Doctor political contributions from Illinois

The Doctor–Illinois intersection

Occupation DOCTOR and donor state IL produce $1,350,493, 7,738 contributions, and 255 donors. The occupation hub is $33,843,608, 97,205 contributions, and 7,623 donors. Illinois’s dollar share is about 4.0%; contribution share about 8.0% (7,738 of 97,205); donor share about 3.3% (255 of 7,623). Two hundred fifty-five Illinois donors are 3.3% of 7,623 national DOCTOR donors. Contribution volume (7,738 of 97,205) outruns the dollar share, a row-heavy pattern on a short medical label.

PHYSICIAN, MD, and MEDICAL DOCTOR, if used, sit in other hubs. Do not stack DOCTOR with PHYSICIAN or MD into a single Illinois professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

255 Illinois donors produced 7,738 contributions, about 30.3 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 12.8 rows per donor nationally (97,205 contributions from 7,623 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this Illinois cell is about $175, against about $348 nationwide. Illinois’s share of $33,843,608 is an address-coded slice, not a ranking of Chicago hospitals. Mean gift here is about $175, well below the national Doctor mean of about $348, consistent with many smaller itemized rows.

DOCTOR as a short medical occupation string

DOCTOR is a filer-entered string. The word can mean a physician, a dentist who wrote doctor, a PhD, or another doctorate. The FEC file does not split those uses. The $33,843,608 national total is DOCTOR only. 7,623 donors produced 97,205 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 97,205 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to Illinois (IL). This page locates the Illinois overlap. It does not classify the 255 Illinois donors by specialty, license, or employer.

Illinois as donor state

255 Illinois donors produced 7,738 contributions totaling $1,350,493. Donor state IL is the address on the record, not proof of a Illinois license, and not a limit to Illinois candidates. IL is the address on the itemized record, not proof of an Illinois medical license and not a limit to Illinois candidates. Hospital privileges are unpublished.

The Illinois campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to IL. This join is only DOCTOR. The Doctor occupation hub without Illinois still holds about 96.0% of the $33,843,608. Illinois’s state hub includes every occupation coded to IL. DOCTOR is only this filter.

What not to infer from Doctor plus Illinois

This page does not merge Physician or MD dollars, verify licenses, or claim that Doctor-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. DOCTOR is not PHYSICIAN even when filers meant the same clinic. Those strings, if used, never enter the $1,350,493.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. DOCTOR is not a medical-board roster. Donor state IL is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. This page does not offer medical advice.

Three numbers, two fields, one Doctor filter

Subtract the Illinois dollars on this page from the national DOCTOR occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded DOCTOR in every other state combined. That remainder ($32,493,115) 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 255 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 7,738 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $1,350,493 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Illinois dollars, or only the DOCTOR national total, drops a key. Two hundred fifty-five donors producing 7,738 contributions is the row-heavy fact to keep next to the $1,350,493 headline.

Related tables

Doctor donations holds the $33,843,608 national occupation total. Illinois 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. PHYSICIAN and MD are different occupation hubs if those strings exist.

Questions

How much have Doctor donors in Illinois given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation DOCTOR and state Illinois total $1,350,493, from 7,738 contributions and 255 donors. Nationwide, DOCTOR-coded receipts are $33,843,608 from 97,205 contributions and 7,623 donors. Illinois is about 4.0% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Does Doctor mean licensed Illinois physicians?

The file does not verify licenses. Occupation is DOCTOR and state is IL. PHYSICIAN and MD are other keys. Two hundred fifty-five donors are not a medical-board extract. The 255 Illinois donors used occupation DOCTOR and state IL. Filers who wrote PHYSICIAN or MD may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Doctor FEC money is from Illinois?

About 4.0% of the $33,843,608 occupation total is in this Illinois join ($1,350,493). Illinois also accounts for about 8.0% of contributions (7,738 of 97,205) and about 3.3% of donors (255 of 7,623). About 4.0% of dollars and about 8.0% of contributions from 255 of 7,623 donors.

Does this money go to Illinois candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Illinois. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $1,350,493 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to IL; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.