Minneapolis, MN political money — 2014 cycle

Minneapolis, MN × 2014 is a midterm city-cycle join

$170,962 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city MINNEAPOLIS with state MN, and election cycle 2014. The match is $170,962 across 172 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $142,240,045. 2014 therefore accounts for 0.12% of Minneapolis, MN itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $142,069,083 (99.9%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Minneapolis, MN. That hub mixes 2014 with every other even-year window filed under MINNEAPOLIS. It is also not a restatement of the 2014 election cycle hub, which mixes Minneapolis, MN with every other donor city in the United States. The 172 rows and $170,962 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 Minnesota Campaign Finance Board state total, a Twin Cities ranking, or a lakes-city census. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

MINNEAPOLIS as a Hennepin County city key

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city MINNEAPOLIS in Minnesota totals $142.2 million ($142,240,045). $170,962 is 0.12% of that city book. A small share does not mean 2014 was quiet in Minneapolis; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. Do not add $170,962 to $142,240,045; the city book already contains this slice. Subtracting is valid: $142,240,045 − $170,962 = $142,069,083 in other cycles.

The stored city sits in Hennepin County, Minnesota. St. Paul, Edina, and Bloomington are other FEC city strings; ST PAUL is a separate key across the river. State MN stays on the citation so Minneapolis is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $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.

How 2014 is tagged on Minneapolis 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, Minneapolis, MN filers itemized $170,962 on 172 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $994 per itemized gift ($170,962 ÷ 172). 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 172-row extract — a mid-size receipt file for this city string, still lines rather than unique residents. The national 2014 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Minnesota still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Minneapolis × 2014. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. Minnesota campaign-finance pages already contain this city when the same extract is used; do not add $170,962 into the state hub a second time.

A small share of a large Minneapolis book

0.12% of $142,240,045 is the 2014 slice. Put another way, about 0.12% of Minneapolis, MN’s itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2014, and about 99.9% were not. Those percentages are $170,962 divided by $142,240,045 and $142,069,083 divided by $142,240,045. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.12%) and row volume (172 itemized gifts) are separate facts. St Paul is a neighboring city key with its own 2014 join in this extract family. MINNEAPOLIS does not absorb ST PAUL. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.12% as Minneapolis’s share of the 2014 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

172 contribution records are not unique donors

172 itemized contributions totaling $170,962 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 MINNEAPOLIS. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Minneapolis versus other Minnesota cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $994 uses only the two numbers in the join: $170,962 and 172 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 $170,962 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. 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.

What Minneapolis–2014 cannot answer

This page does not rank Minneapolis against other cities, does not call 2014 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in Minnesota. Two columns matched. A MN address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a Minnesota candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Minneapolis, MN hub or the live 2014 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls. A midterm label does not explain the Minneapolis dollar. Office, party, and committee are unpublished on this packet.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Minneapolis, MN, the 2014 election cycle, Minnesota campaign finance, and All FEC ties for the adjacent tables. St. Louis Park and Golden Valley are other Hennepin County strings. They are not folded into MINNEAPOLIS. 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 Minneapolis, MN donors give in the 2014 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Minneapolis, MN total $170,962 in the 2014 cycle, across 172 contribution records. The same city label totals $142,240,045 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2014 is 0.12% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Does Minneapolis’s city book cover only 2014?

No. The city aggregate of $142,240,045 covers every cycle in the table for MINNEAPOLIS. The 2014 filter is $170,962 from 172 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $142,069,083. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2014 slice.

Were 2014 Minneapolis gifts limited to Minnesota races?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Minneapolis, MN; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $170,962 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 2014?

172 itemized contribution records sum to $170,962. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $994 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.