Englewood, CO political money — 2012 cycle

Joining donor city Englewood with cycle 2012

The join keeps donor city Englewood in Colorado and election cycle 2012. The match is $416,797 across 338 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $65,234,014. 2012 therefore accounts for 0.64% of Englewood, CO itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $64,817,217 (99.4%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Englewood, CO. That hub mixes 2012 with every other even-year window filed under ENGLEWOOD. It is also not a restatement of the 2012 election cycle hub, which mixes Englewood, CO with every other donor city in the United States. The 338 rows and $416,797 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. Englewood, CO here is the string that survived aggregation as ENGLEWOOD in CO. 2012 is a presidential FEC cycle: a two-year window that includes a presidential general election. This page does not split the $416,797 by office, party, or candidate. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

Englewood, CO across every cycle in the aggregate

The city aggregate for Englewood, CO is $65,234,014 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 $416,797 from 2012 and the $64,817,217 from every other cycle in the same city file. Colorado campaign-finance pages still mix Englewood with every other city in Colorado.

A large city total does not mean 2012 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2012 was small. For Englewood, CO, the city stack is $65,234,014 while this cycle is $416,797 (0.64%). Use the city hub to see Englewood, CO without a year filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Englewood in 2012. Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

2012 as a two-year FEC window

The 2012 election cycle is a two-year FEC reporting window labeled by its even year. Inside that window, Englewood, CO donors itemized $416,797 on 338 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,233 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 2012 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Colorado still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Englewood × 2012. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures, party coordinated spends, and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 338 itemized contribution rows is a moderate file. The dollar total can still be skewed by a few large gifts without this page naming them. Adjacent pages for Englewood, CO, 2012 election cycle, and Colorado campaign finance keep those broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only.

Share of $65,234,014 sitting in 2012

0.64% of $65,234,014 is a modest slice. Englewood, CO remains a multi-cycle file; 2012 is one filter on that stack. Put another way, about 0.64% of Englewood, CO's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2012, and about 99.4% were not. Those percentages are $416,797 divided by $65,234,014 and $64,817,217 divided by $65,234,014. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.64%) and row volume (338 itemized gifts) are separate facts. A modest slice of citywide dollars can sit next to a moderate 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 0.64% as Englewood's share of the 2012 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

338 contribution records from one city-cycle pair

338 itemized contributions totaling $416,797 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 ENGLEWOOD. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Englewood versus other Colorado cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,233 uses only the two numbers in the join: $416,797 and 338 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 $416,797 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee.

Limits of a city-by-cycle table

This page does not rank Englewood against other cities, does not call 2012 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 Englewood, CO, the 2012 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 Englewood, CO donors give in the 2012 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Englewood, CO total $416,797 in the 2012 cycle, across 338 contribution records. The same city label totals $65,234,014 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2012 is 0.64% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Englewood, CO city total only for 2012?

No. The city aggregate of $65,234,014 covers every cycle in the table for ENGLEWOOD. The 2012 filter is $416,797 from 338 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $64,817,217. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2012 slice.

Did Englewood, CO 2012 donations stay in Colorado?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Englewood, CO; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $416,797 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 Englewood, CO contributions were itemized in 2012?

338 itemized contribution records sum to $416,797. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,233 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.