San Mateo, CA political money — 2014 cycle

San Mateo in 2014: the intersection number

$206,261 appears only when donor city is SAN MATEO in CA and the cycle is 2014. 65 itemized rows accompany that dollar figure. The unmatched city total is $52,488,589. 2014 holds 0.39% of it; other even-year windows hold $52,282,328 (99.6%). Call that a modest slice of the city stack — a description of this ratio, not of other cities.

Restating the San Mateo, CA hub would mix years. Restating the 2014 hub would mix cities. This page keeps both constraints. Intersection is not causation. The facts do not say why people gave, which committees they chose, or whether those committees were in California.

2014 is a midterm FEC cycle (two-year window; no presidential general). Window type does not explain $206,261. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

Citywide San Mateo, CA dollars

$52,488,589 is the city label across cycles. $206,261 is nested inside it; $52,282,328 is the rest. Neither number is unique residents. California finance pages still list every city in the state, not only San Mateo.

The stored city is San Mateo on the San Francisco Peninsula. San Mateo County as a whole is not the city string; Redwood City, Burlingame, and Foster City file separately. State CA stays on the citation. The CA key is mandatory: $52,488,589 is not a national homonym total. City stack $52,488,589 versus cycle cell $206,261 (0.39%) should stay distinct. Drop the year on the city hub; keep 2014 here. Recipient city can differ from San Mateo.

The 2014 cycle tag explained

Cycle 2014 on FEC.gov is two years wide. In that span San Mateo, CA shows $206,261 and 65 itemized gifts. $206,261 / 65 ≈ $3,173. That is a row mean. Median and unique-donor counts are not in the packet.

Other cities remain on the 2014 cycle hub. Other years remain on California and San Mateo hubs. Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are excluded. 65 itemized rows is a small absolute count of receipts for this join. Follow internal links for the wider tables; this slug is the pair only.

Keep cityTotal and cycleTotal apart. $206,261 is the 2014 cell for San Mateo, CA: itemized individual contributions in that two-year FEC window only, across 65 records. $52,488,589 is the same city string across every cycle in this extract. Subtracting them leaves $52,282,328 in other even-year windows. Citing $52,488,589 as a 2014 figure mixes the city hub into this join. Citing $206,261 as the lifetime San Mateo total mixes the join into the city hub. 65 is cycleContributions for 2014 only; the packet has no all-cycle row count, so 65 cannot be turned into a share of citywide gifts. 0.39% is dollars only — $206,261 divided by $52,488,589 — not a share of California and not a share of the national 2014 cycle. PAC receipts, independent expenditures, and unitemized gifts are other FEC tables; they are not mixed into $206,261 or $52,488,589. Donor names are not in the packet and are not invented. Source: FEC.gov.

0.39% of San Mateo is 2014

0.39% is $206,261 as a share of $52,488,589. 99.6% is $52,282,328 as a share of $52,488,589. About 0.39% of San Mateo, CA itemized individual dollars in this aggregate are 2014; about 99.6% are not. Those are city-stack shares only.

Do not blend 0.39% with 65 into a single ranking. There is no all-cycle row total here, so no row percentage. 0.39% is not a share of national 2014 receipts; that denominator is missing from the facts.

Counts the packet does not contain

65 itemized contributions totaling $206,261 define the cell. Multiple dates, multiple committees, and variants of SAN MATEO can repeat households. Unique people are not estimated. San Mateo is not ranked among California cities.

$3,173 comes from $206,261 and 65 alone. No occupation or committee split of the $206,261 appears here. Receipts that used another city string are out, even in the same metro.

How to use this ties URL

This write-up does not rank San Mateo, does not call 2014 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as California public opinion. Contributor geography is not campaign geography. CA on an individual receipt is not a promise the money stayed in California. Amendments can revise totals. Live hubs control if they differ.

Omitted tables: unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, non-individual sources, USAspending. See San Mateo, CA; 2014 election cycle; California campaign finance; all FEC ties. Source: FEC.gov.

Questions

How much FEC money from San Mateo, CA is tagged 2014?

$206,261 in itemized individual contributions (65 records). The all-cycle city total is $52,488,589, so 2014 is 0.39% of that stack. Source: FEC.gov city-and-cycle aggregates.

What is the difference between $206,261 and $52,488,589?

$206,261 is San Mateo, CA in 2014 only (65 gifts). $52,488,589 is SAN MATEO across every cycle in the table. The gap, $52,282,328, is other cycles. City hub versus this tie page.

Did San Mateo 2014 donors give only inside California?

The join does not say. Donor city is San Mateo, CA; committees can be anywhere. $206,261 is not allocated by office, party, or committee state. A CA city field is not a California race map.

How many itemized rows are in the San Mateo 2014 cell?

65 rows sum to $206,261 (about $3,173 per row). Rows ≠ unique donors. Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are not in the 65. Unique-donor totals are not in these facts.