Fresno, CA political money — 2012 cycle

Joining donor city Fresno with cycle 2012

The join keeps donor city Fresno in California and election cycle 2012. The match is $448,162 across 168 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $46,129,402. 2012 therefore accounts for 0.97% of Fresno, CA itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $45,681,240 (99.0%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Fresno, CA. That hub mixes 2012 with every other even-year window filed under FRESNO. It is also not a restatement of the 2012 election cycle hub, which mixes Fresno, CA with every other donor city in the United States. The 168 rows and $448,162 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. Fresno, CA here is the string that survived aggregation as FRESNO in CA. 2012 is a presidential FEC cycle: a two-year window that includes a presidential general election. This page does not split the $448,162 by office, party, or candidate. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

Fresno, CA across every cycle in the aggregate

The city aggregate for Fresno, CA is $46,129,402 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 $448,162 from 2012 and the $45,681,240 from every other cycle in the same city file. California campaign-finance pages still mix Fresno 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 Fresno, CA, the city stack is $46,129,402 while this cycle is $448,162 (0.97%). Use the city hub to see Fresno, CA without a year filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Fresno in 2012. Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

2012 as a two-year FEC window

The 2012 election cycle is a two-year FEC reporting window labeled by its even year. Inside that window, Fresno, CA donors itemized $448,162 on 168 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $2,668 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 Fresno × 2012. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures, party coordinated spends, and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 168 itemized contribution rows is a modest file. A few large receipts can still move the mean without this page listing them. Adjacent pages for Fresno, CA, 2012 election cycle, and California campaign finance keep those broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only.

Share of $46,129,402 sitting in 2012

0.97% of $46,129,402 is a modest slice. Fresno, CA remains a multi-cycle file; 2012 is one filter on that stack. Put another way, about 0.97% of Fresno, CA's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2012, and about 99.0% were not. Those percentages are $448,162 divided by $46,129,402 and $45,681,240 divided by $46,129,402. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.97%) and row volume (168 itemized gifts) are separate facts. A modest slice of citywide dollars can sit next to a modest 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 0.97% as Fresno's share of the 2012 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

168 contribution records from one city-cycle pair

168 itemized contributions totaling $448,162 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 FRESNO. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Fresno versus other California cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $2,668 uses only the two numbers in the join: $448,162 and 168 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 $448,162 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee.

Limits of a city-by-cycle table

This page does not rank Fresno 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 Fresno, 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 Fresno, CA donors give in the 2012 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Fresno, CA total $448,162 in the 2012 cycle, across 168 contribution records. The same city label totals $46,129,402 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2012 is 0.97% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Fresno, CA city total only for 2012?

No. The city aggregate of $46,129,402 covers every cycle in the table for FRESNO. The 2012 filter is $448,162 from 168 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $45,681,240. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2012 slice.

Did Fresno, CA 2012 donations stay in California?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Fresno, CA; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $448,162 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 Fresno, CA contributions were itemized in 2012?

168 itemized contribution records sum to $448,162. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $2,668 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.