What did Atherton, CA itemize in the 2012 cycle?

$200,466 across 64 itemized individual contribution records. The citywide all-cycle total is $124,905,584, making 2012 0.16% of that stack. Data: FEC.gov aggregates by city and cycle.

Why is the Atherton total ($124,905,584) larger than $200,466?

Because $124,905,584 sums every cycle for ATHERTON in CA, while $200,466 is the 2012 filter only (64 gifts). Other cycles account for $124,705,118. The city hub shows the sum; this tie shows 2012.

Is $200,466 from Atherton confined to California candidates?

These facts do not allocate by candidate or committee state. Donor city is Atherton, CA. Recipients can be any FEC-registered committee. A CA city field is not a roster of California races.

How many 2012 itemized gifts list Atherton, CA?

64 records totaling $200,466, a mean of about $3,132 per record. Records are not unique donors. Unitemized and independent-expenditure activity is omitted. No unique-person count is available in this packet.

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Atherton, CA political money — 2012 cycle

FEC.gov records $200,466 in itemized individual gifts from the city string ATHERTON (CA) during the 2012 election cycle. 64 contribution records produce that total. The citywide running aggregate for Atherton, CA is $124,905,584 across every cycle in the table. This page explains the join, not a single hub. The dollars are individual and itemized only. Motive, party, and named donors are outside the packet.

Key figures

ATHERTON (CA) × 2012 = $200,466 itemized individual dollars (64 rows).
Atherton city stack $124,905,584; 2012 share 0.16%; remainder $124,705,118.
Page is a city-cycle join from FEC.gov, not a restated hub.
No office, party, or recipient-state split of $200,466.
About $3,132 per row; not unique donors.

Two FEC columns: ATHERTON and 2012

Column A is city ATHERTON in CA. Column B is cycle 2012. Where both are true, the aggregate is $200,466 and the row count is 64. Column A alone is $124,905,584. 2012 is 0.16% of that city total; $124,705,118 (99.8%) is every other cycle. A thin slice of the city stack.

The Atherton, CA hub still mixes cycles. The 2012 hub still mixes cities. This ties path keeps both filters. 64 and $200,466 are intersection facts. They do not show why a gift was made, who received it, or whether the committee was based in California. Correlation of city and year is not causation.

2012 is stored as a presidential two-year FEC cycle with a presidential general in the window. That classification does not interpret $200,466. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

Atherton, CA without a year filter

$124,905,584 accumulates itemized individual receipts under Atherton, CA for all cycles in the extract. Include 2012's $200,466 and exclude it and $124,705,118 remains. The figure is not a census of residents. California statewide pages still include cities other than Atherton.

The stored city is Atherton on the San Francisco Peninsula. Menlo Park, Palo Alto, and Woodside are not rolled into ATHERTON. State CA stays on the citation. San Mateo County as a whole is not the city string. Only the CA key is in $124,905,584. Compare the stack ($124,905,584) with the 2012 cell ($200,466, 0.16%) rather than treating them as the same number. City hub = no year. This page = Atherton in 2012. Committees on the other side of the receipt can be in any state.

Inside the 2012 presidential cycle

The Commission tags receipts with a two-year cycle. 2012 is that tag. Atherton, CA donors itemized $200,466 on 64 lines, about $3,132 per line. The mean is not a median and not a person-level average. Unique donors are not reported in these facts.

Leave the national 2012 page for other cities and the California page for other years. This file isolates the pair. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and committee transfers are other datasets. 64 itemized rows is a small absolute count of receipts for this join. Linked hubs remain the wider tables.

Keep cityTotal and cycleTotal apart. $200,466 is the 2012 cell for Atherton, CA: itemized individual contributions in that two-year FEC window only, across 64 records. $124,905,584 is the same city string across every cycle in this extract. Subtracting them leaves $124,705,118 in other even-year windows. Citing $124,905,584 as a 2012 figure mixes the city hub into this join. Citing $200,466 as the lifetime Atherton total mixes the join into the city hub. 64 is cycleContributions for 2012 only; the packet has no all-cycle row count, so 64 cannot be turned into a share of citywide gifts. 0.16% is dollars only — $200,466 divided by $124,905,584 — 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 $200,466 or $124,905,584. Donor names are not in the packet and are not invented. Source: FEC.gov.

Dollar share of Atherton's stack

$200,466 ÷ $124,905,584 = 0.16%. $124,705,118 ÷ $124,905,584 = 99.8%. So about 0.16% of Atherton, CA itemized individual dollars in this aggregate carry the 2012 tag, and about 99.8% do not. Denominators are the city stack, not California and not the national 2012 cycle.

0.16% (money) and 64 (rows) are parallel facts. Without an all-cycle row count, a row share cannot be computed. Do not recast 0.16% as Atherton's portion of nationwide 2012 receipts; that nationwide figure is not in the packet.

Contribution rows versus people

Operationally this page is 64 itemized contributions totaling $200,466. Repeat appearances and spelling variants of ATHERTON are possible. Unique persons are not derived. Atherton is not ordered against other California cities here.

$3,132 = $200,466 / 64. Occupation, industry, and committee dimensions are other ties. This cell does not itemize recipients. Nearby suburbs typed under other city names are not folded into Atherton.

Nonpartisan reading of the join

No city ranking, no claim that 2012 was a wave, no stand-in for California opinion. Donor city is not recipient city. CA on the receipt is not a California-only destination. Amended FEC reports can change the totals. Newer hub extracts win if they conflict.

Not included: unitemized individual gifts, independent expenditures, PAC transfers, federal award dollars. Adjacent tables: Atherton, CA; 2012 election cycle; California campaign finance; all FEC ties. Source: FEC.gov.

Questions

What did Atherton, CA itemize in the 2012 cycle?: $200,466 across 64 itemized individual contribution records. The citywide all-cycle total is $124,905,584, making 2012 0.16% of that stack. Data: FEC.gov aggregates by city and cycle.
Why is the Atherton total ($124,905,584) larger than $200,466?: Because $124,905,584 sums every cycle for ATHERTON in CA, while $200,466 is the 2012 filter only (64 gifts). Other cycles account for $124,705,118. The city hub shows the sum; this tie shows 2012.
Is $200,466 from Atherton confined to California candidates?: These facts do not allocate by candidate or committee state. Donor city is Atherton, CA. Recipients can be any FEC-registered committee. A CA city field is not a roster of California races.
How many 2012 itemized gifts list Atherton, CA?: 64 records totaling $200,466, a mean of about $3,132 per record. Records are not unique donors. Unitemized and independent-expenditure activity is omitted. No unique-person count is available in this packet.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.