Business Representative political contributions from Michigan

Business Representative and Michigan as overlapping FEC fields

Occupation BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVE and donor state MI produce $332,283, 2,179 contributions, and 56 donors. The occupation hub is $5,630,964, 46,235 contributions, and 1,479 donors. Michigan’s dollar share is about 5.9%; contribution share about 4.7% (2,179 of 46,235); donor share about 3.8% (56 of 1,479). The three shares sit near 4–6%: about 5.9% of dollars, 4.7% of contributions, and 3.8% of donors. Fifty-six people produced 2,179 rows, about 39 rows per donor.

UNION REPRESENTATIVE, BUSINESS AGENT, and SALES REPRESENTATIVE, if used, sit in other hubs and should not be added to this total. Do not stack BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVE with BUSINESS AGENT or SALES REPRESENTATIVE into a single Michigan professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

56 Michigan donors produced 2,179 contributions, about 38.9 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 31.3 rows per donor nationally (46,235 contributions from 1,479 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this Michigan cell is about $152, against about $122 nationwide. Michigan’s about 5.9% share of $5,630,964 is a high-repeat slice of a 46,235-row occupation, not a handful of large checks.

BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVE as an ambiguous title

BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVE is a filer-entered string. The FEC file does not distinguish union business agents from corporate sales titles that use the same words. The $5,630,964 national total is BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVE only. 1,479 donors produced 46,235 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 46,235 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to Michigan (MI). Forty-six thousand two hundred thirty-five national contributions make this a high-frequency bucket. This tie asks how much of that labeled money also carries donor state MI.

Michigan on the state side

56 Michigan donors produced 2,179 contributions totaling $332,283. Donor state MI is the address on the record, not proof of a Michigan license, and not a limit to Michigan candidates. MI is the address on the itemized record, not proof of a Michigan union local, and not a map of which campaigns received the $332,283.

The Michigan campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to MI. This join is only BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVE. The Business Representative occupation hub without Michigan still holds about 94.1% of the $5,630,964. Michigan’s state hub includes every other occupation coded to MI. BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVE is only this filter.

What the join is not

This page does not count union members, rank locals, or claim that Business Representative-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. A Michigan address plus this title is not an LM-2 filing.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVE is not a union-local extract. Donor state MI is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. Local numbers are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Business Representative filter

Subtract the Michigan dollars on this page from the national BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVE occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVE in every other state combined. That remainder ($5,298,681) 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 of 56 is not a person-level audit. The FEC aggregate can merge similar names or split one person who filed under variants. A contribution count of 2,179 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $332,283 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Michigan dollars, or only the BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVE national total, drops a key. Fifty-six donors producing 2,179 contributions is the fact to keep next to the $332,283 headline.

Related tables

Business Representative donations holds the $5,630,964 national occupation total. Michigan 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. BUSINESS AGENT, if present as a hub, is a different occupation string.

Questions

How much have Business Representative donors in Michigan given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVE and state Michigan total $332,283, from 2,179 contributions and 56 donors. Nationwide, BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVE-coded receipts are $5,630,964 from 46,235 contributions and 1,479 donors. Michigan is about 5.9% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Are these union business representatives?

The FEC file does not say. Occupation is the string BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVE and state is MI. Some filers use the title for sales roles. The 56 Michigan donors used occupation BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVE and state MI. Filers who wrote BUSINESS AGENT or UNION REPRESENTATIVE may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Business Representative FEC money is from Michigan?

About 5.9% of the $5,630,964 occupation total is in this Michigan join ($332,283). Michigan also accounts for about 4.7% of contributions (2,179 of 46,235) and about 3.8% of donors (56 of 1,479). Fifty-six donors produced 2,179 itemized rows in this Michigan cell.

Does this money go to Michigan candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Michigan. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $332,283 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to MI; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.