Auto Dealer donations in the 2014 FEC cycle

Auto Dealer × 2014

AUTO DEALER plus cycle 2014 equals $803,254. That figure is the harvested sum of itemized individual contributions in which the occupation field matched this string and the two-year federal election cycle was 2014. Car dealer, automobile dealer, dealer principal, and auto salesperson are other keys if those words appear. This join does not recode the label into an NADA dealership census, a state dealer-license file, or a franchise roster. Other cycle amounts are not fields in this packet.

Parent hubs: Auto Dealer donations at /occupations/auto-dealer/ and the 2014 election cycle at /election-cycles/2014/. All occupations lists neighboring titles. All FEC ties keeps each occupation-year cell on its own path so a reader can move without mixing $803,254 into another year or another string. Do not add those parent pages into this cell.

Party, committee, and employer breakdowns for Auto Dealer in 2014 are not fields in this packet. Do not infer a partisan split from $803,254. New versus used versus franchise brand is unpublished for Auto Dealer in 2014. The occupation page and the 2014 cycle page are the next clicks for named committees.

AUTO DEALER, not salesperson

$12.0 million ($12,020,006) belongs to the exact string AUTO DEALER across harvested cycles. It is not an NADA dealership census, a state dealer-license file, or a franchise roster. People who wrote nearby wording — car dealer, automobile dealer, dealer principal, and auto salesperson — sit in other rows if the characters differ. The 2014 slice is 6.7% of that title bucket. Share of AUTO DEALER is not share of all 2014 receipts.

Amended individual contribution reports can move $803,254. A later harvest of the same occupation string can move $12,020,006. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Live Auto Dealer donations and the live 2014 election cycle pages are the tables; this prose is a packet snapshot. Itemized individual contributions are the only receipt class in this cell. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold, in-kind goods, and bundled contributions without this occupation string are outside $803,254.

621 auto-dealer receipts in a midterm

270 donors and 621 receipts — about 2.3 lines per donor. Mean per receipt about $1,293; mean per donor about $2,975. Those ratios are arithmetic on two harvested integers. They are not medians, not typical gifts, and not a claim about income. 270 donors makes this a modest occupation-cycle cell. No median is published in this packet.

Repeat gifts add receipts. 621 is a line count, not 270 one-time gifts; about two lines per donor, which is consistent with repeat gifts inside the same two-year window. New versus used versus franchise brand is not encoded in the occupation string. Neither figure is a headcount of everyone who works in the field named by AUTO DEALER. People who left occupation blank, used a nearby spelling, or listed a more specific title are not in $803,254.

Dealer title versus association PACs

Cite $803,254 as Auto Dealer in 2014. Cite $12,020,006 as this title’s occupation total. Do not add dealer-association PAC filings to either figure. Those filings are committee reports. Mixing PAC spending with $803,254 would blend FEC tables. All occupations lists neighboring titles so a searcher can open the other string’s cycle cell rather than rescale 6.7%.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by self-reported occupation and election cycle. This join does not recode AUTO DEALER into a Bureau of Labor Statistics title, a NAICS code, or a license class. If a researcher needs those crosswalks, they start from the raw string. Correlation is not causation: a midterm-year total does not prove the occupation’s motives, and it does not attach these gifts to any federal spending dataset.

How to cite auto-dealer money in 2014

A clean footnote names occupation AUTO DEALER, election cycle 2014, $803,254 in itemized individual contributions, 621 receipts, and 270 donors on FEC.gov. Keep the itemized word. Mean dollars remain about $1,293 per line and $2,975 per donor in the cell. If the live Auto Dealer donations overlay has refreshed, quote the overlay. Do not treat 621 as unique workers in the trade.

This URL exists because two filters meet. Auto Dealer donations rolls every cycle into one AUTO DEALER running total. The 2014 election cycle rolls every occupation into one 2014 total. Only the Auto Dealer × 2014 overlay applies both filters, which is why this page cites 621 receipts and $803,254. All FEC ties is the directory of other occupation-cycle cells.

Questions

How much did auto dealer filers donate in 2014?

Filers who listed Auto Dealer itemized $803,254 in FEC individual contributions in 2014, from 621 receipts and 270 donors. That is 6.7% of $12,020,006 under AUTO DEALER. Car dealer, automobile dealer, dealer principal, and auto salesperson are other keys when those are the words on the form. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates.

Does this include dealer-association PACs?

No. $803,254 is individual contributions tagged Auto Dealer in 2014. Dealer-association PAC filings file as committees. Mixing PAC spending with $803,254 would blend FEC tables. See Auto Dealer donations or the 2014 election cycle hub for committee names. Auto Dealer in 2014 is $803,254 on 621 receipts from 270 donors.

Are auto dealer labels standardized on FEC forms?

No. FEC.gov stores the occupation as typed. This join uses AUTO DEALER. Car dealer, automobile dealer, dealer principal, and auto salesperson are other keys when those characters appear. LobbyVault does not recode the string into an NADA dealership census, a state dealer-license file, or a franchise roster. Cite $803,254 for this title in 2014 on 621 receipts from 270 donors.

What two tables meet on this page?

Auto Dealer donations ($12.0 million for the string) and the 2014 election cycle. The overlap is $803,254 from 621 receipts and 270 donors. All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle cells. All occupations lists neighboring titles. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates for Auto Dealer in 2014.