CME and the 2014 FEC election cycle

CME crossed with 2014

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — CME and 2014 — sum to $488,460. 336 itemized contributions and 101 unique donors produced it. The total is not an official organization disbursement and does not name recipients. Independent expenditures and committee transfers live in other FEC tables. This page joins the employer grouping CME to cycle 2014; it is not a restatement of either hub alone.

Neither the CME hub nor the 2014 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. 101 unique donors and 336 lines in 2014 sit under the stored string CME. CME GROUP, CME INC, CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE, and CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE stay on their own keys if filers used them. CFTC, SEC, or other financial-regulator USAspending rows are a different file and are not funded by these itemized gifts. Campaign contributions are not federal awards.

4.6% of the CME roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $10,607,839 ($10.6 million). The 2014 slice of $488,460 is about 4.6% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 95.4%, or $10,119,379. Treating 2014 as the CME FEC story would ignore that remainder. Quote $488,460 when the sentence is about 2014. Quote $10,607,839 when the sentence is about the grouping across cycles. Do not add those two dollar figures; the first is already inside the second.

Treat $10,607,839 as the denominator for the 4.6% share. It is not market capitalization, not revenue, and not proof of a multi-year political program. The industry hub is the year index for this string. This tie keeps 2014 from being folded silently into $10,607,839. 4.6% is $488,460 divided by $10,607,839. Rounding to $488,460 and $10.6 million does not create extra facts. Use exact integers in a table. Use the rounded forms only as headlines of those same integers.

336 contributions from 101 donors

Dividing $488,460 by 336 contributions yields about $1,454 per itemized gift. Dividing by 101 donors yields about $4,836 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 3.3. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split. Repeat gifts raise the contribution count faster than the donor count. The overlay for Cme 2014 holds the rows.

101 unique donors are contributor identities, not a headcount of employees, licensees, or members. Retirees and household members who reuse a workplace or title can appear. Unitemized gifts never appear in $488,460. State-office campaigns never enter this cell. A later amendment can restate a large transfer while most of the 336 small lines stay put. After quarterly filings, reread the live overlay. If that hub and this snapshot disagree, FEC.gov controls.

2014 as the cycle dimension

The 2014 election cycle hub includes every stored employer or occupation for that window. CME is one cell in that matrix. This packet does not publish a cycle-wide denominator, so no national share is stated. Open the 2014 election cycle to drop the employer grouping filter and CME to drop the year. FEC cycle 2014 covers 2013–2014. A gift dated in the odd year and a gift dated in the even year can share the $488,460 cell because the cycle is a two-year tag, not a single Tuesday.

That mechanical fact is easy to forget when a searcher wants an election-night number. The overlay is where dates become visible. This join publishes the cycle total, the 336 contributions, the 101 unique donors, and the 4.6% share of $10,607,839. Comparing CME in 2014 to another grouping requires that other grouping’s cycle hub. This packet has one grouping and one cycle.

Limits of the CME × 2014 join

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $488,460. CFTC, SEC, or other financial-regulator USAspending rows are different datasets. Sharing an employer or occupation string and a calendar year does not turn these gifts into contracts or grants. Correlation between a stored string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 101 donors, and 336 contributions.

CME GROUP, CME INC, CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE, and CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE are other keys if stored separately. LobbyVault does not merge neighboring spellings into CME. The key is not a Chicago Mercantile Exchange membership roll, not a CME Group PAC, and not a derivatives-volume statistic. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. A ranking of industries for 2014 is a different page — the 2014 election-cycle index — not a homemade sort of this file.

Citing CME and 2014 together

Start with $488,460, then Cme 2014 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2014 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: CME, 2014, $488,460, 336 contributions, 101 donors, 4.6% of $10,607,839, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string.

The 4.6% share, the 101 donors count, and the $1,454 mean gift belong to this intersection. Carry them onto a successor label or a sibling string and they stop being facts from this packet. This prose is a packet snapshot. If a later extract disagrees, FEC.gov and the live overlay control. Do not print a 2014 share of US politics from $488,460. The denominator for 4.6% is $10,607,839, the CME grouping in this extract, not every itemized dollar on FEC.gov.

Questions

How much did CME donors give in 2014?

FEC.gov aggregates show $488,460 in itemized individual contributions for the CME grouping in the 2014 cycle, across 336 contributions and 101 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $10,607,839 all-cycle figure. Cite FEC.gov for the CME × 2014 join.

What share of CME FEC money is 2014?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $10,607,839. The 2014 cell of $488,460 is about 4.6% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 95.4% ($10,119,379) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the CME hub holds other cycles.

Is this CME’s PAC or an official account?

No. $488,460 is itemized individual receipts whose employer or occupation text grouped to CME. Committee PAC filings and official organization accounts sit outside this rollup. The key is not a Chicago Mercantile Exchange membership roll, not a CME Group PAC, and not a derivatives-volume statistic. Filings remain on FEC.gov.

Where is the overlay for the CME 2014 join?

Open Cme 2014 for the cycle overlay, Cme for the grouping hub, and the 2014 election cycle for the year without this filter. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. This JSON file names the join; the overlay holds the itemized rows.