Las Vegas, NV political money — 2012 cycle

Joining donor city Las Vegas with cycle 2012

The join keeps donor city Las Vegas in Nevada and election cycle 2012. The match is $444,951 across 383 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $452,073,685. 2012 therefore accounts for 0.10% of Las Vegas, NV itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $451,628,734 (99.9%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Las Vegas, NV. That hub mixes 2012 with every other even-year window filed under LAS VEGAS. It is also not a restatement of the 2012 election cycle hub, which mixes Las Vegas, NV with every other donor city in the United States. The 383 rows and $444,951 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. Las Vegas, NV here is the string that survived aggregation as LAS VEGAS in NV. 2012 is a presidential FEC cycle: a two-year window that includes a presidential general election. This page does not split the $444,951 by office, party, or candidate. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

Las Vegas, NV across every cycle in the aggregate

The city aggregate for Las Vegas, NV is $452,073,685 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 $444,951 from 2012 and the $451,628,734 from every other cycle in the same city file. Nevada campaign-finance pages still mix Las Vegas with every other city in Nevada.

A large city total does not mean 2012 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2012 was small. For Las Vegas, NV, the city stack is $452,073,685 while this cycle is $444,951 (0.10%). Use the city hub to see Las Vegas, NV without a year filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Las Vegas in 2012. Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

2012 as a two-year FEC window

The 2012 election cycle is a two-year FEC reporting window labeled by its even year. Inside that window, Las Vegas, NV donors itemized $444,951 on 383 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,162 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 Nevada still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Las Vegas × 2012. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures, party coordinated spends, and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 383 itemized contribution rows is a moderate file. The dollar total can still be skewed by a few large gifts without this page naming them. Adjacent pages for Las Vegas, NV, 2012 election cycle, and Nevada campaign finance keep those broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only.

Share of $452,073,685 sitting in 2012

0.10% of $452,073,685 is a thin slice. Las Vegas, NV remains a multi-cycle file; 2012 is one filter on that stack. Put another way, about 0.10% of Las Vegas, NV's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2012, and about 99.9% were not. Those percentages are $444,951 divided by $452,073,685 and $451,628,734 divided by $452,073,685. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.10%) and row volume (383 itemized gifts) are separate facts. A thin slice of citywide dollars can sit next to a moderate 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 0.10% as Las Vegas' share of the 2012 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

383 contribution records from one city-cycle pair

383 itemized contributions totaling $444,951 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 LAS VEGAS. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Las Vegas versus other Nevada cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,162 uses only the two numbers in the join: $444,951 and 383 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 $444,951 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee.

Limits of a city-by-cycle table

This page does not rank Las Vegas against other cities, does not call 2012 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in Nevada. Two columns matched. The city of the contributor is not the city of the campaign. A NV address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a Nevada candidate.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Las Vegas, NV, the 2012 election cycle, Nevada 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 Las Vegas, NV donors give in the 2012 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Las Vegas, NV total $444,951 in the 2012 cycle, across 383 contribution records. The same city label totals $452,073,685 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2012 is 0.10% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Las Vegas, NV city total only for 2012?

No. The city aggregate of $452,073,685 covers every cycle in the table for LAS VEGAS. The 2012 filter is $444,951 from 383 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $451,628,734. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2012 slice.

Did Las Vegas, NV 2012 donations stay in Nevada?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Las Vegas, NV; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $444,951 by office, state of the committee, or party. A NV city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Nevada races.

How many Las Vegas, NV contributions were itemized in 2012?

383 itemized contribution records sum to $444,951. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,162 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.