Short Hills, NJ political money in the 2012 election cycle

How Short Hills meets the 2012 election cycle

$269,134 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city SHORT HILLS with state NJ, and election cycle 2012. LobbyVault stores that join so a reader can open the Short Hills, NJ city hub and the 2012 election cycle hub without treating either page as a substitute for this one. The city hub answers how much itemized money this city string has produced across cycles. The cycle hub answers how much itemized money that two-year federal window produced nationally. This page answers only the intersection: Short Hills, NJ in 2012.

94 is a receipt count for that intersection, not a unique-donor census. A person who gave twice is two lines. A PAC or joint-fundraising address that stored SHORT HILLS is in the same city field as a household street. Arithmetic mean per line is about $2,863 ($269,134 ÷ 94). That mean is division, not a typical resident and not a median.

2012 is a presidential election cycle. That calendar label does not explain $269,134. This packet does not carry party splits, committee names, or occupation mix for the join. Cite the two packet dollars — $269,134 for the 2012 slice and $41.5 million for the Short Hills, NJ book — and stop before assigning motive.

The Short Hills, NJ side of the join

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city SHORT HILLS in New Jersey totals $41.5 million ($41,468,625). $269,134 is 0.6% of that city book. A small share does not mean 2012 was quiet in Short Hills; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. The remaining $41,199,491 in the city book sits in other even-year tags. The live Short Hills, NJ table is the place to compare other years. This snapshot lists one cycle.

The stored city sits in Essex County, New Jersey. Millburn and Summit are separate FEC city keys and are not rolled into SHORT HILLS. State NJ stays on the citation so Short Hills is not merged with a same-named place in another state. A repeated city name under another state code is a different FEC key. $41.5 million is the NJ key only. Donor city is not recipient city: committees that received these gifts can file from anywhere in the FEC system.

The 2012 cycle side for New Jersey filers in Short Hills

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2012 cycle is not a calendar year of January gifts only; it is the Commission's cycle tag on itemized receipts. 94 Short Hills, NJ lines in that window produced $269,134. National 2012 activity — every city — lives on the 2012 election cycle hub, not here. A presidential label marks the even-year window that includes a presidential general election, not a finding about turnout in Short Hills.

New Jersey campaign-finance pages roll up the state, including cities that are not Short Hills. Do not add $269,134 to a state total from that hub; the state page already contains this city when the same extract is used. All FEC ties is the directory of other city-cycle and city-industry joins. None of those pages converts $269,134 into spending by Short Hills candidates. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted from both $269,134 and the $41.5 million city book.

What $269,134 does not measure

$269,134 is itemized federal individual contributions with contributor city SHORT HILLS. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold sit outside it. State-office campaigns in New Jersey file under state law and sit outside it. Independent-expenditure totals are a different FEC table. A candidate who lives in Short Hills can raise money from other cities; those gifts are not this join. PAC transfers and committee-to-committee activity are other files.

City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed SHORT HILLS is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Short Hills. LobbyVault does not rewrite the city field into a Census place or a residency test. Treat 94 as lines that stored this string in 2012. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed.

Reading Short Hills and 2012 together without mixing tables

Correlation is not causation. $269,134 beside $41.5 million does not mean 2012 caused the city book or that Short Hills drove the 2012 cycle. The join is a filter: city string plus cycle tag. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Short Hills, NJ hub or the live 2012 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls. This snapshot is not a third disclosure system.

Internal links on this page go to Short Hills, NJ, the 2012 election cycle, New Jersey campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Use those four doors. Do not paste $269,134 into a USAspending award story; FEC receipts and federal obligations are different statutes. This packet has no award dollars, and itemized giving is not a proxy for public opinion in New Jersey.

A 0.6% cut of the Short Hills stack

0.6% of $41.5 million is a slice, not a ranking. Put another way, $269,134 of the $41,468,625 city stack was tagged 2012, and $41,199,491 was tagged other cycles. Those percentages are $269,134 divided by $41,468,625 and $41,199,491 divided by $41,468,625. They are not shares of New Jersey totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters. Dollar share (0.6%) and row volume (94 itemized gifts) are separate facts.

Do not treat 0.6% as Short Hills's share of the 2012 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts. Adjacent midterm windows for the same city string are other joins. This URL isolates Short Hills × 2012 only: $269,134, 94 receipts, mean about $2,863. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

Questions

How much did Short Hills, NJ donors give in 2012?

Itemized FEC individual contributions listing contributor city SHORT HILLS and cycle 2012 total $269,134 across 94 receipts in this LobbyVault extract. That is the city-cycle join, not the all-cycle Short Hills, NJ book of $41.5 million. Unitemized gifts and New Jersey state-office filings sit outside both figures.

Is $269,134 all of Short Hills's federal political money?

No. $41.5 million ($41,468,625) is the all-cycle itemized book for contributor city SHORT HILLS in NJ. The 2012 slice is $269,134, 0.6% of that book. Other cycles hold $41,199,491. 94 is a 2012 receipt count, not a unique-donor count.

Did Short Hills, NJ 2012 donations stay in New Jersey?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Short Hills, NJ; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $269,134 by office, state of the committee, or party. A NJ city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of New Jersey races.

How many Short Hills, NJ contributions were itemized in 2012?

94 itemized contribution records sum to $269,134. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $2,863 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.