Dayton, OH political money — 2010 cycle

Dayton, OH × 2010 is a midterm city-cycle join

$172,332 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city DAYTON with state OH, and election cycle 2010. The match is $172,332 across 164 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $35,725,641. 2010 therefore accounts for 0.48% of Dayton, OH itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $35,553,309 (99.5%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Dayton, OH. That hub mixes 2010 with every other even-year window filed under DAYTON. It is also not a restatement of the 2010 election cycle hub, which mixes Dayton, OH with every other donor city in the United States. The 164 rows and $172,332 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.

DAYTON in 2010 remains a Montgomery County key

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city DAYTON in Ohio totals $35.7 million ($35,725,641). $172,332 is 0.48% of that city book. A small share does not mean 2010 was quiet in Dayton; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. Do not add $172,332 to $35,725,641; the city book already contains this slice. Subtracting is valid: $35,725,641 − $172,332 = $35,553,309 in other cycles.

The stored city sits in Montgomery County, Ohio. Huber Heights, Fairborn, and Centerville are other FEC city strings; they are not folded into DAYTON. State OH stays on the citation so Dayton is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $35.7 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.

How FEC tags 2010 on Dayton receipts

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. 2010 is a midterm election cycle: a two-year FEC window labeled by its even year, without a presidential general on the ballot. Inside that window, Dayton, OH filers itemized $172,332 on 164 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,051 per itemized gift ($172,332 ÷ 164). 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 164-row extract for the 2010 tag — fewer lines than Dayton’s 2008 file in this extract family, still a receipt stack. The national 2010 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Ohio still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Dayton × 2010. 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 $172,332 into the state hub a second time.

2010 versus other Dayton even-year windows

0.48% of $35,725,641 is the 2010 slice. Put another way, about 0.48% of Dayton, OH’s itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2010, and about 99.5% were not. Those percentages are $172,332 divided by $35,725,641 and $35,553,309 divided by $35,725,641. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.48%) and row volume (164 itemized gifts) are separate facts. Do not add the 2008 Dayton slice to this 2010 slice and call the sum the city book. Other cycles remain in the all-cycle total. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.48% as Dayton’s share of the 2010 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

164 rows are not unique Dayton donors

164 itemized contributions totaling $172,332 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 DAYTON. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Dayton versus other Ohio cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,051 uses only the two numbers in the join: $172,332 and 164 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 $172,332 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed DAYTON is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Dayton.

Limits of the Dayton–2010 match

This page does not rank Dayton against other cities, does not call 2010 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 Dayton, OH hub or the live 2010 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls. A midterm 2010 label does not move these receipts into Ohio state-office filings. Those sit under state law, outside this FEC join.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Dayton, OH, the 2010 election cycle, Ohio campaign finance, and All FEC ties for the adjacent tables. Springfield, Ohio, is a different city key. It is not absorbed into DAYTON. 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 Dayton, OH donors give in the 2010 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Dayton, OH total $172,332 in the 2010 cycle, across 164 contribution records. The same city label totals $35,725,641 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2010 is 0.48% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is Dayton’s all-cycle book the same as the 2010 figure?

No. The city aggregate of $35,725,641 covers every cycle in the table for DAYTON. The 2010 filter is $172,332 from 164 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $35,553,309. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2010 slice.

Were 2010 Dayton gifts limited to Ohio committees?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Dayton, OH; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $172,332 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 Dayton, OH contributions were itemized in 2010?

164 itemized contribution records sum to $172,332. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,051 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.