Brooklyn, NY political money — 2010 cycle

Brooklyn, NY meets the 2010 midterm cycle

$181,930 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city BROOKLYN with state NY, and election cycle 2010. The match is $181,930 across 183 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $223,850,174. 2010 therefore accounts for 0.08% of Brooklyn, NY itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $223,668,244 (99.9%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Brooklyn, NY. That hub mixes 2010 with every other even-year window filed under BROOKLYN. It is also not a restatement of the 2010 election cycle hub, which mixes Brooklyn, NY with every other donor city in the United States. The 183 rows and $181,930 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.

BROOKLYN is a Kings County city key, not NYC

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city BROOKLYN in New York totals $223.9 million ($223,850,174). $181,930 is 0.08% of that city book. A small share does not mean 2010 was quiet in Brooklyn; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. Do not add $181,930 to $223,850,174; the city book already contains this slice. Subtracting is valid: $223,850,174 − $181,930 = $223,668,244 in other cycles.

The stored city sits in Kings County, New York. Staten Island and the Bronx are other FEC city keys; they are not borough-rollups inside BROOKLYN. State NY stays on the citation so Brooklyn is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $223.9 million is the NY key only. Donor city is not recipient city: committees that received these gifts can file from anywhere in the FEC system.

How FEC tags the 2010 two-year window

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. 2010 is a midterm election cycle: a two-year FEC window labeled by its even year, without a presidential general on the ballot. Inside that window, Brooklyn, NY filers itemized $181,930 on 183 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $994 per itemized gift ($181,930 ÷ 183). That mean is an arithmetic average of rows, not a typical resident and not a median. This page does not publish a median or a unique-donor count.

a 183-row extract for this borough string — a receipt file, not a resident census of Kings County. The national 2010 hub still includes every other city. State pages for New York still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Brooklyn × 2010. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. New York campaign-finance pages already contain this city when the same extract is used; do not add $181,930 into the state hub a second time.

A thin slice of a very large Brooklyn book

0.08% of $223,850,174 is the 2010 slice. Put another way, about 0.08% of Brooklyn, NY’s itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2010, and about 99.9% were not. Those percentages are $181,930 divided by $223,850,174 and $223,668,244 divided by $223,850,174. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.08%) and row volume (183 itemized gifts) are separate facts. Borough names on FEC receipts follow what the filer typed. This join does not recode BROOKLYN into a five-borough New York City total. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.08% as Brooklyn’s share of the 2010 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

183 lines are rows, not unique Brooklyn donors

183 itemized contributions totaling $181,930 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 BROOKLYN. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Brooklyn versus other New York cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $994 uses only the two numbers in the join: $181,930 and 183 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 $181,930 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed BROOKLYN is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Brooklyn.

Limits of a Brooklyn–2010 geographic join

This page does not rank Brooklyn against other cities, does not call 2010 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in New York. Two columns matched. A NY address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a New York candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Brooklyn, NY hub or the live 2010 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls. A midterm cycle label marks the even-year window without a presidential general. It does not explain the dollar total and is not a turnout finding.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Brooklyn, NY, the 2010 election cycle, New York campaign finance, and All FEC ties for the adjacent tables. Manhattan, Queens, and Ny, NY are other city keys when those strings were stored. They are not hidden inside this BROOKLYN × 2010 cell. 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 Brooklyn, NY donors give in the 2010 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Brooklyn, NY total $181,930 in the 2010 cycle, across 183 contribution records. The same city label totals $223,850,174 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2010 is 0.08% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Does the Brooklyn city book cover only 2010?

No. The city aggregate of $223,850,174 covers every cycle in the table for BROOKLYN. The 2010 filter is $181,930 from 183 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $223,668,244. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2010 slice.

Are 2010 Brooklyn gifts limited to New York races?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Brooklyn, NY; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $181,930 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 Brooklyn, NY contributions were itemized in 2010?

183 itemized contribution records sum to $181,930. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $994 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.