Bakersfield, CA political money — 2014 cycle

The 2014 overlap for Bakersfield, CA

$244,745 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city BAKERSFIELD with state CA, and election cycle 2014. The match is $244,745 across 144 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $37,074,806. 2014 therefore accounts for 0.66% of Bakersfield, CA itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $36,830,061 (99.34%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Bakersfield, CA. That hub mixes 2014 with every other even-year window filed under BAKERSFIELD. It is also not a restatement of the 2014 election cycle hub, which mixes Bakersfield, CA with every other donor city in the United States. The 144 rows and $244,745 exist only where both filters are true. Correlation is not causation: a city code plus a cycle year does not prove why someone gave.

FEC individual contribution files record the contributor's city as entered on the itemized receipt. Spellings and suburb-versus-city choices can split a metro across multiple city pages. Bakersfield, CA here is the string that survived aggregation as BAKERSFIELD in CA. 2014 is a midterm FEC cycle: a two-year window that includes congressional general elections without a presidential contest on the federal calendar. That calendar fact does not explain why Bakersfield, CA donors itemized $244,745. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

What the Bakersfield, CA city book includes

The city aggregate for Bakersfield, CA is $37,074,806 in itemized individual contributions. That figure is the running total for this city label across cycles, not a single-year census and not a count of unique residents. It includes the $244,745 from 2014 and the $36,830,061 from every other cycle in the same city file. State-level CA campaign-finance pages still mix Bakersfield with every other city in CA.

The stored city is the City of Bakersfield in Kern County, California. Fresno, Visalia, and Los Angeles are not rolled into BAKERSFIELD. State CA stays on the citation so Bakersfield, CA is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $37,074,806 is the CA key only. For Bakersfield, CA, the city stack is $37,074,806 while this cycle is $244,745 (0.66%). Use the city hub for Bakersfield, CA without a year filter; use this tie for Bakersfield in 2014. Donor city is not recipient city: committees that received these gifts can file anywhere in the FEC system. 2014 is a federal midterm window, not a finding about Kern County turnout.

2014 as an FEC cycle tag, not a local election

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2014 cycle is the Commission's cycle tag on itemized receipts, not a calendar year of January gifts only. Inside that window, Bakersfield, CA donors itemized $244,745 on 144 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,700 per itemized gift. That mean is an arithmetic average of rows, not a typical donor and not a median. This page does not publish a median or a unique-donor count.

The national 2014 hub still includes every other city. State pages for CA still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Bakersfield × 2014. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 144 itemized contribution records produced $244,745. Mean about $1,700 per row is division, not a median and not a unique-donor average. This URL is the intersection only.

Dollar share is not row share

0.66% of $37,074,806 is a slice of the city book, not a ranking against other cities. Put another way, about 0.66% of Bakersfield, CA's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2014, and about 99.34% were not. Those percentages are $244,745 divided by $37,074,806 and $36,830,061 divided by $37,074,806. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.66%) and row volume (144 itemized gifts) are separate facts. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.66% as Bakersfield's share of the 2014 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts. Kern County is a geography note for readers; it is not a Census population weight on $244,745.

Itemized rows are not unique donors

144 itemized contributions totaling $244,745 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 CA cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,700 uses only the two numbers in the join: $244,745 and 144 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 page does not break $244,745 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed BAKERSFIELD is counted; a nearby suburb they typed instead is not recoded into Bakersfield.

Correlation is not causation on this tie

This page does not rank Bakersfield against other cities and does not treat itemized giving as public opinion in CA. Two columns matched. Contributor city is not campaign city. A CA address does not mean the money supported a CA candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Bakersfield, CA hub or the live 2014 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Bakersfield, CA, the 2014 election cycle, California campaign finance, and all FEC ties for the adjacent tables. 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 2014 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Bakersfield, CA total $244,745 in the 2014 cycle, across 144 contribution records. The same city label totals $37,074,806 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2014 is 0.66% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Bakersfield, CA city total only for 2014?

No. The city aggregate of $37,074,806 covers every cycle in the table for BAKERSFIELD. The 2014 filter is $244,745 from 144 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $36,830,061. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2014 slice.

Did Bakersfield, CA 2014 donations stay in CA?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Bakersfield, CA; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $244,745 by office, state of the committee, or party. A CA city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of CA races.

How many Bakersfield, CA contributions were itemized in 2014?

144 itemized contribution records sum to $244,745. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,700 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.