Chappaqua, NY political money — 2012 cycle

How Chappaqua, NY meets the 2012 election cycle

$166,115 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city CHAPPAQUA with state NY, and election cycle 2012. The match is $166,115 across 133 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $21,494,446. 2012 therefore accounts for 0.77% of Chappaqua, NY itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $21,328,331 (99.2%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Chappaqua, NY. That hub mixes 2012 with every other even-year window filed under CHAPPAQUA. It is also not a restatement of the 2012 election cycle hub, which mixes Chappaqua, NY with every other donor city in the United States. The 133 rows and $166,115 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. Chappaqua is a hamlet in the Town of New Castle, Westchester County, New York. White Plains, Mount Kisco, and New York City are other contributor-city keys. 2012 is a presidential election cycle. That calendar fact does not explain why Chappaqua, NY donors itemized $166,115. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

The Chappaqua, NY side of the join

The city aggregate for Chappaqua, NY is $21,494,446 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 $166,115 from 2012 and the $21,328,331 from every other cycle in the same city file. New York campaign-finance pages still mix Chappaqua with every other city in New York.

State NY stays on the citation so Chappaqua, NY is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $21,494,446 is the NY key only. A large city total does not mean 2012 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2012 was small. For Chappaqua, NY, the city stack is $21,494,446 while this cycle is $166,115 (0.77%). Use the city hub to see Chappaqua, NY without a year filter.

The 2012 cycle side for New York filers in Chappaqua

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2012 cycle is the Commission's cycle tag on itemized receipts, not a calendar year of January gifts only. Inside that window, Chappaqua, NY donors itemized $166,115 on 133 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,249 per itemized gift. That mean is an arithmetic average of rows, not a typical donor and not a median.

The national 2012 hub still includes every other city. State pages for New York still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Chappaqua × 2012. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. 133 itemized rows is a mid-size itemized file. Adjacent pages for Chappaqua, NY, 2012 election cycle, and New York campaign finance keep those broader cuts.

2012 versus the rest of Chappaqua

0.77% of $21,494,446 is a thin slice of the citywide book. The city hub is mostly other even-year windows, totaling $21,328,331. Put another way, about 0.77% of Chappaqua, NY's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2012, and about 99.2% were not. Those percentages are $166,115 divided by $21,494,446 and $21,328,331 divided by $21,494,446.

Dollar share (0.77%) and row volume (133 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 0.77% as Chappaqua's share of the 2012 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

Caveats on a geographic-cycle join

This page does not rank Chappaqua 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. See Chappaqua, NY, the 2012 election cycle, New York campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Dollar figures are FEC itemized individual contribution aggregates. They are not federal spending awards.

Questions

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

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Chappaqua, NY total $166,115 in the 2012 cycle, across 133 contribution records. The same city label totals $21,494,446 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2012 is 0.77% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Chappaqua, NY city total only for 2012?

No. The city aggregate of $21,494,446 covers every cycle in the table for CHAPPAQUA. The 2012 filter is $166,115 from 133 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $21,328,331. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2012 slice.

Did Chappaqua, NY 2012 donations stay in New York?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Chappaqua, NY; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $166,115 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 Chappaqua, NY contributions were itemized in 2012?

133 itemized contribution records sum to $166,115. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,249 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.