Flossmoor, IL political money — 2014 cycle

2014 receipts from Flossmoor, IL donors

The join keeps donor city Flossmoor in Illinois and election cycle 2014. The match is $420,700 across 55 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $24,863,074. 2014 therefore accounts for 1.7% of Flossmoor, IL itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $24,442,374 (98.3%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Flossmoor, IL. That hub mixes 2014 with every other even-year window filed under FLOSSMOOR. It is also not a restatement of the 2014 election cycle hub, which mixes Flossmoor, IL with every other donor city in the United States. The 55 rows and $420,700 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. Flossmoor, IL here is the string that survived aggregation as FLOSSMOOR in IL. 2014 is a midterm FEC cycle: a two-year window without a presidential general election. That calendar fact does not explain why Flossmoor, IL donors itemized $420,700. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

The city hub still mixes other cycles

The city aggregate for Flossmoor, IL is $24,863,074 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 $420,700 from 2014 and the $24,442,374 from every other cycle in the same city file. Illinois campaign-finance pages still mix Flossmoor with every other city in Illinois.

A large city total does not mean 2014 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2014 was small. For Flossmoor, IL, the city stack is $24,863,074 while this cycle is $420,700 (1.7%). Use the city hub to see Flossmoor, IL without a year filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Flossmoor in 2014. 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 2014 election cycle is a two-year FEC reporting window labeled by its even year. Inside that window, Flossmoor, IL donors itemized $420,700 on 55 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $7,649 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 2014 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Illinois still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Flossmoor × 2014. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures, party coordinated spends, and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 55 itemized contribution rows is a sparse file. With that few records, the dollar total should be read as a limited set of itemized transactions, not a citywide turnout measure. Adjacent pages for Flossmoor, IL, 2014 election cycle, and Illinois campaign finance keep those broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only.

A modest cut of the Flossmoor stack

1.7% of $24,863,074 is a modest slice. Most of the Flossmoor, IL aggregate — $24,442,374 — sits in other cycles. Put another way, about 1.7% of Flossmoor, IL's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2014, and about 98.3% were not. Those percentages are $420,700 divided by $24,863,074 and $24,442,374 divided by $24,863,074. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (1.7%) and row volume (55 itemized gifts) are separate facts. A modest slice of citywide dollars can sit next to a sparse 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 1.7% as Flossmoor's share of the 2014 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

55 contribution records from one city-cycle pair

55 itemized contributions totaling $420,700 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 FLOSSMOOR. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Flossmoor versus other Illinois cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $7,649 uses only the two numbers in the join: $420,700 and 55 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 $420,700 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee.

Limits of a city-by-cycle table

This page does not rank Flossmoor against other cities, does not call 2014 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in Illinois. Two columns matched. The city of the contributor is not the city of the campaign. An IL address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported an Illinois candidate.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Flossmoor, IL, the 2014 election cycle, Illinois 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 Flossmoor, IL donors give in the 2014 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Flossmoor, IL total $420,700 in the 2014 cycle, across 55 contribution records. The same city label totals $24,863,074 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2014 is 1.7% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Flossmoor, IL city total only for 2014?

No. The city aggregate of $24,863,074 covers every cycle in the table for FLOSSMOOR. The 2014 filter is $420,700 from 55 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $24,442,374. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2014 slice.

Did Flossmoor, IL 2014 donations stay in Illinois?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Flossmoor, IL; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $420,700 by office, state of the committee, or party. An IL city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Illinois races.

How many Flossmoor, IL contributions were itemized in 2014?

55 itemized contribution records sum to $420,700. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $7,649 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.