Riverside, CA political money — 2012 cycle

Reading $186,159 as a two-column match

Headline number: $186,159. Row count: 177. City stack: $28,376,398. Remainder outside 2012: $28,190,239. Share of the city stack: 0.66%. Those five quantities are the join. Everything else on this page is explanation of what those quantities are and are not.

Riverside, CA in 2012 is not Riverside in every year and is not 2012 in every city. Mixing those frames is how a hub restatement sneaks in. The 177 rows exist only at the intersection. Correlation is not causation. An CA city code does not mean the money supported a California candidate.

Riverside is stored as RIVERSIDE in California; Los Angeles and nearby Inland Empire city strings are other keys. FEC.gov stores cycle 2012 as a presidential even-year window. Use that label for dating the receipts, not for ranking Riverside against other places. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

Reading $28,376,398 as a city book

The city dimension answers a different question than the join. How much itemized individual money is stored under RIVERSIDE in CA across years? $28,376,398. How much of that was tagged cycle 2012? $186,159 from 177 receipts. The difference is $28,190,239. Those are stack identities, not rankings.

Riverside is stored as RIVERSIDE in California; Los Angeles and nearby Inland Empire city strings are other keys. Suburb spellings, ZIP-only addresses, and firm-city addresses that did not store RIVERSIDE are excluded from both $28,376,398 and $186,159 as they appear here. Filers type the city. LobbyVault does not recode them. Recipient committees are not required to sit in Riverside.

Itemized rows in Riverside during 2012

Cycle 2012 tagged 177 itemized lines to city RIVERSIDE in CA for a sum of $186,159. That is the cycle slice. It is a presidential window. It is not a ranking of Riverside among California cities, because this packet has one geography. It is not a ranking of 2012 among Riverside's years beyond the share already stated (0.66% of $28,376,398).

Mean gift size about $1,052 should be quoted with the inputs: $186,159 and 177 rows. Dropping either input turns the mean into an unsourced claim. Employer and occupation strings on those receipts are other joins. This city-cycle page does not break $186,159 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee.

This URL (/ties/ca-riverside-2012-donations/) is only the Riverside × 2012 intersection. The city hub still mixes every cycle into $28,376,398. The 2012 hub still mixes every donor city. Do not treat either hub as $186,159.

The complement: $28,190,239 outside 2012

The complement of the join inside the city book is $28,190,239 (99.3%). That money is still Riverside, CA; it is just not tagged 2012 in this aggregate. The join itself remains $186,159 / 177 rows / cycle 2012. Keep the complement and the join distinct in citations.

0.66% is not a turnout rate, not a share of California itemized dollars, and not a share of the national 2012 cycle. Those denominators are absent. Use only $28,376,398 when stating the city share.

Recompute the share from the raw integers: 186,159 divided by 28,376,398 is 0.66%. The complement 28,190,239 is $28,190,239, which is 99.3% of the RIVERSIDE city book. Those identities do not use the row count 177.

Itemization, not a census

What the table includes: itemized individual Schedule A lines with city RIVERSIDE, state CA, cycle 2012, summing to $186,159 across 177 rows, against a citywide $28,376,398. What it excludes: everything else. That exclusion list is how this page stays a join instead of a hub restatement.

About $1,052 per row should never be quoted as a typical Riverside donor. Typical would need a median and a unique-person file. This extract has neither. 177 rows can be fewer people or, with split spellings, an undercount of a metro — both directions are possible and neither is measured here.

How to cite the pair

Citation template: contributor city Riverside, CA (RIVERSIDE), election cycle 2012 (presidential), $186,159 on 177 itemized individual contributions, citywide $28,376,398, share 0.66%, remainder $28,190,239, mean about $1,052 per row. Source: FEC.gov via LobbyVault city-cycle aggregates.

Then send the reader to the live Riverside, CA hub, the 2012 election cycle page, California campaign finance, and all FEC ties. If you need employer cuts of Riverside, those are city-industry joins, not this file. This file stays on one city and one cycle.

Questions

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

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Riverside, CA total $186,159 in the 2012 cycle, across 177 contribution records. The same city label totals $28,376,398 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2012 is 0.66% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates of itemized individual gifts only.

Is the Riverside, CA city total only for 2012?

No. The city aggregate of $28,376,398 covers every cycle in the table for RIVERSIDE. The 2012 filter is $186,159 from 177 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $28,190,239. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2012 slice only. Unitemized gifts are omitted from both totals.

Did Riverside, CA 2012 donations stay in California?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Riverside, CA; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $186,159 by office, state of the committee, or party. An CA city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of California races or of where the money was spent.

How many Riverside, CA contributions were itemized in 2012?

177 itemized contribution records sum to $186,159. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,052 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts and are not invented here.