Great Neck, NY political money — 2012 cycle

Great Neck, NY × 2012 is a two-field match

$181,035 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city GREAT NECK with state NY, and election cycle 2012. The match is $181,035 across 201 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $37,353,623. 2012 therefore accounts for 0.48% of Great Neck, NY itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $37,172,588 (99.5%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Great Neck, NY. That hub mixes 2012 with every other even-year window filed under GREAT NECK. It is also not a restatement of the 2012 election cycle hub, which mixes Great Neck, NY with every other donor city in the United States. The 201 rows and $181,035 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.

GREAT NECK as a Nassau County city key

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city GREAT NECK in New York totals $37.4 million ($37,353,623). $181,035 is 0.48% of that city book. A small share does not mean 2012 was quiet in Great Neck; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. Do not add $181,035 to $37,353,623; the city book already contains this slice. Subtracting is valid: $37,353,623 − $181,035 = $37,172,588 in other cycles.

The stored city sits on the North Shore of Nassau County, New York. Manhasset, Roslyn, and Port Washington are other FEC city strings, not rolled into GREAT NECK. State NY stays on the citation so Great Neck is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $37.4 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.

The 2012 presidential tag on Great Neck lines

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. 2012 is a presidential election cycle: a two-year FEC window that includes a presidential general election. Inside that window, Great Neck, NY filers itemized $181,035 on 201 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $901 per itemized gift ($181,035 ÷ 201). 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 201-row extract — a substantial receipt file for this village string, still rows rather than unique residents. The national 2012 hub still includes every other city. State pages for New York still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Great Neck × 2012. 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 $181,035 into the state hub a second time.

2012 inside the Great Neck all-cycle book

0.48% of $37,353,623 is the 2012 slice. Put another way, about 0.48% of Great Neck, NY’s itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2012, and about 99.5% were not. Those percentages are $181,035 divided by $37,353,623 and $37,172,588 divided by $37,353,623. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.48%) and row volume (201 itemized gifts) are separate facts. Great Neck as typed is not merged with Great Neck Plaza or Great Neck Estates unless the filer stored those exact strings as GREAT NECK. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.48% as Great Neck’s share of the 2012 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

201 contribution records are not unique donors

201 itemized contributions totaling $181,035 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 GREAT NECK. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Great Neck versus other New York cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $901 uses only the two numbers in the join: $181,035 and 201 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 $181,035 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed GREAT NECK is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Great Neck.

Limits of a Great Neck–2012 join

This page does not rank Great Neck 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. 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 Great Neck, NY hub or the live 2012 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls. Long Island geography is not an FEC hierarchy. Nassau County is map context; the packet key is city plus state plus cycle.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Great Neck, NY, the 2012 election cycle, New York campaign finance, and All FEC ties for the adjacent tables. New York City borough keys are other rows. GREAT NECK is not a borough rollup and is not added into BROOKLYN or NY. 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 Great Neck, NY donors give in the 2012 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Great Neck, NY total $181,035 in the 2012 cycle, across 201 contribution records. The same city label totals $37,353,623 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2012 is 0.48% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Does the Great Neck city total cover only 2012?

No. The city aggregate of $37,353,623 covers every cycle in the table for GREAT NECK. The 2012 filter is $181,035 from 201 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $37,172,588. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2012 slice.

Were 2012 Great Neck gifts limited to New York committees?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Great Neck, NY; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $181,035 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 Great Neck, NY contributions were itemized in 2012?

201 itemized contribution records sum to $181,035. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $901 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.