Radnor, PA political money — 2012 cycle

How Radnor, PA meets the 2012 election cycle

$297,250 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city RADNOR with state PA, and election cycle 2012. The match is $297,250 across 126 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $15,358,855. 2012 therefore accounts for 1.9% of Radnor, PA itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $15,061,605 (98.1%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Radnor, PA. That hub mixes 2012 with every other even-year window filed under RADNOR. It is also not a restatement of the 2012 election cycle hub, which mixes Radnor, PA with every other donor city in the United States. The 126 rows and $297,250 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. Radnor, PA here is the string that survived aggregation as RADNOR in PA. 2012 is a presidential FEC cycle: a two-year window that includes a presidential general election. That calendar fact does not explain why Radnor, PA donors itemized $297,250. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

The Radnor, PA side of the join

The city aggregate for Radnor, PA is $15,358,855 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 $297,250 from 2012 and the $15,061,605 from every other cycle in the same city file. Pennsylvania campaign-finance pages still mix Radnor with every other city in Pennsylvania.

The stored city sits in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, on the Main Line west of Philadelphia. Wayne, Villanova, and Philadelphia are not rolled into RADNOR. State PA stays on the citation so Radnor, PA is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $15,358,855 is the PA key only. A large city total does not mean 2012 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2012 was small. For Radnor, PA, the city stack is $15,358,855 while this cycle is $297,250 (1.9%). Use the city hub to see Radnor, PA without a year filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Radnor in 2012. Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

The 2012 cycle side for Pennsylvania filers in Radnor

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2012 cycle is the Commission's cycle tag on itemized receipts, not a calendar year of January gifts only. Inside that window, Radnor, PA donors itemized $297,250 on 126 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $2,359 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 2012 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Pennsylvania still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Radnor × 2012. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 126 itemized rows is a modest file. Adjacent pages for Radnor, PA, 2012 election cycle, and Pennsylvania campaign finance keep those broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only.

2012 versus the rest of Radnor

1.9% of $15,358,855 is a modest slice. The city hub is mostly other even-year windows, totaling $15,061,605. Put another way, about 1.9% of Radnor, PA's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2012, and about 98.1% were not. Those percentages are $297,250 divided by $15,358,855 and $15,061,605 divided by $15,358,855. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (1.9%) and row volume (126 itemized gifts) are separate facts. A modest slice of citywide dollars can sit next to a modest 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 1.9% as Radnor's share of the 2012 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

Counts, dollars, and what they omit

126 itemized contributions totaling $297,250 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 RADNOR. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Radnor versus other Pennsylvania cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $2,359 uses only the two numbers in the join: $297,250 and 126 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 $297,250 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed RADNOR is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Radnor.

Caveats on a geographic-cycle join

This page does not rank Radnor 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. The city of the contributor is not the city of the campaign. 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 Radnor, PA hub or the live 2012 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Radnor, PA, the 2012 election cycle, Pennsylvania 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 Radnor, PA donors give in the 2012 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Radnor, PA total $297,250 in the 2012 cycle, across 126 contribution records. The same city label totals $15,358,855 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2012 is 1.9% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Radnor, PA city total only for 2012?

No. The city aggregate of $15,358,855 covers every cycle in the table for RADNOR. The 2012 filter is $297,250 from 126 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $15,061,605. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2012 slice.

Did Radnor, PA 2012 donations stay in Pennsylvania?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Radnor, PA; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $297,250 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 Radnor, PA contributions were itemized in 2012?

126 itemized contribution records sum to $297,250. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $2,359 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.