Enterprise, AL political money — 2010 cycle

2010 receipts from Enterprise, AL donors

The join keeps donor city Enterprise in Alabama and election cycle 2010. The match is $449,600 across 43 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $18,506,704. 2010 therefore accounts for 2.4% of Enterprise, AL itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $18,057,104 (97.6%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Enterprise, AL. That hub mixes 2010 with every other even-year window filed under ENTERPRISE. It is also not a restatement of the 2010 election cycle hub, which mixes Enterprise, AL with every other donor city in the United States. The 43 rows and $449,600 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.

FEC individual contribution files record the contributor's city as entered on the itemized receipt. Spellings, abbreviations, and suburb-versus-city choices can split a metro across multiple city pages. Enterprise, AL here is the string that survived aggregation as ENTERPRISE in AL. 2010 is a midterm FEC cycle: a two-year window without a presidential general election. That calendar fact does not explain why Enterprise, AL donors itemized $449,600. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

The city hub still mixes other cycles

The city aggregate for Enterprise, AL is $18,506,704 in itemized individual contributions. That figure is the running total for this city label across cycles, not a single-year census and not a count of unique residents. It includes the $449,600 from 2010 and the $18,057,104 from every other cycle in the same city file. Alabama campaign-finance pages still mix Enterprise with every other city in Alabama.

A large city total does not mean 2010 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2010 was small. For Enterprise, AL, the city stack is $18,506,704 while this cycle is $449,600 (2.4%). Use the city hub to see Enterprise, AL without a year filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Enterprise in 2010. Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

How a midterm cycle is coded at the FEC

The 2010 election cycle is a two-year FEC reporting window labeled by its even year. Inside that window, Enterprise, AL donors itemized $449,600 on 43 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $10,456 per itemized gift. That mean is an arithmetic average of rows, not a typical donor and not a median. A few large receipts can lift the mean while most rows sit far below it. This page does not publish a median or a unique-donor count.

The national 2010 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Alabama still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Enterprise × 2010. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures, party coordinated spends, and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 43 itemized contribution rows is a very sparse file. With that few records, the dollar total should be read as a small set of itemized transactions, not a citywide turnout measure. Adjacent pages for Enterprise, AL, 2010 election cycle, and Alabama campaign finance keep those broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only.

A notable cut of the Enterprise stack

2.4% of $18,506,704 is a notable slice. Other cycles still hold $18,057,104 (97.6%) of the city total. Put another way, about 2.4% of Enterprise, AL's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2010, and about 97.6% were not. Those percentages are $449,600 divided by $18,506,704 and $18,057,104 divided by $18,506,704. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (2.4%) and row volume (43 itemized gifts) are separate facts. A notable slice of citywide dollars can sit next to a very sparse contribution file; 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. Do not treat 2.4% as Enterprise's share of the 2010 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

43 contribution records from one city-cycle pair

43 itemized contributions totaling $449,600 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 ENTERPRISE. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Enterprise versus other Alabama cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $10,456 uses only the two numbers in the join: $449,600 and 43 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 $449,600 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee.

Limits of a city-by-cycle table

This page does not rank Enterprise against other cities, does not call 2010 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in Alabama. Two columns matched. The city of the contributor is not the city of the campaign. An AL address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported an Alabama candidate.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Enterprise, AL, the 2010 election cycle, Alabama campaign finance, and all FEC ties for the adjacent tables. 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 Enterprise, AL donors give in the 2010 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Enterprise, AL total $449,600 in the 2010 cycle, across 43 contribution records. The same city label totals $18,506,704 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2010 is 2.4% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Enterprise, AL city total only for 2010?

No. The city aggregate of $18,506,704 covers every cycle in the table for ENTERPRISE. The 2010 filter is $449,600 from 43 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $18,057,104. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2010 slice.

Did Enterprise, AL 2010 donations stay in Alabama?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Enterprise, AL; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $449,600 by office, state of the committee, or party. An AL city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Alabama races.

How many Enterprise, AL contributions were itemized in 2010?

43 itemized contribution records sum to $449,600. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $10,456 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.