Cleveland, OH political money — 2014 cycle

Cleveland, OH political money in 2014

The join keeps donor city Cleveland in Ohio and election cycle 2014. The match is $297,203 across 232 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $104,708,861. 2014 therefore accounts for 0.28% of Cleveland, OH itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $104,411,658 (99.7%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Cleveland, OH. That hub mixes 2014 with every other even-year window filed under CLEVELAND. It is also not a restatement of the 2014 election cycle hub, which mixes Cleveland, OH with every other donor city in the United States. The 232 rows and $297,203 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.

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. Cleveland, OH here is the string that survived aggregation as CLEVELAND in OH. 2014 is a midterm FEC cycle: a two-year window without a presidential general election. That calendar fact does not explain why Cleveland, OH donors itemized $297,203. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

The Cleveland, OH side of the join

The city aggregate for Cleveland, OH is $104,708,861 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 $297,203 from 2014 and the $104,411,658 from every other cycle in the same city file. Ohio campaign-finance pages still mix Cleveland with every other city in Ohio.

The stored city sits in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, on Lake Erie. Lakewood, Akron, and Cleveland Heights are not rolled into CLEVELAND. State OH stays on the citation so Cleveland, OH is not merged with Cleveland in another state. $104,708,861 is the OH key only. A large city total does not mean 2014 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2014 was small. For Cleveland, OH, the city stack is $104,708,861 while this cycle is $297,203 (0.28%). Use the city hub to see Cleveland, OH without a year filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Cleveland in 2014. Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

The 2014 cycle side for Ohio filers in Cleveland

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, Cleveland, OH donors itemized $297,203 on 232 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,281 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 Ohio still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Cleveland × 2014. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 232 itemized rows is a moderate file. Adjacent pages for Cleveland, OH, 2014 election cycle, and Ohio campaign finance keep those broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only.

2014 versus the rest of Cleveland

0.28% of $104,708,861 is a small slice. The city hub is mostly other even-year windows, totaling $104,411,658. Put another way, about 0.28% of Cleveland, OH's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2014, and about 99.7% were not. Those percentages are $297,203 divided by $104,708,861 and $104,411,658 divided by $104,708,861. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.28%) and row volume (232 itemized gifts) are separate facts. A small slice of citywide dollars can sit next to a moderate file; those labels describe this pair, not other cities. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.28% as Cleveland's share of the 2014 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

Counts, dollars, and what they omit

232 itemized contributions totaling $297,203 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 CLEVELAND. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Cleveland versus other Ohio cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,281 uses only the two numbers in the join: $297,203 and 232 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 $297,203 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed CLEVELAND is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Cleveland.

Caveats on a geographic-cycle join

This page does not rank Cleveland against other cities, does not call 2014 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in Ohio. Two columns matched. The city of the contributor is not the city of the campaign. 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 Cleveland, OH 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 Cleveland, OH, the 2014 election cycle, Ohio 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 Cleveland, OH donors give in the 2014 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Cleveland, OH total $297,203 in the 2014 cycle, across 232 contribution records. The same city label totals $104,708,861 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2014 is 0.28% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Cleveland, OH city total only for 2014?

No. The city aggregate of $104,708,861 covers every cycle in the table for CLEVELAND. The 2014 filter is $297,203 from 232 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $104,411,658. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2014 slice.

Did Cleveland, OH 2014 donations stay in Ohio?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Cleveland, OH; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $297,203 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 Cleveland, OH contributions were itemized in 2014?

232 itemized contribution records sum to $297,203. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,281 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.