New Canaan, CT and the 2012 FEC election cycle

$140,524 is the intersection, not the city hub

Quote the join as “New Canaan, CT × 2012 = $140,524 (116 itemized contributions).” Do not quote $39,802,627 in the same sentence unless you label it as the all-cycle city total. About 0.35% of the stored New Canaan money sits in 2012; about 99.6% does not.

Source language: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle. That sentence is the sourceNote on this file. It does not cover committee-to-committee transfers, operating expenditures, or independent-expenditure filings. Those are other tables.

Why New Canaan is not a metro rollup

The city side of the join answers “which donor-city string?” The answer is NEW CANAAN in CT, displayed as New Canaan, CT. It does not answer “which ZIP,” “which employer,” or “which occupation.” Those are other LobbyVault dimensions. Occupation-cycle and city-industry pages are different kinds.

Lifetime city money $39,802,627 can look large next to a single-cycle cell of $140,524. That contrast is expected. It is not a finding that 2012 was a weak or strong year in any causal sense. Other cycles simply are not this page.

Nationwide 2012 pages versus this New Canaan cell

Calling 2012 a “presidential cycle” or a “midterm cycle” is calendar context for the even year. It is not a finding that $140,524 went to a presidential ticket or to House races. Recipient offices are not in the packet. Keep the citation as city × cycle dollars.

The cycle hub will include every city. This tie includes one city. Mixing those grains produces a false Connecticut or false national number. Stay on $140,524.

Missing grains: names, parties, offices

Same-city strings in other states are out. Same-year receipts with a different city spelling are out. ZIP codes that sit in New Canaan but were filed with another city name are out. New Canaan is stored as NEW CANAAN in Connecticut. Greenwich, Stamford, and Darien are not recoded into this string. Those exclusions are why $140,524 can look different from a journalist’s handmade city scrape.

Citation order: dollars, keys, source

City-industry, occupation-cycle, and committee-cycle pages answer other questions. This kind is city-cycle only. If a later packet adds donor counts or committee names, that would be a different file. This one stops at $140,524, 116, $39,802,627, 0.35%, and the keys NEW CANAAN / CT / 2012.

Keep the two sides named

Title and H1 name both sides because the page is a join. If a downstream template dropped 2012 or dropped New Canaan, the remaining label would describe the wrong object. Keep New Canaan, CT and 2012 in any reuse of $140,524. Restating without new facts: New Canaan, CT in 2012 is $140,524 from 116 itemized individual contributions on FEC.gov. The city string stores $39,802,627 across cycles, so this window is about 0.35% and other windows hold $39,662,103. Arithmetic mean per line is about $1,211. Unique donors, recipient committees, party split, and USAspending dollars are not in the packet. Live overlays at the city hub, the 2012 hub, and All FEC ties outrank this snapshot if they differ. Keep both join sides in any reuse of $140,524: donor city New Canaan, CT and FEC cycle 2012, sourced from FEC.gov itemized individual receipts. The 116 contribution lines are volume for this cell only and are not added to counts from other New Canaan cycle pages. City lifetime money $39,802,627 already includes the 2012 window; do not add $140,524 to $39,802,627.

New Canaan, CT remains one donor-city string on FEC.gov. Cycle 2012 remains one even-year tag. Together they produce $140,524 from 116 itemized individual contributions. The city key still stores $39,802,627 when every stored cycle is included, so 2012 is about 0.35% of that running total and $39,662,103 sits in other windows. Those other windows are not listed here and are not estimated. Mean line size about $1,211 is $140,524 divided by 116, an arithmetic mean rather than a median.

Questions

How much did New Canaan donors give in 2012?

The 2012 cell for New Canaan, CT is $140,524 across 116 itemized individual contributions. FEC.gov is the source. The same city string stores $39,802,627 when every cycle is included, so 2012 is about 0.35% of that running sum. No donor names are published in this aggregate.

What share of New Canaan FEC money is 2012?

$140,524 divided by $39,802,627 is about 0.35%. Remainder $39,662,103 belongs to other cycles stored on the same NEW CANAAN key. Do not read the percentage as a share of Connecticut giving or of all 2012 itemized gifts. Those denominators are absent from the packet.

Are Greenwich gifts counted as New Canaan?

Only the FEC city field NEW CANAAN with state CT is in this cell. Neighboring towns, metro labels, and other spellings of New Canaan are other keys. New Canaan is stored as NEW CANAAN in Connecticut. Greenwich, Stamford, and Darien are not recoded into this string. The 2012 dollars remain $140,524 on that exact string.

Where are the New Canaan and 2012 overlay pages?

Use /cities/ct-new-canaan/ for New Canaan, CT without a year filter, /election-cycles/2012/ for the 2012 cycle without a city filter, /states/CT/ for statewide Connecticut context, and /ties/ for other two-dimension pages. This tie stays on $140,524 and 116 lines. Overlay pages are the current record if numbers move.