Orlando, FL political money in the 2012 election cycle

How Orlando meets the 2012 election cycle

$264,581 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city ORLANDO with state FL, and election cycle 2012. LobbyVault stores that join so a reader can open the Orlando, FL city hub and the 2012 election cycle hub without treating either page as a substitute for this one. The city hub answers how much itemized money this city string has produced across cycles. The cycle hub answers how much itemized money that two-year federal window produced nationally. This page answers only the intersection: Orlando, FL in 2012.

277 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 ORLANDO is in the same city field as a household street. Arithmetic mean per line is about $955 ($264,581 ÷ 277). That mean is division, not a typical resident and not a median.

2012 is a presidential election cycle. That calendar label does not explain $264,581. This packet does not carry party splits, committee names, or occupation mix for the join. Cite the two packet dollars — $264,581 for the 2012 slice and $76.0 million for the Orlando, FL book — and stop before assigning motive.

The Orlando, FL side of the join

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city ORLANDO in Florida totals $76.0 million ($76,048,272). $264,581 is 0.3% of that city book. A small share does not mean 2012 was quiet in Orlando; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. The remaining $75,783,691 in the city book sits in other even-year tags. The live Orlando, FL table is the place to compare other years. This snapshot lists one cycle.

The stored city sits in Orange County, Florida. Winter Park and Kissimmee are separate FEC city keys and are not rolled into ORLANDO. State FL stays on the citation so Orlando is not merged with a same-named place in another state. A repeated city name under another state code is a different FEC key. $76.0 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.

The 2012 cycle side for Florida filers in Orlando

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2012 cycle is not a calendar year of January gifts only; it is the Commission's cycle tag on itemized receipts. 277 Orlando, FL lines in that window produced $264,581. National 2012 activity — every city — lives on the 2012 election cycle hub, not here. A presidential label marks the even-year window that includes a presidential general election, not a finding about turnout in Orlando.

Florida campaign-finance pages roll up the state, including cities that are not Orlando. Do not add $264,581 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 $264,581 into spending by Orlando candidates. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted from both $264,581 and the $76.0 million city book.

What $264,581 does not measure

$264,581 is itemized federal individual contributions with contributor city ORLANDO. 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 Orlando can raise money from other cities; those gifts are not this join. PAC transfers and committee-to-committee activity are other files.

City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed ORLANDO is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Orlando. LobbyVault does not rewrite the city field into a Census place or a residency test. Treat 277 as lines that stored this string in 2012. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed.

Reading Orlando and 2012 together without mixing tables

Correlation is not causation. $264,581 beside $76.0 million does not mean 2012 caused the city book or that Orlando drove the 2012 cycle. The join is a filter: city string plus cycle tag. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Orlando, FL hub or the live 2012 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls. This snapshot is not a third disclosure system.

Internal links on this page go to Orlando, FL, the 2012 election cycle, Florida campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Use those four doors. Do not paste $264,581 into a USAspending award story; FEC receipts and federal obligations are different statutes. This packet has no award dollars, and itemized giving is not a proxy for public opinion in Florida.

A 0.3% cut of the Orlando stack

0.3% of $76.0 million is a slice, not a ranking. Put another way, $264,581 of the $76,048,272 city stack was tagged 2012, and $75,783,691 was tagged other cycles. Those percentages are $264,581 divided by $76,048,272 and $75,783,691 divided by $76,048,272. They are not shares of Florida totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters. Dollar share (0.3%) and row volume (277 itemized gifts) are separate facts.

Do not treat 0.3% as Orlando's share of the 2012 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts. Adjacent midterm windows for the same city string are other joins. This URL isolates Orlando × 2012 only: $264,581, 277 receipts, mean about $955. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

Questions

How much did Orlando, FL donors give in 2012?

Itemized FEC individual contributions listing contributor city ORLANDO and cycle 2012 total $264,581 across 277 receipts in this LobbyVault extract. That is the city-cycle join, not the all-cycle Orlando, FL book of $76.0 million. Unitemized gifts and Florida state-office filings sit outside both figures.

Is $264,581 all of Orlando's federal political money?

No. $76.0 million ($76,048,272) is the all-cycle itemized book for contributor city ORLANDO in FL. The 2012 slice is $264,581, 0.3% of that book. Other cycles hold $75,783,691. 277 is a 2012 receipt count, not a unique-donor count.

Did Orlando, FL 2012 donations stay in Florida?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Orlando, FL; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $264,581 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 Orlando, FL contributions were itemized in 2012?

277 itemized contribution records sum to $264,581. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $955 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.