Kansas City, MO political money — 2012 cycle

2012 receipts from Kansas City, MO donors

The join keeps donor city Kansas City in Missouri and election cycle 2012. The match is $229,208 across 221 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $84,544,122. 2012 therefore accounts for 0.3% of Kansas City, MO itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $84,314,914 (99.7%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Kansas City, MO. That hub mixes 2012 with every other even-year window filed under KANSAS CITY. It is also not a restatement of the 2012 election cycle hub, which mixes Kansas City, MO with every other donor city in the United States. The 221 rows and $229,208 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. Kansas City, MO here is the string that survived aggregation as KANSAS CITY in MO. 2012 is a presidential FEC cycle: a two-year window labeled by its even year that includes a presidential general election. This page does not split the $229,208 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 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 $229,208 from 2012 and the $84,314,914 from every other cycle in the same city file. Missouri campaign-finance pages still mix Kansas City with every other city in Missouri.

The stored city sits in Jackson County, Missouri. Independence, MO and Kansas City, KS are not rolled into KANSAS CITY except as noted: Kansas City, KS is a different state code and a different FEC key; Independence is not rolled into KANSAS CITY. State MO stays on the citation. A large city total does not mean 2012 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2012 was small. For Kansas City, MO, the city stack is $84,544,122 while this cycle is $229,208 (0.3%). Use the city hub to see Kansas City, MO without a year filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Kansas City in 2012. Donor city is not the same as recipient city.

How a presidential cycle is coded at the FEC

The 2012 election cycle is a two-year FEC reporting window labeled by its even year. Inside that window, Kansas City, MO donors itemized $229,208 on 221 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,037 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 2012 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Missouri still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Kansas City × 2012. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures, party coordinated spends, and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 221 itemized rows is a receipt count rather than a unique-person census. Repeat givers and office addresses sit in the same stack.

A modest cut of the Kansas City stack

0.3% of $84,544,122 is a slice, not a ranking. Put another way, $229,208 of the $84,544,122 city stack was tagged 2012, and $84,314,914 was tagged other cycles. Those percentages are $229,208 divided by $84,544,122 and $84,314,914 divided by $84,544,122. They are not shares of Missouri totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters. Dollar share (0.3%) and row volume (221 itemized gifts) are separate facts.

Do not treat 0.3% as Kansas City's share of the 2012 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts. Adjacent windows for the same city string are other joins. This URL isolates Kansas City × 2012 only: $229,208, 221 receipts, mean about $1,037. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

Mean gift size is not a typical donor

See Kansas City, MO, the 2012 election cycle, Missouri 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.

This overlay exists so a searcher asking about Kansas City, MO in 2012 gets the join instead of a generic city or cycle restatement. Quote $229,208, 221, and $84,544,122 as a set. Quoting only one of them drops a filter.

City of the contributor, not the recipient

0-for-national: this packet has no national 2012 dollar total, so Kansas City, MO cannot be expressed as a percent of the United States. 0.3% is city-internal. 221 is city-and-cycle. Mean $1,037 is city-and-cycle.

Adjacent pages for Kansas City, MO, 2012 election cycle, and Missouri campaign finance keep the broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only. Figures are FEC itemized individual contribution aggregates. They are not federal spending awards.

Questions

How much did Kansas City, MO donors give in the 2012 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Kansas City, MO total $229,208 in the 2012 cycle, across 221 contribution records. The same city label totals $84,544,122 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2012 is 0.3% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Kansas City, MO city total only for 2012?

No. The city aggregate of $84,544,122 covers every cycle in the table for KANSAS CITY. The 2012 filter is $229,208 from 221 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $84,314,914. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2012 slice.

Did Kansas City, MO 2012 donations stay in Missouri?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Kansas City, MO; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $229,208 by office, state of the committee, or party. A MO city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Missouri races.

How many Kansas City, MO contributions were itemized in 2012?

221 itemized contribution records sum to $229,208. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,037 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.