Candidate donations in the 2012 FEC cycle

Candidate × 2012

CANDIDATE plus cycle 2012 equals $874,186. That figure is the harvested sum of itemized individual contributions in which the occupation field matched this string and the two-year federal election cycle was 2012. Officeholder, politician, retired, and self-employed are other keys if those words appear. This join does not recode the label into a candidate-committee disbursement total, a campaign-account transfer log, or a ballot-line census. Other cycle amounts are not fields in this packet.

Parent hubs: Candidate donations at /occupations/candidate/ and the 2012 election cycle at /election-cycles/2012/. All occupations lists neighboring titles. All FEC ties keeps each occupation-year cell on its own path so a reader can move without mixing $874,186 into another year or another string. Do not add those parent pages into this cell.

Party, committee, and employer breakdowns for Candidate in 2012 are not fields in this packet. Do not infer a partisan split from $874,186. Self-funding versus gifts tagged candidate while working elsewhere is unpublished for Candidate in 2012. The occupation page and the 2012 cycle page are the next clicks for named committees.

Occupation CANDIDATE, not a committee ID

$16.5 million ($16,508,299) belongs to the exact string CANDIDATE across harvested cycles. It is not a candidate-committee disbursement total, a campaign-account transfer log, or a ballot-line census. People who wrote nearby wording — officeholder, politician, retired, and self-employed — sit in other rows if the characters differ. The 2012 slice is 5.3% of that title bucket. Share of CANDIDATE is not share of all 2012 receipts.

Amended individual contribution reports can move $874,186. A later harvest of the same occupation string can move $16,508,299. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Live Candidate donations and the live 2012 election cycle pages are the tables; this prose is a packet snapshot. Itemized individual contributions are the only receipt class in this cell. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold, in-kind goods, and bundled contributions without this occupation string are outside $874,186.

618 candidate-tagged receipts from 66 donors

66 donors and 618 receipts — about 9.4 lines per donor. Mean per receipt about $1,415; mean per donor about $13,245. Those ratios are arithmetic on two harvested integers. They are not medians, not typical gifts, and not a claim about income. 66 donors makes this a small occupation-cycle cell. No median is published in this packet.

Repeat gifts add receipts. 618 is a line count, not 66 one-time gifts; receipts outnumber donors by a wide margin, so repeat gifts and amended lines are doing real work in the count. Self-funding versus gifts tagged candidate while working elsewhere is not encoded in the occupation string. Neither figure is a headcount of everyone who works in the field named by CANDIDATE. People who left occupation blank, used a nearby spelling, or listed a more specific title are not in $874,186.

Occupation string versus authorized committees

Cite $874,186 as Candidate in 2012. Cite $16,508,299 as this title’s occupation total. Do not add the candidate’s authorized committee filings to either figure. Those filings are committee reports. Mixing PAC spending with $874,186 would blend FEC tables. All occupations lists neighboring titles so a searcher can open the other string’s cycle cell rather than rescale 5.3%.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by self-reported occupation and election cycle. This join does not recode CANDIDATE into a Bureau of Labor Statistics title, a NAICS code, or a license class. If a researcher needs those crosswalks, they start from the raw string. Correlation is not causation: a presidential-year total does not prove the occupation’s motives, and it does not attach these gifts to any federal spending dataset.

How to cite candidate-occupation money in 2012

A clean footnote names occupation CANDIDATE, election cycle 2012, $874,186 in itemized individual contributions, 618 receipts, and 66 donors on FEC.gov. Keep the itemized word. Mean dollars remain about $1,415 per line and $13,245 per donor in the cell. If the live Candidate donations overlay has refreshed, quote the overlay. Do not treat 618 as unique workers in the trade.

This URL exists because two filters meet. Candidate donations rolls every cycle into one CANDIDATE running total. The 2012 election cycle rolls every occupation into one 2012 total. Only the Candidate × 2012 overlay applies both filters, which is why this page cites 618 receipts and $874,186. All FEC ties is the directory of other occupation-cycle cells.

Questions

How much did candidate filers donate in 2012?

Filers who listed Candidate itemized $874,186 in FEC individual contributions in 2012, from 618 receipts and 66 donors. That is 5.3% of $16,508,299 under CANDIDATE. Officeholder, politician, retired, and self-employed are other keys when those are the words on the form. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates.

Is this the candidate’s campaign committee total?

No. $874,186 is individual contributions tagged Candidate in 2012. The candidate’s authorized committee filings file as committees. Mixing PAC spending with $874,186 would blend FEC tables. See Candidate donations or the 2012 election cycle hub for committee names. Candidate in 2012 is $874,186 on 618 receipts from 66 donors.

Are candidate labels standardized on FEC forms?

No. FEC.gov stores the occupation as typed. This join uses CANDIDATE. Officeholder, politician, retired, and self-employed are other keys when those characters appear. LobbyVault does not recode the string into a candidate-committee disbursement total, a campaign-account transfer log, or a ballot-line census. Cite $874,186 for this title in 2012 on 618 receipts from 66 donors.

What two tables meet on this page?

Candidate donations ($16.5 million for the string) and the 2012 election cycle. The overlap is $874,186 from 618 receipts and 66 donors. All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle cells. All occupations lists neighboring titles. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates for Candidate in 2012.