Darien, CT political money — 2014 cycle

Darien, CT meets the 2014 midterm cycle

$169,120 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city DARIEN with state CT, and election cycle 2014. The match is $169,120 across 134 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $39,856,288. 2014 therefore accounts for 0.42% of Darien, CT itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $39,687,168 (99.6%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Darien, CT. That hub mixes 2014 with every other even-year window filed under DARIEN. It is also not a restatement of the 2014 election cycle hub, which mixes Darien, CT with every other donor city in the United States. The 134 rows and $169,120 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.

The packet facts stop at city, state, city-wide total, cycle, cycle total, and contribution count. No donor names appear here because none appear in the packet. No committee list appears here because none appears in the packet. This page is not a Connecticut SEEC state-campaign total, a Gold Coast ranking, or a New York City rollup. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

DARIEN as a Fairfield County city key

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city DARIEN in Connecticut totals $39.9 million ($39,856,288). $169,120 is 0.42% of that city book. A small share does not mean 2014 was quiet in Darien; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. Do not add $169,120 to $39,856,288; the city book already contains this slice. Subtracting is valid: $39,856,288 − $169,120 = $39,687,168 in other cycles.

The stored city sits in Fairfield County, Connecticut. New Canaan, Norwalk, and Stamford are other FEC city strings, not rolled into DARIEN. State CT stays on the citation so Darien is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $39.9 million is the CT key only. Donor city is not recipient city: committees that received these gifts can file from anywhere in the FEC system.

Midterm coding on 134 Darien receipts

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. 2014 is a midterm election cycle: a two-year FEC window labeled by its even year, without a presidential general on the ballot. Inside that window, Darien, CT filers itemized $169,120 on 134 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,262 per itemized gift ($169,120 ÷ 134). That mean is an arithmetic average of rows, not a typical resident and not a median. This page does not publish a median or a unique-donor count.

a 134-row extract — a mid-size receipt file for this town string, still Schedule A lines. The national 2014 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Connecticut still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Darien × 2014. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. Connecticut campaign-finance pages already contain this city when the same extract is used; do not add $169,120 into the state hub a second time.

2014 versus other cycles in the Darien book

0.42% of $39,856,288 is the 2014 slice. Put another way, about 0.42% of Darien, CT’s itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2014, and about 99.6% were not. Those percentages are $169,120 divided by $39,856,288 and $39,687,168 divided by $39,856,288. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.42%) and row volume (134 itemized gifts) are separate facts. This 2014 page is not the 2012 Darien join. Each even-year tag is its own city-cycle URL. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.42% as Darien’s share of the 2014 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

134 rows produce a mean, not a unique-donor count

134 itemized contributions totaling $169,120 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 DARIEN. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Darien versus other Connecticut cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,262 uses only the two numbers in the join: $169,120 and 134 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 $169,120 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed DARIEN is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Darien.

What Darien–2014 cannot support

This page does not rank Darien against other cities, does not call 2014 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in Connecticut. Two columns matched. A CT address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a Connecticut candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Darien, CT hub or the live 2014 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls. New York City keys are other rows. A Darien, CT receipt is not recoded into NY even when the commute story is regional.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Darien, CT, the 2014 election cycle, Connecticut campaign finance, and All FEC ties for the adjacent tables. Greenwich and Westport are other Fairfield County strings. They are not folded into DARIEN. 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 Darien, CT donors give in the 2014 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Darien, CT total $169,120 in the 2014 cycle, across 134 contribution records. The same city label totals $39,856,288 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2014 is 0.42% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is Darien’s citywide FEC total only from 2014?

No. The city aggregate of $39,856,288 covers every cycle in the table for DARIEN. The 2014 filter is $169,120 from 134 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $39,687,168. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2014 slice.

Were 2014 Darien gifts limited to Connecticut races?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Darien, CT; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $169,120 by office, state of the committee, or party. A CT city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Connecticut races.

How many Darien, CT contributions were itemized in 2014?

134 itemized contribution records sum to $169,120. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,262 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.