Little Rock, AR political money — 2012 cycle

2012 receipts from Little Rock, AR donors

The join keeps donor city Little Rock in Arkansas and election cycle 2012. The match is $339,317 across 237 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $174,186,411. 2012 therefore accounts for 0.2% of Little Rock, AR itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $173,847,094 (99.8%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Little Rock, AR. That hub mixes 2012 with every other even-year window filed under LITTLE ROCK. It is also not a restatement of the 2012 election cycle hub, which mixes Little Rock, AR with every other donor city in the United States. The 237 rows and $339,317 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. Little Rock, AR here is the string that survived aggregation as LITTLE ROCK in AR. 2012 is a presidential FEC cycle: a two-year window that includes a presidential general election. This page does not split the $339,317 by office, party, or candidate. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

The city hub still mixes other cycles

The city aggregate for Little Rock, AR is $174,186,411 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 $339,317 from 2012 and the $173,847,094 from every other cycle in the same city file. Arkansas campaign-finance pages still mix Little Rock with every other city in Arkansas.

The stored city sits in Pulaski County, Arkansas. North Little Rock, Fayetteville, and Benton are not rolled into LITTLE ROCK. NORTH LITTLE ROCK is a different city string. This join is LITTLE ROCK in AR only. A large city total does not mean 2012 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2012 was small. For Little Rock, AR, the city stack is $174,186,411 while this cycle is $339,317 (0.2%). Use the city hub to see Little Rock, AR without a year filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Little Rock in 2012. Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

How a presidential cycle is coded at the FEC

The 2012 election cycle is a two-year FEC reporting window labeled by its even year. Inside that window, Little Rock, AR donors itemized $339,317 on 237 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,432 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 2012 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Arkansas still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Little Rock × 2012. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures, party coordinated spends, and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 237 itemized rows is a thicker file than many suburb joins, still a receipt count rather than a unique-person census. Repeat givers and office addresses sit in the same 237-line stack. Adjacent pages for Little Rock, AR, 2012 election cycle, and Arkansas campaign finance keep those broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only.

A modest cut of the Little Rock stack

0.2% of $174,186,411 is a modest slice. Most of the Little Rock, AR aggregate — $173,847,094 — sits in other cycles. Put another way, about 0.2% of Little Rock, AR's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2012, and about 99.8% were not. Those percentages are $339,317 divided by $174,186,411 and $173,847,094 divided by $174,186,411. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.2%) and row volume (237 itemized gifts) are separate facts. A modest slice of citywide dollars can sit next to a thicker contribution file than many suburb joins; 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 0.2% as Little Rock's share of the 2012 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

Mean gift size is not a typical donor

237 itemized contributions totaling $339,317 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 LITTLE ROCK. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Little Rock versus other Arkansas cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,432 uses only the two numbers in the join: $339,317 and 237 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 $339,317 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. Unitemized gifts and Arkansas state-office filings sit outside $339,317.

City of the contributor, not the recipient

This page does not rank Little Rock against other cities, does not call 2012 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in Arkansas. Two columns matched. The city of the contributor is not the city of the campaign. A AR address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a Arkansas candidate. A candidate who lives in Little Rock can raise money from other cities; those gifts are not this join.

City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed LITTLE ROCK is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood or a nearby suburb such as North Little Rock is not recoded into Little Rock. Treat 237 as lines that stored this string in 2012. See Little Rock, AR, the 2012 election cycle, Arkansas campaign finance, and All FEC ties for the adjacent tables. Figures are FEC itemized individual contribution aggregates. They are not federal spending awards and they do not fund USAspending totals. If the live hub disagrees, the newer FEC extract controls.

Questions

How much did Little Rock, AR donors give in the 2012 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Little Rock, AR total $339,317 in the 2012 cycle, across 237 contribution records. The same city label totals $174,186,411 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2012 is 0.2% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Little Rock, AR city total only for 2012?

No. The city aggregate of $174,186,411 covers every cycle in the table for LITTLE ROCK. The 2012 filter is $339,317 from 237 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $173,847,094. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2012 slice.

Did Little Rock, AR 2012 donations stay in Arkansas?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Little Rock, AR; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $339,317 by office, state of the committee, or party. A AR city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Arkansas races.

How many Little Rock, AR contributions were itemized in 2012?

237 itemized contribution records sum to $339,317. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,432 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.