Santa Monica, CA political money — 2014 cycle

How Santa Monica, CA meets the 2014 election cycle

$132,204 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city SANTA MONICA with state CA, and election cycle 2014. The match is $132,204 across 97 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $140,052,116. 2014 therefore accounts for 0.09% of Santa Monica, CA itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $139,919,912 (99.9%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Santa Monica, CA. That hub mixes 2014 with every other even-year window filed under SANTA MONICA. It is also not a restatement of the 2014 election cycle hub, which mixes Santa Monica, CA with every other donor city. The 97 rows and $132,204 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.

The Santa Monica, CA side of the join

The city aggregate for Santa Monica, CA is $140,052,116 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 $132,204 from 2014 and the $139,919,912 from every other cycle in the same city file. California campaign-finance pages still mix Santa Monica with every other city in CA.

The stored city is Santa Monica in Los Angeles County, California. Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, and Pacific Palisades are other contributor-city keys. SANTA MONICA is not absorbed into LOS ANGELES on this page. $140,052,116 is the CA key only. A large city total does not mean 2014 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2014 was small. For Santa Monica, CA, the city stack is $140,052,116 while this cycle is $132,204 (0.09%). Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

The 2014 cycle side for California filers in Santa Monica

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2014 cycle is the Commission’s cycle tag on itemized receipts, not a calendar year of January gifts only. 2014 is a midterm election cycle. That calendar label does not explain $132,204. Inside that window, Santa Monica, CA donors itemized $132,204 on 97 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,363 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.

Ninety-seven receipts totaling $132,204 sit inside a $140,052,116 Santa Monica book — about 0.09% of city dollars. A large city stack and a modest 2014 cut can coexist; the join does not rank Santa Monica against other California cities. The national 2014 hub still includes every other city. State pages for California still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Santa Monica × 2014. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted.

Why 2014 is a thin cut of Santa Monica dollars

0.09% of $140,052,116 is a small slice of the published city book. The city hub is mostly other even-year windows, totaling $139,919,912. Put another way, about 0.09% of Santa Monica, CA itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2014, and about 99.9% were not. Those percentages are $132,204 divided by $140,052,116 and $139,919,912 divided by $140,052,116. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.09%) and row volume (97 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 0.09% as Santa Monica’s share of the 2014 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables.

What $132,204 does not measure

97 itemized contributions totaling $132,204 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 MONICA. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Santa Monica versus other California cities: this join has one geography and one cycle. Mean gift size of about $1,363 uses only $132,204 and 97 rows.

$132,204 is itemized federal individual contributions with contributor city SANTA MONICA. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold sit outside it. State-office campaigns in California file under state law and sit outside it. A candidate who lives in Santa Monica can raise money from other cities; those gifts are not this join. City labels are filer-entered. LobbyVault does not rewrite the city field into a Census place.

Reading Santa Monica and 2014 without mixing tables

This page does not rank Santa Monica against other cities, does not call 2014 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in California. Two columns matched. A CA address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a California candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Santa Monica, CA hub or the live 2014 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls.

See Santa Monica, CA, the 2014 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. Canonical path is /ties/ca-santa-monica-2014-donations/.

Questions

How much did Santa Monica, CA filers report in 2014?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Santa Monica, CA total $132,204 in the 2014 cycle, across 97 contribution records. The same city label totals $140,052,116 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2014 is 0.09% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Santa Monica, CA city total only for 2014?

No. The city aggregate of $140,052,116 covers every cycle in the table for SANTA MONICA. The 2014 filter is $132,204 from 97 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $139,919,912. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2014 slice.

Did Santa Monica, CA 2014 donations stay in California?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Santa Monica, CA; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $132,204 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 Monica, CA contributions were itemized in 2014?

97 itemized contribution records sum to $132,204. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,363 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.