Beverly Hills, CA political money — 2010 cycle

2010 receipts from Beverly Hills, CA donors

The join keeps donor city Beverly Hills in California and election cycle 2010. The match is $671,610 across 504 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $243,943,527. 2010 therefore accounts for 0.28% of Beverly Hills, CA itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $243,271,917 (99.7%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Beverly Hills, CA. That hub mixes 2010 with every other even-year window filed under BEVERLY HILLS. It is also not a restatement of the 2010 election cycle hub, which mixes Beverly Hills, CA with every other donor city in the United States. The 504 rows and $671,610 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.

FEC individual contribution files record the contributor's city as entered on the itemized receipt. Spellings, abbreviations, 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. 2010 is a midterm FEC cycle: a two-year window without a presidential general election. That calendar fact does not explain why Beverly Hills, CA donors itemized $671,610. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

The city hub still mixes other cycles

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 $671,610 from 2010 and the $243,271,917 from every other cycle in the same city file. California campaign-finance pages still mix Beverly Hills with every other city in California.

A large city total does not mean 2010 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2010 was small. For Beverly Hills, CA, the city stack is $243,943,527 while this cycle is $671,610 (0.28%). Use the city hub to see Beverly Hills, CA without a year filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Beverly Hills in 2010. Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

How a midterm cycle is coded at the FEC

The 2010 election cycle is a two-year FEC reporting window labeled by its even year. Inside that window, Beverly Hills, CA donors itemized $671,610 on 504 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,333 per itemized gift. That mean is an arithmetic average of rows, not a typical donor and not a median. A few large receipts can lift the mean while most rows sit far below it. This page does not publish a median or a unique-donor count.

The national 2010 hub still includes every other city. State pages for California still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Beverly Hills × 2010. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures, party coordinated spends, and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 504 itemized contribution rows is a busy but not enormous file. It is large enough that a handful of gifts cannot explain the entire dollar total. Adjacent pages for Beverly Hills, CA, 2010 election cycle, and California campaign finance keep those broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only.

A thin cut of the Beverly Hills stack

0.28% of $243,943,527 is a thin slice. Most of the Beverly Hills, CA aggregate — $243,271,917 — sits in other cycles. Put another way, about 0.28% of Beverly Hills, CA's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2010, and about 99.7% were not. Those percentages are $671,610 divided by $243,943,527 and $243,271,917 divided by $243,943,527. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.28%) and row volume (504 itemized gifts) are separate facts. A thin slice of citywide dollars can sit next to a busy contribution file; those labels describe this pair, not other cities. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.28% as Beverly Hills' share of the 2010 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

504 contribution records from one city-cycle pair

504 itemized contributions totaling $671,610 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 California cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,333 uses only the two numbers in the join: $671,610 and 504 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 $671,610 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee.

Limits of a city-by-cycle table

This page does not rank Beverly Hills 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. The city of the contributor is not the city of the campaign. A CA address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a California candidate.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Beverly Hills, CA, the 2010 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 2010 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Beverly Hills, CA total $671,610 in the 2010 cycle, across 504 contribution records. The same city label totals $243,943,527 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2010 is 0.28% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Beverly Hills, CA city total only for 2010?

No. The city aggregate of $243,943,527 covers every cycle in the table for BEVERLY HILLS. The 2010 filter is $671,610 from 504 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $243,271,917. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2010 slice.

Did Beverly Hills, CA 2010 donations stay in California?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Beverly Hills, CA; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $671,610 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 Beverly Hills, CA contributions were itemized in 2010?

504 itemized contribution records sum to $671,610. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,333 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.