What is the Newton, MA FEC total for 2012?

$235,132 in itemized individual contributions, from 181 receipts tagged city NEWTON and cycle 2012. Source: FEC.gov aggregates on LobbyVault. The all-cycle city figure is $57,119,445, which already includes this $235,132. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and Massachusetts state-office filings sit outside both numbers.

How does 2012 compare with all Newton, MA cycles combined?

2012 is 0.4% of the Newton, MA city book: $235,132 out of $57,119,445. The other 99.6% is $56,884,313 in other even-year tags. That is a dollar share inside one city key, not a rank against other cities and not a share of the national 2012 cycle, which is not in these facts.

Are Newton, MA 2012 gifts limited to Massachusetts candidates?

No. The facts identify donor city, not recipient office or recipient state. Committees anywhere in the FEC system can receive itemized gifts from NEWTON addresses. $235,132 is not a map of Massachusetts races, and this join does not allocate dollars by party or committee.

What does 181 contributions mean for Newton, MA in 2012?

It is a count of itemized contribution records that sum to $235,132. Repeat donors produce multiple rows. The mean line is about $1,299. Unique people, medians, and unitemized gifts are not in this packet, so 181 is not a household or voter census for Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

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Newton, MA political money — 2012 cycle

Two FEC columns meet here: donor city NEWTON (MA) and election cycle 2012. The match is $235,132 from 181 itemized individual contribution records. The city hub still holds $57,119,445 across cycles. The national 2012 hub still holds every other city. This tie page holds only the intersection. Source: FEC.gov Schedule A city-by-cycle aggregates.

Key figures

Join dollars: $235,132 for Newton, MA × 2012; city book $57,119,445.
181 itemized rows; mean about $1,299; rows are not unique donors.
2012 is a presidential FEC two-year window, not a calendar-year census.
State Massachusetts pages mix other cities; cycle pages mix other cities.
No donor names, no party split, no claim that gifts fund federal spending.

Schedule A lines tagged NEWTON and 2012

Schedule A itemized individual contributions that list city NEWTON and cycle 2012 total $235,132. 181 records produce that sum. Newton, MA's all-cycle aggregate in the same extract is $57,119,445. The join is 0.4% of the city book by dollars.

Readers looking for a city ranking will not find one. This packet has one geography. Readers looking for a cycle ranking will not find one. This packet has one cycle. Compare other years on the live Newton, MA table. Compare other cities on other tie pages listed from All FEC ties.

FEC city fields are filer-entered. NEWTON is the stored key. A donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into this page. LobbyVault does not rewrite the city field into a Census place or a residency test.

The Massachusetts city key is not a metro rollup

$57.1 million is the Newton, MA book. $235,132 is the 2012 chapter. 181 is how many itemized lines that chapter has in this extract. None of those figures is a population statistic for Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

Suburb and neighbor strings — Boston, Brookline, and Waltham — stay separate. those nearby strings are separate FEC city keys and are not rolled into NEWTON. State code MA prevents a merge with a same-named city elsewhere. Repeat the pair: NEWTON + MA, not the English metro name alone.

Even-year tag 2012 on itemized receipts

Even-year tag 2012 selected these rows. 2012 is a presidential election cycle. $235,132 is the tagged sum. $57,119,445 is the untagged (all-cycle) sum for the same city key. Keep the tags straight when quoting either number.

The 2012 election cycle hub is the national mix. The Newton, MA hub is the multi-cycle mix. This tie is the double filter. All FEC ties lists other double filters.

Mean, median, and missing unique-donor counts

Mean $1,299 = $235,132 / 181. No median is published. No mode is published. No unique-donor count is published. Those statistics would require a different extract.

City string exactness matters. NEWTON in MA is the key. Spellings that differ are other pages. those nearby strings are separate FEC city keys and are not rolled into NEWTON.

Repeat the filters in one sentence: contributor city NEWTON, state MA, election cycle 2012, itemized dollars $235,132, itemized rows 181, all-cycle city dollars $57,119,445. Any citation that drops the cycle or drops the city is a different claim. 2012 is a presidential election cycle. That label is a two-year FEC window, not a reason the dollars moved and not a ranking of Middlesex County, Massachusetts against other places.

How to read the two hubs without collapsing them: Newton, MA still mixes 2012 with every other even-year tag under NEWTON. The 2012 election cycle still mixes Newton, MA with every other donor city in the United States. Massachusetts campaign finance still mixes this city with the rest of Massachusetts. All FEC ties is the directory of other two-dimension pages. $235,132 exists only where city NEWTON and cycle 2012 are both true.

Committees can file from anywhere

Keep the two dollar facts paired in any citation: 2012 slice $235,132 and all-cycle city $57,119,445. Dropping the year or dropping the city changes the claim. 181 belongs with the slice, not with the city book.

No banned inference: the join does not prove influence, does not prove local races, and does not prove that donations fund USAspending. It proves two fields matched in an FEC aggregate.

Neighboring city strings remain outside this join. Around Newton, MA, filers also use labels such as Boston, Brookline, and Waltham; those nearby strings are separate FEC city keys and are not rolled into NEWTON. Those dollars, if any, sit on other city keys. Unitemized federal gifts, independent expenditures, PAC transfers, and Massachusetts state-office filings sit outside $235,132 and outside $57,119,445. FEC.gov is the source; USAspending is a different statute and is not funded by these receipts.

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Share language again, because it is the usual mix-up: 0.4% is $235,132 ÷ $57,119,445, not $235,132 ÷ (unknown national 2012 total). The unknown national total is why no U.S. share appears.

Row language again: 181 itemized gifts in 2012 for NEWTON. Not unique donors. Not households in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Not voters.

Arithmetic that stays inside the packet: $235,132 is 0.4% of $57,119,445; $56,884,313 is the other 99.6%; mean itemized line is about $1,299 ($235,132 ÷ 181). No unique-donor count, median, party split, or committee list is available here. Donor city is not recipient city. If the live Newton, MA hub or the live 2012 cycle hub disagrees with this snapshot, the newer FEC extract controls.

Questions

What is the Newton, MA FEC total for 2012?: $235,132 in itemized individual contributions, from 181 receipts tagged city NEWTON and cycle 2012. Source: FEC.gov aggregates on LobbyVault. The all-cycle city figure is $57,119,445, which already includes this $235,132. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and Massachusetts state-office filings sit outside both numbers.
How does 2012 compare with all Newton, MA cycles combined?: 2012 is 0.4% of the Newton, MA city book: $235,132 out of $57,119,445. The other 99.6% is $56,884,313 in other even-year tags. That is a dollar share inside one city key, not a rank against other cities and not a share of the national 2012 cycle, which is not in these facts.
Are Newton, MA 2012 gifts limited to Massachusetts candidates?: No. The facts identify donor city, not recipient office or recipient state. Committees anywhere in the FEC system can receive itemized gifts from NEWTON addresses. $235,132 is not a map of Massachusetts races, and this join does not allocate dollars by party or committee.
What does 181 contributions mean for Newton, MA in 2012?: It is a count of itemized contribution records that sum to $235,132. Repeat donors produce multiple rows. The mean line is about $1,299. Unique people, medians, and unitemized gifts are not in this packet, so 181 is not a household or voter census for Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.