St Paul, MN political money — 2014 cycle

St Paul, MN × 2014 isolates the midterm tag

$166,133 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city ST PAUL with state MN, and election cycle 2014. The match is $166,133 across 204 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $39,406,084. 2014 therefore accounts for 0.42% of St Paul, MN itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $39,239,951 (99.6%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of St Paul, MN. That hub mixes 2014 with every other even-year window filed under ST PAUL. It is also not a restatement of the 2014 election cycle hub, which mixes St Paul, MN with every other donor city in the United States. The 204 rows and $166,133 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.

ST PAUL as a Ramsey County city key

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city ST PAUL in Minnesota totals $39.4 million ($39,406,084). $166,133 is 0.42% of that city book. A small share does not mean 2014 was quiet in St Paul; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. Do not add $166,133 to $39,406,084; the city book already contains this slice. Subtracting is valid: $39,406,084 − $166,133 = $39,239,951 in other cycles.

The stored city sits in Ramsey County, Minnesota. Minneapolis, Roseville, and Maplewood are other FEC city strings; MINNEAPOLIS is a separate key across the river. State MN stays on the citation so St Paul is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $39.4 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 St Paul 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, St Paul, MN filers itemized $166,133 on 204 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $814 per itemized gift ($166,133 ÷ 204). 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 204-row extract — a thicker 2014 receipt file for this city string, still Schedule A lines. The national 2014 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Minnesota still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates St Paul × 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 $166,133 into the state hub a second time.

2014 versus the rest of the St Paul book

0.42% of $39,406,084 is the 2014 slice. Put another way, about 0.42% of St Paul, MN’s itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2014, and about 99.6% were not. Those percentages are $166,133 divided by $39,406,084 and $39,239,951 divided by $39,406,084. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.42%) and row volume (204 itemized gifts) are separate facts. The stored spelling is ST PAUL without a period. Filers who typed SAINT PAUL would be a different key if that string was stored separately. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.42% as St Paul’s share of the 2014 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

204 rows are not unique St Paul donors

204 itemized contributions totaling $166,133 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 ST PAUL. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of St Paul versus other Minnesota cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $814 uses only the two numbers in the join: $166,133 and 204 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 $166,133 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed ST PAUL is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into St Paul.

What a St Paul–2014 join cannot answer

This page does not rank St Paul 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 St Paul, MN hub or the live 2014 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls. Minneapolis has its own 2014 join. Do not add the two city-cycle dollars and call the sum a Twin Cities FEC total; other cities remain outside both keys.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See St Paul, MN, the 2014 election cycle, Minnesota campaign finance, and All FEC ties for the adjacent tables. Title and H1 keep St Paul as stored. The packet city is ST PAUL in MN, cycle 2014. 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 St Paul, MN donors give in the 2014 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing St Paul, MN total $166,133 in the 2014 cycle, across 204 contribution records. The same city label totals $39,406,084 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2014 is 0.42% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Does the St Paul city aggregate cover only 2014?

No. The city aggregate of $39,406,084 covers every cycle in the table for ST PAUL. The 2014 filter is $166,133 from 204 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $39,239,951. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2014 slice.

Were 2014 St Paul gifts limited to Minnesota races?

Not necessarily. Donor city is St Paul, MN; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $166,133 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 St Paul, MN contributions were itemized in 2014?

204 itemized contribution records sum to $166,133. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $814 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.