What is the Bethesda, MD FEC total for 2014?

$221,706 in itemized individual contributions, from 257 receipts tagged city BETHESDA and cycle 2014. Source: FEC.gov aggregates on LobbyVault. The all-cycle city figure is $157,728,166, which already includes this $221,706. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and Maryland state-office filings sit outside both numbers.

How does 2014 compare with all Bethesda, MD cycles combined?

2014 is 0.1% of the Bethesda, MD city book: $221,706 out of $157,728,166. The other 99.9% is $157,506,460 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 2014 cycle, which is not in these facts.

Are Bethesda, MD 2014 gifts limited to Maryland candidates?

No. The facts identify donor city, not recipient office or recipient state. Committees anywhere in the FEC system can receive itemized gifts from BETHESDA addresses. $221,706 is not a map of Maryland races, and this join does not allocate dollars by party or committee.

What does 257 contributions mean for Bethesda, MD in 2014?

It is a count of itemized contribution records that sum to $221,706. Repeat donors produce multiple rows. The mean line is about $863. Unique people, medians, and unitemized gifts are not in this packet, so 257 is not a household or voter census for Montgomery County, Maryland.

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Bethesda, MD political money — 2014 cycle

Two FEC columns meet here: donor city BETHESDA (MD) and election cycle 2014. The match is $221,706 from 257 itemized individual contribution records. The city hub still holds $157,728,166 across cycles. The national 2014 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: $221,706 for Bethesda, MD × 2014; city book $157,728,166.
257 itemized rows; mean about $863; rows are not unique donors.
2014 is a midterm FEC two-year window, not a calendar-year census.
State Maryland 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 BETHESDA and 2014

Schedule A itemized individual contributions that list city BETHESDA and cycle 2014 total $221,706. 257 records produce that sum. Bethesda, MD's all-cycle aggregate in the same extract is $157,728,166. The join is 0.1% 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 Bethesda, MD table. Compare other cities on other tie pages listed from All FEC ties.

FEC city fields are filer-entered. BETHESDA 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 Maryland city key is not a metro rollup

$157.7 million is the Bethesda, MD book. $221,706 is the 2014 chapter. 257 is how many itemized lines that chapter has in this extract. None of those figures is a population statistic for Montgomery County, Maryland.

Suburb and neighbor strings — Chevy Chase, Rockville, and Silver Spring — stay separate. those nearby strings are separate FEC city keys and are not rolled into BETHESDA. State code MD prevents a merge with a same-named city elsewhere. Repeat the pair: BETHESDA + MD, not the English metro name alone.

Even-year tag 2014 on itemized receipts

Even-year tag 2014 selected these rows. 2014 is a midterm election cycle. $221,706 is the tagged sum. $157,728,166 is the untagged (all-cycle) sum for the same city key. Keep the tags straight when quoting either number.

The 2014 election cycle hub is the national mix. The Bethesda, MD 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 $863 = $221,706 / 257. 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. BETHESDA in MD is the key. Spellings that differ are other pages. those nearby strings are separate FEC city keys and are not rolled into BETHESDA.

Repeat the filters in one sentence: contributor city BETHESDA, state MD, election cycle 2014, itemized dollars $221,706, itemized rows 257, all-cycle city dollars $157,728,166. Any citation that drops the cycle or drops the city is a different claim. 2014 is a midterm election cycle. That label is a two-year FEC window, not a reason the dollars moved and not a ranking of Montgomery County, Maryland against other places.

How to read the two hubs without collapsing them: Bethesda, MD still mixes 2014 with every other even-year tag under BETHESDA. The 2014 election cycle still mixes Bethesda, MD with every other donor city in the United States. Maryland campaign finance still mixes this city with the rest of Maryland. All FEC ties is the directory of other two-dimension pages. $221,706 exists only where city BETHESDA and cycle 2014 are both true.

Committees can file from anywhere

Keep the two dollar facts paired in any citation: 2014 slice $221,706 and all-cycle city $157,728,166. Dropping the year or dropping the city changes the claim. 257 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 Bethesda, MD, filers also use labels such as Chevy Chase, Rockville, and Silver Spring; those nearby strings are separate FEC city keys and are not rolled into BETHESDA. Those dollars, if any, sit on other city keys. Unitemized federal gifts, independent expenditures, PAC transfers, and Maryland state-office filings sit outside $221,706 and outside $157,728,166. 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: 0.1% is $221,706 ÷ $157,728,166, not $221,706 ÷ (unknown national 2014 total). The unknown national total is why no U.S. share appears.

Row language again: 257 itemized gifts in 2014 for BETHESDA. Not unique donors. Not households in Montgomery County, Maryland. Not voters.

Arithmetic that stays inside the packet: $221,706 is 0.1% of $157,728,166; $157,506,460 is the other 99.9%; mean itemized line is about $863 ($221,706 ÷ 257). No unique-donor count, median, party split, or committee list is available here. Donor city is not recipient city. If the live Bethesda, MD hub or the live 2014 cycle hub disagrees with this snapshot, the newer FEC extract controls.

Questions

What is the Bethesda, MD FEC total for 2014?: $221,706 in itemized individual contributions, from 257 receipts tagged city BETHESDA and cycle 2014. Source: FEC.gov aggregates on LobbyVault. The all-cycle city figure is $157,728,166, which already includes this $221,706. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and Maryland state-office filings sit outside both numbers.
How does 2014 compare with all Bethesda, MD cycles combined?: 2014 is 0.1% of the Bethesda, MD city book: $221,706 out of $157,728,166. The other 99.9% is $157,506,460 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 2014 cycle, which is not in these facts.
Are Bethesda, MD 2014 gifts limited to Maryland candidates?: No. The facts identify donor city, not recipient office or recipient state. Committees anywhere in the FEC system can receive itemized gifts from BETHESDA addresses. $221,706 is not a map of Maryland races, and this join does not allocate dollars by party or committee.
What does 257 contributions mean for Bethesda, MD in 2014?: It is a count of itemized contribution records that sum to $221,706. Repeat donors produce multiple rows. The mean line is about $863. Unique people, medians, and unitemized gifts are not in this packet, so 257 is not a household or voter census for Montgomery County, Maryland.

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