Government Affairs political contributions from Virginia

Government Affairs in Virginia beside the District slice

Occupation GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS and donor state VA produce $2,333,586, 4,305 contributions, and 244 donors. The occupation hub is $8,440,747, 17,735 contributions, and 947 donors. Virginia’s dollar share is about 28%; contribution share about 24% (4,305 of 17,735); donor share about 26% (244 of 947).

Virginia’s shares of dollars, contributions, and donors sit close together. The District of Columbia page is a parallel cut of the same $8,440,747. Adding the two state-side dollar figures still leaves other states in the national total. They are not a combined Beltway figure unless you also account for Maryland and everywhere else.

Two hundred forty-four Virginia donors produced 4,305 contributions, about 18 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 19 rows per donor nationally (17,735 contributions from 947 donors). Virginia’s about 28% share of the $8,440,747 sits with about 26% of donors—a proportional slice, unlike the District join’s dollar-versus-donor mismatch. Same occupation total, different state filter, different shape.

Government Affairs versus Government Relations

GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS is one string. GOVERNMENT RELATIONS is another occupation hub with its own Virginia tie in this packet slice. A Northern Virginia filer who wrote GOVERNMENT RELATIONS is not in this $2,333,586.

Nine hundred forty-seven donors and 17,735 contributions describe the GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS bucket only. This page locates the Virginia overlap.

Virginia as donor state

Two hundred forty-four Virginia donors produced 4,305 contributions totaling $2,333,586. Donor state VA is the address on the record. It can be a residence in Arlington, Alexandria, or elsewhere in the commonwealth. It is not proof of LDA registration and not a limit to Virginia candidates.

The Virginia campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to VA. Analyst, Developer, Auto Dealer, Economist, Realtor, and Business VA ties are other pages.

Virginia’s state hub includes Government Relations, Analyst, and other occupation ties. GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS is only this filter. The occupation hub without Virginia still holds about 72% of the $8,440,747. Adding Virginia and District Government Affairs dollars still leaves other states in the national figure.

What the join does not claim

This page does not measure lobbying billings, does not name clients, and does not claim that Government Affairs-coded gifts purchased policy. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping match. Correlation is not causation.

Itemized individual contributions only. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC receipts are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Labels are filer-entered.

LDA filings are not FEC individual receipts. GOVERNMENT RELATIONS is a different string with its own Virginia tie. Itemized individual contributions only. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PACs are omitted. Donor state VA is not recipient geography. Correlation is not causation.

Using the Government Affairs and Virginia hubs without mixing them

Subtract the Virginia dollars on this page from the national Government Affairs occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded Government Affairs in every other state combined. That remainder has no row-by-row breakdown here because those states are other ties. The occupation internal link holds the unlabeled-by-state total; the state internal link holds every occupation with this state code; the occupations index and the ties index place this pair among other joins built the same way.

A unique-donor count is not a person-level audit. The FEC aggregate can merge similar names or split one person who filed under variants. A contribution count can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Virginia dollars, or only the Government Affairs national total, drops a key.

This relationship is not a forecast and not a ranking of influence. Occupation does not cause contributions, and donor state does not cause recipient geography. Public records, two fields, one intersection. FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates; occupation labels are filer-entered.

Related hubs

Government Affairs donations holds the $8,440,747 national occupation total. Virginia campaign finance holds all itemized individual activity coded to VA. All occupations and all FEC ties place this pair among other occupation-state intersections.

Questions

How much have Government Affairs donors in Virginia given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation Government Affairs and state Virginia total $2,333,586, from 4,305 contributions and 244 donors. Nationwide, Government Affairs-coded receipts are $8,440,747 from 17,735 contributions and 947 donors. Virginia is about 28% of those dollars.

How does Virginia compare with the District of Columbia on this label?

Virginia’s join is $2,333,586 from 244 donors; the District’s Government Affairs join is a separate page with its own facts. Both cut the same $8,440,747 occupation total. They are not a ranking of influence and not a combined total of all Beltway giving.

Is Government Affairs the same as Government Relations?

No. They are different occupation strings. Virginia also has a Government Relations tie with its own state totals. This page’s 244 donors and $2,333,586 are GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS-and-VA only.

Does this money go to Virginia candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Virginia. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $2,333,586 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns.