Larchmont, NY political money — 2012 cycle

A presidential election cycle filtered to Larchmont, NY

Presidential cycles include a presidential general election; midterm cycles do not. That is a calendar classification, not a finding about Larchmont voters. $148,176 is still just the itemized overlap of LARCHMONT and 2012. 52 rows is a modest itemized file. Mean size is about $2,850. None of those facts explains why filers gave.

Relative to $39,607,058, 2012 is 0.37% (a thin slice of the citywide book). The other 99.6% of the city book, $39,458,882, sits in other even-year windows. Percentages here use the city aggregate only. National cycle totals are not in the packet.

Geography stored as LARCHMONT

Larchmont sits in Westchester County, New York. New Rochelle, Mamaroneck, and New York City are other contributor-city keys. Filers type the city. LobbyVault does not recode a suburb into a central city or a neighborhood into a Census place. A donor who typed a nearby name is not in $148,176 even if mail service looks similar.

The Larchmont, NY hub remains the all-cycle view ($39,607,058). New York campaign finance remains the state view. The 2012 election cycle remains the national two-year view. This tie page is the filter where those stories meet.

Recipient location is not in these facts. Money itemized from a NY city can support committees that file from other states. Do not read $148,176 as a map of New York races.

Itemized only

Both $148,176 and $39,607,058 omit unitemized gifts. They omit independent expenditures. They omit state-office campaigns. They omit federal awards. Mixing any of those tables with this join invents a headline FEC.gov did not publish.

52 is a line count. Repeat contributors add lines. Unique-donor census figures are not here and are not estimated. All FEC ties points to other city-cycle intersections built from the same method.

Correlation is not causation

Placing Larchmont next to 2012 does not mean the city caused the cycle or the cycle caused the city book. Two columns matched. Amended filings can move the dollars. If live hubs disagree with this snapshot, the newer FEC extract controls. Source: FEC.gov.

Itemization is a threshold rule, not a taste judgment. Gifts that never reached the FEC itemization line never enter $148,176 and never enter $39,607,058. Independent expenditures are disclosed on other forms. Committee-to-committee transfers are another table. State-office campaigns in New York file under state law. USAspending obligations are a different statute. Stacking any of those omitted tables onto $148,176 would publish a total the Commission did not publish for this city-cycle join.

Doors out of the Larchmont × 2012 page

Use Larchmont, NY for the city without a year filter, the 2012 election cycle for the national window, New York campaign finance for the state roll-up, and All FEC ties for sibling joins. Those four links are the intended next steps. This file does not list donor names or award recipients.

Operational definition: contributor city LARCHMONT in NY during election cycle 2012 equals $148,176 across 52 itemized individual contribution records. The same city label across every cycle in this extract equals $39,607,058. Subtracting the cycle from the book leaves $39,458,882 in other even-year windows. Those three dollar figures and the row count are the entire numeric inventory for this page. FEC.gov is the source. No donor names, committee IDs, occupation strings, or award recipients appear in the packet, so none are invented in this prose.

The Larchmont, NY city hub, the 2012 election cycle hub, New York campaign finance, and All FEC ties are the four internal doors. The city hub answers the all-cycle question ($39,607,058). The cycle hub answers the national two-year question. The state hub answers the New York roll-up, which already contains Larchmont when the same extract is used. All FEC ties lists sibling city-cycle pages. This URL is only the intersection of LARCHMONT and 2012.

Questions

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

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Larchmont, NY total $148,176 in the 2012 cycle, across 52 contribution records. The same city label totals $39,607,058 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2012 is 0.37% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Larchmont, NY city total only for 2012?

No. The city aggregate of $39,607,058 covers every cycle in the table for LARCHMONT. The 2012 filter is $148,176 from 52 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $39,458,882. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2012 slice.

Did Larchmont, NY 2012 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 $148,176 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 2012?

52 itemized contribution records sum to $148,176. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $2,850 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.