.

Neighboring city strings remain outside this join. Around Birmingham, AL, filers also use labels such as Hoover, Mountain Brook, and Vestavia Hills; those suburbs are separate FEC city keys and are not rolled into BIRMINGHAM. Those dollars, if any, sit on other city keys. Unitemized federal gifts, independent expenditures, PAC transfers, and Alabama state-office filings sit outside $214,920 and outside $100,682,535. FEC.gov is the source; USAspending is a different statute and is not funded by these receipts.

FEC receipts are not federal spending awards

A 0.2% cut can sit next to 206 itemized gifts. Those labels describe this pair, not other cities. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed.

Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle. Quote both $214,920 and $100,682,535 when summarizing Birmingham, AL in 2010.

Questions

What is the Birmingham, AL FEC total for 2010?

$214,920 in itemized individual contributions, from 206 receipts tagged city BIRMINGHAM and cycle 2010. Source: FEC.gov aggregates on LobbyVault. The all-cycle city figure is $100,682,535, which already includes this $214,920. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and Alabama state-office filings sit outside both numbers.

How does 2010 compare with all Birmingham, AL cycles combined?

2010 is 0.2% of the Birmingham, AL city book: $214,920 out of $100,682,535. The other 99.8% is $100,467,615 in other even-year tags. That is a dollar share inside one city key, not a rank against other cities and not a share of the national 2010 cycle, which is not in these facts.

Are Birmingham, AL 2010 gifts limited to Alabama candidates?

No. The facts identify donor city, not recipient office or recipient state. Committees anywhere in the FEC system can receive itemized gifts from BIRMINGHAM addresses. $214,920 is not a map of Alabama races, and this join does not allocate dollars by party or committee.

What does 206 contributions mean for Birmingham, AL in 2010?

It is a count of itemized contribution records that sum to $214,920. Repeat donors produce multiple rows. The mean line is about $1,043. Unique people, medians, and unitemized gifts are not in this packet, so 206 is not a household or voter census for Jefferson County, Alabama.