New Orleans, LA political money — 2010 cycle

2010 receipts from New Orleans, LA donors

The join keeps donor city New Orleans in Louisiana and election cycle 2010. The match is $369,330 across 323 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $96,628,564. 2010 therefore accounts for 0.4% of New Orleans, LA itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $96,259,234 (99.6%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of New Orleans, LA. That hub mixes 2010 with every other even-year window filed under NEW ORLEANS. It is also not a restatement of the 2010 election cycle hub, which mixes New Orleans, LA with every other donor city in the United States. The 323 rows and $369,330 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. New Orleans, LA here is the string that survived aggregation as NEW ORLEANS in LA. 2010 is a midterm FEC cycle: a two-year window labeled by its even year, without a presidential general on the ballot. This page does not split the $369,330 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 New Orleans, LA is $96,628,564 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 $369,330 from 2010 and the $96,259,234 from every other cycle in the same city file. Louisiana campaign-finance pages still mix New Orleans with every other city in Louisiana.

The stored city sits in Orleans Parish, Louisiana. Metairie, Kenner, and Baton Rouge are not rolled into NEW ORLEANS. State LA stays on the citation. Metairie and Kenner are other city strings, not rolled into NEW ORLEANS. A large city total does not mean 2010 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2010 was small. For New Orleans, LA, the city stack is $96,628,564 while this cycle is $369,330 (0.4%). Use the city hub to see New Orleans, LA without a year filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically New Orleans in 2010. Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

How a midterm cycle is coded at the FEC

The 2010 election cycle is a two-year FEC reporting window labeled by its even year. Inside that window, New Orleans, LA donors itemized $369,330 on 323 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,143 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 2010 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Louisiana still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates New Orleans × 2010. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures, party coordinated spends, and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 323 itemized rows is a thicker file than many suburb joins, still a receipt count rather than a unique-person census. Repeat givers and office addresses sit in the same 323-line stack. Adjacent pages for New Orleans, LA, 2010 election cycle, and Louisiana campaign finance keep those broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only.

A modest cut of the New Orleans stack

0.4% of $96,628,564 is a modest slice. Most of the New Orleans, LA aggregate — $96,259,234 — sits in other cycles. Put another way, about 0.4% of New Orleans, LA's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2010, and about 99.6% were not. Those percentages are $369,330 divided by $96,628,564 and $96,259,234 divided by $96,628,564. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.4%) and row volume (323 itemized gifts) are separate facts. A modest slice of citywide dollars can sit next to a thicker contribution file than many suburb joins; 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 0.4% as New Orleans's share of the 2010 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

Mean gift size is not a typical donor

323 itemized contributions totaling $369,330 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 NEW ORLEANS. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of New Orleans versus other Louisiana cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,143 uses only the two numbers in the join: $369,330 and 323 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 $369,330 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. Unitemized gifts and Louisiana state-office filings sit outside $369,330.

City of the contributor, not the recipient

This page does not rank New Orleans against other cities, does not call 2010 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in Louisiana. Two columns matched. The city of the contributor is not the city of the campaign. A LA address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a Louisiana candidate. A candidate who lives in New Orleans can raise money from other cities; those gifts are not this join.

City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed NEW ORLEANS is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood or a nearby suburb such as Metairie is not recoded into New Orleans. Treat 323 as lines that stored this string in 2010. See New Orleans, LA, the 2010 election cycle, Louisiana 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.

Questions

How much did New Orleans, LA donors give in the 2010 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing New Orleans, LA total $369,330 in the 2010 cycle, across 323 contribution records. The same city label totals $96,628,564 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2010 is 0.4% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the New Orleans, LA city total only for 2010?

No. The city aggregate of $96,628,564 covers every cycle in the table for NEW ORLEANS. The 2010 filter is $369,330 from 323 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $96,259,234. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2010 slice.

Did New Orleans, LA 2010 donations stay in Louisiana?

Not necessarily. Donor city is New Orleans, LA; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $369,330 by office, state of the committee, or party. A LA city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Louisiana races.

How many New Orleans, LA contributions were itemized in 2010?

323 itemized contribution records sum to $369,330. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,143 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.