Hinsdale, IL political money — 2012 cycle

Two FEC fields: Hinsdale and 2012

The join keeps donor city Hinsdale in Illinois and election cycle 2012. The match is $1,075,940 across 71 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $29,753,170. 2012 therefore accounts for 3.6% of Hinsdale, IL itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $28,677,230 (96.4%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Hinsdale, IL. That hub mixes 2012 with every other even-year window filed under HINSDALE. It is also not a restatement of the 2012 election cycle hub, which mixes Hinsdale, IL with every other donor city in the United States. The 71 rows and $1,075,940 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. Hinsdale, IL here is the string that survived aggregation as HINSDALE in IL. 2012 is a presidential FEC cycle: a two-year window that includes a presidential general election. This page does not split the $1,075,940 by office, party, or candidate. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

$29,753,170 filed from Hinsdale, IL

The city aggregate for Hinsdale, IL is $29,753,170 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 $1,075,940 from 2012 and the $28,677,230 from every other cycle in the same city file. Illinois campaign-finance pages still mix Hinsdale with every other city in Illinois.

A large city total does not mean 2012 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2012 was small. For Hinsdale, IL, the city stack is $29,753,170 while this cycle is $1,075,940 (3.6%). Use the city hub to see Hinsdale, IL without a year filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Hinsdale in 2012. Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

$1,075,940 inside the 2012 window

The 2012 election cycle is a two-year FEC reporting window labeled by its even year. Inside that window, Hinsdale, IL donors itemized $1,075,940 on 71 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $15,154 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 2012 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Illinois still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Hinsdale × 2012. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures, party coordinated spends, and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 71 itemized rows is a relatively sparse file. A small number of large gifts can move $1,075,940 without representing a broad local donor pool. Adjacent pages for Hinsdale, IL, 2012 election cycle, and Illinois campaign finance keep those broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only.

Where 2012 sits in the city timeline

3.6% of $29,753,170 is a notable slice. Other cycles still hold $28,677,230 (96.4%) of the city total. Put another way, about 3.6% of Hinsdale, IL's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2012, and about 96.4% were not. Those percentages are $1,075,940 divided by $29,753,170 and $28,677,230 divided by $29,753,170. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (3.6%) and row volume (71 itemized gifts) are separate facts. A notable 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 3.6% as Hinsdale's share of the 2012 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

A sparse itemized file for this pair

71 itemized contributions totaling $1,075,940 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 HINSDALE. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Hinsdale versus other Illinois cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $15,154 uses only the two numbers in the join: $1,075,940 and 71 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 $1,075,940 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee.

Public records without motive

This page does not rank Hinsdale against other cities, does not call 2012 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. A IL address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a Illinois candidate.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Hinsdale, IL, the 2012 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 Hinsdale, IL donors give in the 2012 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Hinsdale, IL total $1,075,940 in the 2012 cycle, across 71 contribution records. The same city label totals $29,753,170 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2012 is 3.6% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Hinsdale, IL city total only for 2012?

No. The city aggregate of $29,753,170 covers every cycle in the table for HINSDALE. The 2012 filter is $1,075,940 from 71 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $28,677,230. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2012 slice.

Did Hinsdale, IL 2012 donations stay in Illinois?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Hinsdale, IL; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $1,075,940 by office, state of the committee, or party. A IL city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Illinois races.

How many Hinsdale, IL contributions were itemized in 2012?

71 itemized contribution records sum to $1,075,940. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $15,154 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.