Economist political contributions from Virginia

Economist in Virginia as a third cut of the same occupation

Occupation ECONOMIST and donor state VA produce $2,039,642, 8,449 contributions, and 317 donors. The occupation hub is $15,061,265, 47,419 contributions, and 1,790 donors. Virginia’s dollar share is about 14%; contribution share about 18% (8,449 of 47,419); donor share about 18% (317 of 1,790).

Contribution and donor shares (about 18%) run ahead of dollar share (about 14%). The Virginia-coded Economist slice is more numerous in people and rows relative to the national mix than it is heavy in dollars—the inverse of some other Economist state joins, where a smaller share of donors carries a larger share of dollars. Same $15,061,265 occupation total, different state filters, different shapes. Not a ranking of departments or agencies.

Three hundred seventeen Virginia donors produced 8,449 contributions, about 27 itemized rows per donor in this join, matching the national ratio of 47,419 contributions from 1,790 donors (about 26 rows). Virginia holds about 14% of the $15,061,265 and about 18% of donors—slightly people-heavy relative to dollars, the opposite shape from Massachusetts’s Economist join.

The ECONOMIST label

ECONOMIST is filer-entered. It does not record whether the person works at a university, a contractor, the Fed, or a consulting firm. One thousand seven hundred ninety donors and 47,419 contributions describe the labeled bucket nationwide.

Analyst is a separate Virginia occupation tie that uses a different occupation string. Do not add Analyst and Economist Virginia totals and call the sum research or policy giving. Different strings.

Virginia as donor state

Three hundred seventeen Virginia donors produced 8,449 contributions totaling $2,039,642. Donor state VA is the address on the record. It does not prove a Richmond or Northern Virginia employer and does not limit gifts to Virginia candidates.

The Virginia campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to VA. Government Affairs, Government Relations, and Analyst VA ties are other pages.

Virginia’s state hub includes Analyst, Government Affairs, and Government Relations ties. ECONOMIST is only this filter. The Economist occupation hub without Virginia still holds about 86% of the $15,061,265. Massachusetts and DC Economist ties are parallel cuts of the same occupation total.

Reading the three Economist ties together

Massachusetts, the District, and Virginia each cut $15,061,265 with their own state-side dollars, contributions, and donors. Adding the three state-side Economist joins still leaves other states in the $15,061,265 national figure. The three pages are parallel joins, not a league table. Correlation is not causation.

Itemized individual contributions only. Unitemized receipts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

ECONOMIST does not record employer or field. Itemized individual contributions only. Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. Adding three state Economist dollar figures still leaves other states in the national total. Donor state VA is not recipient geography. Correlation is not causation.

Three numbers, two fields, one Economist filter

Subtract the Virginia dollars on this page from the national Economist occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded Economist in every other state combined. That remainder 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 is not a person-level audit. The FEC aggregate can merge similar names or split one person who filed under variants. A contribution count can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total 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 Economist national total, drops a key.

This relationship is not a forecast and not a ranking of influence. Occupation does not cause contributions, and donor state does not cause recipient geography. Public records, two fields, one intersection. FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates; occupation labels are filer-entered.

Related hubs

Economist donations holds the $15,061,265 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.

Questions

How much have Economist donors in Virginia given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation Economist and state Virginia total $2,039,642, from 8,449 contributions and 317 donors. Nationwide, Economist-coded receipts are $15,061,265 from 47,419 contributions and 1,790 donors. Virginia is about 14% of those dollars.

How does Virginia compare with Massachusetts and DC on this label?

Virginia’s join is $2,039,642 from 317 donors. Massachusetts and the District have separate Economist ties with their own facts, not listed here. All three cut the same $15,061,265 occupation total. They are not a ranking of expertise. Adding the three state totals is not a complete regional figure.

Are these federal or university economists in Virginia?

The FEC file does not verify employer. Occupation is ECONOMIST and state is VA. The 317 Virginia donors used that pair of labels. That is not an agency or faculty directory.

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 $2,039,642 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns.