Dentist political contributions from Virginia

The Dentist–Virginia intersection

Occupation DENTIST and donor state VA produce $1,090,752, 3,440 contributions, and 314 donors. The occupation hub is $36,685,531, 143,346 contributions, and 10,521 donors. Virginia’s dollar share is about 3.0%; contribution share about 2.4% (3,440 of 143,346); donor share about 3.0% (314 of 10,521). Three hundred fourteen Virginia donors are 3.0% of 10,521 national DENTIST donors. Dollar share (about 3.0% of $36,685,531) outruns contribution share (about 2.4%).

DDS, ORAL SURGEON, and DENTAL, if used, sit in other hubs. Do not stack DENTIST with DDS or ORAL SURGEON into a single Virginia professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

314 Virginia donors produced 3,440 contributions, about 11.0 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 Virginia cell is about $317, against about $256 nationwide. Virginia’s higher mean is arithmetic on 3,440 rows, not a ranking of Northern Virginia practices. About 11.0 rows per donor here versus about 13.6 nationally.

DENTIST receipts with a Virginia address

DENTIST is a filer-entered string. The file does not verify a Virginia dental license. The word DENTIST plus VA 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 Virginia (VA). This page locates the Virginia overlap. It does not classify the 314 Virginia donors as general dentists or specialists.

Virginia as donor state

314 Virginia donors produced 3,440 contributions totaling $1,090,752. Donor state VA is the address on the record, not proof of a Virginia license, and not a limit to Virginia candidates. VA is the address on the itemized record, not proof of a Virginia dental license and not a limit to Virginia candidates. Northern Virginia and the rest of the state share the same code.

The Virginia campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to VA. This join is only DENTIST. The Dentist occupation hub without Virginia still holds about 97.0% of the $36,685,531. Virginia’s state hub includes every occupation coded to VA. DENTIST is only this filter.

What not to infer from Dentist plus Virginia

This page does not merge DDS dollars, treat donors as federal contractors, or claim that Dentist-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. DENTIST plus VA is a bookkeeping join. This page does not offer dental advice.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. DENTIST is not a Virginia dental-board roster. Donor state VA is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. Practice names are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Dentist filter

Subtract the Virginia 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 ($35,594,779) 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 314 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 3,440 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $1,090,752 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Virginia dollars, or only the DENTIST national total, drops a key. Three hundred fourteen donors producing 3,440 contributions is the fact to keep next to the $1,090,752 headline.

Related tables

Dentist donations holds the $36,685,531 national occupation total. Virginia 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. Pennsylvania Dentist sits at the national mean; Michigan has more donors. Do not add those cells here.

Questions

How much have Dentist donors in Virginia given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation DENTIST and state Virginia total $1,090,752, from 3,440 contributions and 314 donors. Nationwide, DENTIST-coded receipts are $36,685,531 from 143,346 contributions and 10,521 donors. Virginia is about 3.0% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Are these licensed Virginia dentists?

The FEC file does not verify licenses. Occupation is DENTIST and state is VA. Three hundred fourteen donors are not a dental-board extract. The 314 Virginia donors used occupation DENTIST and state VA. Filers who wrote DDS or ORAL SURGEON 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 Virginia?

About 3.0% of the $36,685,531 occupation total is in this Virginia join ($1,090,752). Virginia also accounts for about 2.4% of contributions (3,440 of 143,346) and about 3.0% of donors (314 of 10,521). About 3.0% of dollars from 314 of 10,521 donors; contribution share is about 2.4%.

Does this money go to Virginia candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Virginia. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $1,090,752 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to VA; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.