La Jolla, CA political money — 2012 cycle

2012 receipts from La Jolla, CA donors

The join keeps donor city La Jolla in California and election cycle 2012. The match is $414,602 across 330 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $71,515,979. 2012 therefore accounts for 0.6% of La Jolla, CA itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $71,101,377 (99.4%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of La Jolla, CA. That hub mixes 2012 with every other even-year window filed under LA JOLLA. It is also not a restatement of the 2012 election cycle hub, which mixes La Jolla, CA with every other donor city in the United States. The 330 rows and $414,602 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. La Jolla, CA here is the string that survived aggregation as LA JOLLA in CA. 2012 is a presidential FEC cycle: a two-year window that includes a presidential general election. This page does not split the $414,602 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 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 $414,602 from 2012 and the $71,101,377 from every other cycle in the same city file. California campaign-finance pages still mix La Jolla with every other city in California.

The stored city sits in a coastal community in San Diego County. San Diego, Del Mar, and Pacific Beach are not rolled into LA JOLLA. State CA stays on the citation so La Jolla is not treated as a neighborhood recode of San Diego. A large city total does not mean 2012 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2012 was small. For La Jolla, CA, the city stack is $71,515,979 while this cycle is $414,602 (0.6%). Use the city hub to see La Jolla, CA without a year filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically La Jolla 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, La Jolla, CA donors itemized $414,602 on 330 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,256 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 La Jolla × 2012. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures, party coordinated spends, and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 330 itemized rows is a thicker file than many suburb joins, still a receipt count rather than a unique-person census. Repeat givers and office addresses sit in the same 330-line stack. Adjacent pages for La Jolla, CA, 2012 election cycle, and California campaign finance keep those broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only.

A modest cut of the La Jolla stack

0.6% of $71,515,979 is a modest slice. Most of the La Jolla, CA aggregate — $71,101,377 — sits in other cycles. Put another way, about 0.6% of La Jolla, CA's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2012, and about 99.4% were not. Those percentages are $414,602 divided by $71,515,979 and $71,101,377 divided by $71,515,979. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.6%) and row volume (330 itemized gifts) are separate facts. A modest slice of citywide dollars can sit next to a thicker contribution file than many suburb joins; 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 0.6% as La Jolla'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

330 itemized contributions totaling $414,602 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 LA JOLLA. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of La Jolla versus other California cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,256 uses only the two numbers in the join: $414,602 and 330 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 $414,602 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. Unitemized gifts and California state-office filings sit outside $414,602.

City of the contributor, not the recipient

This page does not rank La Jolla 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. A candidate who lives in La Jolla can raise money from other cities; those gifts are not this join.

City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed LA JOLLA is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood or a nearby suburb such as San Diego proper is not recoded into La Jolla. Treat 330 as lines that stored this string in 2012. See La Jolla, CA, the 2012 election cycle, California campaign finance, and All FEC ties for the adjacent tables. Figures are FEC itemized individual contribution aggregates. They are not federal spending awards and they do not fund USAspending totals. If the live hub disagrees, the newer FEC extract controls.

Questions

How much did La Jolla, CA donors give in the 2012 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing La Jolla, CA total $414,602 in the 2012 cycle, across 330 contribution records. The same city label totals $71,515,979 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2012 is 0.6% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the La Jolla, CA city total only for 2012?

No. The city aggregate of $71,515,979 covers every cycle in the table for LA JOLLA. The 2012 filter is $414,602 from 330 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $71,101,377. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2012 slice.

Did La Jolla, CA 2012 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 $414,602 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 2012?

330 itemized contribution records sum to $414,602. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,256 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.