Shreveport, LA political money — 2014 cycle

Shreveport, LA × 2014 is a midterm city-cycle join

$169,682 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city SHREVEPORT with state LA, and election cycle 2014. The match is $169,682 across 123 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $41,792,825. 2014 therefore accounts for 0.41% of Shreveport, LA itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $41,623,143 (99.6%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Shreveport, LA. That hub mixes 2014 with every other even-year window filed under SHREVEPORT. It is also not a restatement of the 2014 election cycle hub, which mixes Shreveport, LA with every other donor city in the United States. The 123 rows and $169,682 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.

SHREVEPORT as a Caddo Parish city key

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city SHREVEPORT in Louisiana totals $41.8 million ($41,792,825). $169,682 is 0.41% of that city book. A small share does not mean 2014 was quiet in Shreveport; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. Do not add $169,682 to $41,792,825; the city book already contains this slice. Subtracting is valid: $41,792,825 − $169,682 = $41,623,143 in other cycles.

The stored city sits in Caddo Parish, Louisiana. Bossier City, Shreveport-Bossier labels, and Monroe are other FEC city strings; Bossier City is not rolled into SHREVEPORT. State LA stays on the citation so Shreveport is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $41.8 million is the LA key only. Donor city is not recipient city: committees that received these gifts can file from anywhere in the FEC system.

How 2014 is tagged on Shreveport receipts

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. 2014 is a midterm election cycle: a two-year FEC window labeled by its even year, without a presidential general on the ballot. Inside that window, Shreveport, LA filers itemized $169,682 on 123 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,380 per itemized gift ($169,682 ÷ 123). That mean is an arithmetic average of rows, not a typical resident and not a median. This page does not publish a median or a unique-donor count.

a 123-row extract — a mid-size receipt file for this city string, still Schedule A lines. The national 2014 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Louisiana still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Shreveport × 2014. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. Louisiana campaign-finance pages already contain this city when the same extract is used; do not add $169,682 into the state hub a second time.

2014 versus other cycles in the Shreveport book

0.41% of $41,792,825 is the 2014 slice. Put another way, about 0.41% of Shreveport, LA’s itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2014, and about 99.6% were not. Those percentages are $169,682 divided by $41,792,825 and $41,623,143 divided by $41,792,825. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.41%) and row volume (123 itemized gifts) are separate facts. New Orleans and Baton Rouge are other Louisiana city keys. This join does not rank SHREVEPORT against them. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.41% as Shreveport’s share of the 2014 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

123 contribution records are not unique donors

123 itemized contributions totaling $169,682 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 SHREVEPORT. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Shreveport versus other Louisiana cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,380 uses only the two numbers in the join: $169,682 and 123 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 $169,682 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed SHREVEPORT is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Shreveport.

Caveats on a Shreveport–2014 match

This page does not rank Shreveport against other cities, does not call 2014 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in Louisiana. Two columns matched. A LA address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a Louisiana candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Shreveport, LA hub or the live 2014 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls. Parish geography is map context. FEC stores the city string, not a Caddo Parish rollup, unless the filer typed SHREVEPORT.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Shreveport, LA, the 2014 election cycle, Louisiana campaign finance, and All FEC ties for the adjacent tables. Bossier City, across the Red River, is a different city key when filers typed that name. 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 Shreveport, LA donors give in the 2014 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Shreveport, LA total $169,682 in the 2014 cycle, across 123 contribution records. The same city label totals $41,792,825 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2014 is 0.41% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is Shreveport’s citywide total only from 2014?

No. The city aggregate of $41,792,825 covers every cycle in the table for SHREVEPORT. The 2014 filter is $169,682 from 123 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $41,623,143. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2014 slice.

Were 2014 Shreveport gifts limited to Louisiana races?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Shreveport, LA; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $169,682 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 Shreveport, LA contributions were itemized in 2014?

123 itemized contribution records sum to $169,682. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,380 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.