Newport Beach, CA political money in the 2010 election cycle

How Newport Beach meets the 2010 election cycle

$270,286 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city NEWPORT BEACH with state CA, and election cycle 2010. LobbyVault stores that join so a reader can open the Newport Beach, CA city hub and the 2010 election cycle hub without treating either page as a substitute for this one. The city hub answers how much itemized money this city string has produced across cycles. The cycle hub answers how much itemized money that two-year federal window produced nationally. This page answers only the intersection: Newport Beach, CA in 2010.

146 is a receipt count for that intersection, not a unique-donor census. A person who gave twice is two lines. A PAC or joint-fundraising address that stored NEWPORT BEACH is in the same city field as a household street. Arithmetic mean per line is about $1,851 ($270,286 ÷ 146). That mean is division, not a typical resident and not a median.

2010 is a midterm election cycle. That calendar label does not explain $270,286. This packet does not carry party splits, committee names, or occupation mix for the join. Cite the two packet dollars — $270,286 for the 2010 slice and $91.1 million for the Newport Beach, CA book — and stop before assigning motive.

The Newport Beach, CA side of the join

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city NEWPORT BEACH in California totals $91.1 million ($91,059,268). $270,286 is 0.3% of that city book. A small share does not mean 2010 was quiet in Newport Beach; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. The remaining $90,788,982 in the city book sits in other even-year tags. The live Newport Beach, CA table is the place to compare other years. This snapshot lists one cycle.

The stored city sits in Orange County, California. Irvine and Costa Mesa are separate FEC city keys and are not rolled into NEWPORT BEACH. State CA stays on the citation so Newport Beach is not merged with a same-named place in another state. A repeated city name under another state code is a different FEC key. $91.1 million is the CA key only. Donor city is not recipient city: committees that received these gifts can file from anywhere in the FEC system.

The 2010 cycle side for California filers in Newport Beach

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2010 cycle is not a calendar year of January gifts only; it is the Commission's cycle tag on itemized receipts. 146 Newport Beach, CA lines in that window produced $270,286. National 2010 activity — every city — lives on the 2010 election cycle hub, not here. A midterm label marks the even-year window that includes a congressional midterm, not a finding about turnout in Newport Beach.

California campaign-finance pages roll up the state, including cities that are not Newport Beach. Do not add $270,286 to a state total from that hub; the state page already contains this city when the same extract is used. All FEC ties is the directory of other city-cycle and city-industry joins. None of those pages converts $270,286 into spending by Newport Beach candidates. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted from both $270,286 and the $91.1 million city book.

What $270,286 does not measure

$270,286 is itemized federal individual contributions with contributor city NEWPORT BEACH. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold sit outside it. State-office campaigns in California file under state law and sit outside it. Independent-expenditure totals are a different FEC table. A candidate who lives in Newport Beach can raise money from other cities; those gifts are not this join. PAC transfers and committee-to-committee activity are other files.

City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed NEWPORT BEACH is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Newport Beach. LobbyVault does not rewrite the city field into a Census place or a residency test. Treat 146 as lines that stored this string in 2010. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed.

Reading Newport Beach and 2010 together without mixing tables

Correlation is not causation. $270,286 beside $91.1 million does not mean 2010 caused the city book or that Newport Beach drove the 2010 cycle. The join is a filter: city string plus cycle tag. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Newport Beach, CA hub or the live 2010 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls. This snapshot is not a third disclosure system.

Internal links on this page go to Newport Beach, CA, the 2010 election cycle, California campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Use those four doors. Do not paste $270,286 into a USAspending award story; FEC receipts and federal obligations are different statutes. This packet has no award dollars, and itemized giving is not a proxy for public opinion in California.

A 0.3% cut of the Newport Beach stack

0.3% of $91.1 million is a slice, not a ranking. Put another way, $270,286 of the $91,059,268 city stack was tagged 2010, and $90,788,982 was tagged other cycles. Those percentages are $270,286 divided by $91,059,268 and $90,788,982 divided by $91,059,268. They are not shares of California totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters. Dollar share (0.3%) and row volume (146 itemized gifts) are separate facts.

Do not treat 0.3% as Newport Beach's share of the 2010 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts. Adjacent presidential windows for the same city string are other joins. This URL isolates Newport Beach × 2010 only: $270,286, 146 receipts, mean about $1,851. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

Questions

How much did Newport Beach, CA donors give in 2010?

Itemized FEC individual contributions listing contributor city NEWPORT BEACH and cycle 2010 total $270,286 across 146 receipts in this LobbyVault extract. That is the city-cycle join, not the all-cycle Newport Beach, CA book of $91.1 million. Unitemized gifts and California state-office filings sit outside both figures.

Is $270,286 all of Newport Beach's federal political money?

No. $91.1 million ($91,059,268) is the all-cycle itemized book for contributor city NEWPORT BEACH in CA. The 2010 slice is $270,286, 0.3% of that book. Other cycles hold $90,788,982. 146 is a 2010 receipt count, not a unique-donor count.

Did Newport Beach, CA 2010 donations stay in California?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Newport Beach, CA; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $270,286 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 Newport Beach, CA contributions were itemized in 2010?

146 itemized contribution records sum to $270,286. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,851 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.