Dentist political contributions from Texas

Dentist and Texas as overlapping FEC fields

Occupation DENTIST and donor state TX produce $2,955,145, 8,920 contributions, and 799 donors. The occupation hub is $36,685,531, 143,346 contributions, and 10,521 donors. Texas’s dollar share is about 8.1%; contribution share about 6.2% (8,920 of 143,346); donor share about 7.6% (799 of 10,521). Seven hundred ninety-nine Texas donors are about 7.6% of 10,521 national donors; 8,920 contributions are about 6.2% of 143,346 national rows; dollars are about 8.1% 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 Texas professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

799 Texas donors produced 8,920 contributions, about 11.2 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 Texas cell is about $331, against about $256 nationwide. Texas’s about 8.1% share of $36,685,531 is a many-person professional slice, not a handful of large checks.

DENTIST as a common clinical string

DENTIST is a filer-entered string. The FEC file does not verify a dental license in Texas or any other state. The words on the form are 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 Texas (TX). Ten thousand five hundred twenty-one national donors make this a many-person bucket. This tie asks how much of that labeled money also carries donor state TX.

Texas on the state side

799 Texas donors produced 8,920 contributions totaling $2,955,145. Donor state TX is the address on the record, not proof of a Texas license, and not a limit to Texas candidates. TX is the address on the itemized record, not proof of a Texas dental license, and not a map of which campaigns received the $2,955,145.

The Texas campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to TX. This join is only DENTIST. The Dentist occupation hub without Texas still holds about 91.9% of the $36,685,531. Texas’s state hub includes every other occupation coded to TX. DENTIST is only this filter.

What the 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 and not PHYSICIAN even when filers meant a clinical practice. Senior Vice President in Texas is a different occupation-state pair.

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

Three numbers, two fields, one Dentist filter

Subtract the Texas 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 ($33,730,386) 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 799 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 8,920 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $2,955,145 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Texas dollars, or only the DENTIST national total, drops a key. Seven hundred ninety-nine donors producing 8,920 contributions totaling $2,955,145 is the fact to keep next to the dollar headline.

Related tables

Dentist donations holds the $36,685,531 national occupation total. Texas 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. Senior Vice President in Texas is a different occupation-state tie with different facts.

Questions

How much have Dentist donors in Texas given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation DENTIST and state Texas total $2,955,145, from 8,920 contributions and 799 donors. Nationwide, DENTIST-coded receipts are $36,685,531 from 143,346 contributions and 10,521 donors. Texas is about 8.1% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Are these licensed Texas dentists?

The FEC file does not verify licenses. Occupation is the string DENTIST and state is TX. Filers who wrote DDS or ORTHODONTIST may sit in another bucket. Seven hundred ninety-nine donors are not a board roster. The 799 Texas donors used occupation DENTIST and state TX. Filers who wrote ORTHODONTIST or DDS 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 Texas?

About 8.1% of the $36,685,531 occupation total is in this Texas join ($2,955,145). Texas also accounts for about 6.2% of contributions (8,920 of 143,346) and about 7.6% of donors (799 of 10,521). About 8.1% of dollars from 799 of 10,521 donors and 8,920 of 143,346 contributions.

Does this money go to Texas candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Texas. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $2,955,145 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to TX; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.