Miami Beach, FL political money — 2012 cycle

Miami Beach, FL × 2012: the join

$240,663 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city MIAMI BEACH with state FL, and election cycle 2012. The match is $240,663 across 112 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $47,443,876. 2012 therefore accounts for 0.51% of Miami Beach, FL itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $47,203,213 (99.49%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Miami Beach, FL. That hub mixes 2012 with every other even-year window filed under MIAMI BEACH. It is also not a restatement of the 2012 election cycle hub, which mixes Miami Beach, FL with every other donor city in the United States. The 112 rows and $240,663 exist only where both filters are true. Correlation is not causation: a city code plus a cycle year does not prove why someone gave.

FEC individual contribution files record the contributor's city as entered on the itemized receipt. Spellings and suburb-versus-city choices can split a metro across multiple city pages. Miami Beach, FL here is the string that survived aggregation as MIAMI BEACH in FL. 2012 is a presidential FEC cycle: a two-year window that includes a presidential general election. That calendar fact does not explain why Miami Beach, FL donors itemized $240,663. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle. The 2008 Miami Beach join is a different even-year cell. Adding 2008 and 2012 cycle totals would double-count nothing useful and is not how this extract is cited.

All-cycle Miami Beach, FL versus this window

The city aggregate for Miami Beach, FL is $47,443,876 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 $240,663 from 2012 and the $47,203,213 from every other cycle in the same city file. State-level FL campaign-finance pages still mix Miami Beach with every other city in FL.

The stored city is the City of Miami Beach in Miami-Dade County, Florida. Miami, Bal Harbour, and Hollywood are not rolled into MIAMI BEACH. State FL stays on the citation so Miami Beach, FL is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $47,443,876 is the FL key only. For Miami Beach, FL, the city stack is $47,443,876 while this cycle is $240,663 (0.51%). Use the city hub for Miami Beach, FL without a year filter; use this tie for Miami Beach in 2012. Donor city is not recipient city: committees that received these gifts can file anywhere in the FEC system. This 2012 presidential join is a different even-year window from the 2008 Miami Beach tie. Do not add the two cycle totals.

What the 2012 presidential window holds for Miami Beach

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2012 cycle is the Commission's cycle tag on itemized receipts, not a calendar year of January gifts only. Inside that window, Miami Beach, FL donors itemized $240,663 on 112 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $2,149 per itemized gift. That mean is an arithmetic average of rows, not a typical donor and not a median. This page does not publish a median or a unique-donor count.

The national 2012 hub still includes every other city. State pages for FL still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Miami Beach × 2012. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. A suburb-scale row file (112 receipts) with mean near $2,149 is still itemized Schedule A, not a property-tax roll. $240,663 is the overlap only. Nearby city strings are other pages. This URL is the intersection only.

A 0.51% cut of the Miami Beach stack

0.51% of $47,443,876 is a slice of the city book, not a ranking against other cities. Put another way, about 0.51% of Miami Beach, FL's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2012, and about 99.49% were not. Those percentages are $240,663 divided by $47,443,876 and $47,203,213 divided by $47,443,876. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters. Keep 2012's $240,663 next to the $47,443,876 city book; do not substitute a 2008 Miami Beach slice.

Dollar share (0.51%) and row volume (112 itemized gifts) are separate facts. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.51% as Miami Beach's share of the 2012 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts. Miami-Dade County is a geography note for readers; it is not a Census population weight on $240,663.

What $240,663 does not measure

112 itemized contributions totaling $240,663 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 BEACH. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Miami Beach versus other FL cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $2,149 uses only the two numbers in the join: $240,663 and 112 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 page does not break $240,663 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed MIAMI BEACH is counted; a nearby suburb they typed instead is not recoded into Miami Beach.

Reading Miami Beach and 2012 together without mixing tables

This page does not rank Miami Beach against other cities and does not treat itemized giving as public opinion in FL. Two columns matched. Contributor city is not campaign city. A FL address does not mean the money supported a FL candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Miami Beach, FL hub or the live 2012 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Miami Beach, 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 Beach, FL donors give in the 2012 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Miami Beach, FL total $240,663 in the 2012 cycle, across 112 contribution records. The same city label totals $47,443,876 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2012 is 0.51% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Miami Beach, FL city total only for 2012?

No. The city aggregate of $47,443,876 covers every cycle in the table for MIAMI BEACH. The 2012 filter is $240,663 from 112 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $47,203,213. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2012 slice.

Did Miami Beach, FL 2012 donations stay in FL?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Miami Beach, FL; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $240,663 by office, state of the committee, or party. A FL city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of FL races.

How many Miami Beach, FL contributions were itemized in 2012?

112 itemized contribution records sum to $240,663. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $2,149 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.