La Jolla, CA political money — 2010 cycle

How La Jolla, CA meets the 2010 election cycle

$147,510 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city LA JOLLA with state CA, and election cycle 2010. The match is $147,510 across 138 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $71,515,979. 2010 therefore accounts for 0.21% of La Jolla, CA itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $71,368,469 (99.8%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of La Jolla, CA. That hub mixes 2010 with every other even-year window filed under LA JOLLA. It is also not a restatement of the 2010 election cycle hub, which mixes La Jolla, CA with every other donor city in the United States. The 138 rows and $147,510 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. La Jolla is a San Diego neighborhood frequently stored apart from SAN DIEGO. Del Mar and San Diego proper are other California city keys. 2010 is a midterm election cycle. That calendar fact does not explain why La Jolla, CA donors itemized $147,510. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

The La Jolla, CA side of the join

The city aggregate for La Jolla, CA is $71,515,979 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 $147,510 from 2010 and the $71,368,469 from every other cycle in the same city file. California campaign-finance pages still mix La Jolla with every other city in California.

State CA stays on the citation so La Jolla, CA is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $71,515,979 is the CA key only. A large city total does not mean 2010 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2010 was small. For La Jolla, CA, the city stack is $71,515,979 while this cycle is $147,510 (0.21%). Use the city hub to see La Jolla, CA without a year filter.

The 2010 cycle side for California filers in La Jolla

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2010 cycle is the Commission's cycle tag on itemized receipts, not a calendar year of January gifts only. Inside that window, La Jolla, CA donors itemized $147,510 on 138 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,069 per itemized gift. That mean is an arithmetic average of rows, not a typical donor and not a median.

The national 2010 hub still includes every other city. State pages for California still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates La Jolla × 2010. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. 138 itemized rows is a mid-size itemized file. Adjacent pages for La Jolla, CA, 2010 election cycle, and California campaign finance keep those broader cuts.

2010 versus the rest of La Jolla

0.21% of $71,515,979 is a thin slice of the citywide book. The city hub is mostly other even-year windows, totaling $71,368,469. Put another way, about 0.21% of La Jolla, CA's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2010, and about 99.8% were not. Those percentages are $147,510 divided by $71,515,979 and $71,368,469 divided by $71,515,979.

Dollar share (0.21%) 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 0.21% as La Jolla's share of the 2010 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

Caveats on a geographic-cycle join

This page does not rank La Jolla 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. See La Jolla, CA, the 2010 election cycle, California campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Dollar figures are FEC itemized individual contribution aggregates. They are not federal spending awards.

Questions

How much did La Jolla, CA donors give in the 2010 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing La Jolla, CA total $147,510 in the 2010 cycle, across 138 contribution records. The same city label totals $71,515,979 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2010 is 0.21% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the La Jolla, CA city total only for 2010?

No. The city aggregate of $71,515,979 covers every cycle in the table for LA JOLLA. The 2010 filter is $147,510 from 138 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $71,368,469. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2010 slice.

Did La Jolla, CA 2010 donations stay in California?

Not necessarily. Donor city is La Jolla, CA; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $147,510 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 La Jolla, CA contributions were itemized in 2010?

138 itemized contribution records sum to $147,510. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,069 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.