Santa Ana, CA political money — 2010 cycle

What the Santa Ana × 2010 join measures

The overlap of contributor city SANTA ANA with state CA and election cycle 2010 is $201,700 across 82 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $32,596,978. 2010 therefore accounts for 0.62% of Santa Ana, CA itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $32,395,278 (99.4%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Santa Ana, CA. That hub mixes 2010 with every other even-year window filed under SANTA ANA. It is also not a restatement of the 2010 election cycle hub, which mixes Santa Ana, CA with every other donor city in the United States. The 82 rows and $201,700 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 to California.

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. 2010 is a midterm FEC cycle: a two-year window without a presidential general election on the federal calendar. That calendar fact does not explain why Santa Ana, CA donors itemized $201,700. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

Santa Ana, CA across every cycle

The city aggregate for Santa Ana, CA is $32,596,978 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 $201,700 from 2010 and the $32,395,278 from every other cycle in the same city file. California campaign-finance pages still mix Santa Ana with every other city in California.

The stored city is Santa Ana, the Orange County seat in California. Anaheim, Irvine, and Santa Ana in another state are not rolled into SANTA ANA in CA. County-level labels are not this city string. $32,596,978 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 Santa Ana, CA, the city stack is $32,596,978 while this cycle is $201,700 (0.62%). Use the city hub to see Santa Ana, CA without a year filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Santa Ana in 2010. Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

The 2010 midterm window on FEC.gov

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, Santa Ana, CA donors itemized $201,700 on 82 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $2,460 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 2010 hub still includes every other city. State pages for California still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Santa Ana × 2010. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 82 itemized rows is a moderate absolute count of receipts for this join. Adjacent pages for Santa Ana, CA, the 2010 election cycle, and California campaign finance keep those broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only.

Share of the Santa Ana city stack

0.62% of $32,596,978 is a minority slice of the city stack. The city hub is mostly other even-year windows, totaling $32,395,278. Put another way, about 0.62% of Santa Ana, CA's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2010, and about 99.4% were not. Those percentages are $201,700 divided by $32,596,978 and $32,395,278 divided by $32,596,978. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.62%) and row volume (82 itemized gifts) are separate facts. A thin dollar share can sit next to a large row count, or the reverse; both numbers describe this pair only. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.62% as Santa Ana's share of the 2010 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

Rows, means, and missing fields

82 itemized contributions totaling $201,700 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 SANTA ANA. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Santa Ana versus other California cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $2,460 uses only the two numbers in the join: $201,700 and 82 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 $201,700 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed SANTA ANA is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Santa Ana.

What this tie page is not

This page does not rank Santa Ana 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. Amended reports can move either number.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Santa Ana, CA, the 2010 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 Santa Ana, CA donors give in the 2010 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Santa Ana, CA total $201,700 in the 2010 cycle, across 82 contribution records. The same city label totals $32,596,978 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2010 is 0.62% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Santa Ana, CA city total only for 2010?

No. The city aggregate of $32,596,978 covers every cycle in the table for SANTA ANA. The 2010 filter is $201,700 from 82 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $32,395,278. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2010 slice.

Did Santa Ana, CA 2010 donations stay in California?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Santa Ana, CA; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $201,700 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 Santa Ana, CA contributions were itemized in 2010?

82 itemized contribution records sum to $201,700. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $2,460 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.