Westfield, NJ political money — 2014 cycle

2014 receipts from Westfield, NJ donors

The join keeps donor city Westfield in New Jersey and election cycle 2014. The match is $475,728 across 130 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $23,030,910. 2014 therefore accounts for 2.1% of Westfield, NJ itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $22,555,182 (97.9%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Westfield, NJ. That hub mixes 2014 with every other even-year window filed under WESTFIELD. It is also not a restatement of the 2014 election cycle hub, which mixes Westfield, NJ with every other donor city in the United States. The 130 rows and $475,728 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. Westfield, NJ here is the string that survived aggregation as WESTFIELD in NJ. 2014 is a midterm FEC cycle: a two-year window without a presidential general election. That calendar fact does not explain why Westfield, NJ donors itemized $475,728. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

The city hub still mixes other cycles

The city aggregate for Westfield, NJ is $23,030,910 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 $475,728 from 2014 and the $22,555,182 from every other cycle in the same city file. New Jersey campaign-finance pages still mix Westfield with every other city in New Jersey.

A large city total does not mean 2014 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2014 was small. For Westfield, NJ, the city stack is $23,030,910 while this cycle is $475,728 (2.1%). Use the city hub to see Westfield, NJ without a year filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Westfield in 2014. Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

How a midterm cycle is coded at the FEC

The 2014 election cycle is a two-year FEC reporting window labeled by its even year. Inside that window, Westfield, NJ donors itemized $475,728 on 130 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $3,659 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 2014 hub still includes every other city. State pages for New Jersey still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Westfield × 2014. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures, party coordinated spends, and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 130 itemized contribution rows is a modest file. A few large receipts can still move the mean without this page listing them. Adjacent pages for Westfield, NJ, 2014 election cycle, and New Jersey campaign finance keep those broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only.

A notable cut of the Westfield stack

2.1% of $23,030,910 is a notable slice. Other cycles still hold $22,555,182 (97.9%) of the city total. Put another way, about 2.1% of Westfield, NJ's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2014, and about 97.9% were not. Those percentages are $475,728 divided by $23,030,910 and $22,555,182 divided by $23,030,910. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (2.1%) and row volume (130 itemized gifts) are separate facts. A notable slice of citywide dollars can sit next to a modest contribution file; 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 2.1% as Westfield's share of the 2014 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

130 contribution records from one city-cycle pair

130 itemized contributions totaling $475,728 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 WESTFIELD. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Westfield versus other New Jersey cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $3,659 uses only the two numbers in the join: $475,728 and 130 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 $475,728 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee.

Limits of a city-by-cycle table

This page does not rank Westfield against other cities, does not call 2014 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in New Jersey. Two columns matched. The city of the contributor is not the city of the campaign. A NJ address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a New Jersey candidate.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Westfield, NJ, the 2014 election cycle, New Jersey 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 Westfield, NJ donors give in the 2014 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Westfield, NJ total $475,728 in the 2014 cycle, across 130 contribution records. The same city label totals $23,030,910 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2014 is 2.1% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Westfield, NJ city total only for 2014?

No. The city aggregate of $23,030,910 covers every cycle in the table for WESTFIELD. The 2014 filter is $475,728 from 130 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $22,555,182. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2014 slice.

Did Westfield, NJ 2014 donations stay in New Jersey?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Westfield, NJ; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $475,728 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 Westfield, NJ contributions were itemized in 2014?

130 itemized contribution records sum to $475,728. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $3,659 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.