Bronx, NY political money — 2012 cycle

2012 receipts from Bronx, NY donors

The join keeps donor city Bronx in New York and election cycle 2012. The match is $331,312 across 56 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $33,415,616. 2012 therefore accounts for 1.0% of Bronx, NY itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $33,084,304 (99.0%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Bronx, NY. That hub mixes 2012 with every other even-year window filed under BRONX. It is also not a restatement of the 2012 election cycle hub, which mixes Bronx, NY with every other donor city in the United States. The 56 rows and $331,312 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. Bronx, NY here is the string that survived aggregation as BRONX in NY. 2012 is a presidential FEC cycle: a two-year window that includes a presidential general election. This page does not split the $331,312 by office, party, or candidate. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

The city hub still mixes other cycles

The city aggregate for Bronx, NY is $33,415,616 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 $331,312 from 2012 and the $33,084,304 from every other cycle in the same city file. New York campaign-finance pages still mix Bronx with every other city in New York.

The stored city sits in a New York City borough stored as contributor city BRONX. Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Yonkers are not rolled into BRONX. State NY stays on the citation. Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens are other city strings. A large city total does not mean 2012 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2012 was small. For Bronx, NY, the city stack is $33,415,616 while this cycle is $331,312 (1.0%). Use the city hub to see Bronx, NY without a year filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Bronx in 2012. Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

How a presidential cycle is coded at the FEC

The 2012 election cycle is a two-year FEC reporting window labeled by its even year. Inside that window, Bronx, NY donors itemized $331,312 on 56 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $5,916 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 New York still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Bronx × 2012. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures, party coordinated spends, and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 56 itemized rows is a sparse file. A small number of large gifts can move $331,312 without representing a broad local donor pool. Adjacent pages for Bronx, NY, 2012 election cycle, and New York campaign finance keep those broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only.

A modest cut of the Bronx stack

1.0% of $33,415,616 is a modest slice. Most of the Bronx, NY aggregate — $33,084,304 — sits in other cycles. Put another way, about 1.0% of Bronx, NY's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2012, and about 99.0% were not. Those percentages are $331,312 divided by $33,415,616 and $33,084,304 divided by $33,415,616. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (1.0%) and row volume (56 itemized gifts) are separate facts. A modest slice of citywide dollars can sit next to a sparse 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 1.0% as Bronx's share of the 2012 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

Mean gift size is not a typical donor

56 itemized contributions totaling $331,312 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 BRONX. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Bronx versus other New York cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $5,916 uses only the two numbers in the join: $331,312 and 56 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 $331,312 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. Unitemized gifts and New York state-office filings sit outside $331,312.

City of the contributor, not the recipient

This page does not rank Bronx against other cities, does not call 2012 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in New York. Two columns matched. The city of the contributor is not the city of the campaign. A NY address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a New York candidate. A candidate who lives in Bronx can raise money from other cities; those gifts are not this join.

City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed BRONX is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood or a nearby suburb such as Manhattan is not recoded into Bronx. Treat 56 as lines that stored this string in 2012. See Bronx, NY, the 2012 election cycle, New York campaign finance, and All FEC ties for the adjacent tables. Figures are FEC itemized individual contribution aggregates. They are not federal spending awards and they do not fund USAspending totals. If the live hub disagrees, the newer FEC extract controls.

Questions

How much did Bronx, NY donors give in the 2012 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Bronx, NY total $331,312 in the 2012 cycle, across 56 contribution records. The same city label totals $33,415,616 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2012 is 1.0% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Bronx, NY city total only for 2012?

No. The city aggregate of $33,415,616 covers every cycle in the table for BRONX. The 2012 filter is $331,312 from 56 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $33,084,304. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2012 slice.

Did Bronx, NY 2012 donations stay in New York?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Bronx, NY; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $331,312 by office, state of the committee, or party. A NY city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of New York races.

How many Bronx, NY contributions were itemized in 2012?

56 itemized contribution records sum to $331,312. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $5,916 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.