Bakersfield, CA political money — 2010 cycle

Bakersfield, CA meets the 2010 midterm cycle

$174,650 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city BAKERSFIELD with state CA, and election cycle 2010. The match is $174,650 across 171 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $37,074,806. 2010 therefore accounts for 0.47% of Bakersfield, CA itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $36,900,156 (99.5%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Bakersfield, CA. That hub mixes 2010 with every other even-year window filed under BAKERSFIELD. It is also not a restatement of the 2010 election cycle hub, which mixes Bakersfield, CA with every other donor city in the United States. The 171 rows and $174,650 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.

BAKERSFIELD in 2010 is still a Kern County key

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city BAKERSFIELD in California totals $37.1 million ($37,074,806). $174,650 is 0.47% of that city book. A small share does not mean 2010 was quiet in Bakersfield; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. Do not add $174,650 to $37,074,806; the city book already contains this slice. Subtracting is valid: $37,074,806 − $174,650 = $36,900,156 in other cycles.

The stored city sits in Kern County, California. Wasco, Shafter, and Arvin are other FEC city strings; they are not folded into BAKERSFIELD. State CA stays on the citation so Bakersfield is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $37.1 million is the CA key only. Donor city is not recipient city: committees that received these gifts can file from anywhere in the FEC system.

Midterm coding on 171 Bakersfield receipts

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. 2010 is a midterm election cycle: a two-year FEC window labeled by its even year, without a presidential general on the ballot. Inside that window, Bakersfield, CA filers itemized $174,650 on 171 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,021 per itemized gift ($174,650 ÷ 171). 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 171-row extract for the 2010 tag — fewer lines than some other Bakersfield even-year files, still a receipt stack. The national 2010 hub still includes every other city. State pages for California still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Bakersfield × 2010. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. California campaign-finance pages already contain this city when the same extract is used; do not add $174,650 into the state hub a second time.

2010 versus other even-year Bakersfield tags

0.47% of $37,074,806 is the 2010 slice. Put another way, about 0.47% of Bakersfield, CA’s itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2010, and about 99.5% were not. Those percentages are $174,650 divided by $37,074,806 and $36,900,156 divided by $37,074,806. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.47%) and row volume (171 itemized gifts) are separate facts. This 2010 page is not the 2008 Bakersfield join. Each cycle tag is a separate filter on the same city string. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.47% as Bakersfield’s share of the 2010 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

171 rows are not a unique-person census

171 itemized contributions totaling $174,650 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 BAKERSFIELD. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Bakersfield versus other California cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,021 uses only the two numbers in the join: $174,650 and 171 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 $174,650 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed BAKERSFIELD is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Bakersfield.

Limits of the Bakersfield–2010 join

This page does not rank Bakersfield against other cities, does not call 2010 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in California. Two columns matched. A CA address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a California candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Bakersfield, CA hub or the live 2010 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls. A midterm label does not move BAKERSFIELD receipts into a state-legislature file. Those campaigns file under California law, outside this FEC join.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Bakersfield, CA, the 2010 election cycle, California campaign finance, and All FEC ties for the adjacent tables. Do not add 2008 and 2010 Bakersfield slices to reconstruct the city book; other cycles remain in the all-cycle total. 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 Bakersfield, CA donors give in the 2010 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Bakersfield, CA total $174,650 in the 2010 cycle, across 171 contribution records. The same city label totals $37,074,806 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2010 is 0.47% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is Bakersfield’s city book the same as the 2010 slice?

No. The city aggregate of $37,074,806 covers every cycle in the table for BAKERSFIELD. The 2010 filter is $174,650 from 171 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $36,900,156. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2010 slice.

Did 2010 Bakersfield donations stay in California races?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Bakersfield, CA; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $174,650 by office, state of the committee, or party. A CA city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of California races.

How many Bakersfield, CA contributions were itemized in 2010?

171 itemized contribution records sum to $174,650. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,021 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.