Oakland, CA political money — 2010 cycle

How Oakland, CA meets the 2010 election cycle

$152,455 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city OAKLAND with state CA, and election cycle 2010. The match is $152,455 across 181 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $122,533,634. 2010 therefore accounts for 0.12% of Oakland, CA itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $122,381,179 (99.9%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Oakland, CA. That hub mixes 2010 with every other even-year window filed under OAKLAND. It is also not a restatement of the 2010 election cycle hub, which mixes Oakland, CA with every other donor city in the United States. The 181 rows and $152,455 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. Oakland sits in Alameda County, California. San Francisco, Berkeley, and Oakland, other-state namesakes, are not this California key. 2010 is a midterm election cycle. That calendar fact does not explain why Oakland, CA donors itemized $152,455. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

The Oakland, CA side of the join

The city aggregate for Oakland, CA is $122,533,634 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 $152,455 from 2010 and the $122,381,179 from every other cycle in the same city file. California campaign-finance pages still mix Oakland with every other city in California.

State CA stays on the citation so Oakland, CA is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $122,533,634 is the CA key only. A large city total does not mean 2010 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2010 was small. For Oakland, CA, the city stack is $122,533,634 while this cycle is $152,455 (0.12%). Use the city hub to see Oakland, CA without a year filter.

The 2010 cycle side for California filers in Oakland

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2010 cycle is the Commission's cycle tag on itemized receipts, not a calendar year of January gifts only. Inside that window, Oakland, CA donors itemized $152,455 on 181 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $842 per itemized gift. That mean is an arithmetic average of rows, not a typical donor and not a median.

The national 2010 hub still includes every other city. State pages for California still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Oakland × 2010. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. 181 itemized rows is a relatively large itemized file for this city string. Adjacent pages for Oakland, CA, 2010 election cycle, and California campaign finance keep those broader cuts.

2010 versus the rest of Oakland

0.12% of $122,533,634 is a thin slice of the citywide book. The city hub is mostly other even-year windows, totaling $122,381,179. Put another way, about 0.12% of Oakland, CA's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2010, and about 99.9% were not. Those percentages are $152,455 divided by $122,533,634 and $122,381,179 divided by $122,533,634.

Dollar share (0.12%) and row volume (181 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 0.12% as Oakland's share of the 2010 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

Caveats on a geographic-cycle join

This page does not rank Oakland against other cities, does not call 2010 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. See Oakland, CA, the 2010 election cycle, California campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Dollar figures are FEC itemized individual contribution aggregates. They are not federal spending awards.

Questions

How much did Oakland, CA donors give in the 2010 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Oakland, CA total $152,455 in the 2010 cycle, across 181 contribution records. The same city label totals $122,533,634 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2010 is 0.12% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Oakland, CA city total only for 2010?

No. The city aggregate of $122,533,634 covers every cycle in the table for OAKLAND. The 2010 filter is $152,455 from 181 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $122,381,179. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2010 slice.

Did Oakland, CA 2010 donations stay in California?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Oakland, CA; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $152,455 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 Oakland, CA contributions were itemized in 2010?

181 itemized contribution records sum to $152,455. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $842 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.