Indianapolis, IN political money — 2012 cycle

Joining donor city Indianapolis with cycle 2012

The join keeps donor city Indianapolis in Indiana and election cycle 2012. The match is $474,393 across 427 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $139,287,043. 2012 therefore accounts for 0.34% of Indianapolis, IN itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $138,812,650 (99.7%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Indianapolis, IN. That hub mixes 2012 with every other even-year window filed under INDIANAPOLIS. It is also not a restatement of the 2012 election cycle hub, which mixes Indianapolis, IN with every other donor city in the United States. The 427 rows and $474,393 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. Indianapolis, IN here is the string that survived aggregation as INDIANAPOLIS in IN. 2012 is a presidential FEC cycle: a two-year window that includes a presidential general election. This page does not split the $474,393 by office, party, or candidate. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

Indianapolis, IN across every cycle in the aggregate

The city aggregate for Indianapolis, IN is $139,287,043 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 $474,393 from 2012 and the $138,812,650 from every other cycle in the same city file. Indiana campaign-finance pages still mix Indianapolis with every other city in Indiana.

A large city total does not mean 2012 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2012 was small. For Indianapolis, IN, the city stack is $139,287,043 while this cycle is $474,393 (0.34%). Use the city hub to see Indianapolis, IN without a year filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Indianapolis in 2012. Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

2012 as a two-year FEC window

The 2012 election cycle is a two-year FEC reporting window labeled by its even year. Inside that window, Indianapolis, IN donors itemized $474,393 on 427 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,111 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 Indiana still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Indianapolis × 2012. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures, party coordinated spends, and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 427 itemized contribution rows is a moderate file. The dollar total can still be skewed by a few large gifts without this page naming them. Adjacent pages for Indianapolis, IN, 2012 election cycle, and Indiana campaign finance keep those broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only.

Share of $139,287,043 sitting in 2012

0.34% of $139,287,043 is a thin slice. Indianapolis, IN remains a multi-cycle file; 2012 is one filter on that stack. Put another way, about 0.34% of Indianapolis, IN's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2012, and about 99.7% were not. Those percentages are $474,393 divided by $139,287,043 and $138,812,650 divided by $139,287,043. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.34%) and row volume (427 itemized gifts) are separate facts. A thin 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 0.34% as Indianapolis' share of the 2012 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

427 contribution records from one city-cycle pair

427 itemized contributions totaling $474,393 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 INDIANAPOLIS. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Indianapolis versus other Indiana cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,111 uses only the two numbers in the join: $474,393 and 427 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 $474,393 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee.

Limits of a city-by-cycle table

This page does not rank Indianapolis against other cities, does not call 2012 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in Indiana. Two columns matched. The city of the contributor is not the city of the campaign. An IN address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported an Indiana candidate.

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

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Indianapolis, IN total $474,393 in the 2012 cycle, across 427 contribution records. The same city label totals $139,287,043 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2012 is 0.34% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Indianapolis, IN city total only for 2012?

No. The city aggregate of $139,287,043 covers every cycle in the table for INDIANAPOLIS. The 2012 filter is $474,393 from 427 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $138,812,650. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2012 slice.

Did Indianapolis, IN 2012 donations stay in Indiana?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Indianapolis, IN; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $474,393 by office, state of the committee, or party. An IN city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Indiana races.

How many Indianapolis, IN contributions were itemized in 2012?

427 itemized contribution records sum to $474,393. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,111 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.