Detroit, MI political money — 2014 cycle

Detroit, MI × 2014 isolates the midterm tag

$174,910 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city DETROIT with state MI, and election cycle 2014. The match is $174,910 across 174 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $78,603,491. 2014 therefore accounts for 0.22% of Detroit, MI itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $78,428,581 (99.8%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Detroit, MI. That hub mixes 2014 with every other even-year window filed under DETROIT. It is also not a restatement of the 2014 election cycle hub, which mixes Detroit, MI with every other donor city in the United States. The 174 rows and $174,910 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 packet facts stop at city, state, city-wide total, cycle, cycle total, and contribution count. No donor names appear here because none appear in the packet. No committee list appears here because none appears in the packet. This page is not a Michigan state-campaign ranking, a Big Three employer census, or a city-budget political-account total. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

DETROIT as a Wayne County city key

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city DETROIT in Michigan totals $78.6 million ($78,603,491). $174,910 is 0.22% of that city book. A small share does not mean 2014 was quiet in Detroit; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. Do not add $174,910 to $78,603,491; the city book already contains this slice. Subtracting is valid: $78,603,491 − $174,910 = $78,428,581 in other cycles.

The stored city sits in Wayne County, Michigan. Dearborn, Grosse Pointe, and Southfield are other FEC city strings, not rolled into DETROIT. State MI stays on the citation so Detroit is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $78.6 million is the MI key only. Donor city is not recipient city: committees that received these gifts can file from anywhere in the FEC system.

How 2014 is stored on Detroit itemized receipts

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. 2014 is a midterm election cycle: a two-year FEC window labeled by its even year, without a presidential general on the ballot. Inside that window, Detroit, MI filers itemized $174,910 on 174 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,005 per itemized gift ($174,910 ÷ 174). That mean is an arithmetic average of rows, not a typical resident and not a median. This page does not publish a median or a unique-donor count.

a 174-row extract — a mid-size receipt file for this city string, still Schedule A lines. The national 2014 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Michigan still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Detroit × 2014. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. Michigan campaign-finance pages already contain this city when the same extract is used; do not add $174,910 into the state hub a second time.

2014 inside Detroit’s multi-cycle book

0.22% of $78,603,491 is the 2014 slice. Put another way, about 0.22% of Detroit, MI’s itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2014, and about 99.8% were not. Those percentages are $174,910 divided by $78,603,491 and $78,428,581 divided by $78,603,491. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.22%) and row volume (174 itemized gifts) are separate facts. Southfield is a neighboring string with its own city-cycle pages. DETROIT does not absorb SOUTHFIELD when filers typed that suburb. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.22% as Detroit’s share of the 2014 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

174 contribution records are not unique donors

174 itemized contributions totaling $174,910 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 DETROIT. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Detroit versus other Michigan cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,005 uses only the two numbers in the join: $174,910 and 174 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 $174,910 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed DETROIT is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Detroit.

What a Detroit–2014 join cannot support

This page does not rank Detroit against other cities, does not call 2014 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in Michigan. Two columns matched. A MI address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a Michigan candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Detroit, MI hub or the live 2014 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls. A midterm cycle is not a finding about Detroit turnout. The packet has dollars and a row count, not ballots.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Detroit, MI, the 2014 election cycle, Michigan campaign finance, and All FEC ties for the adjacent tables. Ann Arbor and Grand Rapids are other Michigan city keys. They are not parents of DETROIT and are not this URL. 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 Detroit, MI donors give in the 2014 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Detroit, MI total $174,910 in the 2014 cycle, across 174 contribution records. The same city label totals $78,603,491 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2014 is 0.22% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Does Detroit’s citywide FEC aggregate cover only 2014?

No. The city aggregate of $78,603,491 covers every cycle in the table for DETROIT. The 2014 filter is $174,910 from 174 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $78,428,581. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2014 slice.

Were 2014 Detroit gifts limited to Michigan committees?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Detroit, MI; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $174,910 by office, state of the committee, or party. A MI city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Michigan races.

How many Detroit, MI contributions were itemized in 2014?

174 itemized contribution records sum to $174,910. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,005 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.