Washington, DC political money — 2014 cycle

Washington, DC political money in 2014

The join keeps donor city Washington in District of Columbia and election cycle 2014. The match is $1,734,660 across 1,240 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $3,742,866,190. 2014 therefore accounts for 0.05% of Washington, DC itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $3,741,131,530 (100.0%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Washington, DC. That hub mixes 2014 with every other even-year window filed under WASHINGTON. It is also not a restatement of the 2014 election cycle hub, which mixes Washington, DC with every other donor city in the United States. The 1,240 rows and $1,734,660 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.

FEC individual contribution files record the contributor's city as entered on the itemized receipt. Spellings, abbreviations, and suburb-versus-city choices can split a metro across multiple city pages. Washington, DC here is the string that survived aggregation as WASHINGTON in DC. 2014 is a midterm FEC cycle: a two-year window without a presidential general election. That calendar fact does not explain why Washington, DC donors itemized $1,734,660. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

Reading the Washington city aggregate

The city aggregate for Washington, DC is $3,742,866,190 in itemized individual contributions. That figure is the running total for this city label across cycles, not a single-year census and not a count of unique residents. It includes the $1,734,660 from 2014 and the $3,741,131,530 from every other cycle in the same city file. District of Columbia campaign-finance pages still mix Washington with every other city in the District of Columbia.

A large city total does not mean 2014 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2014 was small. For Washington, DC, the city stack is $3,742,866,190 while this cycle is $1,734,660 (0.05%). Use the city hub to see Washington, DC without a year filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Washington in 2014. Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

Reading the 2014 election-cycle filter

The 2014 election cycle is a two-year FEC reporting window labeled by its even year. Inside that window, Washington, DC donors itemized $1,734,660 on 1,240 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,399 per itemized gift. That mean is an arithmetic average of rows, not a typical donor and not a median. A few large receipts can lift the mean while most rows sit far below it. This page does not publish a median or a unique-donor count.

The national 2014 hub still includes every other city. State pages for District of Columbia still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Washington × 2014. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures, party coordinated spends, and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 1,240 itemized contribution rows is a dense file for a single city-cycle pair. That count is still not unique donors: one person can appear on many rows. Adjacent pages for Washington, DC, 2014 election cycle, and District of Columbia campaign finance keep those broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only.

2014 versus the rest of Washington

0.05% of $3,742,866,190 is a thin slice. Washington, DC remains a large multi-cycle file; 2014 is one filter on that stack. Put another way, about 0.05% of Washington, DC's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2014, and about 100.0% were not. Those percentages are $1,734,660 divided by $3,742,866,190 and $3,741,131,530 divided by $3,742,866,190. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.05%) and row volume (1,240 itemized gifts) are separate facts. A thin slice of citywide dollars can sit next to a dense contribution 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 0.05% as Washington's share of the 2014 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

Counts, dollars, and what they omit

1,240 itemized contributions totaling $1,734,660 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 WASHINGTON. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Washington versus other District of Columbia cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,399 uses only the two numbers in the join: $1,734,660 and 1,240 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 $1,734,660 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee.

Caveats on a geographic-cycle join

This page does not rank Washington against other cities, does not call 2014 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in the District of Columbia. Two columns matched. The city of the contributor is not the city of the campaign. A DC address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a District of Columbia candidate.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Washington, DC, the 2014 election cycle, District of Columbia campaign finance, and all FEC ties for the adjacent tables. 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 Washington, DC donors give in the 2014 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Washington, DC total $1,734,660 in the 2014 cycle, across 1,240 contribution records. The same city label totals $3,742,866,190 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2014 is 0.05% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Washington, DC city total only for 2014?

No. The city aggregate of $3,742,866,190 covers every cycle in the table for WASHINGTON. The 2014 filter is $1,734,660 from 1,240 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $3,741,131,530. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2014 slice.

Did Washington, DC 2014 donations stay in District of Columbia?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Washington, DC; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $1,734,660 by office, state of the committee, or party. A DC city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of District of Columbia races.

How many Washington, DC contributions were itemized in 2014?

1,240 itemized contribution records sum to $1,734,660. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,399 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.