Jacksonville, FL political money — 2014 cycle

Jacksonville, FL × 2014 is a midterm city-cycle join

$173,429 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city JACKSONVILLE with state FL, and election cycle 2014. The match is $173,429 across 164 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $94,607,532. 2014 therefore accounts for 0.18% of Jacksonville, FL itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $94,434,103 (99.8%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Jacksonville, FL. That hub mixes 2014 with every other even-year window filed under JACKSONVILLE. It is also not a restatement of the 2014 election cycle hub, which mixes Jacksonville, FL with every other donor city in the United States. The 164 rows and $173,429 exist only where both filters are true. Correlation is not causation: a city code plus a cycle year does not prove why someone gave, whom they supported, or whether the recipient was local.

JACKSONVILLE as a Duval County city key

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city JACKSONVILLE in Florida totals $94.6 million ($94,607,532). $173,429 is 0.18% of that city book. A small share does not mean 2014 was quiet in Jacksonville; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. Do not add $173,429 to $94,607,532; the city book already contains this slice. Subtracting is valid: $94,607,532 − $173,429 = $94,434,103 in other cycles.

The stored city sits in Duval County, Florida, under a consolidated city-county government. Atlantic Beach, Orange Park, and St. Augustine are other FEC city strings, not rolled into JACKSONVILLE. State FL stays on the citation so Jacksonville is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $94.6 million is the FL key only. Donor city is not recipient city: committees that received these gifts can file from anywhere in the FEC system.

How 2014 is tagged on Jacksonville receipts

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. 2014 is a midterm election cycle: a two-year FEC window labeled by its even year, without a presidential general on the ballot. Inside that window, Jacksonville, FL filers itemized $173,429 on 164 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,057 per itemized gift ($173,429 ÷ 164). That mean is an arithmetic average of rows, not a typical resident and not a median. This page does not publish a median or a unique-donor count.

a 164-row extract — a mid-size receipt file for this city string, still lines rather than unique residents. The national 2014 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Florida still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Jacksonville × 2014. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. Florida campaign-finance pages already contain this city when the same extract is used; do not add $173,429 into the state hub a second time.

2014 as a slice of the Jacksonville book

0.18% of $94,607,532 is the 2014 slice. Put another way, about 0.18% of Jacksonville, FL’s itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2014, and about 99.8% were not. Those percentages are $173,429 divided by $94,607,532 and $94,434,103 divided by $94,607,532. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.18%) and row volume (164 itemized gifts) are separate facts. Miami, Tampa, and Orlando are other Florida city keys. This join does not rank JACKSONVILLE against them. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.18% as Jacksonville’s share of the 2014 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

164 itemized gifts are not unique donors

164 itemized contributions totaling $173,429 is the operational definition of this page. The FEC file can list the same household on multiple dates, to multiple committees, and under spelling variants of JACKSONVILLE. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Jacksonville versus other Florida cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,057 uses only the two numbers in the join: $173,429 and 164 rows. It is a trivial ratio, not a finding about wealth, turnout, or ideology. Employer and occupation strings on those receipts are other joins. This city-cycle page does not break the $173,429 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed JACKSONVILLE is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Jacksonville.

What Jacksonville–2014 does not measure

This page does not rank Jacksonville against other cities, does not call 2014 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in Florida. Two columns matched. A FL address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a Florida candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Jacksonville, FL hub or the live 2014 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls. Consolidated city-county government is map context. FEC still stores the city string the filer typed, not a Duval County rollup unless that string was JACKSONVILLE.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Jacksonville, FL, the 2014 election cycle, Florida campaign finance, and All FEC ties for the adjacent tables. Jacksonville Beach is a different city string when filers typed it that way. It is not automatically this JACKSONVILLE key. Dollar figures are FEC itemized individual contribution aggregates. They are not federal spending awards and they do not fund USAspending totals. Source: FEC.gov.

Questions

How much did Jacksonville, FL donors give in the 2014 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Jacksonville, FL total $173,429 in the 2014 cycle, across 164 contribution records. The same city label totals $94,607,532 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2014 is 0.18% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is Jacksonville’s citywide FEC total only from 2014?

No. The city aggregate of $94,607,532 covers every cycle in the table for JACKSONVILLE. The 2014 filter is $173,429 from 164 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $94,434,103. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2014 slice.

Were 2014 Jacksonville gifts limited to Florida committees?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Jacksonville, FL; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $173,429 by office, state of the committee, or party. A FL city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Florida races.

How many Jacksonville, FL contributions were itemized in 2014?

164 itemized contribution records sum to $173,429. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,057 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.