Birmingham, AL political money — 2014 cycle

Birmingham, AL × 2014 isolates the midterm tag

$169,433 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city BIRMINGHAM with state AL, and election cycle 2014. The match is $169,433 across 158 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $100,682,535. 2014 therefore accounts for 0.17% of Birmingham, AL itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $100,513,102 (99.8%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Birmingham, AL. That hub mixes 2014 with every other even-year window filed under BIRMINGHAM. It is also not a restatement of the 2014 election cycle hub, which mixes Birmingham, AL with every other donor city in the United States. The 158 rows and $169,433 exist only where both filters are true. Correlation is not causation: a city code plus a cycle year does not prove why someone gave, whom they supported, or whether the recipient was local.

BIRMINGHAM as a Jefferson County city key

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city BIRMINGHAM in Alabama totals $100.7 million ($100,682,535). $169,433 is 0.17% of that city book. A small share does not mean 2014 was quiet in Birmingham; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. Do not add $169,433 to $100,682,535; the city book already contains this slice. Subtracting is valid: $100,682,535 − $169,433 = $100,513,102 in other cycles.

The stored city sits in Jefferson County, Alabama. Mountain Brook, Homewood, and Hoover are other FEC city strings, not rolled into BIRMINGHAM. State AL stays on the citation so Birmingham is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $100.7 million is the AL key only. Donor city is not recipient city: committees that received these gifts can file from anywhere in the FEC system.

How 2014 is coded on Birmingham receipts

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. 2014 is a midterm election cycle: a two-year FEC window labeled by its even year, without a presidential general on the ballot. Inside that window, Birmingham, AL filers itemized $169,433 on 158 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,072 per itemized gift ($169,433 ÷ 158). That mean is an arithmetic average of rows, not a typical resident and not a median. This page does not publish a median or a unique-donor count.

a 158-row extract — a mid-size receipt file for this city string, still lines rather than unique residents. The national 2014 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Alabama still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Birmingham × 2014. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. Alabama campaign-finance pages already contain this city when the same extract is used; do not add $169,433 into the state hub a second time.

2014 as a slice of a large Birmingham book

0.17% of $100,682,535 is the 2014 slice. Put another way, about 0.17% of Birmingham, AL’s itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2014, and about 99.8% were not. Those percentages are $169,433 divided by $100,682,535 and $100,513,102 divided by $100,682,535. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.17%) and row volume (158 itemized gifts) are separate facts. This 2014 page is not earlier Birmingham even-year joins. Each cycle tag is a separate filter on BIRMINGHAM in AL. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.17% as Birmingham’s share of the 2014 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

158 itemized gifts omit unitemized tables

158 itemized contributions totaling $169,433 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 $1,072 uses only the two numbers in the join: $169,433 and 158 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 $169,433 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed BIRMINGHAM is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Birmingham.

Limits of a Birmingham–2014 match

This page does not rank Birmingham against other cities, does not call 2014 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in Alabama. Two columns matched. A AL address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a Alabama candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Birmingham, AL hub or the live 2014 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls. Mountain Brook and Vestavia Hills are neighboring strings. They are not recoded into Birmingham.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Birmingham, AL, the 2014 election cycle, Alabama campaign finance, and All FEC ties for the adjacent tables. Montgomery and Huntsville are other Alabama city keys. They are not parents of BIRMINGHAM. Dollar figures are FEC itemized individual contribution aggregates. They are not federal spending awards and they do not fund USAspending totals. Source: FEC.gov.

Questions

How much did Birmingham, AL donors give in the 2014 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Birmingham, AL total $169,433 in the 2014 cycle, across 158 contribution records. The same city label totals $100,682,535 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2014 is 0.17% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Does Birmingham’s city aggregate cover only 2014?

No. The city aggregate of $100,682,535 covers every cycle in the table for BIRMINGHAM. The 2014 filter is $169,433 from 158 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $100,513,102. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2014 slice.

Did 2014 Birmingham donations stay with Alabama committees?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Birmingham, AL; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $169,433 by office, state of the committee, or party. A AL city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Alabama races.

How many Birmingham, AL contributions were itemized in 2014?

158 itemized contribution records sum to $169,433. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,072 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.