Wichita, KS political money — 2012 cycle

The city-cycle join for Wichita in 2012

LobbyVault isolates contributor city Wichita (KS) crossed with cycle 2012. The isolated total is $233,302 on 207 itemized Schedule A lines. Put beside the city book of $115,332,696, the 2012 window is 0.2% of Wichita, KS itemized individual dollars in this extract. $115,099,394 remains in other even-year tags on the same city key.

A JOIN page exists because two tables meet. Opening only Wichita, KS hides the year. Opening only 2012 election cycle hides the city. Opening Kansas campaign finance mixes Wichita, KS with every other Kansas city. All FEC ties is the index of other two-dimension pages. None of those four URLs is a duplicate of $233,302.

The packet facts stop at city, state, city-wide total, cycle, cycle total, and contribution count. No donor names appear here because none appear in the packet. No committee list appears here because none appears in the packet. FEC.gov is the source system; LobbyVault is an index of aggregates.

Where Wichita, KS sits in the FEC city field

Wichita is an address string, not a metro statistical area. Sedgwick County, Kansas is the usual map location for this key. Nearby labels — Derby, Andover, and Goddard — stay out unless a filer typed Wichita. those nearby strings are separate FEC city keys and are not rolled into Wichita. $115,332,696 therefore does not equal “the metro’s political money.”

The all-cycle city total mixes presidential windows and midterm windows. $233,302 is only the 2012 tag. Do not add $233,302 to $115,332,696; the city book already contains this slice. Subtracting is valid: $115,332,696 − $233,302 = $115,099,394 in other cycles. Adding would double-count.

2012 as a two-year FEC window

2012 on an FEC receipt is an even-year cycle code. 2012 is a presidential election cycle. Itemized Wichita, KS dollars inside that code: $233,302. Itemized Wichita, KS rows inside that code: 207. The cycle hub still mixes every U.S. city. This join does not.

Amended filings can move either dollar figure after this snapshot. If the live Wichita, KS hub or the live 2012 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls. This snapshot is not a third disclosure system.

Itemized rows versus unique people

207 itemized contributions totaling $233,302 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 Wichita. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Wichita versus other Kansas cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,127 uses only the two numbers in the join: $233,302 and 207 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 $233,302 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. Unitemized gifts and Kansas state-office filings sit outside $233,302.

Repeat the filters in one sentence: contributor city Wichita, state KS, election cycle 2012, itemized dollars $233,302, itemized rows 207, all-cycle city dollars $115,332,696. Any citation that drops the cycle or drops the city is a different claim. 2012 is a presidential election cycle. That label is a two-year FEC window, not a reason the dollars moved and not a ranking of Sedgwick County, Kansas against other places.

State pages still mix other Kansas cities

Kansas campaign finance still mixes cities. The 2012 cycle still mixes states. Wichita, KS still mixes years. Only this path applies both filters. All FEC ties is the catalog of other filter pairs (city-industry, occupation-cycle, and the rest).

FEC receipts are not USAspending obligations. Do not claim that $233,302 funded federal awards in Kansas or in Sedgwick County, Kansas. Different datasets, same country, no cash pipeline in this packet.

Neighboring city strings remain outside this join. Around Wichita, KS, filers also use labels such as Derby, Andover, and Goddard; those nearby strings are separate FEC city keys and are not rolled into Wichita. Those dollars, if any, sit on other city keys. Unitemized federal gifts, independent expenditures, PAC transfers, and Kansas state-office filings sit outside $233,302 and outside $115,332,696. FEC.gov is the source; USAspending is a different statute and is not funded by these receipts.

FEC receipts are not federal spending awards

A 0.2% cut can sit next to 207 itemized gifts. 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.

Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle. Quote both $233,302 and $115,332,696 when summarizing Wichita, KS in 2012.

Questions

What is the Wichita, KS FEC total for 2012?

$233,302 in itemized individual contributions, from 207 receipts tagged city Wichita and cycle 2012. Source: FEC.gov aggregates on LobbyVault. The all-cycle city figure is $115,332,696, which already includes this $233,302. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and Kansas state-office filings sit outside both numbers.

How does 2012 compare with all Wichita, KS cycles combined?

2012 is 0.2% of the Wichita, KS city book: $233,302 out of $115,332,696. The other 99.8% is $115,099,394 in other even-year tags. That is a dollar share inside one city key, not a rank against other cities and not a share of the national 2012 cycle, which is not in these facts.

Are Wichita, KS 2012 gifts limited to Kansas candidates?

No. The facts identify donor city, not recipient office or recipient state. Committees anywhere in the FEC system can receive itemized gifts from Wichita addresses. $233,302 is not a map of Kansas races, and this join does not allocate dollars by party or committee.

What does 207 contributions mean for Wichita, KS in 2012?

It is a count of itemized contribution records that sum to $233,302. Repeat donors produce multiple rows. The mean line is about $1,127. Unique people, medians, and unitemized gifts are not in this packet, so 207 is not a household or voter census for Sedgwick County, Kansas.