Hillsborough, CA political money — 2010 cycle

Two dimensions: Hillsborough, CA and 2010

Two dimensions define this URL: donor city Hillsborough, CA and election cycle 2010. Where both are true, FEC itemized individual receipts add to $213,445 across 183 lines. The city dimension alone is $38.5 million. The cycle dimension alone is a national file that is not in these facts. Only the overlap is cited here.

Share of the city book: 0.6% ($213,445 ÷ $38,546,671). Remainder in other cycles: $38,333,226 (99.4%). Those percentages use the city total as denominator. They are not Hillsborough, CA's share of California, not Hillsborough, CA's share of the national 2010 cycle, and not a turnout rate.

Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle. Treat 183 as rows. Treat $213,445 as itemized dollars with this city string and this cycle tag. Do not invent a unique-donor headcount. Do not invent recipient names.

$38,546,671 is the city book, not the cycle slice

City total $38,546,671 is every cycle under HILLSBOROUGH in CA. Cycle total $213,445 is 2010 only. Contribution count 183 is 2010 only. Missing from the packet: all-cycle row count, unique donors, party, office, and committee identifiers. Those omissions are why this prose does not rank neighborhoods or name recipients.

San Mateo County, California is geographic color, not an extra FEC field. The Commission stores the city string the committee keyed. If a filer used a suburb name among Burlingame, San Mateo, and Atherton, that money is on another city page. those Peninsula neighbors are separate FEC city keys and are not rolled into HILLSBOROUGH.

183 receipts in a midterm window

Cycle coding is mechanical. The Commission tags itemized receipts with a two-year even year. 183 HILLSBOROUGH lines received the 2010 tag in this aggregate and summed to $213,445. National volume for that tag is a different page.

Presidential cycles (2008, 2012) and midterm cycles (2010, 2014) are calendar types, not size ranks. This packet has one cycle: 2010, which is midterm. Adjacent Hillsborough, CA joins for other years are other URLs.

Donor city is an address field

No donor names are listed because the packet has none. Inventing names would be a fabrication. The 183 lines remain anonymous in this overlay. Committee names are likewise absent from the facts and absent from this prose.

$213,445 does not measure public opinion in San Mateo County, California. Itemized filers are a disclosure set, not a sample of residents. Mean $1,166 is a row average, not a resident average.

Repeat the filters in one sentence: contributor city HILLSBOROUGH, state CA, election cycle 2010, itemized dollars $213,445, itemized rows 183, all-cycle city dollars $38,546,671. Any citation that drops the cycle or drops the city is a different claim. 2010 is a midterm election cycle. That label is a two-year FEC window, not a reason the dollars moved and not a ranking of San Mateo County, California against other places.

Share math uses only these two dollars

Amended FEC reports can revise itemized totals. This JSON is a snapshot of one extract. Prefer live hub numbers when they differ. The relationship remains the same: city HILLSBOROUGH × cycle 2010.

Do not convert $213,445 into “support for California candidates.” Recipient geography is not in the facts. Do not convert 183 into “households.” Rows are receipts.

Neighboring city strings remain outside this join. Around Hillsborough, CA, filers also use labels such as Burlingame, San Mateo, and Atherton; those Peninsula neighbors are separate FEC city keys and are not rolled into HILLSBOROUGH. Those dollars, if any, sit on other city keys. Unitemized federal gifts, independent expenditures, PAC transfers, and California state-office filings sit outside $213,445 and outside $38,546,671. FEC.gov is the source; USAspending is a different statute and is not funded by these receipts.

Amended reports and extract vintage

Treat 0.6% as a filing-tag share inside one city key. Treat midterm as a calendar type. Treat San Mateo County, California as map color. None of those treatments adds a number that is missing from the packet.

The overlay is complete when a reader can say: Hillsborough, CA, 2010, $213,445 itemized, 183 lines, city book $38,546,671, source FEC.gov, not USAspending.

Arithmetic that stays inside the packet: $213,445 is 0.6% of $38,546,671; $38,333,226 is the other 99.4%; mean itemized line is about $1,166 ($213,445 ÷ 183). No unique-donor count, median, party split, or committee list is available here. Donor city is not recipient city. If the live Hillsborough, CA hub or the live 2010 cycle hub disagrees with this snapshot, the newer FEC extract controls.

Questions

How much did Hillsborough, CA donors give in 2010?

Itemized FEC individual contributions listing contributor city HILLSBOROUGH and cycle 2010 total $213,445 across 183 receipts in this LobbyVault extract. That is the city-cycle join, not the all-cycle Hillsborough, CA book of $38.5 million. Unitemized gifts and California state-office filings sit outside both figures.

Is $213,445 all of Hillsborough's federal political money?

No. $38.5 million ($38,546,671) is the all-cycle itemized book for contributor city HILLSBOROUGH in CA. The 2010 slice is $213,445, 0.6% of that book. Other cycles hold $38,333,226. 183 is a 2010 receipt count, not a unique-donor count. The city hub holds the stack; this page holds the year.

Did Hillsborough, CA 2010 donations stay in California?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Hillsborough, CA; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $213,445 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 Hillsborough, CA contributions were itemized in 2010?

183 itemized contribution records sum to $213,445. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,166 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.