Reno, NV political money — 2010 cycle

How Reno, NV meets the 2010 election cycle

$132,065 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city RENO with state NV, and election cycle 2010. The match is $132,065 across 158 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $54,406,739. 2010 therefore accounts for 0.24% of Reno, NV itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $54,274,674 (99.8%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Reno, NV. That hub mixes 2010 with every other even-year window filed under RENO. It is also not a restatement of the 2010 election cycle hub, which mixes Reno, NV with every other donor city. The 158 rows and $132,065 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.

The Reno, NV side of the join

The city aggregate for Reno, NV is $54,406,739 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 $132,065 from 2010 and the $54,274,674 from every other cycle in the same city file. Nevada campaign-finance pages still mix Reno with every other city in NV.

The stored city is Reno in Washoe County, Nevada. Las Vegas and Henderson are other Nevada city keys, not parents of RENO. Sparks is a neighboring string when filers typed it. Keep NV so Reno, NV is not mixed with another state. $54,406,739 is the NV key only. A large city total does not mean 2010 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2010 was small. For Reno, NV, the city stack is $54,406,739 while this cycle is $132,065 (0.24%). Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

The 2010 cycle side for Nevada filers in Reno

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. 2010 is a midterm election cycle. That calendar label does not explain $132,065. Inside that window, Reno, NV donors itemized $132,065 on 158 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $836 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.

One hundred fifty-eight receipts totaling $132,065 is a high line count for a $132,065 2010 slice, which usually means many modest itemized gifts. The $54,406,739 Reno book across cycles is the parent; 2010 is about 0.24% of that parent. A separate Reno × 2008 join is a different page and is not quoted here. The national 2010 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Nevada still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Reno × 2010. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted.

2010 line volume inside the Reno city book

0.24% of $54,406,739 is a small slice of the published city book. The city hub is mostly other even-year windows, totaling $54,274,674. Put another way, about 0.24% of Reno, NV itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2010, and about 99.8% were not. Those percentages are $132,065 divided by $54,406,739 and $54,274,674 divided by $54,406,739. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.24%) and row volume (158 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 0.24% as Reno’s share of the 2010 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables.

What $132,065 does not measure

158 itemized contributions totaling $132,065 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 RENO. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Reno versus other Nevada cities: this join has one geography and one cycle. Mean gift size of about $836 uses only $132,065 and 158 rows.

$132,065 is itemized federal individual contributions with contributor city RENO. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold sit outside it. State-office campaigns in Nevada file under state law and sit outside it. A candidate who lives in Reno can raise money from other cities; those gifts are not this join. City labels are filer-entered. LobbyVault does not rewrite the city field into a Census place.

Reading Reno and 2010 without mixing tables

This page does not rank Reno against other cities, does not call 2010 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in Nevada. Two columns matched. A NV address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a Nevada candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Reno, NV hub or the live 2010 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls.

See Reno, NV, the 2010 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. Canonical path is /ties/nv-reno-2010-donations/.

Questions

How much did Reno, NV donors give in the 2010 cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Reno, NV total $132,065 in the 2010 cycle, across 158 contribution records. The same city label totals $54,406,739 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2010 is 0.24% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Reno, NV city total only for 2010?

No. The city aggregate of $54,406,739 covers every cycle in the table for RENO. The 2010 filter is $132,065 from 158 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $54,274,674. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2010 slice.

Did Reno, NV 2010 donations stay in Nevada?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Reno, NV; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $132,065 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 Reno, NV contributions were itemized in 2010?

158 itemized contribution records sum to $132,065. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $836 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.