Dentist political contributions from Florida

Dentist and Florida as overlapping FEC fields

Occupation DENTIST and donor state FL produce $2,021,646, 6,951 contributions, and 617 donors. The occupation hub is $36,685,531, 143,346 contributions, and 10,521 donors. Florida’s dollar share is about 5.5%; contribution share about 4.8% (6,951 of 143,346); donor share about 5.9% (617 of 10,521). Six hundred seventeen Florida donors are about 5.9% of 10,521 national donors; 6,951 contributions are about 4.8% of 143,346 national rows; dollars are about 5.5% of $36,685,531.

ORTHODONTIST, ORAL SURGEON, DDS, and DMD, if used, sit in other hubs and should not be added to this Dentist total. Do not stack DENTIST with ORTHODONTIST or DDS into a single Florida professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

617 Florida donors produced 6,951 contributions, about 11.3 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 13.6 rows per donor nationally (143,346 contributions from 10,521 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this Florida cell is about $291, against about $256 nationwide. Florida’s about 5.5% share of $36,685,531 from 617 people is a many-person professional slice, not a handful of large checks.

DENTIST as a clinical-title string

DENTIST is a filer-entered string. The FEC file does not verify a Florida dental license, a specialty, or a practice setting. The word on the form is the filter. The $36,685,531 national total is DENTIST only. 10,521 donors produced 143,346 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 143,346 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to Florida (FL). Ten thousand five hundred twenty-one national donors make DENTIST a many-person bucket. This tie asks how much of that labeled money also carries donor state FL.

Florida on the Dentist state side

617 Florida donors produced 6,951 contributions totaling $2,021,646. Donor state FL is the address on the record, not proof of a Florida license, and not a limit to Florida candidates. FL is the address on the itemized record, not proof of a Florida license, and not a map of which campaigns received the $2,021,646.

The Florida campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to FL. This join is only DENTIST. The Dentist occupation hub without Florida still holds about 94.5% of the $36,685,531. Florida’s state hub includes every other occupation coded to FL. DENTIST is only this filter.

What the Dentist–Florida join is not

This page does not count licensed dentists, merge orthodontist dollars, or claim that Dentist-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. DENTIST is not ORTHODONTIST even when filers meant a clinical practice. This cell is not the North Carolina or Georgia Dentist pair.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. DENTIST is not a licensing-board extract. Donor state FL is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. License numbers are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Florida Dentist filter

Subtract the Florida dollars on this page from the national DENTIST occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded DENTIST in every other state combined. That remainder ($34,663,885) 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 617 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 6,951 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $2,021,646 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Florida dollars, or only the DENTIST national total, drops a key. Six hundred seventeen donors producing 6,951 contributions is the fact to keep next to the $2,021,646 headline.

Related tables

Dentist donations holds the $36,685,531 national occupation total. Florida 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. North Carolina and Georgia have separate Dentist occupation-state ties in this same slice; do not add those dollars here.

Questions

How much have Dentist donors in Florida given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation DENTIST and state Florida total $2,021,646, from 6,951 contributions and 617 donors. Nationwide, DENTIST-coded receipts are $36,685,531 from 143,346 contributions and 10,521 donors. Florida is about 5.5% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Are these licensed Florida dentists?

The FEC file does not verify licenses. Occupation is DENTIST and state is FL. Filers who wrote DDS or ORTHODONTIST may sit in another bucket. The 617 Florida donors used occupation DENTIST and state FL. Filers who wrote ORTHODONTIST or DMD may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Dentist FEC money is from Florida?

About 5.5% of the $36,685,531 occupation total is in this Florida join ($2,021,646). Florida also accounts for about 4.8% of contributions (6,951 of 143,346) and about 5.9% of donors (617 of 10,521). About 5.5% of dollars from 617 of 10,521 donors and 6,951 of 143,346 contributions.

Does this money go to Florida candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Florida. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $2,021,646 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to FL; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.