Beverly Hills, CA political money — 2012 cycle

2012 receipts from Beverly Hills, CA donors

The join keeps donor city Beverly Hills in California and election cycle 2012. The match is $1,462,682 across 814 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $243,943,527. 2012 therefore accounts for 0.60% of Beverly Hills, CA itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $242,480,845 (99.4%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Beverly Hills, CA. That hub mixes 2012 with every other even-year window filed under BEVERLY HILLS. It is also not a restatement of the 2012 election cycle hub, which mixes Beverly Hills, CA with every other donor city in the United States. The 814 rows and $1,462,682 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. 2012 is a presidential FEC cycle: a two-year window that includes a presidential general election. This page does not split the $1,462,682 by office, party, or candidate. 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 $1,462,682 from 2012 and the $242,480,845 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 2012 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2012 was small. For Beverly Hills, CA, the city stack is $243,943,527 while this cycle is $1,462,682 (0.60%). 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 2012. Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

How a presidential cycle is coded at the FEC

The 2012 election cycle is a two-year FEC reporting window labeled by its even year. Inside that window, Beverly Hills, CA donors itemized $1,462,682 on 814 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,797 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 2012 hub still includes every other city. State pages for California still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Beverly Hills × 2012. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures, party coordinated spends, and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 814 itemized rows is a busy but not enormous file. It is large enough that a handful of gifts cannot explain the entire $1,462,682. Adjacent pages for Beverly Hills, CA, 2012 election cycle, and California campaign finance keep those broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only.

A small cut of the Beverly Hills stack

0.60% of $243,943,527 is a small slice. The city hub is mostly other even-year windows, totaling $242,480,845. Put another way, about 0.60% of Beverly Hills, CA's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2012, and about 99.4% were not. Those percentages are $1,462,682 divided by $243,943,527 and $242,480,845 divided by $243,943,527. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.60%) and row volume (814 itemized gifts) are separate facts. A small 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 0.60% as Beverly Hills's share of the 2012 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

Mean gift size is not a typical donor

814 itemized contributions totaling $1,462,682 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 $1,797 uses only the two numbers in the join: $1,462,682 and 814 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 $1,462,682 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee.

City of the contributor, not the recipient

This page does not rank Beverly Hills against other cities, does not call 2012 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 2012 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 2012 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Beverly Hills, CA total $1,462,682 in the 2012 cycle, across 814 contribution records. The same city label totals $243,943,527 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2012 is 0.60% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Beverly Hills, CA city total only for 2012?

No. The city aggregate of $243,943,527 covers every cycle in the table for BEVERLY HILLS. The 2012 filter is $1,462,682 from 814 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $242,480,845. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2012 slice.

Did Beverly Hills, CA 2012 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 $1,462,682 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 2012?

814 itemized contribution records sum to $1,462,682. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,797 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.