Scarsdale, NY political money — 2008 cycle

The 2008 overlap for Scarsdale, NY

$456,597 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city SCARSDALE with state NY, and election cycle 2008. The match is $456,597 across 254 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $73,830,374. 2008 therefore accounts for 0.62% of Scarsdale, NY itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $73,373,777 (99.38%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Scarsdale, NY. That hub mixes 2008 with every other even-year window filed under SCARSDALE. It is also not a restatement of the 2008 election cycle hub, which mixes Scarsdale, NY with every other donor city in the United States. The 254 rows and $456,597 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. Scarsdale, NY here is the string that survived aggregation as SCARSDALE 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 Scarsdale, NY donors itemized $456,597. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

What the Scarsdale, NY city book includes

The city aggregate for Scarsdale, NY is $73,830,374 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 $456,597 from 2008 and the $73,373,777 from every other cycle in the same city file. State-level NY campaign-finance pages still mix Scarsdale with every other city in NY.

The stored city is the Village of Scarsdale in Westchester County, New York. White Plains, New Rochelle, and New York City are not rolled into SCARSDALE. State NY stays on the citation so Scarsdale, NY is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $73,830,374 is the NY key only. For Scarsdale, NY, the city stack is $73,830,374 while this cycle is $456,597 (0.62%). Use the city hub for Scarsdale, NY without a year filter; use this tie for Scarsdale in 2008. Donor city is not recipient city: committees that received these gifts can file anywhere in the FEC system. A Westchester suburb string is not rolled into NEW YORK.

2008 as an FEC cycle tag, not a local election

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, Scarsdale, NY donors itemized $456,597 on 254 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,798 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 NY still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Scarsdale × 2008. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. A suburb-scale row file (254 receipts) with mean near $1,798 is still itemized Schedule A, not a property-tax roll. $456,597 is the overlap only. Nearby city strings are other pages. This URL is the intersection only.

Dollar share is not row share

0.62% of $73,830,374 is a slice of the city book, not a ranking against other cities. Put another way, about 0.62% of Scarsdale, NY's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2008, and about 99.38% were not. Those percentages are $456,597 divided by $73,830,374 and $73,373,777 divided by $73,830,374. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.62%) and row volume (254 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 0.62% as Scarsdale's share of the 2008 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 $456,597.

Itemized rows are not unique donors

254 itemized contributions totaling $456,597 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 SCARSDALE. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Scarsdale versus other NY cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,798 uses only the two numbers in the join: $456,597 and 254 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 $456,597 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed SCARSDALE is counted; a nearby suburb they typed instead is not recoded into Scarsdale.

Correlation is not causation on this tie

This page does not rank Scarsdale 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 Scarsdale, 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 Scarsdale, 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 Scarsdale, NY donors give in the 2008 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Scarsdale, NY total $456,597 in the 2008 cycle, across 254 contribution records. The same city label totals $73,830,374 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2008 is 0.62% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Scarsdale, NY city total only for 2008?

No. The city aggregate of $73,830,374 covers every cycle in the table for SCARSDALE. The 2008 filter is $456,597 from 254 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $73,373,777. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2008 slice.

Did Scarsdale, NY 2008 donations stay in NY?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Scarsdale, NY; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $456,597 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 Scarsdale, NY contributions were itemized in 2008?

254 itemized contribution records sum to $456,597. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,798 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.