Wichita, KS political money — 2008 cycle

2008 receipts from Wichita, KS donors

The join keeps donor city Wichita in Kansas and election cycle 2008. The match is $233,854 across 210 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $115,332,696. 2008 therefore accounts for 0.2% of Wichita, KS itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $115,098,842 (99.8%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Wichita, KS. That hub mixes 2008 with every other even-year window filed under Wichita. It is also not a restatement of the 2008 election cycle hub, which mixes Wichita, KS with every other donor city in the United States. The 210 rows and $233,854 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. Wichita, KS here is the string that survived aggregation as Wichita in KS. 2008 is a presidential FEC cycle: a two-year window labeled by its even year that includes a presidential general election. This page does not split the $233,854 by office, party, or candidate. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

The city hub still mixes other cycles

The city aggregate for Wichita, KS is $115,332,696 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 $233,854 from 2008 and the $115,098,842 from every other cycle in the same city file. Kansas campaign-finance pages still mix Wichita with every other city in Kansas.

The stored city sits in Sedgwick County, Kansas. Derby, Andover, and Goddard are not rolled into Wichita except as noted: those nearby strings are separate FEC city keys and are not rolled into Wichita. State KS stays on the citation. A large city total does not mean 2008 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2008 was small. For Wichita, KS, the city stack is $115,332,696 while this cycle is $233,854 (0.2%). Use the city hub to see Wichita, KS without a year filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Wichita in 2008. Donor city is not the same as recipient city.

How a presidential cycle is coded at the FEC

The 2008 election cycle is a two-year FEC reporting window labeled by its even year. Inside that window, Wichita, KS donors itemized $233,854 on 210 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,114 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 2008 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Kansas still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Wichita × 2008. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures, party coordinated spends, and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 210 itemized rows is a receipt count rather than a unique-person census. Repeat givers and office addresses sit in the same stack.

A modest cut of the Wichita stack

0.2% of $115,332,696 is a slice, not a ranking. Put another way, $233,854 of the $115,332,696 city stack was tagged 2008, and $115,098,842 was tagged other cycles. Those percentages are $233,854 divided by $115,332,696 and $115,098,842 divided by $115,332,696. They are not shares of Kansas totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters. Dollar share (0.2%) and row volume (210 itemized gifts) are separate facts.

Do not treat 0.2% as Wichita's share of the 2008 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts. Adjacent windows for the same city string are other joins. This URL isolates Wichita × 2008 only: $233,854, 210 receipts, mean about $1,114. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

Mean gift size is not a typical donor

See Wichita, KS, the 2008 election cycle, Kansas campaign finance, and All FEC ties for the adjacent tables. Figures are FEC itemized individual contribution aggregates. They are not federal spending awards and they do not fund USAspending totals. If the live hub disagrees, the newer FEC extract controls.

This overlay exists so a searcher asking about Wichita, KS in 2008 gets the join instead of a generic city or cycle restatement. Quote $233,854, 210, and $115,332,696 as a set. Quoting only one of them drops a filter.

City of the contributor, not the recipient

0-for-national: this packet has no national 2008 dollar total, so Wichita, KS cannot be expressed as a percent of the United States. 0.2% is city-internal. 210 is city-and-cycle. Mean $1,114 is city-and-cycle.

Adjacent pages for Wichita, KS, 2008 election cycle, and Kansas campaign finance keep the broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only. Figures are FEC itemized individual contribution aggregates. They are not federal spending awards.

Questions

How much did Wichita, KS donors give in the 2008 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Wichita, KS total $233,854 in the 2008 cycle, across 210 contribution records. The same city label totals $115,332,696 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2008 is 0.2% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Wichita, KS city total only for 2008?

No. The city aggregate of $115,332,696 covers every cycle in the table for Wichita. The 2008 filter is $233,854 from 210 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $115,098,842. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2008 slice.

Did Wichita, KS 2008 donations stay in Kansas?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Wichita, KS; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $233,854 by office, state of the committee, or party. A KS city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Kansas races.

How many Wichita, KS contributions were itemized in 2008?

210 itemized contribution records sum to $233,854. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,114 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.