Chevy Chase, MD political money — 2010 cycle

2010 receipts from Chevy Chase, MD donors

The join keeps donor city Chevy Chase in Maryland and election cycle 2010. The match is $445,313 across 268 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $94,884,425. 2010 therefore accounts for 0.47% of Chevy Chase, MD itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $94,439,112 (99.5%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Chevy Chase, MD. That hub mixes 2010 with every other even-year window filed under CHEVY CHASE. It is also not a restatement of the 2010 election cycle hub, which mixes Chevy Chase, MD with every other donor city in the United States. The 268 rows and $445,313 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, abbreviations, and suburb-versus-city choices can split a metro across multiple city pages. Chevy Chase, MD here is the string that survived aggregation as CHEVY CHASE in MD. 2010 is a midterm FEC cycle: a two-year window without a presidential general election. That calendar fact does not explain why Chevy Chase, MD donors itemized $445,313. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

The city hub still mixes other cycles

The city aggregate for Chevy Chase, MD is $94,884,425 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 $445,313 from 2010 and the $94,439,112 from every other cycle in the same city file. Maryland campaign-finance pages still mix Chevy Chase with every other city in Maryland.

A large city total does not mean 2010 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2010 was small. For Chevy Chase, MD, the city stack is $94,884,425 while this cycle is $445,313 (0.47%). Use the city hub to see Chevy Chase, MD without a year filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Chevy Chase in 2010. Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

How a midterm cycle is coded at the FEC

The 2010 election cycle is a two-year FEC reporting window labeled by its even year. Inside that window, Chevy Chase, MD donors itemized $445,313 on 268 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,662 per itemized gift. That mean is an arithmetic average of rows, not a typical donor and not a median. A few large receipts can lift the mean while most rows sit far below it. This page does not publish a median or a unique-donor count.

The national 2010 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Maryland still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Chevy Chase × 2010. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures, party coordinated spends, and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 268 itemized contribution rows is a moderate file. The dollar total can still be skewed by a few large gifts without this page naming them. Adjacent pages for Chevy Chase, MD, 2010 election cycle, and Maryland campaign finance keep those broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only.

A thin cut of the Chevy Chase stack

0.47% of $94,884,425 is a thin slice. Most of the Chevy Chase, MD aggregate — $94,439,112 — sits in other cycles. Put another way, about 0.47% of Chevy Chase, MD's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2010, and about 99.5% were not. Those percentages are $445,313 divided by $94,884,425 and $94,439,112 divided by $94,884,425. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.47%) and row volume (268 itemized gifts) are separate facts. A thin slice of citywide dollars can sit next to a moderate contribution 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 0.47% as Chevy Chase's share of the 2010 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

268 contribution records from one city-cycle pair

268 itemized contributions totaling $445,313 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 CHEVY CHASE. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Chevy Chase versus other Maryland cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,662 uses only the two numbers in the join: $445,313 and 268 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 $445,313 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee.

Limits of a city-by-cycle table

This page does not rank Chevy Chase against other cities, does not call 2010 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in Maryland. Two columns matched. The city of the contributor is not the city of the campaign. A MD address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a Maryland candidate.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Chevy Chase, MD, the 2010 election cycle, Maryland 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 Chevy Chase, MD donors give in the 2010 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Chevy Chase, MD total $445,313 in the 2010 cycle, across 268 contribution records. The same city label totals $94,884,425 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2010 is 0.47% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Chevy Chase, MD city total only for 2010?

No. The city aggregate of $94,884,425 covers every cycle in the table for CHEVY CHASE. The 2010 filter is $445,313 from 268 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $94,439,112. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2010 slice.

Did Chevy Chase, MD 2010 donations stay in Maryland?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Chevy Chase, MD; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $445,313 by office, state of the committee, or party. A MD city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Maryland races.

How many Chevy Chase, MD contributions were itemized in 2010?

268 itemized contribution records sum to $445,313. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,662 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.