Newport Beach, CA political money — 2012 cycle

How Newport Beach, CA meets the 2012 election cycle

$302,716 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city NEWPORT BEACH with state CA, and election cycle 2012. The match is $302,716 across 174 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $91,059,268. 2012 therefore accounts for 0.33% of Newport Beach, CA itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $90,756,552 (99.7%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Newport Beach, CA. That hub mixes 2012 with every other even-year window filed under NEWPORT BEACH. It is also not a restatement of the 2012 election cycle hub, which mixes Newport Beach, CA with every other donor city in the United States. The 174 rows and $302,716 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 and suburb-versus-city choices can split a metro across multiple city pages. Newport Beach, CA here is the string that survived aggregation as NEWPORT BEACH in CA. 2012 is a presidential FEC cycle: a two-year window that includes a presidential general election. That calendar fact does not explain why Newport Beach, CA donors itemized $302,716. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

The Newport Beach, CA side of the join

The city aggregate for Newport Beach, CA is $91,059,268 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 $302,716 from 2012 and the $90,756,552 from every other cycle in the same city file. California campaign-finance pages still mix Newport Beach with every other city in California.

The stored city sits in Orange County, California. Irvine, Costa Mesa, and Huntington Beach are not rolled into NEWPORT BEACH. State CA stays on the citation so Newport Beach is not merged into a county-wide Orange County key. $91,059,268 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 Newport Beach, CA, the city stack is $91,059,268 while this cycle is $302,716 (0.33%). Use the city hub to see Newport Beach, CA without a year filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Newport Beach in 2012. 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 Newport Beach

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. Inside that window, Newport Beach, CA donors itemized $302,716 on 174 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,740 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.

The national 2012 hub still includes every other city. State pages for California still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Newport Beach × 2012. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 174 itemized rows is a modest file. Adjacent pages for Newport Beach, CA, 2012 election cycle, and California campaign finance keep those broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only.

2012 versus the rest of Newport Beach

0.33% of $91,059,268 is a small slice. The city hub is mostly other even-year windows, totaling $90,756,552. Put another way, about 0.33% of Newport Beach, CA's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2012, and about 99.7% were not. Those percentages are $302,716 divided by $91,059,268 and $90,756,552 divided by $91,059,268. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.33%) and row volume (174 itemized gifts) are separate facts. A small slice of citywide dollars can sit next to a modest 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 0.33% as Newport Beach's share of the 2012 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

Counts, dollars, and what they omit

174 itemized contributions totaling $302,716 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 NEWPORT BEACH. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Newport Beach versus other California cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,740 uses only the two numbers in the join: $302,716 and 174 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 $302,716 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. 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.

Caveats on a geographic-cycle join

This page does not rank Newport 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. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Newport Beach, CA hub or the live 2012 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Newport 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 Newport Beach, CA donors give in the 2012 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Newport Beach, CA total $302,716 in the 2012 cycle, across 174 contribution records. The same city label totals $91,059,268 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2012 is 0.33% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

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

No. The city aggregate of $91,059,268 covers every cycle in the table for NEWPORT BEACH. The 2012 filter is $302,716 from 174 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $90,756,552. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2012 slice.

Did Newport Beach, CA 2012 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 $302,716 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 2012?

174 itemized contribution records sum to $302,716. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,740 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.