Auto Dealer political contributions from Virginia

The Auto Dealer–Virginia join

Occupation AUTO DEALER and donor state VA produce $2,107,358, 1,170 contributions, and 70 donors. The occupation hub is $12,020,006, 10,546 contributions, and 1,377 donors. Virginia’s dollar share is about 18%; contribution share about 11% (1,170 of 10,546); donor share about 5% (70 of 1,377).

About 18% of the dollars from about 5% of the donors means the Virginia-coded Auto Dealer receipts are concentrated: fewer people, a larger slice of the labeled money. Seventy donors producing 1,170 contributions also means repeat itemization. That is a description of two FEC columns, not a finding about dealership groups or manufacturer allocations.

Seventy Virginia donors produced 1,170 contributions, about 17 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about eight rows per donor nationally (10,546 contributions from 1,377 donors). Virginia’s about 18% share of the $12,020,006 from about 5% of donors is concentration plus above-average repeats. Seventy people are not a franchise census.

Auto Dealer as an occupation string

AUTO DEALER is filer-entered. CAR DEALER, AUTOMOBILE DEALER, DEALER, and DEALERSHIP OWNER, if used, sit in other hubs. The $12,020,006 national total is this phrase only. One thousand three hundred seventy-seven donors produced 10,546 contributions.

This page does not merge those nearby strings. It locates how much of the AUTO DEALER bucket is also coded to Virginia.

Virginia as donor state

Seventy Virginia donors produced 1,170 contributions totaling $2,107,358. Donor state VA is the address on the record, not proof of a Virginia motor-vehicle dealer license, and not a limit to Virginia candidates.

The Virginia campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to VA. Business, Developer, Realtor, and Government Relations VA ties are other pages. Their dollars are not inside this $2,107,358.

Virginia’s state hub includes Realtor, Business, and Developer ties. AUTO DEALER is only this filter. The Auto Dealer occupation hub without Virginia still holds about 82% of the $12,020,006. CAR DEALER, if used, sits elsewhere.

What the relationship excludes

This page does not measure vehicle sales, does not rank dealer groups, and does not claim that Auto Dealer-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. These figures are itemized individual contributions, not dealership PAC receipts.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

AUTO DEALER is not a DMV license extract. Itemized individual contributions only. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and dealer PACs are omitted. Vehicle sales volume is not in these six numbers. Donor state VA is not recipient geography. Correlation is not causation.

Virginia’s $2,107,358 is the AUTO DEALER-and-VA overlap only, not a statewide auto-industry total and not a franchise census.

Reading Auto Dealer and Virginia as two keys

Subtract the Virginia dollars on this page from the national Auto Dealer occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded Auto Dealer in every other state combined. That remainder has no row-by-row breakdown here because those states are other ties. The occupation internal link holds the unlabeled-by-state total; the state internal link holds every occupation with this state code; the occupations index and the ties index place this pair among other joins built the same way.

A unique-donor count is not a person-level audit. The FEC aggregate can merge similar names or split one person who filed under variants. A contribution count can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Virginia dollars, or only the Auto Dealer national total, drops a key.

This relationship is not a forecast and not a ranking of influence. Occupation does not cause contributions, and donor state does not cause recipient geography. Public records, two fields, one intersection. FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates; occupation labels are filer-entered.

Related hubs

Auto Dealer donations holds the $12,020,006 national occupation total. Virginia campaign finance holds the state’s itemized individual activity across occupations. All occupations and all FEC ties collect other occupation-state pairs from the same two fields.

Questions

How much have Auto Dealer donors in Virginia given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation Auto Dealer and state Virginia total $2,107,358, from 1,170 contributions and 70 donors. Nationwide, Auto Dealer-coded receipts are $12,020,006 from 10,546 contributions and 1,377 donors. Virginia is about 18% of those dollars.

Are these licensed Virginia car dealers?

The FEC file does not verify dealer licenses. Occupation is the string AUTO DEALER and state is VA. The 70 Virginia donors used that pair of labels. That is not a Department of Motor Vehicles franchise extract.

What share of Auto Dealer FEC money is from Virginia?

About 18% of the $12,020,006 occupation total is in this Virginia join ($2,107,358). Virginia also accounts for about 11% of contributions (1,170 of 10,546) and about 5% of donors (70 of 1,377).

Does this money go to Virginia candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Virginia. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $2,107,358 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns.