Denver, CO political money — 2014 cycle

Denver, CO and the 2014 election cycle

The join keeps donor city Denver in Colorado and election cycle 2014. The match is $2,541,613 across 753 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $238,927,176. 2014 therefore accounts for 1.1% of Denver, CO itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $236,385,563 (98.9%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Denver, CO. That hub mixes 2014 with every other even-year window filed under DENVER. It is also not a restatement of the 2014 election cycle hub, which mixes Denver, CO with every other donor city in the United States. The 753 rows and $2,541,613 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.

FEC individual contribution files record the contributor's city as entered on the itemized receipt. Spellings, abbreviations, and suburb-versus-city choices can split a metro across multiple city pages. Denver, CO here is the string that survived aggregation as DENVER in CO. 2014 is a midterm FEC cycle: a two-year window without a presidential general election. That calendar fact does not explain why Denver, CO donors itemized $2,541,613. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

What the Denver, CO city total covers

The city aggregate for Denver, CO is $238,927,176 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 $2,541,613 from 2014 and the $236,385,563 from every other cycle in the same city file. Colorado campaign-finance pages still mix Denver with every other city in Colorado.

A large city total does not mean 2014 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2014 was small. For Denver, CO, the city stack is $238,927,176 while this cycle is $2,541,613 (1.1%). Use the city hub to see Denver, CO without a year filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Denver in 2014. Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

The 2014 cycle slice: 753 itemized gifts

The 2014 election cycle is a two-year FEC reporting window labeled by its even year. Inside that window, Denver, CO donors itemized $2,541,613 on 753 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $3,375 per itemized gift. That mean is an arithmetic average of rows, not a typical donor and not a median. A few large receipts can lift the mean while most rows sit far below it. This page does not publish a median or a unique-donor count.

The national 2014 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Colorado still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Denver × 2014. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures, party coordinated spends, and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 753 itemized rows is a busy but not enormous file. It is large enough that a handful of gifts cannot explain the entire $2,541,613. Adjacent pages for Denver, CO, 2014 election cycle, and Colorado campaign finance keep those broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only.

1.1% of citywide FEC dollars

1.1% of $238,927,176 is a modest slice. Most of the Denver, CO aggregate — $236,385,563 — sits in other cycles. Put another way, about 1.1% of Denver, CO's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2014, and about 98.9% were not. Those percentages are $2,541,613 divided by $238,927,176 and $236,385,563 divided by $238,927,176. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (1.1%) and row volume (753 itemized gifts) are separate facts. A modest slice of citywide dollars can sit next to a busy contribution file; those labels describe this pair, not other cities. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 1.1% as Denver's share of the 2014 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

Itemized rows, not a census of every donor

753 itemized contributions totaling $2,541,613 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 DENVER. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Denver versus other Colorado cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $3,375 uses only the two numbers in the join: $2,541,613 and 753 rows. It is a trivial ratio, not a finding about wealth, turnout, or ideology. Employer and occupation strings on those receipts are other joins. This city-cycle page does not break the $2,541,613 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee.

What this join is not

This page does not rank Denver against other cities, does not call 2014 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in Colorado. Two columns matched. The city of the contributor is not the city of the campaign. A CO address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a Colorado candidate.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Denver, CO, the 2014 election cycle, Colorado 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.

Questions

How much did Denver, CO donors give in the 2014 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Denver, CO total $2,541,613 in the 2014 cycle, across 753 contribution records. The same city label totals $238,927,176 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2014 is 1.1% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Denver, CO city total only for 2014?

No. The city aggregate of $238,927,176 covers every cycle in the table for DENVER. The 2014 filter is $2,541,613 from 753 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $236,385,563. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2014 slice.

Did Denver, CO 2014 donations stay in Colorado?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Denver, CO; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $2,541,613 by office, state of the committee, or party. A CO city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Colorado races.

How many Denver, CO contributions were itemized in 2014?

753 itemized contribution records sum to $2,541,613. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $3,375 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.