Principal political contributions from Connecticut

The Principal–Connecticut intersection

Occupation PRINCIPAL and donor state CT produce $1,315,036, 1,944 contributions, and 141 donors. The occupation hub is $43,606,592, 96,709 contributions, and 7,007 donors. Connecticut’s dollar share is about 3.0%; contribution share about 2.0% (1,944 of 96,709); donor share about 2.0% (141 of 7,007). One hundred forty-one Connecticut donors are 2.0% of 7,007 national PRINCIPAL donors. Dollars ($1,315,036 of $43,606,592) are about 3.0%, ahead of the 2.0% contribution share (1,944 of 96,709).

PARTNER, SCHOOL PRINCIPAL, and MANAGING PRINCIPAL, if used, sit in other hubs. Do not stack PRINCIPAL with PARTNER or SCHOOL PRINCIPAL into a single Connecticut professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

141 Connecticut donors produced 1,944 contributions, about 13.8 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 13.8 rows per donor nationally (96,709 contributions from 7,007 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this Connecticut cell is about $676, against about $451 nationwide. Connecticut’s higher mean is arithmetic on 1,944 rows, not a ranking of Greenwich funds or school districts. Rows per donor here (about 13.8) match the national PRINCIPAL pace.

PRINCIPAL as an ambiguous occupation string

PRINCIPAL is a filer-entered string. School principal and investment-firm principal share the same stored word. The file does not record which desk the filer meant. The $43,606,592 national total is PRINCIPAL only. 7,007 donors produced 96,709 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 96,709 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to Connecticut (CT). This page locates the Connecticut overlap. It does not classify the 141 Connecticut donors as educators or finance partners.

Connecticut as donor state

141 Connecticut donors produced 1,944 contributions totaling $1,315,036. Donor state CT is the address on the record, not proof of a Connecticut license, and not a limit to Connecticut candidates. CT is the address on the itemized record, not proof of a Connecticut workplace and not a limit to Connecticut candidates. Finance and school uses remain unpublished.

The Connecticut campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to CT. This join is only PRINCIPAL. The Principal occupation hub without Connecticut still holds about 97.0% of the $43,606,592. Connecticut’s state hub includes every occupation coded to CT. PRINCIPAL is only this filter.

What not to infer from Principal plus Connecticut

This page does not split school versus finance principals, count partners, or claim that Principal-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. PRINCIPAL does not record whether the filer meant a school, a law firm, or an investment partnership.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. PRINCIPAL is not a school-district or partnership roster. Donor state CT is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. Employer names are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Principal filter

Subtract the Connecticut dollars on this page from the national PRINCIPAL occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded PRINCIPAL in every other state combined. That remainder ($42,291,556) has no row-by-row breakdown here because those states are other ties. The occupation internal link holds the unlabeled-by-state total; the state internal link holds every occupation with this state code; the occupations index and the ties index place this pair among other joins built the same way.

A unique-donor count of 141 is not a person-level audit. The FEC aggregate can merge similar names or split one person who filed under variants. A contribution count of 1,944 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $1,315,036 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Connecticut dollars, or only the PRINCIPAL national total, drops a key. One hundred forty-one donors producing 1,944 contributions is the fact to keep next to the $1,315,036 headline.

Related tables

Principal donations holds the $43,606,592 national occupation total. Connecticut campaign finance holds the state’s itemized individual activity across occupations. All occupations and all FEC ties collect other occupation-state pairs from the same two fields. PARTNER is a different occupation hub if that string exists.

Questions

How much have Principal donors in Connecticut given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation PRINCIPAL and state Connecticut total $1,315,036, from 1,944 contributions and 141 donors. Nationwide, PRINCIPAL-coded receipts are $43,606,592 from 96,709 contributions and 7,007 donors. Connecticut is about 3.0% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Does Principal mean school principals or firm partners?

The file does not say. PRINCIPAL is the string the filer typed. School versus finance is unpublished. One hundred forty-one Connecticut donors used that label plus CT. The 141 Connecticut donors used occupation PRINCIPAL and state CT. Filers who wrote PARTNER or SCHOOL PRINCIPAL may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Principal FEC money is from Connecticut?

About 3.0% of the $43,606,592 occupation total is in this Connecticut join ($1,315,036). Connecticut also accounts for about 2.0% of contributions (1,944 of 96,709) and about 2.0% of donors (141 of 7,007). About 3.0% of dollars from 141 of 7,007 donors and 1,944 of 96,709 contributions.

Does this money go to Connecticut candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Connecticut. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $1,315,036 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to CT; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.