Des Moines, IA political money — 2010 cycle

2010 receipts from Des Moines, IA donors

The join keeps donor city Des Moines in Iowa and election cycle 2010. The match is $828,622 across 397 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $56,663,095. 2010 therefore accounts for 1.5% of Des Moines, IA itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $55,834,473 (98.5%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Des Moines, IA. That hub mixes 2010 with every other even-year window filed under DES MOINES. It is also not a restatement of the 2010 election cycle hub, which mixes Des Moines, IA with every other donor city in the United States. The 397 rows and $828,622 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. Des Moines, IA here is the string that survived aggregation as DES MOINES in IA. 2010 is a midterm FEC cycle: a two-year window without a presidential general election. That calendar fact does not explain why Des Moines, IA donors itemized $828,622. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

The city hub still mixes other cycles

The city aggregate for Des Moines, IA is $56,663,095 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 $828,622 from 2010 and the $55,834,473 from every other cycle in the same city file. Iowa campaign-finance pages still mix Des Moines with every other city in Iowa.

A large city total does not mean 2010 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2010 was small. For Des Moines, IA, the city stack is $56,663,095 while this cycle is $828,622 (1.5%). Use the city hub to see Des Moines, IA without a year filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Des Moines 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, Des Moines, IA donors itemized $828,622 on 397 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $2,087 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 Iowa still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Des Moines × 2010. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures, party coordinated spends, and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 397 itemized rows is a moderate file. The $828,622 can still be skewed by a few large gifts without this page naming them. Adjacent pages for Des Moines, IA, 2010 election cycle, and Iowa campaign finance keep those broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only.

A modest cut of the Des Moines stack

1.5% of $56,663,095 is a modest slice. Most of the Des Moines, IA aggregate — $55,834,473 — sits in other cycles. Put another way, about 1.5% of Des Moines, IA's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2010, and about 98.5% were not. Those percentages are $828,622 divided by $56,663,095 and $55,834,473 divided by $56,663,095. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (1.5%) and row volume (397 itemized gifts) are separate facts. A modest 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 1.5% as Des Moines's share of the 2010 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

Mean gift size is not a typical donor

397 itemized contributions totaling $828,622 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 DES MOINES. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Des Moines versus other Iowa cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $2,087 uses only the two numbers in the join: $828,622 and 397 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 $828,622 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee.

City of the contributor, not the recipient

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

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Des Moines, IA, the 2010 election cycle, Iowa 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 Des Moines, IA donors give in the 2010 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Des Moines, IA total $828,622 in the 2010 cycle, across 397 contribution records. The same city label totals $56,663,095 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2010 is 1.5% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Des Moines, IA city total only for 2010?

No. The city aggregate of $56,663,095 covers every cycle in the table for DES MOINES. The 2010 filter is $828,622 from 397 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $55,834,473. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2010 slice.

Did Des Moines, IA 2010 donations stay in Iowa?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Des Moines, IA; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $828,622 by office, state of the committee, or party. A IA city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Iowa races.

How many Des Moines, IA contributions were itemized in 2010?

397 itemized contribution records sum to $828,622. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $2,087 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.