Wayzata, MN political money — 2008 cycle

2008 receipts from Wayzata, MN donors

The join keeps donor city Wayzata in Minnesota and election cycle 2008. The match is $383,534 across 343 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $41,812,850. 2008 therefore accounts for 0.9% of Wayzata, MN itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $41,429,316 (99.1%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Wayzata, MN. That hub mixes 2008 with every other even-year window filed under WAYZATA. It is also not a restatement of the 2008 election cycle hub, which mixes Wayzata, MN with every other donor city in the United States. The 343 rows and $383,534 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.

FEC individual contribution files record the contributor's city as entered on the itemized receipt. Spellings, abbreviations, and suburb-versus-city choices can split a metro across multiple city pages. Wayzata, MN here is the string that survived aggregation as WAYZATA in MN. 2008 is a presidential FEC cycle: a two-year window that includes a presidential general election. This page does not split the $383,534 by office, party, or candidate. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

The city hub still mixes other cycles

The city aggregate for Wayzata, MN is $41,812,850 in itemized individual contributions. That figure is the running total for this city label across cycles, not a single-year census and not a count of unique residents. It includes the $383,534 from 2008 and the $41,429,316 from every other cycle in the same city file. Minnesota campaign-finance pages still mix Wayzata with every other city in Minnesota.

The stored city sits in a lakeside city in Hennepin County. Minneapolis, Minnetonka, and Plymouth are not rolled into WAYZATA. State MN stays on the citation so Wayzata is not recoded into Minneapolis or a neighboring lake city. A large city total does not mean 2008 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2008 was small. For Wayzata, MN, the city stack is $41,812,850 while this cycle is $383,534 (0.9%). Use the city hub to see Wayzata, MN without a year filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Wayzata in 2008. Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

How a presidential cycle is coded at the FEC

The 2008 election cycle is a two-year FEC reporting window labeled by its even year. Inside that window, Wayzata, MN donors itemized $383,534 on 343 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,118 per itemized gift. That mean is an arithmetic average of rows, not a typical donor and not a median. A few large receipts can lift the mean while most rows sit far below it. This page does not publish a median or a unique-donor count.

The national 2008 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Minnesota still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Wayzata × 2008. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures, party coordinated spends, and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 343 itemized rows is a thicker file than many suburb joins, still a receipt count rather than a unique-person census. Repeat givers and office addresses sit in the same 343-line stack. Adjacent pages for Wayzata, MN, 2008 election cycle, and Minnesota campaign finance keep those broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only.

A modest cut of the Wayzata stack

0.9% of $41,812,850 is a modest slice. Most of the Wayzata, MN aggregate — $41,429,316 — sits in other cycles. Put another way, about 0.9% of Wayzata, MN's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2008, and about 99.1% were not. Those percentages are $383,534 divided by $41,812,850 and $41,429,316 divided by $41,812,850. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.9%) and row volume (343 itemized gifts) are separate facts. A modest slice of citywide dollars can sit next to a thicker contribution file than many suburb joins; those labels describe this pair, not other cities. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.9% as Wayzata's share of the 2008 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

Mean gift size is not a typical donor

343 itemized contributions totaling $383,534 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 WAYZATA. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Wayzata versus other Minnesota cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,118 uses only the two numbers in the join: $383,534 and 343 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 $383,534 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. Unitemized gifts and Minnesota state-office filings sit outside $383,534.

City of the contributor, not the recipient

This page does not rank Wayzata against other cities, does not call 2008 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in Minnesota. Two columns matched. The city of the contributor is not the city of the campaign. A MN address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a Minnesota candidate. A candidate who lives in Wayzata can raise money from other cities; those gifts are not this join.

City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed WAYZATA is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood or a nearby suburb such as Minneapolis is not recoded into Wayzata. Treat 343 as lines that stored this string in 2008. See Wayzata, MN, the 2008 election cycle, Minnesota campaign finance, and All FEC ties for the adjacent tables. Figures are FEC itemized individual contribution aggregates. They are not federal spending awards and they do not fund USAspending totals. If the live hub disagrees, the newer FEC extract controls.

Questions

How much did Wayzata, MN donors give in the 2008 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Wayzata, MN total $383,534 in the 2008 cycle, across 343 contribution records. The same city label totals $41,812,850 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2008 is 0.9% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Wayzata, MN city total only for 2008?

No. The city aggregate of $41,812,850 covers every cycle in the table for WAYZATA. The 2008 filter is $383,534 from 343 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $41,429,316. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2008 slice.

Did Wayzata, MN 2008 donations stay in Minnesota?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Wayzata, MN; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $383,534 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 Wayzata, MN contributions were itemized in 2008?

343 itemized contribution records sum to $383,534. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,118 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.