Oakland, CA political money — 2012 cycle

Oakland, CA × 2012 in FEC individual data

Both filters true: city OAKLAND in CA, cycle 2012, dollars $193,543, rows 204. City filter only: $122,533,634. 2012's share: 0.16%. Other cycles: $122,340,091 (99.8%). A thin slice of the city stack of this city's stacked itemized individual dollars.

A restatement of Oakland, CA would still mix years. A restatement of 2012 would still mix cities. 204 and $193,543 live only at the intersection. City plus year is not a causal finding and does not place recipients in California.

2012 is a presidential FEC two-year window that includes a presidential general election. That calendar note does not interpret $193,543. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

City hub dollars for Oakland

The city aggregate $122,533,634 is the running itemized individual total for Oakland, CA. It contains $193,543 from 2012 and $122,340,091 from other cycles. It is not unique residents. California state pages still mix Oakland with other cities.

The stored city is Oakland in California's East Bay. San Francisco, Berkeley, Alameda, and Piedmont are different city strings. Alameda County as a whole is not OAKLAND. State CA stays on the citation. $122,533,634 is the CA key only. Do not equate the stack ($122,533,634) with the 2012 cell ($193,543, 0.16%). Use the city hub without a year; use this tie for Oakland in 2012. Donor city is not recipient city.

Cycle hub context for 2012

On FEC.gov, 2012 labels a two-year cycle, not a single calendar year. Oakland, CA inside it: $193,543 on 204 itemized gifts, mean about $949. The mean is an arithmetic row average. Median and unique-donor counts are not in the facts.

The 2012 cycle page still includes other cities. California pages still include other cycles. Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are other tables. 204 itemized rows is a large absolute count of receipts for this join. Adjacent links keep the city, cycle, state, and ties indexes; this URL is the intersection.

Keep cityTotal and cycleTotal apart. $193,543 is the 2012 cell for Oakland, CA: itemized individual contributions in that two-year FEC window only, across 204 records. $122,533,634 is the same city string across every cycle in this extract. Subtracting them leaves $122,340,091 in other even-year windows. Citing $122,533,634 as a 2012 figure mixes the city hub into this join. Citing $193,543 as the lifetime Oakland total mixes the join into the city hub. 204 is cycleContributions for 2012 only; the packet has no all-cycle row count, so 204 cannot be turned into a share of citywide gifts. 0.16% is dollars only — $193,543 divided by $122,533,634 — not a share of California and not a share of the national 2012 cycle. PAC receipts, independent expenditures, and unitemized gifts are other FEC tables; they are not mixed into $193,543 or $122,533,634. Donor names are not in the packet and are not invented. Source: FEC.gov.

Share math for 2012 inside Oakland

0.16% of $122,533,634 is 2012 ($193,543). 99.8% is other cycles ($122,340,091). About 0.16% of Oakland, CA itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were tagged 2012; about 99.8% were not. Those identities use packet facts only. They are not state, national-cycle, or voter shares.

0.16% (dollars) and 204 (rows) stay separate. No all-cycle row count is present, so no row share is stated. 0.16% is not Oakland's share of the national 2012 cycle.

What itemized rows leave out

204 itemized contributions totaling $193,543 is the working definition. Repeat households and spelling variants of OAKLAND can appear. Unique-person counts are not invented. Oakland is not ranked versus other California cities.

About $949 per row uses $193,543 and 204 only. This city-cycle page does not break $193,543 out by occupation, industry, or committee. Receipts typed under another city name are not moved into Oakland.

Reading the join without overclaiming

This page does not rank Oakland 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 does not mean the money supported a California candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If live hubs disagree, the newer FEC extract controls.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Oakland, CA, the 2012 election cycle, California campaign finance, and all FEC ties. Dollar figures are FEC itemized individual contribution aggregates, not USAspending awards. Source: FEC.gov.

Questions

How much did Oakland, CA donors give in the 2012 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Oakland, CA total $193,543 in the 2012 cycle, across 204 contribution records. The same city label totals $122,533,634 across all cycles, so 2012 is 0.16% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Oakland, CA city total only for 2012?

No. The city aggregate of $122,533,634 covers every cycle in the table for OAKLAND. The 2012 filter is $193,543 from 204 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $122,340,091. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2012 slice.

Did Oakland, CA 2012 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 $193,543 by office, state of the committee, or party. A CA city code is an address field, not a map of California races.

How many Oakland, CA contributions were itemized in 2012?

204 itemized contribution records sum to $193,543. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $949 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.