Beverly Hills, CA political money — 2008 cycle

Beverly Hills, CA × 2008: the join

$1,179,722 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city BEVERLY HILLS with state CA, and election cycle 2008. The match is $1,179,722 across 751 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $243,943,527. 2008 therefore accounts for 0.48% of Beverly Hills, CA itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $242,763,805 (99.52%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Beverly Hills, CA. That hub mixes 2008 with every other even-year window filed under BEVERLY HILLS. It is also not a restatement of the 2008 election cycle hub, which mixes Beverly Hills, CA with every other donor city in the United States. The 751 rows and $1,179,722 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. Beverly Hills, CA here is the string that survived aggregation as BEVERLY HILLS in CA. 2008 is a presidential FEC cycle: a two-year window that includes a presidential general election. That calendar fact does not explain why Beverly Hills, CA donors itemized $1,179,722. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

All-cycle Beverly Hills, CA versus this window

The city aggregate for Beverly Hills, CA is $243,943,527 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 $1,179,722 from 2008 and the $242,763,805 from every other cycle in the same city file. State-level CA campaign-finance pages still mix Beverly Hills with every other city in CA.

The stored city is the City of Beverly Hills in Los Angeles County, California. Los Angeles, West Hollywood, and Santa Monica are not rolled into BEVERLY HILLS. State CA stays on the citation so Beverly Hills, CA is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $243,943,527 is the CA key only. For Beverly Hills, CA, the city stack is $243,943,527 while this cycle is $1,179,722 (0.48%). Use the city hub for Beverly Hills, CA without a year filter; use this tie for Beverly Hills in 2008. Donor city is not recipient city: committees that received these gifts can file anywhere in the FEC system. A 90210 ZIP on a receipt does not recode a LOS ANGELES city string into Beverly Hills.

What the 2008 presidential window holds for Beverly Hills

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2008 cycle is the Commission's cycle tag on itemized receipts, not a calendar year of January gifts only. Inside that window, Beverly Hills, CA donors itemized $1,179,722 on 751 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,571 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 2008 hub still includes every other city. State pages for CA still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Beverly Hills × 2008. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. A suburb-scale row file (751 receipts) with mean near $1,571 is still itemized Schedule A, not a property-tax roll. $1,179,722 is the overlap only. Nearby city strings are other pages. This URL is the intersection only.

A 0.48% cut of the Beverly Hills stack

0.48% of $243,943,527 is a slice of the city book, not a ranking against other cities. Put another way, about 0.48% of Beverly Hills, CA's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2008, and about 99.52% were not. Those percentages are $1,179,722 divided by $243,943,527 and $242,763,805 divided by $243,943,527. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.48%) and row volume (751 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 0.48% as Beverly Hills's share of the 2008 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts. Los Angeles County is a geography note for readers; it is not a Census population weight on $1,179,722.

What $1,179,722 does not measure

751 itemized contributions totaling $1,179,722 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 BEVERLY HILLS. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Beverly Hills versus other CA cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,571 uses only the two numbers in the join: $1,179,722 and 751 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 $1,179,722 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed BEVERLY HILLS is counted; a nearby suburb they typed instead is not recoded into Beverly Hills.

Reading Beverly Hills and 2008 together without mixing tables

This page does not rank Beverly Hills 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 Beverly Hills, CA hub or the live 2008 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Beverly Hills, CA, the 2008 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 Beverly Hills, CA donors give in the 2008 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Beverly Hills, CA total $1,179,722 in the 2008 cycle, across 751 contribution records. The same city label totals $243,943,527 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2008 is 0.48% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Beverly Hills, CA city total only for 2008?

No. The city aggregate of $243,943,527 covers every cycle in the table for BEVERLY HILLS. The 2008 filter is $1,179,722 from 751 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $242,763,805. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2008 slice.

Did Beverly Hills, CA 2008 donations stay in CA?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Beverly Hills, CA; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $1,179,722 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 Beverly Hills, CA contributions were itemized in 2008?

751 itemized contribution records sum to $1,179,722. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,571 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.