Tampa, FL political money — 2012 cycle

Tampa, FL and the 2012 cycle as a join

LobbyVault keeps a Tampa, FL city page and a 2012 election-cycle page. Neither page is this join. The join is $187,389 from 171 itemized individual contributions where city equals TAMPA and cycle equals 2012. Against the all-cycle city total of $101,922,580, that is 0.18%. Other cycles under the same city label hold $101,735,191.

Do not treat 0.18% as Tampa's share of the national 2012 cycle. The national cycle total is not in these facts. Do not treat 171 rows as unique residents of Tampa. Repeat gifts, multiple committees, and spelling variants can add rows. The packet does not publish a unique-donor count for this city-cycle pair.

City labels are filer-entered. Tampa is stored as TAMPA in Florida; St. Petersburg and Tampa Bay suburb spellings are other keys. 2012 is a presidential two-year FEC window. That does not assign motive. Dollar figures are itemized individual contribution aggregates from FEC.gov, not federal awards and not state-office filings.

Tampa, FL without a year filter

On the city side, Tampa, FL indexes $101,922,580 of itemized individual dollars across cycles. 171 is a 2012-only row count; this packet does not publish a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Dollar share is available: 0.18% of $101,922,580 is the 2012 slice ($187,389), and 99.8% is not.

Tampa is stored as TAMPA in Florida; St. Petersburg and Tampa Bay suburb spellings are other keys. Keep state FL on the name. Tampa strings exist in more than one state in FEC files. $101,922,580 is not a Florida total. Open the Florida campaign-finance hub for the state mix; open this page for Tampa in 2012 only.

2012 as a presidential FEC window

On the cycle side, 171 receipts produced $187,389. Repeat gifts add receipts. The packet does not say how many unique people those 171 lines represent. About $1,096 per line is a trivial division, not a finding about wealth in Tampa. Presidential versus the other even-year type is a schedule fact for 2012, not an explanation of the dollars.

Unitemized small gifts never enter $187,389. Independent expenditures never enter $187,389. Committee operating expenditures never enter $187,389. This is an individual Schedule A city×cycle aggregate from FEC.gov. Florida state-office filings are a different statute.

This URL (/ties/fl-tampa-2012-donations/) is only the Tampa × 2012 intersection. The city hub still mixes every cycle into $101,922,580. The 2012 hub still mixes every donor city. Do not treat either hub as $187,389.

0.18% of Tampa, FL itemized dollars

Compared with the rest of Tampa, 2012 is 0.18% of itemized individual dollars ($187,389 of $101,922,580). The rest is $101,735,191. 171 is the 2012 row count only. Quote dollars and rows as different columns. Mixing them produces a fake density statistic this packet does not support.

Do not rank Tampa as a winner or loser in 2012. This join has one city and one cycle. Neighboring city-cycle pages are other keys. Florida campaign finance still mixes geographies.

Recompute the share from the raw integers: 187,389 divided by 101,922,580 is 0.18%. The complement 101,735,191 is $101,735,191, which is 99.8% of the TAMPA city book. Those identities do not use the row count 171.

What 171 itemized contributions are not

Itemized federal individual contributions are the only money on this page. 171 lines sum to $187,389 for Tampa, FL in 2012. If a researcher needs occupation cuts, those are other LobbyVault joins. If a researcher needs committee names, those are not in this packet. Do not invent donor names.

City TAMPA is filer-entered. Cycle 2012 is an FEC tag. Together they are a join, not a story about why 171 gifts were made. Correlation is not causation. An address in Tampa does not locate the campaign that received the check.

Using Tampa and 2012 links without mixing statutes

Public records, not accusations: $187,389 from 171 itemized lines is a disclosure aggregate. It is not evidence of coordination, quid pro quo, or local control. Correlation is not causation. Tampa × 2012 is a database join.

Researchers should keep TAMPA as the stored city string and 2012 as the cycle tag. Tampa is stored as TAMPA in Florida; St. Petersburg and Tampa Bay suburb spellings are other keys. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle. Live hubs win if they disagree with this snapshot.

Questions

How much did Tampa, FL donors give in the 2012 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Tampa, FL total $187,389 in the 2012 cycle, across 171 contribution records. The same city label totals $101,922,580 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2012 is 0.18% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates of itemized individual gifts only.

Is the Tampa, FL city total only for 2012?

No. The city aggregate of $101,922,580 covers every cycle in the table for TAMPA. The 2012 filter is $187,389 from 171 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $101,735,191. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2012 slice only. Unitemized gifts are omitted from both totals.

Did Tampa, FL 2012 donations stay in Florida?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Tampa, FL; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $187,389 by office, state of the committee, or party. An FL city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Florida races or of where the money was spent.

How many Tampa, FL contributions were itemized in 2012?

171 itemized contribution records sum to $187,389. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,096 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts and are not invented here.