Buffalo, NY political money — 2010 cycle

How Buffalo, NY meets the 2010 election cycle

$131,841 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city BUFFALO with state NY, and election cycle 2010. The match is $131,841 across 95 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $31,737,469. 2010 therefore accounts for 0.42% of Buffalo, NY itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $31,605,628 (99.6%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Buffalo, NY. That hub mixes 2010 with every other even-year window filed under BUFFALO. It is also not a restatement of the 2010 election cycle hub, which mixes Buffalo, NY with every other donor city. The 95 rows and $131,841 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 Buffalo, NY side of the join

The city aggregate for Buffalo, NY is $31,737,469 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 $131,841 from 2010 and the $31,605,628 from every other cycle in the same city file. New York campaign-finance pages still mix Buffalo with every other city in NY.

The stored city is Buffalo in Erie County, New York. Rochester, Syracuse, and Niagara Falls are other New York city keys. Keep NY on the citation. This 2010 page does not publish Buffalo’s 2014 join; that is a different cycle filter. $31,737,469 is the NY key only. A large city total does not mean 2010 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2010 was small. For Buffalo, NY, the city stack is $31,737,469 while this cycle is $131,841 (0.42%). 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 New York filers in Buffalo

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 $131,841. Inside that window, Buffalo, NY donors itemized $131,841 on 95 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,388 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.

Ninety-five receipts totaling $131,841 is the 2010 Buffalo cut of a $31,737,469 city book — about 0.42%. Ninety-five lines is a mid-size midterm file. Do not average 2010 with any other Buffalo cycle unless you say you are averaging two packet totals; this packet has one cycle integer. The national 2010 hub still includes every other city. State pages for New York still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Buffalo × 2010. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted.

Buffalo’s 2010 window versus the city stack

0.42% of $31,737,469 is a small slice of the published city book. The city hub is mostly other even-year windows, totaling $31,605,628. Put another way, about 0.42% of Buffalo, NY itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2010, and about 99.6% were not. Those percentages are $131,841 divided by $31,737,469 and $31,605,628 divided by $31,737,469. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.42%) and row volume (95 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 0.42% as Buffalo’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 $131,841 does not measure

95 itemized contributions totaling $131,841 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 BUFFALO. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Buffalo versus other New York cities: this join has one geography and one cycle. Mean gift size of about $1,388 uses only $131,841 and 95 rows.

$131,841 is itemized federal individual contributions with contributor city BUFFALO. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold sit outside it. State-office campaigns in New York file under state law and sit outside it. A candidate who lives in Buffalo 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 Buffalo and 2010 without mixing tables

This page does not rank Buffalo 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 Buffalo, NY hub or the live 2010 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls.

See Buffalo, NY, the 2010 election cycle, New York 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/ny-buffalo-2010-donations/.

Questions

How much did Buffalo, NY donors itemize in 2010?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Buffalo, NY total $131,841 in the 2010 cycle, across 95 contribution records. The same city label totals $31,737,469 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2010 is 0.42% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Buffalo, NY city total only for 2010?

No. The city aggregate of $31,737,469 covers every cycle in the table for BUFFALO. The 2010 filter is $131,841 from 95 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $31,605,628. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2010 slice.

Did Buffalo, NY 2010 donations stay in New York?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Buffalo, NY; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $131,841 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 Buffalo, NY contributions were itemized in 2010?

95 itemized contribution records sum to $131,841. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,388 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.