Government Relations political contributions from Virginia

Government Relations in Virginia as a share of the national label

Occupation GOVERNMENT RELATIONS and donor state VA produce $2,088,899, 4,794 contributions, and 346 donors. The occupation hub is $10,141,599, 21,145 contributions, and 1,398 donors. Virginia’s dollar share is about 21%; contribution share about 23% (4,794 of 21,145); donor share about 25% (346 of 1,398).

The three shares sit in a narrow band. Virginia’s Government Relations join is a proportional cut of the labeled occupation—unlike some other occupation-state pairs where a handful of donors carry most of the money. Three hundred forty-six donors is a broader state-side list than some nearby Virginia occupation ties that use other strings. Different strings, different people unless a filer used both labels.

Three hundred forty-six Virginia donors produced 4,794 contributions, about 14 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 15 rows per donor nationally (21,145 contributions from 1,398 donors). Virginia holds about 21% of the $10,141,599 with about 25% of donors—a broad, roughly proportional slice of this label, not a 13-person outlier.

Government Relations versus Government Affairs

Filers choose the words. GOVERNMENT RELATIONS totals $10,141,599 nationally from 1,398 donors. GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS is a different occupation hub with its own national figures. Those are separate hubs. Adding this page’s $2,088,899 to a Government Affairs Virginia join would mix labels and could double-count anyone who used both strings across filings.

This page reports the GOVERNMENT RELATIONS-and-VA overlap only: $2,088,899, 4,794 contributions, 346 donors.

Virginia as donor state

Three hundred forty-six Virginia donors produced 4,794 contributions totaling $2,088,899. Donor state VA is the address on the record. It can be a Northern Virginia residence or office. 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, Auto Dealer, Economist, and Realtor VA ties are other pages.

Virginia’s state hub includes Government Affairs, Analyst, and Economist ties. GOVERNMENT RELATIONS is only this filter. The occupation hub without Virginia still holds about 79% of the $10,141,599. Adding this page’s dollars to a Government Affairs Virginia join mixes strings.

Caveats

This join does not measure lobbying billings, does not name clients, and does not claim that Government Relations-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 registrations are a different disclosure system. Itemized individual contributions only. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PACs are omitted. Clients and billings are not in these six numbers. Donor state VA is not recipient geography. Correlation is not causation.

Why this Government Relations page is not a restatement of Virginia

Subtract the Virginia dollars on this page from the national Government Relations occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded Government Relations 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 Relations 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 Relations donations holds the $10,141,599 national occupation total. Virginia campaign finance holds all itemized individual activity coded to VA. All occupations and all FEC ties collect other occupation-state pairs from the same two fields.

Questions

How much have Government Relations donors in Virginia given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation Government Relations and state Virginia total $2,088,899, from 4,794 contributions and 346 donors. Nationwide, Government Relations-coded receipts are $10,141,599 from 21,145 contributions and 1,398 donors. Virginia is about 21% of those dollars.

Is Government Relations the same as Government Affairs?

No. They are different occupation strings with different national totals. Virginia has a separate Government Affairs tie with its own donor and dollar counts. This page’s 346 donors and $2,088,899 are GOVERNMENT RELATIONS-and-VA only.

What share of Government Relations FEC money is from Virginia?

About 21% of the $10,141,599 occupation total is in this Virginia join ($2,088,899). Virginia also accounts for about 23% of contributions (4,794 of 21,145) and about 25% of donors (346 of 1,398).

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 $2,088,899 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns.