Scottsdale, AZ political money — 2012 cycle

Scottsdale, AZ meets the 2012 presidential cycle

$170,404 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city SCOTTSDALE with state AZ, and election cycle 2012. The match is $170,404 across 135 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $97,390,742. 2012 therefore accounts for 0.17% of Scottsdale, AZ itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $97,220,338 (99.8%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Scottsdale, AZ. That hub mixes 2012 with every other even-year window filed under SCOTTSDALE. It is also not a restatement of the 2012 election cycle hub, which mixes Scottsdale, AZ with every other donor city in the United States. The 135 rows and $170,404 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.

The packet facts stop at city, state, city-wide total, cycle, cycle total, and contribution count. No donor names appear here because none appear in the packet. No committee list appears here because none appears in the packet. This page is not an Arizona Secretary of State campaign total, a resort-city ranking, or a Phoenix metro rollup. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

SCOTTSDALE is not Phoenix on the FEC city field

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city SCOTTSDALE in Arizona totals $97.4 million ($97,390,742). $170,404 is 0.17% of that city book. A small share does not mean 2012 was quiet in Scottsdale; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. Do not add $170,404 to $97,390,742; the city book already contains this slice. Subtracting is valid: $97,390,742 − $170,404 = $97,220,338 in other cycles.

The stored city sits in Maricopa County, Arizona. Phoenix, Paradise Valley, and Tempe are other FEC city strings, not rolled into SCOTTSDALE. State AZ stays on the citation so Scottsdale is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $97.4 million is the AZ key only. Donor city is not recipient city: committees that received these gifts can file from anywhere in the FEC system.

Presidential-cycle coding for Scottsdale receipts

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. 2012 is a presidential election cycle: a two-year FEC window that includes a presidential general election. Inside that window, Scottsdale, AZ filers itemized $170,404 on 135 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,262 per itemized gift ($170,404 ÷ 135). That mean is an arithmetic average of rows, not a typical resident and not a median. This page does not publish a median or a unique-donor count.

a 135-row extract — a mid-size receipt file for this city string, still lines rather than unique residents. The national 2012 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Arizona still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Scottsdale × 2012. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. Arizona campaign-finance pages already contain this city when the same extract is used; do not add $170,404 into the state hub a second time.

2012 inside the Scottsdale all-cycle book

0.17% of $97,390,742 is the 2012 slice. Put another way, about 0.17% of Scottsdale, AZ’s itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2012, and about 99.8% were not. Those percentages are $170,404 divided by $97,390,742 and $97,220,338 divided by $97,390,742. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.17%) and row volume (135 itemized gifts) are separate facts. Phoenix is a neighboring city key. Filers who typed PHOENIX are not recoded into Scottsdale. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.17% as Scottsdale’s share of the 2012 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

135 itemized gifts omit IE and transfer tables

135 itemized contributions totaling $170,404 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 SCOTTSDALE. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Scottsdale versus other Arizona cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,262 uses only the two numbers in the join: $170,404 and 135 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 $170,404 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed SCOTTSDALE is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Scottsdale.

What Scottsdale–2012 does not measure

This page does not rank Scottsdale against other cities, does not call 2012 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in Arizona. Two columns matched. A AZ address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a Arizona candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Scottsdale, AZ hub or the live 2012 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls. Maricopa County is map context, not an FEC parent total. The packet key is city SCOTTSDALE in AZ.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Scottsdale, AZ, the 2012 election cycle, Arizona campaign finance, and All FEC ties for the adjacent tables. Mesa and Chandler are other Maricopa County strings. They are not folded into SCOTTSDALE. 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 Scottsdale, AZ donors give in the 2012 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Scottsdale, AZ total $170,404 in the 2012 cycle, across 135 contribution records. The same city label totals $97,390,742 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2012 is 0.17% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Does Scottsdale’s city aggregate cover only 2012?

No. The city aggregate of $97,390,742 covers every cycle in the table for SCOTTSDALE. The 2012 filter is $170,404 from 135 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $97,220,338. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2012 slice.

Did 2012 Scottsdale donations stay with Arizona committees?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Scottsdale, AZ; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $170,404 by office, state of the committee, or party. A AZ city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Arizona races.

How many Scottsdale, AZ contributions were itemized in 2012?

135 itemized contribution records sum to $170,404. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,262 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.