Southfield, MI political money — 2012 cycle

Southfield in 2012: the intersection number

$190,366 appears only when donor city is SOUTHFIELD in MI and the cycle is 2012. 99 itemized rows accompany that dollar figure. The unmatched city total is $28,512,841. 2012 holds 0.67% of it; other even-year windows hold $28,322,475 (99.3%). Call that a minority slice of the city stack — a description of this ratio, not of other cities.

Restating the Southfield, MI hub would mix years. Restating the 2012 hub would mix cities. This page keeps both constraints. Intersection is not causation. The facts do not say why people gave, which committees they chose, or whether those committees were in Michigan.

2012 is a presidential FEC cycle (two-year window; presidential general included). Window type does not explain $190,366. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

Citywide Southfield, MI dollars

$28,512,841 is the city label across cycles. $190,366 is nested inside it; $28,322,475 is the rest. Neither number is unique residents. Michigan finance pages still list every city in the state, not only Southfield.

The stored city is Southfield, Michigan, in Oakland County. Detroit, Farmington Hills, and Oak Park are different city strings. State MI keeps this Southfield from a same-named place elsewhere. The MI key is mandatory: $28,512,841 is not a national homonym total. City stack $28,512,841 versus cycle cell $190,366 (0.67%) should stay distinct. Drop the year on the city hub; keep 2012 here. Recipient city can differ from Southfield.

The 2012 cycle tag explained

Cycle 2012 on FEC.gov is two years wide. In that span Southfield, MI shows $190,366 and 99 itemized gifts. $190,366 / 99 ≈ $1,923. That is a row mean. Median and unique-donor counts are not in the packet.

Other cities remain on the 2012 cycle hub. Other years remain on Michigan and Southfield hubs. Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are excluded. 99 itemized rows is a moderate absolute count of receipts for this join. Follow internal links for the wider tables; this slug is the pair only.

Keep cityTotal and cycleTotal apart. $190,366 is the 2012 cell for Southfield, MI: itemized individual contributions in that two-year FEC window only, across 99 records. $28,512,841 is the same city string across every cycle in this extract. Subtracting them leaves $28,322,475 in other even-year windows. Citing $28,512,841 as a 2012 figure mixes the city hub into this join. Citing $190,366 as the lifetime Southfield total mixes the join into the city hub. 99 is cycleContributions for 2012 only; the packet has no all-cycle row count, so 99 cannot be turned into a share of citywide gifts. 0.67% is dollars only — $190,366 divided by $28,512,841 — not a share of Michigan and not a share of the national 2012 cycle. PAC receipts, independent expenditures, and unitemized gifts are other FEC tables; they are not mixed into $190,366 or $28,512,841. Donor names are not in the packet and are not invented. Source: FEC.gov.

0.67% of Southfield is 2012

0.67% is $190,366 as a share of $28,512,841. 99.3% is $28,322,475 as a share of $28,512,841. About 0.67% of Southfield, MI itemized individual dollars in this aggregate are 2012; about 99.3% are not. Those are city-stack shares only.

Do not blend 0.67% with 99 into a single ranking. There is no all-cycle row total here, so no row percentage. 0.67% is not a share of national 2012 receipts; that denominator is missing from the facts.

Counts the packet does not contain

99 itemized contributions totaling $190,366 define the cell. Multiple dates, multiple committees, and variants of SOUTHFIELD can repeat households. Unique people are not estimated. Southfield is not ranked among Michigan cities.

$1,923 comes from $190,366 and 99 alone. No occupation or committee split of the $190,366 appears here. Receipts that used another city string are out, even in the same metro.

How to use this ties URL

This write-up does not rank Southfield, does not call 2012 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as Michigan public opinion. Contributor geography is not campaign geography. MI on an individual receipt is not a promise the money stayed in Michigan. Amendments can revise totals. Live hubs control if they differ.

Omitted tables: unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, non-individual sources, USAspending. See Southfield, MI; 2012 election cycle; Michigan campaign finance; all FEC ties. Source: FEC.gov.

Questions

How much FEC money from Southfield, MI is tagged 2012?

$190,366 in itemized individual contributions (99 records). The all-cycle city total is $28,512,841, so 2012 is 0.67% of that stack. Source: FEC.gov city-and-cycle aggregates.

What is the difference between $190,366 and $28,512,841?

$190,366 is Southfield, MI in 2012 only (99 gifts). $28,512,841 is SOUTHFIELD across every cycle in the table. The gap, $28,322,475, is other cycles. City hub versus this tie page.

Did Southfield 2012 donors give only inside Michigan?

The join does not say. Donor city is Southfield, MI; committees can be anywhere. $190,366 is not allocated by office, party, or committee state. A MI city field is not a Michigan race map.

How many itemized rows are in the Southfield 2012 cell?

99 rows sum to $190,366 (about $1,923 per row). Rows ≠ unique donors. Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are not in the 99. Unique-donor totals are not in these facts.