Finance political money in the 2012 election cycle

Finance meeting the 2012 election cycle

2012 is a presidential federal cycle on the FEC calendar. Intersecting the Finance occupation grouping with that year produces $6,958,541, 3,375 lines, and 1,719 donor keys. Those three figures are the join. The occupation hub still holds $63,396,379 across all cycles in the aggregate. This page does not restate that hub without the year filter.

About $4,048 per donor ($6,958,541 ÷ 1,719) and about $2,062 per contribution ($6,958,541 ÷ 3,375) describe this string in 2012. Lines per donor average about 2.0 (3,375 ÷ 1,719). Those ratios are arithmetic on the packet, not typical gifts and not a unique-person audit. Repeat givers raise the line count.

The 2012 election-cycle hub places Finance beside other occupation keys that year. Neither that hub nor this tie converts $6,958,541 into a civic-engagement score. Named employers who share a workplace with people in this cell sit in industry rows if the legal name was used instead of the occupation word.

11.0% of the Finance all-cycle grouping

11.0% is $6,958,541 divided by $63,396,379. The leftover $56,437,838 sits in other cycles on the occupation hub. A 11.0% year share is a piece of this grouping’s recorded history, not a ranked list of peak years — other years’ amounts are not in this packet except as that residual.

Presidential solicitation volume can lift itemized counts. 3,375 lines still describe only receipts tagged Finance in 2012. The packet does not publish committee names inside the cell; those live on the occupation and cycle overlays. Do not treat 11.0% as proof that 2012 was this occupation’s largest year in every dataset.

Finance is a sector word, not a firm rollup

FINANCE is a short occupation/employer-style grouping. It is not NAICS 52 and not a list of banks. BANKER, INVESTOR, INVESTMENTS, and named-firm employer strings are neighboring keys. Mixing them would blur donor counts.

A person who typed Goldman Sachs or a credit-union legal name is usually on an industry hub. A person who typed Finance is in this cell. This page does not recode job level. The Finance string is the filter.

What Finance money in this cycle is not

The cell is not a Wall Street PAC and not independent expenditures about tax or banking bills. SEC and Federal Reserve staff counts do not feed this aggregate.

Federal awards to financial vendors are USAspending objects. This join does not claim that Finance-coded gifts funded those awards. Unitemized gifts are omitted. Motive is outside the packet.

Pages that keep Finance and 2012 apart

The Finance occupation page holds $63,396,379 and other years. The 2012 election-cycle page holds that year’s occupation list. All occupations ranks neighboring job strings. All FEC ties lists other occupation–cycle pages so this cell is not mistaken for an industry–PAC join.

Keep both sides of the name — Finance and 2012 — whenever $6,958,541 is quoted. Cite 3,375 contributions, 1,719 donors, 11.0% of $63,396,379, and FEC.gov. Do not convert 1,719 keys into licensed or enrolled people. Do not fold USAspending into the cell.

How to cite Finance × 2012

A complete claim names Finance and 2012, then $6,958,541, 3,375 contributions, 1,719 donors, and 11.0% of $63,396,379, source FEC.gov. Occupation labels are filer-entered. Unitemized gifts stay omitted. Independent expenditures stay omitted. Federal awards that mention a similar profession stay omitted.

The 1,719-donor count is the net of filing choices in 2012: people who typed Finance increased the cell; people who typed a firm name or a neighboring title reduced it. $6,958,541 and the 11.0% share travel with that net. They do not travel with a licensing board, a union roster, or a USAspending file. Quote the occupation hub for $63,396,379 and other cycles.

2012 remains a presidential federal cycle. That calendar fact does not add dollars. The join stops at itemized individual receipts tagged Finance in 2012: $6,958,541 on 3,375 lines from 1,719 donors. About $2,062 per line and $4,048 per donor are means, not typical gifts. Repeat filers can sit in the 3,375 without raising unique people above 1,719.

Committee-level rows inside the Finance cell are on the occupation and cycle tables, not restated here. Quote both sides of the join so a neighboring title string is not treated as this URL.

Questions

How much did Finance-tagged donors give in 2012?

The join records $6,958,541 in itemized individual contributions for Finance in 2012, from 3,375 contributions and 1,719 donors. The grouping’s all-cycle total is $63,396,379.

What share of the Finance grouping is 2012?

11.0%: $6,958,541 of $63,396,379. Other years’ amounts are not listed in this packet except as the leftover $56,437,838 on the occupation hub. A year share is not a ranking of peak cycles.

Does this include people who listed a company instead of Finance?

Usually not. Named firms are other industry keys. Neighboring titles are other occupation keys. This cell is the grouped Finance string in 2012. Mixing keys would blur the 1,719-donor count.

Do Finance donations fund federal awards?

No. FEC individual contributions and USAspending obligations are different datasets. This tie reports only itemized individual receipts tagged Finance in 2012: $6,958,541 across 3,375 contributions from 1,719 donors.