Buffalo, NY political money — 2014 cycle

How Buffalo, NY meets the 2014 election cycle

$131,547 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city BUFFALO with state NY, and election cycle 2014. The match is $131,547 across 62 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $31,737,469. 2014 therefore accounts for 0.41% of Buffalo, NY itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $31,605,922 (99.6%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Buffalo, NY. That hub mixes 2014 with every other even-year window filed under BUFFALO. It is also not a restatement of the 2014 election cycle hub, which mixes Buffalo, NY with every other donor city. The 62 rows and $131,547 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 $131,547 from 2014 and the $31,605,922 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 remains Buffalo, Erie County, New York. This page is the 2014 filter, not the 2010 Buffalo join. Amherst and Tonawanda are other city strings when filers typed them. State NY keeps Buffalo, NY off any other-state namesake. $31,737,469 is the NY key only. A large city total does not mean 2014 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2014 was small. For Buffalo, NY, the city stack is $31,737,469 while this cycle is $131,547 (0.41%). Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

The 2014 cycle side for New York filers in Buffalo

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2014 cycle is the Commission’s cycle tag on itemized receipts, not a calendar year of January gifts only. 2014 is a midterm election cycle. That calendar label does not explain $131,547. Inside that window, Buffalo, NY donors itemized $131,547 on 62 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $2,122 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.

Sixty-two receipts totaling $131,547 is a thinner 2014 line file than a 95-line midterm would be, with a higher mean per row. The city book is still $31,737,469; 2014 is about 0.41% of that book. Line count moved; the city parent did not get a new integer on this packet. The national 2014 hub still includes every other city. State pages for New York still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Buffalo × 2014. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted.

2014 receipts as a Buffalo subset, not a sequel

0.41% of $31,737,469 is a small slice of the published city book. The city hub is mostly other even-year windows, totaling $31,605,922. Put another way, about 0.41% of Buffalo, NY itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2014, and about 99.6% were not. Those percentages are $131,547 divided by $31,737,469 and $31,605,922 divided by $31,737,469. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.41%) and row volume (62 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 0.41% as Buffalo’s share of the 2014 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables.

What $131,547 does not measure

62 itemized contributions totaling $131,547 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 $2,122 uses only $131,547 and 62 rows.

$131,547 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 2014 without mixing tables

This page does not rank Buffalo against other cities, does not call 2014 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 2014 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls.

See Buffalo, NY, the 2014 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-2014-donations/.

Questions

What is Buffalo, NY’s 2014 FEC city-cycle total?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Buffalo, NY total $131,547 in the 2014 cycle, across 62 contribution records. The same city label totals $31,737,469 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2014 is 0.41% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Buffalo, NY city total only for 2014?

No. The city aggregate of $31,737,469 covers every cycle in the table for BUFFALO. The 2014 filter is $131,547 from 62 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $31,605,922. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2014 slice.

Did Buffalo, NY 2014 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 $131,547 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 2014?

62 itemized contribution records sum to $131,547. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $2,122 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.