Lawyer political contributions from Virginia

Lawyer and Virginia as overlapping FEC fields

Occupation LAWYER and donor state VA produce $5,554,846, 15,685 contributions, and 907 donors. The occupation hub is $105,321,940, 362,611 contributions, and 19,031 donors. Virginia’s dollar share is about 5.3%; contribution share about 4.3% (15,685 of 362,611); donor share about 4.8% (907 of 19,031). Nine hundred seven Virginia donors are about 4.8% of 19,031 national donors; 15,685 contributions are about 4.3% of 362,611 national rows; dollars are about 5.3% of $105,321,940.

ATTORNEY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, and COUNSEL, if used, sit in other hubs and should not be added to this Lawyer total. Do not stack LAWYER with ATTORNEY or COUNSEL into a single Virginia professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

907 Virginia donors produced 15,685 contributions, about 17.3 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 19.1 rows per donor nationally (362,611 contributions from 19,031 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this Virginia cell is about $354, against about $290 nationwide. Virginia’s about 5.3% share of $105,321,940 is a large professional cell, not a bar-association census.

LAWYER as a one-word professional string

LAWYER is a filer-entered string. The FEC file does not verify a bar number, a practice area, or a firm seat. The $105,321,940 national total is LAWYER only. 19,031 donors produced 362,611 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 362,611 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to Virginia (VA). Nineteen thousand thirty-one national donors make LAWYER a high-volume occupation. This tie asks how much of that labeled money also carries donor state VA.

Virginia on the state side

907 Virginia donors produced 15,685 contributions totaling $5,554,846. Donor state VA is the address on the record, not proof of a Virginia license, and not a limit to Virginia candidates. VA is the address on the itemized record, not proof of a Virginia bar card, and not a map of which campaigns received the $5,554,846.

The Virginia campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to VA. This join is only LAWYER. The Lawyer occupation hub without Virginia still holds about 94.7% of the $105,321,940. Virginia’s state hub includes every other occupation coded to VA. LAWYER is only this filter.

What the Lawyer join is not

This page does not count licensed attorneys, merge ATTORNEY dollars, or claim that Lawyer-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. LAWYER is not ATTORNEY even when filers meant the same practice.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. LAWYER is not a state-bar extract. Donor state VA is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. Bar numbers are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Lawyer filter

Subtract the Virginia dollars on this page from the national LAWYER occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded LAWYER in every other state combined. That remainder ($99,767,094) has no row-by-row breakdown here because those states are other ties. The occupation internal link holds the unlabeled-by-state total; the state internal link holds every occupation with this state code; the occupations index and the ties index place this pair among other joins built the same way.

A unique-donor count of 907 is not a person-level audit. The FEC aggregate can merge similar names or split one person who filed under variants. A contribution count of 15,685 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $5,554,846 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Virginia dollars, or only the LAWYER national total, drops a key. Nine hundred seven donors producing 15,685 contributions totaling $5,554,846 is the fact to keep next to the dollar headline.

Related tables

Lawyer donations holds the $105,321,940 national occupation total. Virginia campaign finance holds the state’s itemized individual activity across occupations. All occupations and all FEC ties collect other occupation-state pairs from the same two fields. ATTORNEY is a different occupation hub if that string exists.

Questions

How much have Lawyer donors in Virginia given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation LAWYER and state Virginia total $5,554,846, from 15,685 contributions and 907 donors. Nationwide, LAWYER-coded receipts are $105,321,940 from 362,611 contributions and 19,031 donors. Virginia is about 5.3% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Are these licensed Virginia attorneys?

The FEC file does not verify bar numbers. Occupation is LAWYER and state is VA. The 907 Virginia donors used occupation LAWYER and state VA. Filers who wrote ATTORNEY or ATTORNEY AT LAW may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Lawyer FEC money is from Virginia?

About 5.3% of the $105,321,940 occupation total is in this Virginia join ($5,554,846). Virginia also accounts for about 4.3% of contributions (15,685 of 362,611) and about 4.8% of donors (907 of 19,031). About 5.3% of dollars from 907 of 19,031 donors and 15,685 of 362,611 contributions.

Does this money go to Virginia candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Virginia. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $5,554,846 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to VA.