Chagrin Falls, OH political money — 2012 cycle

Chagrin Falls, OH × 2012 is a village-cycle join

$179,401 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city CHAGRIN FALLS with state OH, and election cycle 2012. The match is $179,401 across 63 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $23,039,536. 2012 therefore accounts for 0.78% of Chagrin Falls, OH itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $22,860,135 (99.2%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Chagrin Falls, OH. That hub mixes 2012 with every other even-year window filed under CHAGRIN FALLS. It is also not a restatement of the 2012 election cycle hub, which mixes Chagrin Falls, OH with every other donor city in the United States. The 63 rows and $179,401 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.

CHAGRIN FALLS as an east-Cleveland address string

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city CHAGRIN FALLS in Ohio totals $23.0 million ($23,039,536). $179,401 is 0.78% of that city book. A small share does not mean 2012 was quiet in Chagrin Falls; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. Do not add $179,401 to $23,039,536; the city book already contains this slice. Subtracting is valid: $23,039,536 − $179,401 = $22,860,135 in other cycles.

The stored city sits in Cuyahoga and Geauga County, Ohio, east of Cleveland. Hunting Valley, Gates Mills, and Solon are other FEC city strings, not folded into CHAGRIN FALLS. State OH stays on the citation so Chagrin Falls is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $23.0 million is the OH key only. Donor city is not recipient city: committees that received these gifts can file from anywhere in the FEC system.

Presidential-cycle coding for 63 Chagrin Falls lines

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. 2012 is a presidential election cycle: a two-year FEC window that includes a presidential general election. Inside that window, Chagrin Falls, OH filers itemized $179,401 on 63 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $2,848 per itemized gift ($179,401 ÷ 63). 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 63-row extract — compact rather than thin, still a short receipt file for this village string. The national 2012 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Ohio still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Chagrin Falls × 2012. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. Ohio campaign-finance pages already contain this city when the same extract is used; do not add $179,401 into the state hub a second time.

2012 as a slice of the Chagrin Falls book

0.78% of $23,039,536 is the 2012 slice. Put another way, about 0.78% of Chagrin Falls, OH’s itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2012, and about 99.2% were not. Those percentages are $179,401 divided by $23,039,536 and $22,860,135 divided by $23,039,536. 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. Cleveland and Shaker Heights are neighboring strings. They are not parents of CHAGRIN FALLS and are not added into this cell. 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 Chagrin Falls’s share of the 2012 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

Means from 63 rows are not medians

63 itemized contributions totaling $179,401 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 CHAGRIN FALLS. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Chagrin Falls versus other Ohio cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $2,848 uses only the two numbers in the join: $179,401 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 $179,401 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed CHAGRIN FALLS is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Chagrin Falls.

Limits of a Chagrin Falls–2012 match

This page does not rank Chagrin Falls against other cities, does not call 2012 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in Ohio. Two columns matched. A OH address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a Ohio candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Chagrin Falls, OH hub or the live 2012 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls. Village and township labels split when filers type them differently. LobbyVault does not merge those spellings into one Chagrin Falls metro total.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Chagrin Falls, OH, the 2012 election cycle, Ohio campaign finance, and All FEC ties for the adjacent tables. Chagrin Falls Township, if stored as a different string, is not this key. The packet city is CHAGRIN FALLS in OH. 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 Chagrin Falls, OH donors give in the 2012 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Chagrin Falls, OH total $179,401 in the 2012 cycle, across 63 contribution records. The same city label totals $23,039,536 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2012 is 0.78% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Does the Chagrin Falls city book cover only 2012?

No. The city aggregate of $23,039,536 covers every cycle in the table for CHAGRIN FALLS. The 2012 filter is $179,401 from 63 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $22,860,135. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2012 slice.

Were 2012 Chagrin Falls gifts limited to Ohio races?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Chagrin Falls, OH; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $179,401 by office, state of the committee, or party. A OH city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Ohio races.

How many Chagrin Falls, OH contributions were itemized in 2012?

63 itemized contribution records sum to $179,401. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $2,848 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.