Los Altos Hills, CA political money — 2012 cycle

How Los Altos Hills, CA meets the 2012 election cycle

$128,430 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city LOS ALTOS HILLS with state CA, and election cycle 2012. The match is $128,430 across 43 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $80,477,479. 2012 therefore accounts for 0.16% of Los Altos Hills, CA itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $80,349,049 (99.8%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Los Altos Hills, CA. That hub mixes 2012 with every other even-year window filed under LOS ALTOS HILLS. It is also not a restatement of the 2012 election cycle hub, which mixes Los Altos Hills, CA with every other donor city. The 43 rows and $128,430 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 Los Altos Hills, CA side of the join

The city aggregate for Los Altos Hills, CA is $80,477,479 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 $128,430 from 2012 and the $80,349,049 from every other cycle in the same city file. California campaign-finance pages still mix Los Altos Hills with every other city in CA.

The stored city is Los Altos Hills in Santa Clara County, California. Los Altos without Hills is a different city string when filers typed it. Palo Alto and Mountain View are neighboring keys, not this total. Keep CA on the citation. $80,477,479 is the CA key only. A large city total does not mean 2012 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2012 was small. For Los Altos Hills, CA, the city stack is $80,477,479 while this cycle is $128,430 (0.16%). Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

The 2012 cycle side for California filers in Los Altos Hills

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2012 cycle is the Commission’s cycle tag on itemized receipts, not a calendar year of January gifts only. 2012 is a presidential election cycle. That calendar label does not explain $128,430. Inside that window, Los Altos Hills, CA donors itemized $128,430 on 43 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $2,987 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.

Forty-three receipts totaling $128,430 is a thin 2012 line file with a high dollars-per-line ratio against an $80,477,479 city book — about 0.16%. Forty-three rows is not a Peninsula census. The packet has no unique-donor count for this join. The national 2012 hub still includes every other city. State pages for California still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Los Altos Hills × 2012. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted.

2012 as a high-mean, low-row Peninsula cut

0.16% of $80,477,479 is a small slice of the published city book. The city hub is mostly other even-year windows, totaling $80,349,049. Put another way, about 0.16% of Los Altos Hills, CA itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2012, and about 99.8% were not. Those percentages are $128,430 divided by $80,477,479 and $80,349,049 divided by $80,477,479. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.16%) and row volume (43 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 0.16% as Los Altos Hills’s share of the 2012 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables.

What $128,430 does not measure

43 itemized contributions totaling $128,430 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 LOS ALTOS HILLS. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Los Altos Hills versus other California cities: this join has one geography and one cycle. Mean gift size of about $2,987 uses only $128,430 and 43 rows.

$128,430 is itemized federal individual contributions with contributor city LOS ALTOS HILLS. 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 Los Altos Hills 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 Los Altos Hills and 2012 without mixing tables

This page does not rank Los Altos Hills 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. 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 Los Altos Hills, CA hub or the live 2012 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls.

See Los Altos Hills, 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. Canonical path is /ties/ca-los-altos-hills-2012-donations/.

Questions

How much did Los Altos Hills, CA itemize in 2012?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Los Altos Hills, CA total $128,430 in the 2012 cycle, across 43 contribution records. The same city label totals $80,477,479 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2012 is 0.16% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Los Altos Hills, CA city total only for 2012?

No. The city aggregate of $80,477,479 covers every cycle in the table for LOS ALTOS HILLS. The 2012 filter is $128,430 from 43 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $80,349,049. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2012 slice.

Did Los Altos Hills, CA 2012 donations stay in California?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Los Altos Hills, CA; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $128,430 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 Los Altos Hills, CA contributions were itemized in 2012?

43 itemized contribution records sum to $128,430. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $2,987 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.