Lexington, MA political money — 2014 cycle

Lexington, MA × 2014 is a midterm city-cycle join

$167,150 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city LEXINGTON with state MA, and election cycle 2014. The match is $167,150 across 100 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $61,747,219. 2014 therefore accounts for 0.27% of Lexington, MA itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $61,580,069 (99.7%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Lexington, MA. That hub mixes 2014 with every other even-year window filed under LEXINGTON. It is also not a restatement of the 2014 election cycle hub, which mixes Lexington, MA with every other donor city in the United States. The 100 rows and $167,150 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.

LEXINGTON, MA is not Lexington, KY

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city LEXINGTON in Massachusetts totals $61.7 million ($61,747,219). $167,150 is 0.27% of that city book. A small share does not mean 2014 was quiet in Lexington; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. Do not add $167,150 to $61,747,219; the city book already contains this slice. Subtracting is valid: $61,747,219 − $167,150 = $61,580,069 in other cycles.

The stored city sits in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Arlington, Concord, and Bedford are other FEC city strings, not rolled into LEXINGTON. State MA stays on the citation so Lexington is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $61.7 million is the MA 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 Lexington 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, Lexington, MA filers itemized $167,150 on 100 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,672 per itemized gift ($167,150 ÷ 100). 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 100-row extract — a round hundred receipt file for this town string, still lines rather than unique residents. The national 2014 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Massachusetts still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Lexington × 2014. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. Massachusetts campaign-finance pages already contain this city when the same extract is used; do not add $167,150 into the state hub a second time.

2014 as a slice of the Lexington, MA book

0.27% of $61,747,219 is the 2014 slice. Put another way, about 0.27% of Lexington, MA’s itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2014, and about 99.7% were not. Those percentages are $167,150 divided by $61,747,219 and $61,580,069 divided by $61,747,219. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.27%) and row volume (100 itemized gifts) are separate facts. State MA stays on the citation so Lexington, Massachusetts is not merged with Lexington, Kentucky, a different FEC key. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.27% as Lexington’s share of the 2014 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

100 contribution records are not unique donors

100 itemized contributions totaling $167,150 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 LEXINGTON. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Lexington versus other Massachusetts cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,672 uses only the two numbers in the join: $167,150 and 100 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 $167,150 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed LEXINGTON is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Lexington.

Limits of a Lexington–2014 match

This page does not rank Lexington against other cities, does not call 2014 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in Massachusetts. Two columns matched. A MA address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a Massachusetts candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Lexington, MA hub or the live 2014 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls. Newton and Waltham are neighboring Middlesex strings. They are not absorbed into LEXINGTON.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Lexington, MA, the 2014 election cycle, Massachusetts campaign finance, and All FEC ties for the adjacent tables. A town history is not an FEC field. The packet has city, state, cycle, dollars, and a row count. 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 Lexington, MA donors give in the 2014 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Lexington, MA total $167,150 in the 2014 cycle, across 100 contribution records. The same city label totals $61,747,219 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2014 is 0.27% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Does Lexington’s citywide FEC total cover only 2014?

No. The city aggregate of $61,747,219 covers every cycle in the table for LEXINGTON. The 2014 filter is $167,150 from 100 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $61,580,069. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2014 slice.

Were 2014 Lexington gifts limited to Massachusetts races?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Lexington, MA; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $167,150 by office, state of the committee, or party. A MA city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Massachusetts races.

How many Lexington, MA contributions were itemized in 2014?

100 itemized contribution records sum to $167,150. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,672 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.