Winnetka, IL political money — 2008 cycle

How Winnetka, IL meets the 2008 election cycle

$313,502 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city WINNETKA with state IL, and election cycle 2008. The match is $313,502 across 175 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $56,827,615. 2008 therefore accounts for 0.55% of Winnetka, IL itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $56,514,113 (99.4%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Winnetka, IL. That hub mixes 2008 with every other even-year window filed under WINNETKA. It is also not a restatement of the 2008 election cycle hub, which mixes Winnetka, IL with every other donor city in the United States. The 175 rows and $313,502 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 and suburb-versus-city choices can split a metro across multiple city pages. Winnetka, IL here is the string that survived aggregation as WINNETKA in IL. 2008 is a presidential FEC cycle: a two-year window that includes a presidential general election. That calendar fact does not explain why Winnetka, IL donors itemized $313,502. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

The Winnetka, IL side of the join

The city aggregate for Winnetka, IL is $56,827,615 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 $313,502 from 2008 and the $56,514,113 from every other cycle in the same city file. Illinois campaign-finance pages still mix Winnetka with every other city in Illinois.

The stored city sits on the North Shore of Cook County, Illinois. Chicago, Evanston, and Wilmette are not rolled into WINNETKA. State IL stays on the citation so Winnetka, IL is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $56,827,615 is the IL key only. A large city total does not mean 2008 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2008 was small. For Winnetka, IL, the city stack is $56,827,615 while this cycle is $313,502 (0.55%). Use the city hub to see Winnetka, IL without a year filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Winnetka in 2008. Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

The 2008 cycle side for Illinois filers in Winnetka

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2008 cycle is the Commission's cycle tag on itemized receipts, not a calendar year of January gifts only. Inside that window, Winnetka, IL donors itemized $313,502 on 175 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,791 per itemized gift. That mean is an arithmetic average of rows, not a typical donor and not a median. This page does not publish a median or a unique-donor count.

The national 2008 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Illinois still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Winnetka × 2008. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 175 itemized rows is a modest file. Adjacent pages for Winnetka, IL, 2008 election cycle, and Illinois campaign finance keep those broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only.

2008 versus the rest of Winnetka

0.55% of $56,827,615 is a small slice. The city hub is mostly other even-year windows, totaling $56,514,113. Put another way, about 0.55% of Winnetka, IL's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2008, and about 99.4% were not. Those percentages are $313,502 divided by $56,827,615 and $56,514,113 divided by $56,827,615. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.55%) and row volume (175 itemized gifts) are separate facts. A small slice of citywide dollars can sit next to a modest 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 0.55% as Winnetka's share of the 2008 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

Counts, dollars, and what they omit

175 itemized contributions totaling $313,502 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 WINNETKA. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Winnetka versus other Illinois cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,791 uses only the two numbers in the join: $313,502 and 175 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 $313,502 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed WINNETKA is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Winnetka.

Caveats on a geographic-cycle join

This page does not rank Winnetka against other cities, does not call 2008 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. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Winnetka, IL hub or the live 2008 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Winnetka, IL, the 2008 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 Winnetka, IL donors give in the 2008 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Winnetka, IL total $313,502 in the 2008 cycle, across 175 contribution records. The same city label totals $56,827,615 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2008 is 0.55% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Winnetka, IL city total only for 2008?

No. The city aggregate of $56,827,615 covers every cycle in the table for WINNETKA. The 2008 filter is $313,502 from 175 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $56,514,113. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2008 slice.

Did Winnetka, IL 2008 donations stay in Illinois?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Winnetka, IL; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $313,502 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 Winnetka, IL contributions were itemized in 2008?

175 itemized contribution records sum to $313,502. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,791 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.