Jackson, MS political money — 2010 cycle

Jackson, MS × 2010: the join

$248,750 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city JACKSON with state MS, and election cycle 2010. The match is $248,750 across 168 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $50,019,411. 2010 therefore accounts for 0.50% of Jackson, MS itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $49,770,661 (99.50%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Jackson, MS. That hub mixes 2010 with every other even-year window filed under JACKSON. It is also not a restatement of the 2010 election cycle hub, which mixes Jackson, MS with every other donor city in the United States. The 168 rows and $248,750 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. Jackson, MS here is the string that survived aggregation as JACKSON in MS. 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 Jackson, MS donors itemized $248,750. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

All-cycle Jackson, MS versus this window

The city aggregate for Jackson, MS is $50,019,411 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 $248,750 from 2010 and the $49,770,661 from every other cycle in the same city file. State-level MS campaign-finance pages still mix Jackson with every other city in MS.

The stored city is the City of Jackson in Hinds County, Mississippi. Ridgeland, Madison, and Gulfport are not rolled into JACKSON. State MS stays on the citation so Jackson, MS is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $50,019,411 is the MS key only. For Jackson, MS, the city stack is $50,019,411 while this cycle is $248,750 (0.50%). Use the city hub for Jackson, MS without a year filter; use this tie for Jackson in 2010. Donor city is not recipient city: committees that received these gifts can file anywhere in the FEC system. JACKSON in MS is not merged with Jackson, TN or Jackson, WY.

What the 2010 midterm window holds for Jackson

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, Jackson, MS donors itemized $248,750 on 168 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,481 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 MS still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Jackson × 2010. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 168 itemized contribution records produced $248,750. Mean about $1,481 per row is division, not a median and not a unique-donor average. This URL is the intersection only.

A 0.50% cut of the Jackson stack

0.50% of $50,019,411 is a slice of the city book, not a ranking against other cities. Put another way, about 0.50% of Jackson, MS's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2010, and about 99.50% were not. Those percentages are $248,750 divided by $50,019,411 and $49,770,661 divided by $50,019,411. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.50%) and row volume (168 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 0.50% as Jackson's share of the 2010 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts. Hinds County is a geography note for readers; it is not a Census population weight on $248,750.

What $248,750 does not measure

168 itemized contributions totaling $248,750 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 JACKSON. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Jackson versus other MS cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,481 uses only the two numbers in the join: $248,750 and 168 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 $248,750 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed JACKSON is counted; a nearby suburb they typed instead is not recoded into Jackson.

Reading Jackson and 2010 together without mixing tables

This page does not rank Jackson against other cities and does not treat itemized giving as public opinion in MS. Two columns matched. Contributor city is not campaign city. A MS address does not mean the money supported a MS candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Jackson, MS 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 Jackson, MS, the 2010 election cycle, Mississippi 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 Jackson, MS donors give in the 2010 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Jackson, MS total $248,750 in the 2010 cycle, across 168 contribution records. The same city label totals $50,019,411 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2010 is 0.50% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Jackson, MS city total only for 2010?

No. The city aggregate of $50,019,411 covers every cycle in the table for JACKSON. The 2010 filter is $248,750 from 168 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $49,770,661. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2010 slice.

Did Jackson, MS 2010 donations stay in MS?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Jackson, MS; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $248,750 by office, state of the committee, or party. A MS city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of MS races.

How many Jackson, MS contributions were itemized in 2010?

168 itemized contribution records sum to $248,750. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,481 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.