Businessman political contributions from Texas

Businessman and Texas as overlapping FEC fields

Occupation BUSINESSMAN and donor state TX produce $2,060,209, 2,451 contributions, and 213 donors. The occupation hub is $34,277,492, 34,660 contributions, and 3,044 donors. Texas’s dollar share is about 6.0%; contribution share about 7.1% (2,451 of 34,660); donor share about 7.0% (213 of 3,044). Two hundred thirteen Texas donors are about 7.0% of 3,044 national donors; 2,451 contributions are about 7.1% of 34,660 national rows; dollars are about 6.0% of $34,277,492.

BUSINESS OWNER, BUSINESSWOMAN, and ENTREPRENEUR, if used, sit in other hubs and should not be added to this Businessman total. Do not stack BUSINESSMAN with BUSINESS OWNER or ENTREPRENEUR into a single Texas professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

213 Texas donors produced 2,451 contributions, about 11.5 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 11.4 rows per donor nationally (34,660 contributions from 3,044 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this Texas cell is about $841, against about $989 nationwide. Texas’s about 6.0% share of $34,277,492 from 213 people is a modest slice of a 3,044-donor self-description, not an incorporation census.

BUSINESSMAN as a gendered self-description

BUSINESSMAN is a filer-entered string. The FEC file does not verify incorporation, employee count, or that the filer still owned a firm. The word on the form is the filter. The $34,277,492 national total is BUSINESSMAN only. 3,044 donors produced 34,660 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 34,660 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to Texas (TX). Three thousand forty-four national donors make BUSINESSMAN a mid-size bucket. This tie asks how much of that labeled money also carries donor state TX.

Texas as the Businessman address code

213 Texas donors produced 2,451 contributions totaling $2,060,209. Donor state TX is the address on the record, not proof of a Texas license, and not a limit to Texas candidates. TX is the address on the itemized record, not proof of a Texas company, and not a map of which campaigns received the $2,060,209.

The Texas campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to TX. This join is only BUSINESSMAN. The Businessman occupation hub without Texas still holds about 94.0% of the $34,277,492. Texas’s state hub includes every other occupation coded to TX. BUSINESSMAN is only this filter.

What the Businessman–Texas join is not

This page does not count firms, merge Business Owner dollars, or claim that Businessman-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. BUSINESSMAN is not BUSINESS OWNER even when filers meant the same status.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. BUSINESSMAN is not a Census business-owner extract. Donor state TX is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. Company names are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Businessman filter

Subtract the Texas dollars on this page from the national BUSINESSMAN occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded BUSINESSMAN in every other state combined. That remainder ($32,217,283) 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 213 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 2,451 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $2,060,209 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Texas dollars, or only the BUSINESSMAN national total, drops a key. Two hundred thirteen donors producing 2,451 contributions is the fact to keep next to the $2,060,209 headline.

Related tables

Businessman donations holds the $34,277,492 national occupation total. Texas 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. Texas General Manager and Texas Finance cells in this slice are other occupation strings.

Questions

How much have Businessman donors in Texas given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation BUSINESSMAN and state Texas total $2,060,209, from 2,451 contributions and 213 donors. Nationwide, BUSINESSMAN-coded receipts are $34,277,492 from 34,660 contributions and 3,044 donors. Texas is about 6.0% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Is Businessman the same as Business Owner?

No. BUSINESSMAN and BUSINESS OWNER are different stored strings. This join is BUSINESSMAN and state TX. Two hundred thirteen Texas donors used that pair. The 213 Texas donors used occupation BUSINESSMAN and state TX. Filers who wrote BUSINESS OWNER or ENTREPRENEUR may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Businessman FEC money is from Texas?

About 6.0% of the $34,277,492 occupation total is in this Texas join ($2,060,209). Texas also accounts for about 7.1% of contributions (2,451 of 34,660) and about 7.0% of donors (213 of 3,044). About 6.0% of dollars from 213 of 3,044 donors and 2,451 of 34,660 contributions.

Does this money go to Texas candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Texas. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $2,060,209 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to TX; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.