Weston, MA political money — 2010 cycle

Weston, MA political money in 2010

The join keeps donor city Weston in Massachusetts and election cycle 2010. The match is $296,160 across 148 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $58,864,719. 2010 therefore accounts for 0.50% of Weston, MA itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $58,568,559 (99.5%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Weston, MA. That hub mixes 2010 with every other even-year window filed under WESTON. It is also not a restatement of the 2010 election cycle hub, which mixes Weston, MA with every other donor city in the United States. The 148 rows and $296,160 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 and suburb-versus-city choices can split a metro across multiple city pages. Weston, MA here is the string that survived aggregation as WESTON in MA. 2010 is a midterm FEC cycle: a two-year window without a presidential general election. That calendar fact does not explain why Weston, MA donors itemized $296,160. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

The Weston, MA side of the join

The city aggregate for Weston, MA is $58,864,719 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 $296,160 from 2010 and the $58,568,559 from every other cycle in the same city file. Massachusetts campaign-finance pages still mix Weston with every other city in Massachusetts.

The stored city sits in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, west of Boston. Weston, Connecticut is a different FEC key (state CT). Waltham and Newton are not rolled into WESTON. State MA stays on the citation. $58,864,719 is the MA key only. A large city total does not mean 2010 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2010 was small. For Weston, MA, the city stack is $58,864,719 while this cycle is $296,160 (0.50%). Use the city hub to see Weston, MA without a year filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Weston in 2010. Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

The 2010 cycle side for Massachusetts filers in Weston

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2010 cycle is the Commission's cycle tag on itemized receipts, not a calendar year of January gifts only. Inside that window, Weston, MA donors itemized $296,160 on 148 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $2,001 per itemized gift. That mean is an arithmetic average of rows, not a typical donor and not a median. This page does not publish a median or a unique-donor count.

The national 2010 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Massachusetts still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Weston × 2010. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 148 itemized rows is a modest file. Adjacent pages for Weston, MA, 2010 election cycle, and Massachusetts campaign finance keep those broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only.

2010 versus the rest of Weston

0.50% of $58,864,719 is a small slice. The city hub is mostly other even-year windows, totaling $58,568,559. Put another way, about 0.50% of Weston, MA's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2010, and about 99.5% were not. Those percentages are $296,160 divided by $58,864,719 and $58,568,559 divided by $58,864,719. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.50%) and row volume (148 itemized gifts) are separate facts. A small slice of citywide dollars can sit next to a modest 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 0.50% as Weston's share of the 2010 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

Counts, dollars, and what they omit

148 itemized contributions totaling $296,160 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 WESTON. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Weston versus other Massachusetts cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $2,001 uses only the two numbers in the join: $296,160 and 148 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 $296,160 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed WESTON is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Weston.

Caveats on a geographic-cycle join

This page does not rank Weston against other cities, does not call 2010 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in Massachusetts. Two columns matched. The city of the contributor is not the city of the campaign. 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 Weston, MA hub or the live 2010 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Weston, MA, the 2010 election cycle, Massachusetts 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 Weston, MA donors give in the 2010 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Weston, MA total $296,160 in the 2010 cycle, across 148 contribution records. The same city label totals $58,864,719 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2010 is 0.50% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Weston, MA city total only for 2010?

No. The city aggregate of $58,864,719 covers every cycle in the table for WESTON. The 2010 filter is $296,160 from 148 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $58,568,559. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2010 slice.

Did Weston, MA 2010 donations stay in Massachusetts?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Weston, MA; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $296,160 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 Weston, MA contributions were itemized in 2010?

148 itemized contribution records sum to $296,160. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $2,001 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.