Construction political contributions from Louisiana

The Construction–Louisiana intersection

Occupation CONSTRUCTION and donor state LA produce $750,966, 630 contributions, and 73 donors. The occupation hub is $17,948,059, 56,051 contributions, and 3,900 donors. Louisiana’s dollar share is about 4.2%; contribution share about 1.1% (630 of 56,051); donor share about 1.9% (73 of 3,900). Seventy-three Louisiana donors sit inside 3,900 national CONSTRUCTION donors. Six hundred thirty contributions of 56,051 national rows is a thinner cell than Ohio’s 1,273-row Construction join.

CONTRACTOR, CONSTRUCTION OWNER, and BUILDER, if used, sit in other hubs. Do not stack CONSTRUCTION with CONTRACTOR or BUILDER into a single Louisiana professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

73 Louisiana donors produced 630 contributions, about 8.6 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 14.4 rows per donor nationally (56,051 contributions from 3,900 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this Louisiana cell is about $1,192, against about $320 nationwide. Louisiana’s $750,966 is not a coastal-restoration or petrochemical-plant bid total. Place of donor address is LA, not a project site and not a NAICS code.

CONSTRUCTION as a one-word occupation bucket

CONSTRUCTION is a filer-entered string. A single word on Schedule A does not identify a trade, a hurricane-recovery contract, or a firm size. The $17,948,059 national total is CONSTRUCTION only. 3,900 donors produced 56,051 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 56,051 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to Louisiana (LA). The national occupation still holds $17,948,059. This tie asks only how much of that labeled money also carries donor state LA.

Louisiana as donor state

73 Louisiana donors produced 630 contributions totaling $750,966. Donor state LA is the address on the record, not proof of a Louisiana license, and not a limit to Louisiana candidates. LA is the address on the itemized record, not proof of a Louisiana contractor license, and not a map of which campaigns received the $750,966.

The Louisiana campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to LA. This join is only CONSTRUCTION. The Construction occupation hub without Louisiana still holds about 95.8% of the $17,948,059. Louisiana’s state hub includes every occupation coded to LA. CONSTRUCTION is only this filter.

What not to infer from Construction plus Louisiana

This page does not count licensed contractors, mix Ohio dollars into this cell, or claim that Construction-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. Do not add the Ohio Construction join to this $750,966. Those are separate state keys on the same occupation string.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. CONSTRUCTION is not a NAICS construction extract. Donor state LA is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. Bid amounts are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Construction filter

Subtract the Louisiana dollars on this page from the national CONSTRUCTION occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded CONSTRUCTION in every other state combined. That remainder ($17,197,093) has no row-by-row breakdown here because those states are other ties. The occupation internal link holds the unlabeled-by-state total; the state internal link holds every occupation with this state code; the occupations index and the ties index place this pair among other joins built the same way.

A unique-donor count of 73 is not a person-level audit. The FEC aggregate can merge similar names or split one person who filed under variants. A contribution count of 630 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $750,966 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Louisiana dollars, or only the CONSTRUCTION national total, drops a key. Seventy-three donors producing 630 contributions totaling $750,966 is the fact to keep next to the dollar headline.

Related tables

Construction donations holds the $17,948,059 national occupation total. Louisiana campaign finance holds the state’s itemized individual activity across occupations. All occupations and all FEC ties collect other occupation-state pairs from the same two fields. AGENT is a different Louisiana occupation tie in this slice.

Questions

How much have Construction donors in Louisiana given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation CONSTRUCTION and state Louisiana total $750,966, from 630 contributions and 73 donors. Nationwide, CONSTRUCTION-coded receipts are $17,948,059 from 56,051 contributions and 3,900 donors. Louisiana is about 4.2% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Is this Louisiana public-works spending?

No. The hub is occupation CONSTRUCTION and donor state LA on FEC itemized individual receipts. It is not a bid tabulation and not USAspending. Seventy-three donors are not a license roster. The 73 Louisiana donors used occupation CONSTRUCTION and state LA. Filers who wrote CONTRACTOR or CONSTRUCTION OWNER may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Construction FEC money is from Louisiana?

About 4.2% of the $17,948,059 occupation total is in this Louisiana join ($750,966). Louisiana also accounts for about 1.1% of contributions (630 of 56,051) and about 1.9% of donors (73 of 3,900). Ohio’s Construction join is a different state cell and is not included here.

Does this money go to Louisiana candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Louisiana. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $750,966 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to LA; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.