Hillsborough, CA political money — 2014 cycle

How Hillsborough, CA meets the 2014 election cycle

$124,548 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city HILLSBOROUGH with state CA, and election cycle 2014. The match is $124,548 across 138 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $38,546,671. 2014 therefore accounts for 0.32% of Hillsborough, CA itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $38,422,123 (99.7%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Hillsborough, CA. That hub mixes 2014 with every other even-year window filed under HILLSBOROUGH. It is also not a restatement of the 2014 election cycle hub, which mixes Hillsborough, CA with every other donor city. The 138 rows and $124,548 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.

The Hillsborough, CA side of the join

The city aggregate for Hillsborough, CA is $38,546,671 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 $124,548 from 2014 and the $38,422,123 from every other cycle in the same city file. California campaign-finance pages still mix Hillsborough with every other city in CA.

The stored city is Hillsborough in San Mateo County, California. Hillsborough, North Carolina or New Jersey would be other state keys. Burlingame and San Mateo are neighboring California strings. Keep CA on every citation. $38,546,671 is the CA key only. A large city total does not mean 2014 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2014 was small. For Hillsborough, CA, the city stack is $38,546,671 while this cycle is $124,548 (0.32%). Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

The 2014 cycle side for California filers in Hillsborough

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2014 cycle is the Commission’s cycle tag on itemized receipts, not a calendar year of January gifts only. 2014 is a midterm election cycle. That calendar label does not explain $124,548. Inside that window, Hillsborough, CA donors itemized $124,548 on 138 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $903 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.

One hundred thirty-eight receipts totaling $124,548 against a $38,546,671 Hillsborough book is about 0.32% of city dollars. One hundred thirty-eight 2014 lines is a relatively dense midterm file for this Peninsula string. Row count is not unique-person count. The national 2014 hub still includes every other city. State pages for California still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Hillsborough × 2014. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted.

2014 line volume in Hillsborough’s city book

0.32% of $38,546,671 is a small slice of the published city book. The city hub is mostly other even-year windows, totaling $38,422,123. Put another way, about 0.32% of Hillsborough, CA itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2014, and about 99.7% were not. Those percentages are $124,548 divided by $38,546,671 and $38,422,123 divided by $38,546,671. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.32%) and row volume (138 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 0.32% as Hillsborough’s share of the 2014 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables.

What $124,548 does not measure

138 itemized contributions totaling $124,548 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 HILLSBOROUGH. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Hillsborough versus other California cities: this join has one geography and one cycle. Mean gift size of about $903 uses only $124,548 and 138 rows.

$124,548 is itemized federal individual contributions with contributor city HILLSBOROUGH. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold sit outside it. State-office campaigns in California file under state law and sit outside it. A candidate who lives in Hillsborough can raise money from other cities; those gifts are not this join. City labels are filer-entered. LobbyVault does not rewrite the city field into a Census place.

Reading Hillsborough and 2014 without mixing tables

This page does not rank Hillsborough against other cities, does not call 2014 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in California. Two columns matched. A CA address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a California candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Hillsborough, CA hub or the live 2014 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls.

See Hillsborough, CA, the 2014 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. Canonical path is /ties/ca-hillsborough-2014-donations/.

Questions

What is the Hillsborough, CA × 2014 FEC join total?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Hillsborough, CA total $124,548 in the 2014 cycle, across 138 contribution records. The same city label totals $38,546,671 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2014 is 0.32% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Hillsborough, CA city total only for 2014?

No. The city aggregate of $38,546,671 covers every cycle in the table for HILLSBOROUGH. The 2014 filter is $124,548 from 138 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $38,422,123. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2014 slice.

Did Hillsborough, CA 2014 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 $124,548 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 2014?

138 itemized contribution records sum to $124,548. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $903 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.