Alameda, CA political money — 2012 cycle

Alameda, CA × 2012 in FEC individual data

Both filters true: city ALAMEDA in CA, cycle 2012, dollars $203,992, rows 156. City filter only: $12,811,657. 2012's share: 1.59%. Other cycles: $12,607,665 (98.4%). A larger minority of the city stack than many city-cycle joins, still well under half of this city's stacked itemized individual dollars.

A restatement of Alameda, CA would still mix years. A restatement of 2012 would still mix cities. 156 and $203,992 live only at the intersection. City plus year is not a causal finding and does not place recipients in California.

2012 is a presidential FEC two-year window that includes a presidential general election. That calendar note does not interpret $203,992. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

City hub dollars for Alameda

The city aggregate $12,811,657 is the running itemized individual total for Alameda, CA. It contains $203,992 from 2012 and $12,607,665 from other cycles. It is not unique residents. California state pages still mix Alameda with other cities.

The stored city is Alameda, the island city in California's East Bay. Alameda County as a whole is not the city string; Oakland, Berkeley, and San Leandro file under their own labels. State CA stays on the citation. $12,811,657 is the CA key only. Do not equate the stack ($12,811,657) with the 2012 cell ($203,992, 1.59%). Use the city hub without a year; use this tie for Alameda in 2012. Donor city is not recipient city.

Cycle hub context for 2012

On FEC.gov, 2012 labels a two-year cycle, not a single calendar year. Alameda, CA inside it: $203,992 on 156 itemized gifts, mean about $1,308. The mean is an arithmetic row average. Median and unique-donor counts are not in the facts.

The 2012 cycle page still includes other cities. California pages still include other cycles. Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are other tables. 156 itemized rows is a sizable absolute count of receipts for this join. Adjacent links keep the city, cycle, state, and ties indexes; this URL is the intersection.

Keep cityTotal and cycleTotal apart. $203,992 is the 2012 cell for Alameda, CA: itemized individual contributions in that two-year FEC window only, across 156 records. $12,811,657 is the same city string across every cycle in this extract. Subtracting them leaves $12,607,665 in other even-year windows. Citing $12,811,657 as a 2012 figure mixes the city hub into this join. Citing $203,992 as the lifetime Alameda total mixes the join into the city hub. 156 is cycleContributions for 2012 only; the packet has no all-cycle row count, so 156 cannot be turned into a share of citywide gifts. 1.59% is dollars only — $203,992 divided by $12,811,657 — not a share of California and not a share of the national 2012 cycle. PAC receipts, independent expenditures, and unitemized gifts are other FEC tables; they are not mixed into $203,992 or $12,811,657. Donor names are not in the packet and are not invented. Source: FEC.gov.

Share math for 2012 inside Alameda

1.59% of $12,811,657 is 2012 ($203,992). 98.4% is other cycles ($12,607,665). About 1.59% of Alameda, CA itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were tagged 2012; about 98.4% were not. Those identities use packet facts only. They are not state, national-cycle, or voter shares.

1.59% (dollars) and 156 (rows) stay separate. No all-cycle row count is present, so no row share is stated. 1.59% is not Alameda's share of the national 2012 cycle.

What itemized rows leave out

156 itemized contributions totaling $203,992 is the working definition. Repeat households and spelling variants of ALAMEDA can appear. Unique-person counts are not invented. Alameda is not ranked versus other California cities.

About $1,308 per row uses $203,992 and 156 only. This city-cycle page does not break $203,992 out by occupation, industry, or committee. Receipts typed under another city name are not moved into Alameda.

Reading the join without overclaiming

This page does not rank Alameda against other cities, does not call 2012 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in California. Two columns matched. The city of the contributor is not the city of the campaign. A CA address does not mean the money supported a California candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If live hubs disagree, the newer FEC extract controls.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Alameda, CA, the 2012 election cycle, California campaign finance, and all FEC ties. Dollar figures are FEC itemized individual contribution aggregates, not USAspending awards. Source: FEC.gov.

Questions

How much did Alameda, CA donors give in the 2012 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Alameda, CA total $203,992 in the 2012 cycle, across 156 contribution records. The same city label totals $12,811,657 across all cycles, so 2012 is 1.59% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Alameda, CA city total only for 2012?

No. The city aggregate of $12,811,657 covers every cycle in the table for ALAMEDA. The 2012 filter is $203,992 from 156 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $12,607,665. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2012 slice.

Did Alameda, CA 2012 donations stay in California?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Alameda, CA; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $203,992 by office, state of the committee, or party. A CA city code is an address field, not a map of California races.

How many Alameda, CA contributions were itemized in 2012?

156 itemized contribution records sum to $203,992. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,308 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.