Larchmont, NY political money — 2008 cycle

How Larchmont, NY meets the 2008 election cycle

$308,850 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city LARCHMONT with state NY, and election cycle 2008. The match is $308,850 across 63 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $39,607,058. 2008 therefore accounts for 0.78% of Larchmont, NY itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $39,298,208 (99.2%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Larchmont, NY. That hub mixes 2008 with every other even-year window filed under LARCHMONT. It is also not a restatement of the 2008 election cycle hub, which mixes Larchmont, NY with every other donor city in the United States. The 63 rows and $308,850 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. Spellings and suburb-versus-city choices can split a metro across multiple city pages. Larchmont, NY here is the string that survived aggregation as LARCHMONT in NY. 2008 is a presidential FEC cycle: a two-year window that includes a presidential general election. That calendar fact does not explain why Larchmont, NY donors itemized $308,850. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

The Larchmont, NY side of the join

The city aggregate for Larchmont, NY is $39,607,058 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 $308,850 from 2008 and the $39,298,208 from every other cycle in the same city file. New York campaign-finance pages still mix Larchmont with every other city in New York.

The stored city sits in Westchester County, New York, on Long Island Sound. New Rochelle, Mamaroneck, and New York City are not rolled into LARCHMONT. State NY stays on the citation so Larchmont, NY is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $39,607,058 is the NY key only. A large city total does not mean 2008 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2008 was small. For Larchmont, NY, the city stack is $39,607,058 while this cycle is $308,850 (0.78%). Use the city hub to see Larchmont, NY without a year filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Larchmont in 2008. Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

The 2008 cycle side for New York filers in Larchmont

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2008 cycle is the Commission's cycle tag on itemized receipts, not a calendar year of January gifts only. Inside that window, Larchmont, NY donors itemized $308,850 on 63 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $4,902 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.

The national 2008 hub still includes every other city. State pages for New York still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Larchmont × 2008. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 63 itemized rows is a sparse file. Adjacent pages for Larchmont, NY, 2008 election cycle, and New York campaign finance keep those broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only.

2008 versus the rest of Larchmont

0.78% of $39,607,058 is a small slice. The city hub is mostly other even-year windows, totaling $39,298,208. Put another way, about 0.78% of Larchmont, NY's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2008, and about 99.2% were not. Those percentages are $308,850 divided by $39,607,058 and $39,298,208 divided by $39,607,058. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.78%) and row volume (63 itemized gifts) are separate facts. A small slice of citywide dollars can sit next to a sparse file; those labels describe this pair, not other cities. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.78% as Larchmont's share of the 2008 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

Counts, dollars, and what they omit

63 itemized contributions totaling $308,850 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 LARCHMONT. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Larchmont versus other New York cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $4,902 uses only the two numbers in the join: $308,850 and 63 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 $308,850 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed LARCHMONT is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Larchmont.

Caveats on a geographic-cycle join

This page does not rank Larchmont against other cities, does not call 2008 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. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Larchmont, NY hub or the live 2008 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Larchmont, NY, the 2008 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.

Questions

How much did Larchmont, NY donors give in the 2008 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Larchmont, NY total $308,850 in the 2008 cycle, across 63 contribution records. The same city label totals $39,607,058 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2008 is 0.78% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Larchmont, NY city total only for 2008?

No. The city aggregate of $39,607,058 covers every cycle in the table for LARCHMONT. The 2008 filter is $308,850 from 63 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $39,298,208. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2008 slice.

Did Larchmont, NY 2008 donations stay in New York?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Larchmont, NY; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $308,850 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 Larchmont, NY contributions were itemized in 2008?

63 itemized contribution records sum to $308,850. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $4,902 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.