Why does Fairfield, CT have a separate 2014 page?

Because the city hub and the cycle hub answer different questions. Fairfield, CT across cycles is $24,944,085. 2014 nationally mixes every donor city. The tie page isolates contributor city FAIRFIELD in CT during cycle 2014: $158,123 across 111 itemized receipts.

Can I add $158,123 to the Connecticut state total?

Do not add it a second time. Connecticut campaign-finance pages already include Fairfield when the same extract is used. Double-counting $158,123 inflates the state figure. This join is a filter, not a new pool of money sitting outside the state table.

What does the 2014 cycle tag mean for Fairfield?

2014 is a midterm election cycle: a two-year FEC window, not a single calendar year of January gifts. Inside that window, Fairfield, CT donors itemized $158,123 on 111 rows. The tag is the Commission’s cycle field on the receipt, not an explanation of motive.

Does this page name Fairfield committees or donors?

No. The packet has city, state, cycle, cycle dollars, cycle row count, and citywide dollars. It does not list contributor names, committee IDs, occupations, or parties. Inventing those labels would go beyond FEC.gov aggregates stored here. Use the live hubs for row-level browsing.

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Fairfield, CT political money — 2014 cycle

Subtract $158,123 from Fairfield, CT's $24,944,085 citywide itemized book and $24,785,962 remains in other cycles. The subtracted piece is the 2014 join: 111 FEC individual contribution records from contributor city FAIRFIELD in CT. Figures are FEC.gov aggregates. The subtraction is arithmetic on this extract, not a finding that 2014 was unusually high or low.

Key figures

Fairfield, CT donors itemized $158,123 in the 2014 FEC cycle across 111 contributions.
The Fairfield, CT city aggregate across cycles is $24,944,085; 2014 is 0.63% of that total.
This page joins donor city Fairfield with election cycle 2014; it is not the city hub or the national cycle hub.
Donor city is not recipient city; the $158,123 is not allocated by office or party here.
Mean itemized gift size is about $1,425 ($158,123 / 111 rows), not a unique-donor average.

Remainder math for Fairfield after 2014

$24,944,085 minus $158,123 equals $24,785,962. $158,123 is 0.63% of the city book; $24,785,962 is 99.4%. Both percentages use the same denominator. They are not shares of Connecticut and not shares of the national 2014 cycle. A thin slice of the citywide book describes this pair only.

The 2014 piece still has a row count (111, a mid-size itemized file) and a mean (about $1,425). 2014 is a midterm election cycle. Calendar class and remainder dollars are separate facts. Neither identifies recipients or donors by name.

What each hub still holds for Fairfield, CT

The city hub still holds $24,944,085, including the 2014 slice. The 2014 election cycle hub still holds every city, including Fairfield. This tie page holds only the overlap. Reading any one of those three pages as if it were the other two is the error this URL is meant to prevent.

Fairfield sits in Fairfield County, Connecticut. Fairfield, California is a different state key; Westport and Bridgeport are other Connecticut strings. State CT is part of the key. Connecticut campaign finance includes this city and every other city in the state; do not stack $158,123 onto that total.

Donor city is not recipient city. A CT address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a Connecticut candidate. Party, office, and committee ID are not in this packet.

Omitted money

Unitemized gifts never enter $158,123 or $24,944,085. Independent expenditures never enter them. State-office campaigns never enter them. Federal contract and grant obligations never enter them. All FEC ties lists other LobbyVault joins; none converts FEC receipts into USAspending awards.

City labels are filer-entered. Adjacent suburbs and neighborhood names are other keys. 111 counts lines stored as FAIRFIELD in 2014, not a metro total.

No ranking, no motive

This page does not rank Fairfield against other cities and does not treat itemized giving as public opinion. Correlation is not causation. Amended filings can revise either dollar figure. If live pages disagree, the newer FEC extract controls.

Source note, restated: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle. Original reports remain on the Commission site. LobbyVault indexes the join so a reader can hold $158,123 for Fairfield, CT in 2014 without mistaking it for the $24,944,085 city book. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission filing controls.

Source and next links

Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle. Continue to Fairfield, CT, the 2014 election cycle, Connecticut campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Operational definition: 111 itemized contributions totaling $158,123 for Fairfield, CT in 2014, against $24,944,085 citywide.

Dollar share (0.63%) and row volume (111) are separate facts. A thin dollar slice can sit next to a mid-size itemized 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 0.63% as Fairfield's share of the 2014 national cycle.

Occupation, industry, and committee cuts of $158,123 are other joins. This city-cycle page does not break the 111 receipts by employer, occupation, party, or recipient. Inventing those breakdowns would go beyond the facts. The only names on this page are the stored city string FAIRFIELD, the state CT, and the cycle year 2014.

A candidate who lives in Fairfield can raise money from other cities; those gifts are not this join. A candidate who lives elsewhere can raise money from Fairfield; those gifts are this join when the contributor city stored FAIRFIELD. Residence of the candidate is not a field in this packet. $158,123 is contributor geography in cycle 2014, nothing else.

Operational definition: contributor city FAIRFIELD in CT during election cycle 2014 equals $158,123 across 111 itemized individual contribution records. The same city label across every cycle in this extract equals $24,944,085. Subtracting the cycle from the book leaves $24,785,962 in other even-year windows. Those three dollar figures and the row count are the entire numeric inventory for this page. FEC.gov is the source. No donor names, committee IDs, occupation strings, or award recipients appear in the packet, so none are invented in this prose.

Questions

Why does Fairfield, CT have a separate 2014 page?: Because the city hub and the cycle hub answer different questions. Fairfield, CT across cycles is $24,944,085. 2014 nationally mixes every donor city. The tie page isolates contributor city FAIRFIELD in CT during cycle 2014: $158,123 across 111 itemized receipts.
Can I add $158,123 to the Connecticut state total?: Do not add it a second time. Connecticut campaign-finance pages already include Fairfield when the same extract is used. Double-counting $158,123 inflates the state figure. This join is a filter, not a new pool of money sitting outside the state table.
What does the 2014 cycle tag mean for Fairfield?: 2014 is a midterm election cycle: a two-year FEC window, not a single calendar year of January gifts. Inside that window, Fairfield, CT donors itemized $158,123 on 111 rows. The tag is the Commission’s cycle field on the receipt, not an explanation of motive.
Does this page name Fairfield committees or donors?: No. The packet has city, state, cycle, cycle dollars, cycle row count, and citywide dollars. It does not list contributor names, committee IDs, occupations, or parties. Inventing those labels would go beyond FEC.gov aggregates stored here. Use the live hubs for row-level browsing.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.