Miami, FL political money — 2012 cycle

Joining donor city Miami with cycle 2012

The join keeps donor city Miami in Florida and election cycle 2012. The match is $1,003,901 across 636 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $328,965,856. 2012 therefore accounts for 0.31% of Miami, FL itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $327,961,955 (99.7%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Miami, FL. That hub mixes 2012 with every other even-year window filed under MIAMI. It is also not a restatement of the 2012 election cycle hub, which mixes Miami, FL with every other donor city in the United States. The 636 rows and $1,003,901 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.

FEC individual contribution files record the contributor's city as entered on the itemized receipt. Spellings, abbreviations, and suburb-versus-city choices can split a metro across multiple city pages. Miami, FL here is the string that survived aggregation as MIAMI in FL. 2012 is a presidential FEC cycle: a two-year window that includes a presidential general election. This page does not split the $1,003,901 by office, party, or candidate. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

Miami, FL across every cycle in the aggregate

The city aggregate for Miami, FL is $328,965,856 in itemized individual contributions. That figure is the running total for this city label across cycles, not a single-year census and not a count of unique residents. It includes the $1,003,901 from 2012 and the $327,961,955 from every other cycle in the same city file. Florida campaign-finance pages still mix Miami with every other city in Florida.

A large city total does not mean 2012 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2012 was small. For Miami, FL, the city stack is $328,965,856 while this cycle is $1,003,901 (0.31%). Use the city hub to see Miami, FL without a year filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Miami in 2012. Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

2012 as a two-year FEC window

The 2012 election cycle is a two-year FEC reporting window labeled by its even year. Inside that window, Miami, FL donors itemized $1,003,901 on 636 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,578 per itemized gift. That mean is an arithmetic average of rows, not a typical donor and not a median. A few large receipts can lift the mean while most rows sit far below it. This page does not publish a median or a unique-donor count.

The national 2012 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Florida still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Miami × 2012. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures, party coordinated spends, and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 636 itemized rows is a busy but not enormous file. It is large enough that a handful of gifts cannot explain the entire $1,003,901. Adjacent pages for Miami, FL, 2012 election cycle, and Florida campaign finance keep those broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only.

Share of $328,965,856 sitting in 2012

0.31% of $328,965,856 is a thin slice. Miami, FL remains a large multi-cycle file; 2012 is one filter on that stack. Put another way, about 0.31% of Miami, FL's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2012, and about 99.7% were not. Those percentages are $1,003,901 divided by $328,965,856 and $327,961,955 divided by $328,965,856. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.31%) and row volume (636 itemized gifts) are separate facts. A thin slice of citywide dollars can sit next to a busy contribution file; those labels describe this pair, not other cities. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.31% as Miami's share of the 2012 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

636 contribution records from one city-cycle pair

636 itemized contributions totaling $1,003,901 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 MIAMI. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Miami versus other Florida cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,578 uses only the two numbers in the join: $1,003,901 and 636 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 $1,003,901 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee.

Limits of a city-by-cycle table

This page does not rank Miami against other cities, does not call 2012 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in Florida. Two columns matched. The city of the contributor is not the city of the campaign. A FL address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a Florida candidate.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Miami, FL, the 2012 election cycle, Florida campaign finance, and all FEC ties for the adjacent tables. 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 Miami, FL donors give in the 2012 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Miami, FL total $1,003,901 in the 2012 cycle, across 636 contribution records. The same city label totals $328,965,856 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2012 is 0.31% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Miami, FL city total only for 2012?

No. The city aggregate of $328,965,856 covers every cycle in the table for MIAMI. The 2012 filter is $1,003,901 from 636 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $327,961,955. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2012 slice.

Did Miami, FL 2012 donations stay in Florida?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Miami, FL; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $1,003,901 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 Miami, FL contributions were itemized in 2012?

636 itemized contribution records sum to $1,003,901. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,578 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.