Montgomery, AL political money — 2010 FEC cycle

$134,040 is the intersection, not the city hub

Quote the join as “Montgomery, AL × 2010 = $134,040 (95 itemized contributions).” Do not quote $39,640,509 in the same sentence unless you label it as the all-cycle city total. About 0.34% of the stored Montgomery money sits in 2010; about 99.7% does not.

Source language: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle. That sentence is the sourceNote on this file. It does not cover committee-to-committee transfers, operating expenditures, or independent-expenditure filings. Those are other tables.

Why Montgomery is not a metro rollup

The city side of the join answers “which donor-city string?” The answer is MONTGOMERY in AL, displayed as Montgomery, AL. It does not answer “which ZIP,” “which employer,” or “which occupation.” Those are other LobbyVault dimensions. Occupation-cycle and city-industry pages are different kinds.

Lifetime city money $39,640,509 can look large next to a single-cycle cell of $134,040. That contrast is expected. It is not a finding that 2010 was a weak or strong year in any causal sense. Other cycles simply are not this page.

Nationwide 2010 pages versus this Montgomery cell

Calling 2010 a “presidential cycle” or a “midterm cycle” is calendar context for the even year. It is not a finding that $134,040 went to a presidential ticket or to House races. Recipient offices are not in the packet. Keep the citation as city × cycle dollars.

The cycle hub will include every city. This tie includes one city. Mixing those grains produces a false Alabama or false national number. Stay on $134,040.

Missing grains: names, parties, offices

Same-city strings in other states are out. Same-year receipts with a different city spelling are out. ZIP codes that sit in Montgomery but were filed with another city name are out. Montgomery is stored as MONTGOMERY in Alabama. Birmingham, Mobile, and Huntsville are other Alabama keys. Same-named Montgomery strings in other states are other pages. Those exclusions are why $134,040 can look different from a journalist’s handmade city scrape.

Citation order: dollars, keys, source

City-industry, occupation-cycle, and committee-cycle pages answer other questions. This kind is city-cycle only. If a later packet adds donor counts or committee names, that would be a different file. This one stops at $134,040, 95, $39,640,509, 0.34%, and the keys MONTGOMERY / AL / 2010.

Keep the two sides named

Title and H1 name both sides because the page is a join. If a downstream template dropped 2010 or dropped Montgomery, the remaining label would describe the wrong object. Keep Montgomery, AL and 2010 in any reuse of $134,040. Restating without new facts: Montgomery, AL in 2010 is $134,040 from 95 itemized individual contributions on FEC.gov. The city string stores $39,640,509 across cycles, so this window is about 0.34% and other windows hold $39,506,469. Arithmetic mean per line is about $1,411. Unique donors, recipient committees, party split, and USAspending dollars are not in the packet. Live overlays at the city hub, the 2010 hub, and All FEC ties outrank this snapshot if they differ. Keep both join sides in any reuse of $134,040: donor city Montgomery, AL and FEC cycle 2010, sourced from FEC.gov itemized individual receipts. The 95 contribution lines are volume for this cell only and are not added to counts from other Montgomery cycle pages. City lifetime money $39,640,509 already includes the 2010 window; do not add $134,040 to $39,640,509.

Montgomery, AL remains one donor-city string on FEC.gov. Cycle 2010 remains one even-year tag. Together they produce $134,040 from 95 itemized individual contributions. The city key still stores $39,640,509 when every stored cycle is included, so 2010 is about 0.34% of that running total and $39,506,469 sits in other windows. Those other windows are not listed here and are not estimated. Mean line size about $1,411 is $134,040 divided by 95, an arithmetic mean rather than a median.

Questions

How much did Montgomery donors give in 2010?

The 2010 cell for Montgomery, AL is $134,040 across 95 itemized individual contributions. FEC.gov is the source. The same city string stores $39,640,509 when every cycle is included, so 2010 is about 0.34% of that running sum. No donor names are published in this aggregate.

What share of Montgomery FEC money is 2010?

$134,040 divided by $39,640,509 is about 0.34%. Remainder $39,506,469 belongs to other cycles stored on the same MONTGOMERY key. Do not read the percentage as a share of Alabama giving or of all 2010 itemized gifts. Those denominators are absent from the packet.

Is Montgomery 2010 the same as Montgomery 2014?

Only the FEC city field MONTGOMERY with state AL is in this cell. Neighboring towns, metro labels, and other spellings of Montgomery are other keys. Montgomery is stored as MONTGOMERY in Alabama. Birmingham, Mobile, and Huntsville are other Alabama keys. Same-named Montgomery strings in other states are other pages. The 2010 dollars remain $134,040 on that exact string.

Where are the Montgomery and 2010 overlay pages?

Use /cities/al-montgomery/ for Montgomery, AL without a year filter, /election-cycles/2010/ for the 2010 cycle without a city filter, /states/AL/ for statewide Alabama context, and /ties/ for other two-dimension pages. This tie stays on $134,040 and 95 lines. Overlay pages are the current record if numbers move.