Takoma Park, MD political money — 2012 cycle

How Takoma Park, MD meets the 2012 election cycle

$124,886 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city TAKOMA PARK with state MD, and election cycle 2012. The match is $124,886 across 126 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $14,193,071. 2012 therefore accounts for 0.88% of Takoma Park, MD itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $14,068,185 (99.1%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Takoma Park, MD. That hub mixes 2012 with every other even-year window filed under TAKOMA PARK. It is also not a restatement of the 2012 election cycle hub, which mixes Takoma Park, MD with every other donor city. The 126 rows and $124,886 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.

The Takoma Park, MD side of the join

The city aggregate for Takoma Park, MD is $14,193,071 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 $124,886 from 2012 and the $14,068,185 from every other cycle in the same city file. Maryland campaign-finance pages still mix Takoma Park with every other city in MD.

The stored city remains Takoma Park, Montgomery County, Maryland. This page is the 2012 filter, not the 2008 Takoma Park join. Washington, DC stays a different state key. Keep MD on every citation. $14,193,071 is the MD key only. A large city total does not mean 2012 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2012 was small. For Takoma Park, MD, the city stack is $14,193,071 while this cycle is $124,886 (0.88%). Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

The 2012 cycle side for Maryland filers in Takoma Park

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2012 cycle is the Commission’s cycle tag on itemized receipts, not a calendar year of January gifts only. 2012 is a presidential election cycle. That calendar label does not explain $124,886. Inside that window, Takoma Park, MD donors itemized $124,886 on 126 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $991 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.

One hundred twenty-six receipts totaling $124,886 against the same $14,193,071 Takoma Park book is about 0.88% of city dollars. Line count is higher than a 92-line 2008 file would be; this packet still publishes only the 2012 integers. Do not average 2008 and 2012 from memory on this page. The national 2012 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Maryland still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Takoma Park × 2012. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted.

2012 rows versus Takoma Park’s all-cycle book

0.88% of $14,193,071 is a small slice of the published city book. The city hub is mostly other even-year windows, totaling $14,068,185. Put another way, about 0.88% of Takoma Park, MD itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2012, and about 99.1% were not. Those percentages are $124,886 divided by $14,193,071 and $14,068,185 divided by $14,193,071. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.88%) and row volume (126 itemized gifts) are separate facts. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.88% as Takoma Park’s share of the 2012 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables.

What $124,886 does not measure

126 itemized contributions totaling $124,886 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 TAKOMA PARK. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Takoma Park versus other Maryland cities: this join has one geography and one cycle. Mean gift size of about $991 uses only $124,886 and 126 rows.

$124,886 is itemized federal individual contributions with contributor city TAKOMA PARK. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold sit outside it. State-office campaigns in Maryland file under state law and sit outside it. A candidate who lives in Takoma Park can raise money from other cities; those gifts are not this join. City labels are filer-entered. LobbyVault does not rewrite the city field into a Census place.

Reading Takoma Park and 2012 without mixing tables

This page does not rank Takoma Park against other cities, does not call 2012 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in Maryland. Two columns matched. A MD address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a Maryland candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Takoma Park, MD hub or the live 2012 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls.

See Takoma Park, MD, the 2012 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. Canonical path is /ties/md-takoma-park-2012-donations/.

Questions

What did Takoma Park, MD itemize in the 2012 cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Takoma Park, MD total $124,886 in the 2012 cycle, across 126 contribution records. The same city label totals $14,193,071 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2012 is 0.88% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Takoma Park, MD city total only for 2012?

No. The city aggregate of $14,193,071 covers every cycle in the table for TAKOMA PARK. The 2012 filter is $124,886 from 126 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $14,068,185. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2012 slice.

Did Takoma Park, MD 2012 donations stay in Maryland?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Takoma Park, MD; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $124,886 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 Takoma Park, MD contributions were itemized in 2012?

126 itemized contribution records sum to $124,886. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $991 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.