MD political contributions from California

MD and California as overlapping FEC fields

Occupation MD and donor state CA produce $2,067,140, 15,181 contributions, and 475 donors. The occupation hub is $14,302,179, 88,572 contributions, and 3,090 donors. California’s dollar share is about 14.5%; contribution share about 17.1% (15,181 of 88,572); donor share about 15.4% (475 of 3,090). Four hundred seventy-five California donors are about 15.4% of 3,090 national donors; 15,181 contributions are about 17.1% of 88,572 national rows; dollars are about 14.5% of $14,302,179.

PHYSICIAN, DOCTOR, and SURGEON, if used, sit in other hubs and should not be added to this MD total. Do not stack MD with PHYSICIAN or SURGEON into a single California professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

475 California donors produced 15,181 contributions, about 32.0 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 28.7 rows per donor nationally (88,572 contributions from 3,090 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this California cell is about $136, against about $161 nationwide. California’s about 14.5% share of $14,302,179 from 15,181 rows is a high-repeat slice of an 88,572-row abbreviation bucket.

MD as a two-letter credential abbreviation

MD is a filer-entered string. The FEC file does not verify a medical license, a specialty, or a hospital privilege. Two letters on the form are the filter. The $14,302,179 national total is MD only. 3,090 donors produced 88,572 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 88,572 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to California (CA). Three thousand ninety national donors make MD a mid-size bucket. This tie asks how much of that labeled money also carries donor state CA.

California as the MD donor-state stamp

475 California donors produced 15,181 contributions totaling $2,067,140. Donor state CA is the address on the record, not proof of a California license, and not a limit to California candidates. CA is the address on the itemized record, not proof of a California practice, and not a map of which campaigns received the $2,067,140.

The California campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to CA. This join is only MD. The MD occupation hub without California still holds about 85.5% of the $14,302,179. California’s state hub includes every other occupation coded to CA. MD is only this filter.

What the MD–California join is not

This page does not count licensed physicians, merge Surgeon dollars, or claim that MD-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. MD is not SURGEON even when filers meant a medical job. This slice also has a California Surgeon cell.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. MD is not a medical-board extract. Donor state CA is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. Specialty names are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one MD filter

Subtract the California dollars on this page from the national MD occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded MD in every other state combined. That remainder ($12,235,039) has no row-by-row breakdown here because those states are other ties. The occupation internal link holds the unlabeled-by-state total; the state internal link holds every occupation with this state code; the occupations index and the ties index place this pair among other joins built the same way.

A unique-donor count of 475 is not a person-level audit. The FEC aggregate can merge similar names or split one person who filed under variants. A contribution count of 15,181 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $2,067,140 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the California dollars, or only the MD national total, drops a key. Four hundred seventy-five donors producing 15,181 contributions is the fact to keep next to the $2,067,140 headline.

Related tables

Md donations holds the $14,302,179 national occupation total. California campaign finance holds the state’s itemized individual activity across occupations. All occupations and all FEC ties collect other occupation-state pairs from the same two fields. California Surgeon in this slice is a different occupation string; those 5,672 contributions stay there.

Questions

How much have MD donors in California given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation MD and state California total $2,067,140, from 15,181 contributions and 475 donors. Nationwide, MD-coded receipts are $14,302,179 from 88,572 contributions and 3,090 donors. California is about 14.5% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Is MD the same as Physician or Surgeon?

No. MD is the abbreviation as typed. PHYSICIAN and SURGEON sit in other hubs. Four hundred seventy-five California donors used MD. The 475 California donors used occupation MD and state CA. Filers who wrote PHYSICIAN or SURGEON may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of MD FEC money is from California?

About 14.5% of the $14,302,179 occupation total is in this California join ($2,067,140). California also accounts for about 17.1% of contributions (15,181 of 88,572) and about 15.4% of donors (475 of 3,090). About 14.5% of dollars from 475 of 3,090 donors and 15,181 of 88,572 contributions.

Does this money go to California candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is California. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $2,067,140 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to CA; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.