Contractor political contributions from Louisiana

Contractor and Louisiana as overlapping FEC fields

Occupation CONTRACTOR and donor state LA produce $1,330,775, 1,676 contributions, and 163 donors. The occupation hub is $30,356,058, 92,735 contributions, and 6,738 donors. Louisiana’s dollar share is about 4.4%; contribution share about 1.8% (1,676 of 92,735); donor share about 2.4% (163 of 6,738). One hundred sixty-three Louisiana donors are about 2.4% of 6,738 national donors; 1,676 contributions are about 1.8% of 92,735 national rows; dollars are about 4.4% of $30,356,058.

GENERAL CONTRACTOR, CONSTRUCTION, and BUILDER, if used, sit in other hubs and should not be added to this Contractor total. Do not stack CONTRACTOR with GENERAL CONTRACTOR or BUILDER into a single Louisiana professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

163 Louisiana donors produced 1,676 contributions, about 10.3 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 13.8 rows per donor nationally (92,735 contributions from 6,738 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this Louisiana cell is about $794, against about $327 nationwide. Louisiana’s about 4.4% dollar share from 163 people runs ahead of the 1.8% contribution share, a larger-mean slice of a high-row occupation.

CONTRACTOR as a one-word trade string

CONTRACTOR is a filer-entered string. The FEC file does not verify a Louisiana contractor license, a trade, or a public-works bid. The word on the form is the filter. The $30,356,058 national total is CONTRACTOR only. 6,738 donors produced 92,735 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 92,735 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to Louisiana (LA). Six thousand seven hundred thirty-eight national donors make this a many-person bucket. This tie asks how much of that labeled money also carries donor state LA.

Louisiana on the state side

163 Louisiana donors produced 1,676 contributions totaling $1,330,775. 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 job site, and not a map of which campaigns received the $1,330,775.

The Louisiana campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to LA. This join is only CONTRACTOR. The Contractor occupation hub without Louisiana still holds about 95.6% of the $30,356,058. Louisiana’s state hub includes every other occupation coded to LA. CONTRACTOR is only this filter.

What the join is not

This page does not count licensed contractors, merge builder strings, or claim that Contractor-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. CONTRACTOR is not GENERAL CONTRACTOR even when filers meant a GC shop.

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

Three numbers, two fields, one Contractor filter

Subtract the Louisiana dollars on this page from the national CONTRACTOR occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded CONTRACTOR in every other state combined. That remainder ($29,025,283) 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 163 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 1,676 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $1,330,775 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 CONTRACTOR national total, drops a key. One hundred sixty-three donors producing 1,676 contributions is the fact to keep next to the $1,330,775 headline.

Related tables

Contractor donations holds the $30,356,058 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. Georgia has a separate Contractor occupation-state tie with different facts.

Questions

How much have Contractor donors in Louisiana given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation CONTRACTOR and state Louisiana total $1,330,775, from 1,676 contributions and 163 donors. Nationwide, CONTRACTOR-coded receipts are $30,356,058 from 92,735 contributions and 6,738 donors. Louisiana is about 4.4% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Are these licensed Louisiana contractors?

The FEC file does not verify licenses. Occupation is CONTRACTOR and state is LA. GENERAL CONTRACTOR is a different hub if that string exists. The 163 Louisiana donors used occupation CONTRACTOR and state LA. Filers who wrote GENERAL CONTRACTOR or CONSTRUCTION may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Contractor FEC money is from Louisiana?

About 4.4% of the $30,356,058 occupation total is in this Louisiana join ($1,330,775). Louisiana also accounts for about 1.8% of contributions (1,676 of 92,735) and about 2.4% of donors (163 of 6,738). Dollar share (about 4.4%) runs ahead of contribution share (about 1.8%).

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 $1,330,775 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.