Long Beach, CA political money — 2012 cycle

2012 receipts from Long Beach, CA donors

The join keeps donor city Long Beach in California and election cycle 2012. The match is $1,096,958 across 79 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $53,135,454. 2012 therefore accounts for 2.1% of Long Beach, CA itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $52,038,496 (97.9%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Long Beach, CA. That hub mixes 2012 with every other even-year window filed under LONG BEACH. It is also not a restatement of the 2012 election cycle hub, which mixes Long Beach, CA with every other donor city in the United States. The 79 rows and $1,096,958 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. Long Beach, CA here is the string that survived aggregation as LONG BEACH in CA. 2012 is a presidential FEC cycle: a two-year window that includes a presidential general election. This page does not split the $1,096,958 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 Long Beach, CA is $53,135,454 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 $1,096,958 from 2012 and the $52,038,496 from every other cycle in the same city file. California campaign-finance pages still mix Long Beach 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 Long Beach, CA, the city stack is $53,135,454 while this cycle is $1,096,958 (2.1%). Use the city hub to see Long Beach, CA without a year filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Long Beach 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, Long Beach, CA donors itemized $1,096,958 on 79 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $13,886 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 Long Beach × 2012. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures, party coordinated spends, and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 79 itemized rows is a relatively sparse file. A small number of large gifts can move $1,096,958 without representing a broad local donor pool. Adjacent pages for Long Beach, CA, 2012 election cycle, and California campaign finance keep those broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only.

A modest cut of the Long Beach stack

2.1% of $53,135,454 is a modest slice. Most of the Long Beach, CA aggregate — $52,038,496 — sits in other cycles. Put another way, about 2.1% of Long Beach, CA's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2012, and about 97.9% were not. Those percentages are $1,096,958 divided by $53,135,454 and $52,038,496 divided by $53,135,454. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (2.1%) and row volume (79 itemized gifts) are separate facts. A modest slice of citywide dollars can sit next to a sparse 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 2.1% as Long Beach'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

79 itemized contributions totaling $1,096,958 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 LONG BEACH. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Long Beach versus other California cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $13,886 uses only the two numbers in the join: $1,096,958 and 79 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 $1,096,958 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee.

City of the contributor, not the recipient

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

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Long Beach, CA total $1,096,958 in the 2012 cycle, across 79 contribution records. The same city label totals $53,135,454 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2012 is 2.1% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Long Beach, CA city total only for 2012?

No. The city aggregate of $53,135,454 covers every cycle in the table for LONG BEACH. The 2012 filter is $1,096,958 from 79 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $52,038,496. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2012 slice.

Did Long Beach, CA 2012 donations stay in California?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Long Beach, CA; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $1,096,958 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 Long Beach, CA contributions were itemized in 2012?

79 itemized contribution records sum to $1,096,958. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $13,886 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.