Ny, NY political money — 2008 cycle

Ny, NY × 2008 keeps the FEC city spelling NY

$166,845 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city NY with state NY, and election cycle 2008. The match is $166,845 across 140 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $88,285,550. 2008 therefore accounts for 0.19% of Ny, NY itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $88,118,705 (99.8%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Ny, NY. That hub mixes 2008 with every other even-year window filed under NY. It is also not a restatement of the 2008 election cycle hub, which mixes Ny, NY with every other donor city in the United States. The 140 rows and $166,845 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.

City NY in state NY is not a borough recode

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city NY in New York totals $88.3 million ($88,285,550). $166,845 is 0.19% of that city book. A small share does not mean 2008 was quiet in Ny; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. Do not add $166,845 to $88,285,550; the city book already contains this slice. Subtracting is valid: $88,285,550 − $166,845 = $88,118,705 in other cycles.

The stored FEC city field is the two-letter string NY in state NY. LobbyVault does not recode NY to New York City, Manhattan, or a borough. Brooklyn, Queens, and Bronx are other city keys when those strings were stored. State NY stays on the citation so Ny is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $88.3 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 2008 presidential tag on NY-city receipts

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. 2008 is a presidential election cycle: a two-year FEC window that includes a presidential general election. Inside that window, Ny, NY filers itemized $166,845 on 140 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,192 per itemized gift ($166,845 ÷ 140). 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 140-row extract on the abbreviated city string NY — a mid-size receipt file for this key, still lines rather than unique residents. The national 2008 hub still includes every other city. State pages for New York still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Ny × 2008. 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 $166,845 into the state hub a second time.

2008 inside the NY city-string book

0.19% of $88,285,550 is the 2008 slice. Put another way, about 0.19% of Ny, NY’s itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2008, and about 99.8% were not. Those percentages are $166,845 divided by $88,285,550 and $88,118,705 divided by $88,285,550. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.19%) and row volume (140 itemized gifts) are separate facts. Title and H1 keep Ny, NY because that is the stored city field. Do not treat this URL as a complete New York City book. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.19% as Ny’s share of the 2008 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

140 rows omit unitemized gifts and IEs

140 itemized contributions totaling $166,845 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 NY. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Ny versus other New York cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,192 uses only the two numbers in the join: $166,845 and 140 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 $166,845 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed NY is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Ny.

What an NY–2008 join cannot answer

This page does not rank Ny 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. 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 Ny, NY hub or the live 2008 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls. BROOKLYN is a different city key in the same state. Adding Ny, NY to Brooklyn would mix two FEC strings.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Ny, NY, the 2008 election cycle, New York campaign finance, and All FEC ties for the adjacent tables. Filers who typed NEW YORK or MANHATTAN sit on other keys when those strings were stored. This join is only city NY in 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 Ny, NY donors give in the 2008 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Ny, NY total $166,845 in the 2008 cycle, across 140 contribution records. The same city label totals $88,285,550 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2008 is 0.19% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Ny, NY city aggregate only 2008 money?

No. The city aggregate of $88,285,550 covers every cycle in the table for NY. The 2008 filter is $166,845 from 140 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $88,118,705. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2008 slice.

Did 2008 NY-city itemized gifts stay with New York candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Ny, NY; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $166,845 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 Ny, NY contributions were itemized in 2008?

140 itemized contribution records sum to $166,845. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,192 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.