New Orleans, LA political money — 2012 cycle

Joining donor city New Orleans with cycle 2012

The join keeps donor city New Orleans in Louisiana and election cycle 2012. The match is $416,927 across 325 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $96,628,564. 2012 therefore accounts for 0.43% of New Orleans, LA itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $96,211,637 (99.6%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of New Orleans, LA. That hub mixes 2012 with every other even-year window filed under NEW ORLEANS. It is also not a restatement of the 2012 election cycle hub, which mixes New Orleans, LA with every other donor city in the United States. The 325 rows and $416,927 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. 2012 is a presidential FEC cycle: a two-year window that includes a presidential general election. This page does not split the $416,927 by office, party, or candidate. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

New Orleans, LA across every cycle in the aggregate

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 $416,927 from 2012 and the $96,211,637 from every other cycle in the same city file. Louisiana campaign-finance pages still mix New Orleans with every other city in Louisiana.

A large city total does not mean 2012 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2012 was small. For New Orleans, LA, the city stack is $96,628,564 while this cycle is $416,927 (0.43%). 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 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, New Orleans, LA donors itemized $416,927 on 325 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,283 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 Louisiana still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates New Orleans × 2012. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures, party coordinated spends, and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 325 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 New Orleans, LA, 2012 election cycle, and Louisiana campaign finance keep those broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only.

Share of $96,628,564 sitting in 2012

0.43% of $96,628,564 is a thin slice. New Orleans, LA remains a multi-cycle file; 2012 is one filter on that stack. Put another way, about 0.43% of New Orleans, LA's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2012, and about 99.6% were not. Those percentages are $416,927 divided by $96,628,564 and $96,211,637 divided by $96,628,564. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.43%) and row volume (325 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 0.43% as New Orleans' share of the 2012 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

325 contribution records from one city-cycle pair

325 itemized contributions totaling $416,927 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 $1,283 uses only the two numbers in the join: $416,927 and 325 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 $416,927 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee.

Limits of a city-by-cycle table

This page does not rank New Orleans against other cities, does not call 2012 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.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See New Orleans, LA, the 2012 election cycle, Louisiana 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 New Orleans, LA donors give in the 2012 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing New Orleans, LA total $416,927 in the 2012 cycle, across 325 contribution records. The same city label totals $96,628,564 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2012 is 0.43% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the New Orleans, LA city total only for 2012?

No. The city aggregate of $96,628,564 covers every cycle in the table for NEW ORLEANS. The 2012 filter is $416,927 from 325 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $96,211,637. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2012 slice.

Did New Orleans, LA 2012 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 $416,927 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 2012?

325 itemized contribution records sum to $416,927. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,283 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.