Kansas City, MO political money — 2010 cycle

How Kansas City, MO meets the 2010 election cycle

$243,600 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city KANSAS CITY with state MO, and election cycle 2010. The match is $243,600 across 192 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $84,544,122. 2010 therefore accounts for 0.29% of Kansas City, MO itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $84,300,522 (99.71%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Kansas City, MO. That hub mixes 2010 with every other even-year window filed under KANSAS CITY. It is also not a restatement of the 2010 election cycle hub, which mixes Kansas City, MO with every other donor city in the United States. The 192 rows and $243,600 exist only where both filters are true. Correlation is not causation: a city code plus a cycle year does not prove why someone gave.

FEC individual contribution files record the contributor's city as entered on the itemized receipt. Spellings and suburb-versus-city choices can split a metro across multiple city pages. Kansas City, MO here is the string that survived aggregation as KANSAS CITY in MO. 2010 is a midterm FEC cycle: a two-year window that includes congressional general elections without a presidential contest on the federal calendar. That calendar fact does not explain why Kansas City, MO donors itemized $243,600. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

The Kansas City, MO side of the join

The city aggregate for Kansas City, MO is $84,544,122 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 $243,600 from 2010 and the $84,300,522 from every other cycle in the same city file. State-level MO campaign-finance pages still mix Kansas City with every other city in MO.

The stored city is Kansas City in Jackson County, Missouri. Kansas City, Kansas; Independence; and Overland Park are not rolled into KANSAS CITY. State MO stays on the citation so Kansas City, MO is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $84,544,122 is the MO key only. For Kansas City, MO, the city stack is $84,544,122 while this cycle is $243,600 (0.29%). Use the city hub for Kansas City, MO without a year filter; use this tie for Kansas City in 2010. Donor city is not recipient city: committees that received these gifts can file anywhere in the FEC system. KANSAS CITY in MO is not merged with the Kansas-side city of the same name.

The 2010 cycle side for MO filers in Kansas City

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2010 cycle is the Commission's cycle tag on itemized receipts, not a calendar year of January gifts only. Inside that window, Kansas City, MO donors itemized $243,600 on 192 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,269 per itemized gift. That mean is an arithmetic average of rows, not a typical donor and not a median. This page does not publish a median or a unique-donor count.

The national 2010 hub still includes every other city. State pages for MO still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Kansas City × 2010. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 192 itemized contribution records produced $243,600. Mean about $1,269 per row is division, not a median and not a unique-donor average. This URL is the intersection only.

2010 versus the rest of Kansas City

0.29% of $84,544,122 is a slice of the city book, not a ranking against other cities. Put another way, about 0.29% of Kansas City, MO's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2010, and about 99.71% were not. Those percentages are $243,600 divided by $84,544,122 and $84,300,522 divided by $84,544,122. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.29%) and row volume (192 itemized gifts) are separate facts. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.29% as Kansas City's share of the 2010 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts. Jackson County is a geography note for readers; it is not a Census population weight on $243,600.

Counts, dollars, and what they omit

192 itemized contributions totaling $243,600 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 KANSAS CITY. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Kansas City versus other MO cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,269 uses only the two numbers in the join: $243,600 and 192 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 page does not break $243,600 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed KANSAS CITY is counted; a nearby suburb they typed instead is not recoded into Kansas City.

Caveats on a geographic-cycle join

This page does not rank Kansas City against other cities and does not treat itemized giving as public opinion in MO. Two columns matched. Contributor city is not campaign city. A MO address does not mean the money supported a MO candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Kansas City, MO hub or the live 2010 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Kansas City, MO, the 2010 election cycle, Missouri campaign finance, and all FEC ties for the adjacent tables. 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 Kansas City, MO donors give in the 2010 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Kansas City, MO total $243,600 in the 2010 cycle, across 192 contribution records. The same city label totals $84,544,122 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2010 is 0.29% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Kansas City, MO city total only for 2010?

No. The city aggregate of $84,544,122 covers every cycle in the table for KANSAS CITY. The 2010 filter is $243,600 from 192 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $84,300,522. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2010 slice.

Did Kansas City, MO 2010 donations stay in MO?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Kansas City, MO; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $243,600 by office, state of the committee, or party. A MO city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of MO races.

How many Kansas City, MO contributions were itemized in 2010?

192 itemized contribution records sum to $243,600. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,269 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.