Palm Beach, FL political money — 2010 cycle

Overlap dollars for Palm Beach, FL in 2010

Palm Beach, FL in 2010 is a filter, not a story about why money moved. The filtered dollars are $223,984. The filtered rows are 146. The unfiltered city dollars are $108,657,771. FEC.gov publishes the underlying itemized individual contribution file; this page reports the aggregate join only.

0.2% of the Palm Beach, FL stack landed in the 2010 tag under this extract. That is $223,984 out of $108,657,771. The other 99.8% — $108,433,787 — carries other cycle labels. Dollar share and row volume are separate facts. This packet has no all-cycle row count, so a row-share percentage is not computed.

2010 is a midterm FEC cycle: a two-year window labeled by its even year, without a presidential general on the ballot. The presidential or midterm label is a ballot calendar, not a finding about Palm Beach County, Florida. Committees that received these gifts can file from any state. Donor city is not recipient city.

Geography: Palm Beach County, Florida

Map first, then dollars: Palm Beach, FL is stored against Palm Beach County, Florida. Neighbors include West Palm Beach, Boca Raton, and Palm Beach Gardens; West Palm Beach is a different FEC city key and is not rolled into PALM BEACH. The dollar facts remain $223,984 in 2010 and $108,657,771 across cycles. Geography does not change the arithmetic.

Florida pages accumulate every city in the state. Do not add $223,984 to a state total from that hub; the state page already contains this city when the same extract is used. The city page already contains this cycle. Only the tie page isolates both filters at once.

Cycle 2010 is not a calendar-year census

FEC.gov cycle 2010 is a midterm FEC cycle: a two-year window labeled by its even year, without a presidential general on the ballot. Palm Beach, FL activity inside that window is $223,984 / 146 receipts. Mean about $1,534. The mean is not a typical Palm Beach County, Florida household.

State-office campaigns in Florida file under state law and sit outside both $223,984 and $108,657,771. Federal itemized individual contributions are the only dollars on this page.

Unitemized gifts sit outside $223,984

Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted from both $223,984 and $108,657,771. Independent expenditures are another table. PAC transfers are another table. Mixing those tables with this join would misstate 2010 activity in Palm Beach, FL.

A candidate based in Palm Beach can raise from other cities; those receipts have other city keys. Money that left PALM BEACH addresses in 2010 can support committees anywhere. Donor city ≠ recipient city.

Repeat the filters in one sentence: contributor city PALM BEACH, state FL, election cycle 2010, itemized dollars $223,984, itemized rows 146, all-cycle city dollars $108,657,771. Any citation that drops the cycle or drops the city is a different claim. 2010 is a midterm election cycle. That label is a two-year FEC window, not a reason the dollars moved and not a ranking of Palm Beach County, Florida against other places.

Correlation is not causation

Use Palm Beach, FL when the year does not matter. Use 2010 election cycle when the city does not matter. Use Florida campaign finance when the question is Florida-wide. Use this page when both city and 2010 matter. Use All FEC ties to move to another pair.

The source system is FEC.gov. LobbyVault indexes aggregates. Neither site is a bank of federal awards. USAspending is a different statute and a different table.

Neighboring city strings remain outside this join. Around Palm Beach, FL, filers also use labels such as West Palm Beach, Boca Raton, and Palm Beach Gardens; West Palm Beach is a different FEC city key and is not rolled into PALM BEACH. Those dollars, if any, sit on other city keys. Unitemized federal gifts, independent expenditures, PAC transfers, and Florida state-office filings sit outside $223,984 and outside $108,657,771. FEC.gov is the source; USAspending is a different statute and is not funded by these receipts.

0.2% of the city stack is still one join

Palm Beach × 2010 remains $223,984 / 146 / mean $1,534 / city $108,657,771 / share 0.2%. That is the recap. The rest of the page exists to stop those numbers from being pasted onto the wrong hub.

See Palm Beach, FL, 2010 election cycle, Florida campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Do not invent donor names. Do not claim donations fund federal awards.

Arithmetic that stays inside the packet: $223,984 is 0.2% of $108,657,771; $108,433,787 is the other 99.8%; mean itemized line is about $1,534 ($223,984 ÷ 146). No unique-donor count, median, party split, or committee list is available here. Donor city is not recipient city. If the live Palm Beach, FL hub or the live 2010 cycle hub disagrees with this snapshot, the newer FEC extract controls.

Questions

How much did Palm Beach, FL donors give in the 2010 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Palm Beach, FL total $223,984 in the 2010 cycle, across 146 contribution records. The same city label totals $108,657,771 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2010 is 0.2% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Palm Beach, FL city total only for 2010?

No. The city aggregate of $108,657,771 covers every cycle in the table for PALM BEACH. The 2010 filter is $223,984 from 146 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $108,433,787. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2010 slice.

Did Palm Beach, FL 2010 donations stay in Florida?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Palm Beach, FL; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $223,984 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 Palm Beach, FL contributions were itemized in 2010?

146 itemized contribution records sum to $223,984. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,534 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.