Atlanta, GA political money — 2010 cycle

2010 receipts from Atlanta, GA donors

The join keeps donor city Atlanta in Georgia and election cycle 2010. The match is $673,265 across 494 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $381,643,337. 2010 therefore accounts for 0.18% of Atlanta, GA itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $380,970,072 (99.8%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Atlanta, GA. That hub mixes 2010 with every other even-year window filed under ATLANTA. It is also not a restatement of the 2010 election cycle hub, which mixes Atlanta, GA with every other donor city in the United States. The 494 rows and $673,265 exist only where both filters are true. Correlation is not causation: a city code plus a cycle year does not prove why someone gave, whom they supported, or whether the recipient was local.

FEC individual contribution files record the contributor's city as entered on the itemized receipt. Spellings, abbreviations, and suburb-versus-city choices can split a metro across multiple city pages. Atlanta, GA here is the string that survived aggregation as ATLANTA in GA. 2010 is a midterm FEC cycle: a two-year window without a presidential general election. That calendar fact does not explain why Atlanta, GA donors itemized $673,265. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

The city hub still mixes other cycles

The city aggregate for Atlanta, GA is $381,643,337 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 $673,265 from 2010 and the $380,970,072 from every other cycle in the same city file. Georgia campaign-finance pages still mix Atlanta with every other city in Georgia.

A large city total does not mean 2010 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2010 was small. For Atlanta, GA, the city stack is $381,643,337 while this cycle is $673,265 (0.18%). Use the city hub to see Atlanta, GA without a year filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Atlanta in 2010. Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

How a midterm cycle is coded at the FEC

The 2010 election cycle is a two-year FEC reporting window labeled by its even year. Inside that window, Atlanta, GA donors itemized $673,265 on 494 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,363 per itemized gift. That mean is an arithmetic average of rows, not a typical donor and not a median. A few large receipts can lift the mean while most rows sit far below it. This page does not publish a median or a unique-donor count.

The national 2010 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Georgia still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Atlanta × 2010. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures, party coordinated spends, and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 494 itemized contribution rows is a moderate file. The dollar total can still be skewed by a few large gifts without this page naming them. Adjacent pages for Atlanta, GA, 2010 election cycle, and Georgia campaign finance keep those broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only.

A thin cut of the Atlanta stack

0.18% of $381,643,337 is a thin slice. Most of the Atlanta, GA aggregate — $380,970,072 — sits in other cycles. Put another way, about 0.18% of Atlanta, GA's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2010, and about 99.8% were not. Those percentages are $673,265 divided by $381,643,337 and $380,970,072 divided by $381,643,337. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.18%) and row volume (494 itemized gifts) are separate facts. A thin slice of citywide dollars can sit next to a moderate contribution file; those labels describe this pair, not other cities. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.18% as Atlanta's share of the 2010 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

494 contribution records from one city-cycle pair

494 itemized contributions totaling $673,265 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 ATLANTA. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Atlanta versus other Georgia cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,363 uses only the two numbers in the join: $673,265 and 494 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 city-cycle page does not break the $673,265 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee.

Limits of a city-by-cycle table

This page does not rank Atlanta against other cities, does not call 2010 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in Georgia. Two columns matched. The city of the contributor is not the city of the campaign. A GA address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a Georgia candidate.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Atlanta, GA, the 2010 election cycle, Georgia 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 Atlanta, GA donors give in the 2010 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Atlanta, GA total $673,265 in the 2010 cycle, across 494 contribution records. The same city label totals $381,643,337 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2010 is 0.18% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Atlanta, GA city total only for 2010?

No. The city aggregate of $381,643,337 covers every cycle in the table for ATLANTA. The 2010 filter is $673,265 from 494 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $380,970,072. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2010 slice.

Did Atlanta, GA 2010 donations stay in Georgia?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Atlanta, GA; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $673,265 by office, state of the committee, or party. A GA city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Georgia races.

How many Atlanta, GA contributions were itemized in 2010?

494 itemized contribution records sum to $673,265. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,363 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.