Palm Beach, FL political money — 2014 cycle

Two dimensions: Palm Beach, FL and 2014

Two dimensions define this URL: donor city Palm Beach, FL and election cycle 2014. Where both are true, FEC itemized individual receipts add to $230,961 across 110 lines. The city dimension alone is $108.7 million. The cycle dimension alone is a national file that is not in these facts. Only the overlap is cited here.

Share of the city book: 0.2% ($230,961 ÷ $108,657,771). Remainder in other cycles: $108,426,810 (99.8%). Those percentages use the city total as denominator. They are not Palm Beach, FL's share of Florida, not Palm Beach, FL's share of the national 2014 cycle, and not a turnout rate.

Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle. Treat 110 as rows. Treat $230,961 as itemized dollars with this city string and this cycle tag. Do not invent a unique-donor headcount. Do not invent recipient names.

$108,657,771 is the city book, not the cycle slice

City total $108,657,771 is every cycle under PALM BEACH in FL. Cycle total $230,961 is 2014 only. Contribution count 110 is 2014 only. Missing from the packet: all-cycle row count, unique donors, party, office, and committee identifiers. Those omissions are why this prose does not rank neighborhoods or name recipients.

Palm Beach County, Florida is geographic color, not an extra FEC field. The Commission stores the city string the committee keyed. If a filer used a suburb name among West Palm Beach, Boca Raton, and Palm Beach Gardens, that money is on another city page. West Palm Beach is a different FEC city key and is not rolled into PALM BEACH.

110 receipts in a midterm window

Cycle coding is mechanical. The Commission tags itemized receipts with a two-year even year. 110 PALM BEACH lines received the 2014 tag in this aggregate and summed to $230,961. National volume for that tag is a different page.

Presidential cycles (2008, 2012) and midterm cycles (2010, 2014) are calendar types, not size ranks. This packet has one cycle: 2014, which is midterm. Adjacent Palm Beach, FL joins for other years are other URLs.

Donor city is an address field

No donor names are listed because the packet has none. Inventing names would be a fabrication. The 110 lines remain anonymous in this overlay. Committee names are likewise absent from the facts and absent from this prose.

$230,961 does not measure public opinion in Palm Beach County, Florida. Itemized filers are a disclosure set, not a sample of residents. Mean $2,100 is a row average, not a resident average.

Repeat the filters in one sentence: contributor city PALM BEACH, state FL, election cycle 2014, itemized dollars $230,961, itemized rows 110, all-cycle city dollars $108,657,771. Any citation that drops the cycle or drops the city is a different claim. 2014 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.

Share math uses only these two dollars

Amended FEC reports can revise itemized totals. This JSON is a snapshot of one extract. Prefer live hub numbers when they differ. The relationship remains the same: city PALM BEACH × cycle 2014.

Do not convert $230,961 into “support for Florida candidates.” Recipient geography is not in the facts. Do not convert 110 into “households.” Rows are receipts.

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 $230,961 and outside $108,657,771. FEC.gov is the source; USAspending is a different statute and is not funded by these receipts.

Amended reports and extract vintage

Treat 0.2% as a filing-tag share inside one city key. Treat midterm as a calendar type. Treat Palm Beach County, Florida as map color. None of those treatments adds a number that is missing from the packet.

The overlay is complete when a reader can say: Palm Beach, FL, 2014, $230,961 itemized, 110 lines, city book $108,657,771, source FEC.gov, not USAspending.

Arithmetic that stays inside the packet: $230,961 is 0.2% of $108,657,771; $108,426,810 is the other 99.8%; mean itemized line is about $2,100 ($230,961 ÷ 110). 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 2014 cycle hub disagrees with this snapshot, the newer FEC extract controls.

Questions

How much did Palm Beach, FL donors give in 2014?

Itemized FEC individual contributions listing contributor city PALM BEACH and cycle 2014 total $230,961 across 110 receipts in this LobbyVault extract. That is the city-cycle join, not the all-cycle Palm Beach, FL book of $108.7 million. Unitemized gifts and Florida state-office filings sit outside both figures.

Is $230,961 all of Palm Beach's federal political money?

No. $108.7 million ($108,657,771) is the all-cycle itemized book for contributor city PALM BEACH in FL. The 2014 slice is $230,961, 0.2% of that book. Other cycles hold $108,426,810. 110 is a 2014 receipt count, not a unique-donor count. The city hub holds the stack; this page holds the year.

Did Palm Beach, FL 2014 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 $230,961 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 2014?

110 itemized contribution records sum to $230,961. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $2,100 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.