Las Vegas, NV political money in the 2014 election cycle

How Las Vegas meets the 2014 election cycle

$273,281 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city LAS VEGAS with state NV, and election cycle 2014. LobbyVault stores that join so a reader can open the Las Vegas, NV city hub and the 2014 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: Las Vegas, NV in 2014.

216 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 LAS VEGAS is in the same city field as a household street. Arithmetic mean per line is about $1,265 ($273,281 ÷ 216). That mean is division, not a typical resident and not a median.

2014 is a midterm election cycle. That calendar label does not explain $273,281. This packet does not carry party splits, committee names, or occupation mix for the join. Cite the two packet dollars — $273,281 for the 2014 slice and $452.1 million for the Las Vegas, NV book — and stop before assigning motive.

The Las Vegas, NV side of the join

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city LAS VEGAS in Nevada totals $452.1 million ($452,073,685). $273,281 is under 0.1% of that city book. A small share does not mean 2014 was quiet in Las Vegas; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. The remaining $451,800,404 in the city book sits in other even-year tags. The live Las Vegas, NV table is the place to compare other years. This snapshot lists one cycle.

The stored city sits in Clark County, Nevada. Henderson and North Las Vegas are separate FEC city keys and are not rolled into LAS VEGAS. State NV stays on the citation so Las Vegas is not merged with a same-named place in another state. A repeated city name under another state code is a different FEC key. $452.1 million is the NV key only. Donor city is not recipient city: committees that received these gifts can file from anywhere in the FEC system.

The 2014 cycle side for Nevada filers in Las Vegas

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2014 cycle is not a calendar year of January gifts only; it is the Commission's cycle tag on itemized receipts. 216 Las Vegas, NV lines in that window produced $273,281. National 2014 activity — every city — lives on the 2014 election cycle hub, not here. A midterm label marks the even-year window that includes a congressional midterm, not a finding about turnout in Las Vegas.

Nevada campaign-finance pages roll up the state, including cities that are not Las Vegas. Do not add $273,281 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 $273,281 into spending by Las Vegas candidates. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted from both $273,281 and the $452.1 million city book.

What $273,281 does not measure

$273,281 is itemized federal individual contributions with contributor city LAS VEGAS. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold sit outside it. State-office campaigns in Nevada file under state law and sit outside it. Independent-expenditure totals are a different FEC table. A candidate who lives in Las Vegas 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 LAS VEGAS is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Las Vegas. LobbyVault does not rewrite the city field into a Census place or a residency test. Treat 216 as lines that stored this string in 2014. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed.

Reading Las Vegas and 2014 together without mixing tables

Correlation is not causation. $273,281 beside $452.1 million does not mean 2014 caused the city book or that Las Vegas drove the 2014 cycle. The join is a filter: city string plus cycle tag. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Las Vegas, NV hub or the live 2014 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 Las Vegas, NV, the 2014 election cycle, Nevada campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Use those four doors. Do not paste $273,281 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 Nevada.

A under 0.1% cut of the Las Vegas stack

under 0.1% of $452.1 million is a slice, not a ranking. Put another way, $273,281 of the $452,073,685 city stack was tagged 2014, and $451,800,404 was tagged other cycles. Those percentages are $273,281 divided by $452,073,685 and $451,800,404 divided by $452,073,685. They are not shares of Nevada totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters. Dollar share (under 0.1%) and row volume (216 itemized gifts) are separate facts.

Do not treat under 0.1% as Las Vegas's share of the 2014 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts. Adjacent presidential windows for the same city string are other joins. This URL isolates Las Vegas × 2014 only: $273,281, 216 receipts, mean about $1,265. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

Questions

How much did Las Vegas, NV donors give in 2014?

Itemized FEC individual contributions listing contributor city LAS VEGAS and cycle 2014 total $273,281 across 216 receipts in this LobbyVault extract. That is the city-cycle join, not the all-cycle Las Vegas, NV book of $452.1 million. Unitemized gifts and Nevada state-office filings sit outside both figures.

Is $273,281 all of Las Vegas's federal political money?

No. $452.1 million ($452,073,685) is the all-cycle itemized book for contributor city LAS VEGAS in NV. The 2014 slice is $273,281, under 0.1% of that book. Other cycles hold $451,800,404. 216 is a 2014 receipt count, not a unique-donor count.

Did Las Vegas, NV 2014 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 $273,281 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 2014?

216 itemized contribution records sum to $273,281. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,265 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.