Miami, FL political money in the 2014 election cycle

How Miami meets the 2014 election cycle

$729,597 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city MIAMI with state FL, and election cycle 2014. LobbyVault stores that join so a reader can open the Miami, FL city hub and the 2014 election cycle hub without treating either page as a substitute for this one. The city hub answers “how much itemized money has this city string produced across cycles.” The cycle hub answers “how much itemized money did that two-year federal window produce nationally.” This page answers only the intersection: Miami, FL in 2014.

491 is a receipt count for that intersection, not a unique-donor census. A person who gave twice is two lines. A PAC or joint-fundraising address that stored MIAMI is in the same city field as a household street. Arithmetic mean per line is about $1,486 ($729,597 ÷ 491). That mean is division, not a typical resident and not a median.

2014 is a midterm election cycle. That calendar label does not explain $729,597. This packet does not carry party splits, committee names, or occupation mix for the join. Cite the two packet dollars — $729,597 for the 2014 slice and $329.0 million for the Miami, FL book — and stop before assigning motive.

The Miami, FL side of the join

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city MIAMI in Florida totals $329.0 million. $729,597 is 0.2% of that city book. A small share does not mean 2014 was quiet in Miami; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. The live Miami, FL table is the place to compare other years. This snapshot lists one cycle.

The stored city sits in Miami-Dade County, Florida. Miami Beach and Coral Gables are different contributor-city keys. State FL stays on the citation so Miami is not merged with a same-named place in another state. A repeated city name under another state code is a different FEC key. $329.0 million is the FL key only.

The 2014 cycle side for Florida filers in Miami

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2014 cycle is not a calendar year of January gifts only; it is the Commission’s cycle tag on itemized receipts. 491 Miami, FL lines in that window produced $729,597. National 2014 activity — every city — lives on the 2014 election cycle hub, not here.

Florida campaign-finance pages roll up the state, including cities that are not Miami. Do not add $729,597 to a state total from that hub; the state page already contains this city when the same extract is used. All FEC ties is the directory of other city-cycle and city-industry joins. None of those pages converts $729,597 into spending by Miami candidates.

What $729,597 does not measure

$729,597 is itemized federal individual contributions with contributor city MIAMI. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold sit outside it. State-office campaigns in Florida file under state law and sit outside it. Independent-expenditure totals are a different FEC table. A candidate who lives in Miami can raise money from other cities; those gifts are not this join.

City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed MIAMI is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Miami. LobbyVault does not rewrite the city field into a Census place or a residency test. Treat 491 as lines that stored this string in 2014.

Reading Miami and 2014 together without mixing tables

Correlation is not causation. $729,597 beside $329.0 million does not mean 2014 “caused” the city book or that Miami “drove” the 2014 cycle. The join is a filter: city string plus cycle tag. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Miami, FL hub or the live 2014 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls.

Internal links on this page go to Miami, FL, the 2014 election cycle, Florida campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Use those four doors. Do not paste $729,597 into a USAspending award story; FEC receipts and federal obligations are different statutes. This packet has no award dollars.

Questions

How much did Miami, FL donors give in 2014?

Itemized FEC individual contributions listing contributor city MIAMI and cycle 2014 total $729,597 across 491 receipts in this LobbyVault extract. That is the city-cycle join, not the all-cycle Miami, FL book of $329.0 million. Unitemized gifts and Florida state-office filings sit outside both figures.

Is $729,597 all of Miami’s federal political money?

No. $329.0 million is the all-cycle itemized book for contributor city MIAMI in FL. The 2014 slice is $729,597, 0.2% of that book. Other cycles in the same city string are on the Miami, FL hub. 491 is a 2014 receipt count, not a unique-donor count.

Does the 2014 Miami total count only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed MIAMI with state FL. Office addresses and joint-fundraising mail that list Miami can sit in $729,597 when that is the stored string. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book.

Where do the Miami, FL 2014 numbers come from?

FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates, indexed on LobbyVault: $729,597 and 491 lines for MIAMI in cycle 2014, and $329.0 million for the city string across cycles. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.