Phila, PA political money — 2012 cycle

Phila, PA × 2012 keeps the FEC spelling PHILA

$169,500 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city PHILA with state PA, and election cycle 2012. The match is $169,500 across 109 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $31,839,653. 2012 therefore accounts for 0.53% of Phila, PA itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $31,670,153 (99.5%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Phila, PA. That hub mixes 2012 with every other even-year window filed under PHILA. It is also not a restatement of the 2012 election cycle hub, which mixes Phila, PA with every other donor city in the United States. The 109 rows and $169,500 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.

PHILA is not the longer PHILADELPHIA city key

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city PHILA in Pennsylvania totals $31.8 million ($31,839,653). $169,500 is 0.53% of that city book. A small share does not mean 2012 was quiet in Phila; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. Do not add $169,500 to $31,839,653; the city book already contains this slice. Subtracting is valid: $31,839,653 − $169,500 = $31,670,153 in other cycles.

PHILA is the stored FEC city abbreviation in Pennsylvania. Filers who typed PHILADELPHIA sit on a different city key when that longer string is stored. Cherry Hill, NJ is another state-and-city pair. State PA stays on the citation so Phila is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $31.8 million is the PA key only. Donor city is not recipient city: committees that received these gifts can file from anywhere in the FEC system.

The 2012 presidential tag on PHILA receipts

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, Phila, PA filers itemized $169,500 on 109 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,555 per itemized gift ($169,500 ÷ 109). 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 109-row extract for the PHILA string in 2012 — a compact receipt file, still lines rather than unique residents. The national 2012 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Pennsylvania still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Phila × 2012. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. Pennsylvania campaign-finance pages already contain this city when the same extract is used; do not add $169,500 into the state hub a second time.

2012 inside the PHILA all-cycle book

0.53% of $31,839,653 is the 2012 slice. Put another way, about 0.53% of Phila, PA’s itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2012, and about 99.5% were not. Those percentages are $169,500 divided by $31,839,653 and $31,670,153 divided by $31,839,653. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.53%) and row volume (109 itemized gifts) are separate facts. This page uses the FEC spelling PHILA in title and H1 because that is the stored city field. It is not a recode of every Philadelphia spelling. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.53% as Phila’s share of the 2012 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

109 rows are not unique Phila donors

109 itemized contributions totaling $169,500 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 PHILA. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Phila versus other Pennsylvania cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,555 uses only the two numbers in the join: $169,500 and 109 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 $169,500 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed PHILA is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Phila.

What a PHILA–2012 join cannot answer

This page does not rank Phila against other cities, does not call 2012 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in Pennsylvania. Two columns matched. A PA address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a Pennsylvania candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Phila, PA hub or the live 2012 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls. This 2012 PHILA join is not the 2008 PHILA join and not a PHILADELPHIA-string page. Each stored city plus cycle is its own URL.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Phila, PA, the 2012 election cycle, Pennsylvania campaign finance, and All FEC ties for the adjacent tables. King of Prussia and Bala Cynwyd are other Pennsylvania strings. They are not absorbed into PHILA. 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 Phila, PA donors give in the 2012 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Phila, PA total $169,500 in the 2012 cycle, across 109 contribution records. The same city label totals $31,839,653 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2012 is 0.53% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Phila city book the same as the 2012 slice?

No. The city aggregate of $31,839,653 covers every cycle in the table for PHILA. The 2012 filter is $169,500 from 109 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $31,670,153. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2012 slice.

Did 2012 PHILA itemized gifts stay with Pennsylvania candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Phila, PA; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $169,500 by office, state of the committee, or party. A PA city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Pennsylvania races.

How many Phila, PA contributions were itemized in 2012?

109 itemized contribution records sum to $169,500. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,555 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.