Rye, NY political money — 2014 cycle

How Rye, NY meets the 2014 election cycle

$248,845 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city RYE with state NY, and election cycle 2014. The match is $248,845 across 104 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $33,915,812. 2014 therefore accounts for 0.73% of Rye, NY itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $33,666,967 (99.27%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Rye, NY. That hub mixes 2014 with every other even-year window filed under RYE. It is also not a restatement of the 2014 election cycle hub, which mixes Rye, NY with every other donor city in the United States. The 104 rows and $248,845 exist only where both filters are true. Correlation is not causation: a city code plus a cycle year does not prove why someone gave.

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. Rye, NY here is the string that survived aggregation as RYE in NY. 2014 is a midterm FEC cycle: a two-year window that includes congressional general elections without a presidential contest on the federal calendar. That calendar fact does not explain why Rye, NY donors itemized $248,845. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

The Rye, NY side of the join

The city aggregate for Rye, NY is $33,915,812 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 $248,845 from 2014 and the $33,666,967 from every other cycle in the same city file. State-level NY campaign-finance pages still mix Rye with every other city in NY.

The stored city is the City of Rye in Westchester County, New York. Port Chester, Mamaroneck, and White Plains are not rolled into RYE. State NY stays on the citation so Rye, NY is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $33,915,812 is the NY key only. For Rye, NY, the city stack is $33,915,812 while this cycle is $248,845 (0.73%). Use the city hub for Rye, NY without a year filter; use this tie for Rye in 2014. Donor city is not recipient city: committees that received these gifts can file anywhere in the FEC system. 2014 is a federal midterm window. That calendar fact does not explain the dollar total.

The 2014 cycle side for NY filers in Rye

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2014 cycle is the Commission's cycle tag on itemized receipts, not a calendar year of January gifts only. Inside that window, Rye, NY donors itemized $248,845 on 104 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $2,393 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 2014 hub still includes every other city. State pages for NY still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Rye × 2014. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. A suburb-scale row file (104 receipts) with mean near $2,393 is still itemized Schedule A, not a property-tax roll. $248,845 is the overlap only. Nearby city strings are other pages. This URL is the intersection only.

2014 versus the rest of Rye

0.73% of $33,915,812 is a slice of the city book, not a ranking against other cities. Put another way, about 0.73% of Rye, NY's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2014, and about 99.27% were not. Those percentages are $248,845 divided by $33,915,812 and $33,666,967 divided by $33,915,812. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.73%) and row volume (104 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 0.73% as Rye's share of the 2014 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts. Westchester County is a geography note for readers; it is not a Census population weight on $248,845.

Counts, dollars, and what they omit

104 itemized contributions totaling $248,845 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 RYE. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Rye versus other NY cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $2,393 uses only the two numbers in the join: $248,845 and 104 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 page does not break $248,845 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed RYE is counted; a nearby suburb they typed instead is not recoded into Rye.

Caveats on a geographic-cycle join

This page does not rank Rye against other cities and does not treat itemized giving as public opinion in NY. Two columns matched. Contributor city is not campaign city. A NY address does not mean the money supported a NY candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Rye, NY hub or the live 2014 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Rye, NY, the 2014 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 Rye, NY donors give in the 2014 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Rye, NY total $248,845 in the 2014 cycle, across 104 contribution records. The same city label totals $33,915,812 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2014 is 0.73% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Rye, NY city total only for 2014?

No. The city aggregate of $33,915,812 covers every cycle in the table for RYE. The 2014 filter is $248,845 from 104 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $33,666,967. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2014 slice.

Did Rye, NY 2014 donations stay in NY?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Rye, NY; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $248,845 by office, state of the committee, or party. A NY city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of NY races.

How many Rye, NY contributions were itemized in 2014?

104 itemized contribution records sum to $248,845. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $2,393 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.