Long Beach, CA political money — 2014 cycle

2014 receipts from Long Beach, CA donors

The join keeps donor city Long Beach in California and election cycle 2014. The match is $384,450 across 55 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $53,135,454. 2014 therefore accounts for 0.7% of Long Beach, CA itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $52,751,004 (99.3%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Long Beach, CA. That hub mixes 2014 with every other even-year window filed under LONG BEACH. It is also not a restatement of the 2014 election cycle hub, which mixes Long Beach, CA with every other donor city in the United States. The 55 rows and $384,450 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. 2014 is a midterm FEC cycle: a two-year window labeled by its even year, without a presidential general on the ballot. This page does not split the $384,450 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 $384,450 from 2014 and the $52,751,004 from every other cycle in the same city file. California campaign-finance pages still mix Long Beach with every other city in California.

The stored city sits in Los Angeles County, California. Los Angeles, Signal Hill, and Huntington Beach are not rolled into LONG BEACH. State CA stays on the citation so Long Beach is not merged with Long Beach, New York or another same-named place. A large city total does not mean 2014 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2014 was small. For Long Beach, CA, the city stack is $53,135,454 while this cycle is $384,450 (0.7%). 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 2014. Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

How a midterm cycle is coded at the FEC

The 2014 election cycle is a two-year FEC reporting window labeled by its even year. Inside that window, Long Beach, CA donors itemized $384,450 on 55 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $6,990 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 2014 hub still includes every other city. State pages for California still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Long Beach × 2014. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures, party coordinated spends, and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 55 itemized rows is a sparse file. A small number of large gifts can move $384,450 without representing a broad local donor pool. Adjacent pages for Long Beach, CA, 2014 election cycle, and California campaign finance keep those broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only.

A modest cut of the Long Beach stack

0.7% of $53,135,454 is a modest slice. Most of the Long Beach, CA aggregate — $52,751,004 — sits in other cycles. Put another way, about 0.7% of Long Beach, CA's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2014, and about 99.3% were not. Those percentages are $384,450 divided by $53,135,454 and $52,751,004 divided by $53,135,454. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.7%) and row volume (55 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 0.7% as Long Beach's share of the 2014 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

Mean gift size is not a typical donor

55 itemized contributions totaling $384,450 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 $6,990 uses only the two numbers in the join: $384,450 and 55 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 $384,450 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. Unitemized gifts and California state-office filings sit outside $384,450.

City of the contributor, not the recipient

This page does not rank Long Beach 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. 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 Long Beach can raise money from other cities; those gifts are not this join.

City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed LONG BEACH is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood or a nearby suburb such as Los Angeles is not recoded into Long Beach. Treat 55 as lines that stored this string in 2014. See Long Beach, CA, the 2014 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 Long Beach, CA donors give in the 2014 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Long Beach, CA total $384,450 in the 2014 cycle, across 55 contribution records. The same city label totals $53,135,454 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2014 is 0.7% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Long Beach, CA city total only for 2014?

No. The city aggregate of $53,135,454 covers every cycle in the table for LONG BEACH. The 2014 filter is $384,450 from 55 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $52,751,004. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2014 slice.

Did Long Beach, CA 2014 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 $384,450 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 2014?

55 itemized contribution records sum to $384,450. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $6,990 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.