Golden, CO political money — 2014 cycle

Golden, CO political money in 2014

The join keeps donor city Golden in Colorado and election cycle 2014. The match is $298,185 across 52 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $24,169,646. 2014 therefore accounts for 1.2% of Golden, CO itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $23,871,461 (98.8%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Golden, CO. That hub mixes 2014 with every other even-year window filed under GOLDEN. It is also not a restatement of the 2014 election cycle hub, which mixes Golden, CO with every other donor city in the United States. The 52 rows and $298,185 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 and suburb-versus-city choices can split a metro across multiple city pages. Golden, CO here is the string that survived aggregation as GOLDEN in CO. 2014 is a midterm FEC cycle: a two-year window without a presidential general election. That calendar fact does not explain why Golden, CO donors itemized $298,185. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

The Golden, CO side of the join

The city aggregate for Golden, CO is $24,169,646 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 $298,185 from 2014 and the $23,871,461 from every other cycle in the same city file. Colorado campaign-finance pages still mix Golden with every other city in Colorado.

The stored city sits in Jefferson County, Colorado, west of Denver. Denver, Boulder, and Lakewood are not rolled into GOLDEN. State CO stays on the citation so Golden, CO is not merged with Golden in another state. $24,169,646 is the CO key only. A large city total does not mean 2014 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2014 was small. For Golden, CO, the city stack is $24,169,646 while this cycle is $298,185 (1.2%). Use the city hub to see Golden, CO without a year filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Golden 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 side for Colorado filers in Golden

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2014 cycle is the Commission's cycle tag on itemized receipts, not a calendar year of January gifts only. Inside that window, Golden, CO donors itemized $298,185 on 52 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $5,734 per itemized gift. That mean is an arithmetic average of rows, not a typical donor and not a median. 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 Golden × 2014. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 52 itemized rows is a sparse file. Adjacent pages for Golden, CO, 2014 election cycle, and Colorado campaign finance keep those broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only.

2014 versus the rest of Golden

1.2% of $24,169,646 is a modest slice. The city hub is mostly other even-year windows, totaling $23,871,461. Put another way, about 1.2% of Golden, CO's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2014, and about 98.8% were not. Those percentages are $298,185 divided by $24,169,646 and $23,871,461 divided by $24,169,646. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (1.2%) and row volume (52 itemized gifts) are separate facts. A modest slice of citywide dollars can sit next to a sparse 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 1.2% as Golden's share of the 2014 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

Counts, dollars, and what they omit

52 itemized contributions totaling $298,185 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 GOLDEN. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Golden versus other Colorado cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $5,734 uses only the two numbers in the join: $298,185 and 52 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 $298,185 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed GOLDEN is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Golden.

Caveats on a geographic-cycle join

This page does not rank Golden 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. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Golden, CO hub or the live 2014 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Golden, 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 Golden, CO donors give in the 2014 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Golden, CO total $298,185 in the 2014 cycle, across 52 contribution records. The same city label totals $24,169,646 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2014 is 1.2% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Golden, CO city total only for 2014?

No. The city aggregate of $24,169,646 covers every cycle in the table for GOLDEN. The 2014 filter is $298,185 from 52 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $23,871,461. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2014 slice.

Did Golden, CO 2014 donations stay in Colorado?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Golden, CO; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $298,185 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 Golden, CO contributions were itemized in 2014?

52 itemized contribution records sum to $298,185. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $5,734 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.