Candidate political contributions in the 2014 FEC cycle

Joining CANDIDATE to the 2014 cycle

Two FEC dimensions meet here: occupation CANDIDATE and the 2014 election cycle. The intersection is $2,158,931 ($2.2 million), 808 contributions, and 66 donors. 13.1% of Candidate occupation dollars ($16,508,299) fall in 2014.

The 2014 cycle is an even-year FEC window, a midterm-year cycle in federal itemized receipts. This page does not add 2012 presidential-year dollars into the 2014 total. CANDIDATE as an occupation often appears on a candidate’s own itemized gifts and on gifts from other people who used that word. This page does not classify rows as self-contributions. A small donor count with many contributions is a repeat-itemization pattern, not a count of people on the ballot.

Reading CANDIDATE without merging sibling titles

On the occupation side, $16,508,299 is the Candidate total across cycles. Sibling labels (POLITICIAN, OFFICEHOLDER, and RETIRED) stay on other pages. Candidate is not a ballot-line count, a principal-campaign total raised from the public, or a party nomination list.

All occupations lists other titles without adding them to $16,508,299. The Candidate donations page holds the all-cycle occupation table that $2,158,931 is a slice of.

Reading 2014 without treating it as all Candidate money

The 2014 election cycle hub holds itemized individual receipts for every occupation coded to that even-year window. This tie keeps only Candidate. $2,158,931 is therefore not a cycle-wide total. FEC.gov labels this even-year federal window 2014. It is not a 2012 presidential-year filter or a 2010 midterm-year filter.

808 contributions from 66 donors is a high repeat-itemization pattern: many itemized rows per person inside this cycle filter. The page does not publish an average gift. $2,158,931, 808, and 66 are the three cycle-side facts. Unitemized federal gifts never enter $2,158,931. Committee disbursements and independent expenditures are a different FEC schedule and are not a second way to count $2,158,931. Three numbers define the Candidate × 2014 cell: dollars $2,158,931, contribution rows 808, unique donors 66. Share of occupation dollars is 13.1% of $16,508,299.

How not to read Candidate money in 2014

Matching Candidate with 2014 does not measure influence, does not assign party, and does not say Candidate donors caused an electoral result. Correlation between an occupation string and a cycle is not causation. The table is also not a ballot-line count, a principal-campaign total raised from the public, or a party nomination list.

Itemized individual contributions from FEC.gov only. Independent expenditures, unitemized gifts, and state-office campaigns are excluded. Occupation labels are filer-entered. CANDIDATE as an occupation often appears on a candidate’s own itemized gifts and on gifts from other people who used that word. This page does not classify rows as self-contributions. A small donor count with many contributions is a repeat-itemization pattern, not a count of people on the ballot. This join does not publish a party split, a recipient-committee list, or employer text. If a reader only needs the occupation, the Candidate donations hub is $16,508,299; the 2014 election cycle hub is the even-year inventory across titles. Do not add those hubs together.

Linked Candidate and 2014 pages

Candidate donations holds the $16,508,299 occupation total. The 2014 election cycle page holds every occupation in that window, not only Candidate. All occupations places CANDIDATE beside other titles without merging sibling strings (POLITICIAN, OFFICEHOLDER, and RETIRED). All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle pairs so $2,158,931 is not added to a different year.

Use the occupation hub for all-cycle Candidate dollars ($16,508,299). Use the 2014 cycle hub for the even-year window across titles. Use this tie for the intersection only: $2,158,931, 808 contributions, 66 donors, 13.1% of occupation dollars. Those four internal links are the only hrefs this copy may use: Candidate donations, the 2014 election cycle, all occupations, and all FEC ties. Keep CANDIDATE as the occupation key and 2014 as the cycle key when joining files. FEC.gov remains the controlling source if a later extract disagrees with $2,158,931.

Using the Candidate 2014 figures in a citation

A usable sentence names both sides: occupation CANDIDATE, cycle 2014, $2,158,931 itemized, 808 contributions, 66 donors, source FEC.gov. $2.2 million is a rounded form of $2,158,931.

Do not cite $16,508,299 as the 2014 figure. $16,508,299 is all-cycle Candidate. Do not cite a cycle-wide total from this page; $2,158,931 is Candidate only. Sibling strings (POLITICIAN, OFFICEHOLDER, and RETIRED) remain outside $2,158,931. Independent expenditures remain outside $2,158,931.

Questions

How much did Candidate donors give in 2014?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation CANDIDATE in the 2014 cycle total $2,158,931, from 808 contributions and 66 donors. Nationwide across cycles, Candidate-coded receipts are $16,508,299. 2014 is 13.1% of those occupation dollars. Source: FEC.gov.

Is Candidate 2014 money a PAC total?

No. This join is itemized individual contributions grouped by occupation and election cycle. Committee PACs and independent expenditures are not in $2,158,931 or in the $16,508,299 occupation figure used here. It is itemized individual receipts where the occupation field is CANDIDATE, not a campaign’s total receipts from the public. The 2014 join is $2,158,931 from 808 contributions and 66 donors.

Is this how much candidates raised from voters?

No. It is itemized individual receipts where the occupation field is CANDIDATE, not a campaign’s total receipts from the public. The 2014 cycle filter on Candidate is $2,158,931, 808 contributions, and 66 donors. The occupation total across cycles is $16,508,299. Labels are filer-entered on FEC.gov itemized receipts.

Why 808 Candidate contributions and 66 donors in 2014?

The 2014 join includes 808 itemized contributions from 66 donors totaling $2,158,931. 808 contributions from 66 donors is a high repeat-itemization pattern: many itemized rows per person inside this cycle filter. The page does not name donors or split rows by committee. Unique-donor count is not a census of the occupation.