Minneapolis, MN political money in the 2010 election cycle

How Minneapolis meets the 2010 election cycle

$262,541 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city MINNEAPOLIS with state MN, and election cycle 2010. LobbyVault stores that join so a reader can open the Minneapolis, MN city hub and the 2010 election cycle hub without treating either page as a substitute for this one. The city hub answers how much itemized money this city string has produced across cycles. The cycle hub answers how much itemized money that two-year federal window produced nationally. This page answers only the intersection: Minneapolis, MN in 2010.

244 is a receipt count for that intersection, not a unique-donor census. A person who gave twice is two lines. A PAC or joint-fundraising address that stored MINNEAPOLIS is in the same city field as a household street. Arithmetic mean per line is about $1,076 ($262,541 ÷ 244). That mean is division, not a typical resident and not a median.

2010 is a midterm election cycle. That calendar label does not explain $262,541. This packet does not carry party splits, committee names, or occupation mix for the join. Cite the two packet dollars — $262,541 for the 2010 slice and $142.2 million for the Minneapolis, MN book — and stop before assigning motive.

The Minneapolis, MN side of the join

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city MINNEAPOLIS in Minnesota totals $142.2 million ($142,240,045). $262,541 is 0.2% of that city book. A small share does not mean 2010 was quiet in Minneapolis; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. The remaining $141,977,504 in the city book sits in other even-year tags. The live Minneapolis, MN table is the place to compare other years. This snapshot lists one cycle.

The stored city sits in Hennepin County, Minnesota. St. Paul and Bloomington are separate FEC city keys and are not rolled into MINNEAPOLIS. State MN stays on the citation so Minneapolis is not merged with a same-named place in another state. A repeated city name under another state code is a different FEC key. $142.2 million is the MN key only. Donor city is not recipient city: committees that received these gifts can file from anywhere in the FEC system.

The 2010 cycle side for Minnesota filers in Minneapolis

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2010 cycle is not a calendar year of January gifts only; it is the Commission's cycle tag on itemized receipts. 244 Minneapolis, MN lines in that window produced $262,541. National 2010 activity — every city — lives on the 2010 election cycle hub, not here. A midterm label marks the even-year window that includes a congressional midterm, not a finding about turnout in Minneapolis.

Minnesota campaign-finance pages roll up the state, including cities that are not Minneapolis. Do not add $262,541 to a state total from that hub; the state page already contains this city when the same extract is used. All FEC ties is the directory of other city-cycle and city-industry joins. None of those pages converts $262,541 into spending by Minneapolis candidates. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted from both $262,541 and the $142.2 million city book.

What $262,541 does not measure

$262,541 is itemized federal individual contributions with contributor city MINNEAPOLIS. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold sit outside it. State-office campaigns in Minnesota file under state law and sit outside it. Independent-expenditure totals are a different FEC table. A candidate who lives in Minneapolis can raise money from other cities; those gifts are not this join. PAC transfers and committee-to-committee activity are other files.

City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed MINNEAPOLIS is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Minneapolis. LobbyVault does not rewrite the city field into a Census place or a residency test. Treat 244 as lines that stored this string in 2010. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed.

Reading Minneapolis and 2010 together without mixing tables

Correlation is not causation. $262,541 beside $142.2 million does not mean 2010 caused the city book or that Minneapolis drove the 2010 cycle. The join is a filter: city string plus cycle tag. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Minneapolis, MN hub or the live 2010 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls. This snapshot is not a third disclosure system.

Internal links on this page go to Minneapolis, MN, the 2010 election cycle, Minnesota campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Use those four doors. Do not paste $262,541 into a USAspending award story; FEC receipts and federal obligations are different statutes. This packet has no award dollars, and itemized giving is not a proxy for public opinion in Minnesota.

A 0.2% cut of the Minneapolis stack

0.2% of $142.2 million is a slice, not a ranking. Put another way, $262,541 of the $142,240,045 city stack was tagged 2010, and $141,977,504 was tagged other cycles. Those percentages are $262,541 divided by $142,240,045 and $141,977,504 divided by $142,240,045. They are not shares of Minnesota totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters. Dollar share (0.2%) and row volume (244 itemized gifts) are separate facts.

Do not treat 0.2% as Minneapolis's share of the 2010 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts. Adjacent presidential windows for the same city string are other joins. This URL isolates Minneapolis × 2010 only: $262,541, 244 receipts, mean about $1,076. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

Questions

How much did Minneapolis, MN donors give in 2010?

Itemized FEC individual contributions listing contributor city MINNEAPOLIS and cycle 2010 total $262,541 across 244 receipts in this LobbyVault extract. That is the city-cycle join, not the all-cycle Minneapolis, MN book of $142.2 million. Unitemized gifts and Minnesota state-office filings sit outside both figures.

Is $262,541 all of Minneapolis's federal political money?

No. $142.2 million ($142,240,045) is the all-cycle itemized book for contributor city MINNEAPOLIS in MN. The 2010 slice is $262,541, 0.2% of that book. Other cycles hold $141,977,504. 244 is a 2010 receipt count, not a unique-donor count.

Did Minneapolis, MN 2010 donations stay in Minnesota?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Minneapolis, MN; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $262,541 by office, state of the committee, or party. A MN city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Minnesota races.

How many Minneapolis, MN contributions were itemized in 2010?

244 itemized contribution records sum to $262,541. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,076 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.