Little Rock, AR political money — 2014 cycle

Little Rock, AR political money in 2014

The join keeps donor city Little Rock in Arkansas and election cycle 2014. The match is $1,410,235 across 279 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $174,186,411. 2014 therefore accounts for 0.81% of Little Rock, AR itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $172,776,176 (99.2%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Little Rock, AR. That hub mixes 2014 with every other even-year window filed under LITTLE ROCK. It is also not a restatement of the 2014 election cycle hub, which mixes Little Rock, AR with every other donor city in the United States. The 279 rows and $1,410,235 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. 2014 is a midterm FEC cycle: a two-year window without a presidential general election. That calendar fact does not explain why Little Rock, AR donors itemized $1,410,235. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

Reading the Little Rock city aggregate

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 $1,410,235 from 2014 and the $172,776,176 from every other cycle in the same city file. Arkansas campaign-finance pages still mix Little Rock with every other city in Arkansas.

A large city total does not mean 2014 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2014 was small. For Little Rock, AR, the city stack is $174,186,411 while this cycle is $1,410,235 (0.81%). 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 2014. Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

Reading the 2014 election-cycle filter

The 2014 election cycle is a two-year FEC reporting window labeled by its even year. Inside that window, Little Rock, AR donors itemized $1,410,235 on 279 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $5,055 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 2014 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Arkansas still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Little Rock × 2014. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures, party coordinated spends, and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 279 itemized rows is a moderate file. The $1,410,235 can still be skewed by a few large gifts without this page naming them. Adjacent pages for Little Rock, AR, 2014 election cycle, and Arkansas campaign finance keep those broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only.

2014 versus the rest of Little Rock

0.81% of $174,186,411 is a small slice. The city hub is mostly other even-year windows, totaling $172,776,176. Put another way, about 0.81% of Little Rock, AR's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2014, and about 99.2% were not. Those percentages are $1,410,235 divided by $174,186,411 and $172,776,176 divided by $174,186,411. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.81%) and row volume (279 itemized gifts) are separate facts. A small slice of citywide dollars can sit next to a moderate 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 0.81% as Little Rock's share of the 2014 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

Counts, dollars, and what they omit

279 itemized contributions totaling $1,410,235 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 $5,055 uses only the two numbers in the join: $1,410,235 and 279 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 $1,410,235 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee.

Caveats on a geographic-cycle join

This page does not rank Little Rock against other cities, does not call 2014 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.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Little Rock, AR, the 2014 election cycle, Arkansas 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 Little Rock, AR donors give in the 2014 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Little Rock, AR total $1,410,235 in the 2014 cycle, across 279 contribution records. The same city label totals $174,186,411 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2014 is 0.81% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Little Rock, AR city total only for 2014?

No. The city aggregate of $174,186,411 covers every cycle in the table for LITTLE ROCK. The 2014 filter is $1,410,235 from 279 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $172,776,176. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2014 slice.

Did Little Rock, AR 2014 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 $1,410,235 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 2014?

279 itemized contribution records sum to $1,410,235. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $5,055 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.