Candidate political contributions from California

Reading $2,569,045 as an intersection

$2,569,045 is the amount that survives both filters. The occupation filter is Candidate (CANDIDATE). The state filter is California (CA). FEC.gov itemized individual contributions supply the dollars, the 1,068 lines, and the 43 donors.

Because the grouping is typed, the cell is a text match. Household members and former workers can reuse a title. The Commission does not audit those claims on this aggregate. Political candidate, nominee, officeholder, and campaign staff are other keys.

Use the occupation hub when the question is every state for Candidate. Use California campaign finance when the question is every string in CA. Use this tie when the question is both. CANDIDATE is an occupation string on individual contribution lines, not a candidate-committee ID. Candidate master records live on other LobbyVault tables.

National Candidate money versus California

Divide $2,569,045 by $16,508,299 and the result is 15.6%. The complementary share is 84.4%, or $13,939,254 outside California. Those two pieces add to the grouping total on FEC.gov as stored here.

$16,508,299 is not earnings, assets, or federal contract value. It is summed itemized individual contributions that matched CANDIDATE in any donor state in this table. CANDIDATE is an occupation string on individual contribution lines, not a candidate-committee ID. Candidate master records live on other LobbyVault tables.

$2,405 per contribution, $59,745 per donor

Per-gift mean $2,405 and per-donor mean $59,745 follow from $2,569,045, 1,068, and 43. About 24.8 itemized lines per donor is the third ratio. Report them as means, not as typical gifts.

Contributor identities can include people who listed CANDIDATE as occupation without a current job match. The FEC form is self-reported. CANDIDATE is an occupation string on individual contribution lines, not a candidate-committee ID. Candidate master records live on other LobbyVault tables.

Limits of the Candidate string in California

The string CANDIDATE is only as wide as the characters stored. Longer titles that contain extra words are other keys. Shorter abbreviations are other keys. A ballot-qualified candidate list, an FEC candidate-master file, or a campaign-payroll census would require a different extract.

Political candidate, nominee, officeholder, and campaign staff stay on their own occupation-state URLs. Mixing them into $2,569,045 would invent a sector total this packet does not contain. CANDIDATE is an occupation string on individual contribution lines, not a candidate-committee ID. Candidate master records live on other LobbyVault tables.

A clean footnote for CANDIDATE in CA

Footnote language that stays inside the packet: filers who stored occupation CANDIDATE and donor state CA itemized $2,569,045 (1,068 contributions, 43 donors; 15.6% of $16,508,299 nationally). Source: FEC.gov. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Leave federal versus state versus local candidacy as typed out of the footnote because it is unpublished. Leave named donors out because they are not in this packet. Leave federal awards out because they are a different dataset.

Repeat the join without adding fields the packet does not publish. The occupation and state hubs remain the places for one-sided totals. This tie page quotes packet facts only. Independent expenditures stay outside the cell. Filer-entered occupation strings are not payroll titles. Readers who need a person-level roster will not find names on this page. USAspending.gov is a different ledger from FEC.gov individual contributions.

All occupations and All FEC ties remain the indexes for sibling joins. Cite the source note exactly as copied from the packet. Do not convert a contribution count into a unique-person census. Dollar figures first, then the two keys that produced them. The canonical path is a ties URL, not a donor-detail URL. Unitemized gifts are outside the itemized aggregate quoted here.

Nearby job titles belong on their own occupation hubs if stored as other strings. A mean gift is dollars divided by itemized lines, not a typical check. Public records describe overlap; they do not assign motive. Repeat the join in one line: occupation CANDIDATE ∩ state CA = $2,569,045, 1,068 receipts, 43 donors, 15.6% of $16,508,299. Neighbors remain political candidate, nominee, officeholder, and campaign staff. Source remains FEC.gov.

Questions

What is the Candidate total for California on FEC.gov?

FEC.gov itemized individual contribution aggregates show $2,569,045 from occupation Candidate with donor state CA. That join covers 1,068 contributions from 43 donors. Nationwide the occupation totals $16,508,299, so California is about 15.6% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Is 15.6% of Candidate money from California?

About 15.6% of the $16,508,299 Candidate grouping is coded to California: $2,569,045. Contribution share is about 15.1% (1,068 of 7,075). Donor share is about 10.5% (43 of 409). The remainder $13,939,254 is other states.

Does FEC recode CANDIDATE into a standard job code?

No. 43 is the unique-donor count in this occupation–state cell as aggregated from itemized FEC lines, not a labor-market census. Mean gift in the cell is about $2,405 across 1,068 contributions. Political candidate, nominee, officeholder, and campaign staff, if stored separately, are other keys. This join is CANDIDATE only.

What two tables meet on this page?

Candidate donations carry the $16,508,299 occupation total. California campaign finance is the state hub. All occupations and All FEC ties list sibling joins. Original filings remain at FEC.gov. This tie page is the CANDIDATE × CA intersection only.