Rancher political contributions from New Mexico

The Rancher–New Mexico intersection

Occupation RANCHER and donor state NM produce $698,933, 1,954 contributions, and 180 donors. The occupation hub is $17,057,096, 40,878 contributions, and 3,387 donors. New Mexico’s dollar share is about 4.1%; contribution share about 4.8% (1,954 of 40,878); donor share about 5.3% (180 of 3,387). One hundred eighty New Mexico donors sit inside 3,387 national RANCHER donors — similar headcount to Colorado’s 174. Rows (1,954 of 40,878) and dollars ($698,933 of $17,057,096) are a smaller cell than Colorado’s 2,910-row join.

RANCH OWNER, CATTLEMAN, and FARMER, if used, sit in other hubs. Do not stack RANCHER with RANCH OWNER or FARMER into a single New Mexico professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

180 New Mexico donors produced 1,954 contributions, about 10.9 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 12.1 rows per donor nationally (40,878 contributions from 3,387 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this New Mexico cell is about $358, against about $417 nationwide. New Mexico’s $698,933 is address-coded itemized money, not a grazing-allotment or chile-farm total. Do not add Colorado Rancher dollars to this cell.

RANCHER as a livestock occupation string

RANCHER is a filer-entered string. The FEC file does not verify livestock inventory, acreage, or a New Mexico brand registration. The $17,057,096 national total is RANCHER only. 3,387 donors produced 40,878 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 40,878 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to New Mexico (NM). The national occupation still holds $17,057,096. This tie asks only how much of that labeled money also carries donor state NM.

New Mexico as donor state

180 New Mexico donors produced 1,954 contributions totaling $698,933. Donor state NM is the address on the record, not proof of a New Mexico license, and not a limit to New Mexico candidates. NM is the address on the itemized record, not proof of a New Mexico ranch, and not a map of which campaigns received the $698,933.

The New Mexico campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to NM. This join is only RANCHER. The Rancher occupation hub without New Mexico still holds about 95.9% of the $17,057,096. New Mexico’s state hub includes every occupation coded to NM. RANCHER is only this filter.

What not to infer from Rancher plus New Mexico

This page does not count ranches, mix Colorado dollars into this cell, or claim that Rancher-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. Colorado and New Mexico Rancher joins share an occupation string and split on state. Quote each pair separately.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. RANCHER is not a USDA operator extract. Donor state NM is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. Acreage is not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Rancher filter

Subtract the New Mexico dollars on this page from the national RANCHER occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded RANCHER in every other state combined. That remainder ($16,358,163) 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 180 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 1,954 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $698,933 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the New Mexico dollars, or only the RANCHER national total, drops a key. One hundred eighty donors producing 1,954 contributions totaling $698,933 is the fact to keep next to the dollar headline.

Related tables

Rancher donations holds the $17,057,096 national occupation total. New Mexico 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. The Colorado Rancher tie in this slice uses the same occupation hub and a different state key.

Questions

How much have Rancher donors in New Mexico given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation RANCHER and state New Mexico total $698,933, from 1,954 contributions and 180 donors. Nationwide, RANCHER-coded receipts are $17,057,096 from 40,878 contributions and 3,387 donors. New Mexico is about 4.1% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Does this count New Mexico ranches?

No. The FEC file does not verify acreage or livestock. Occupation is the string RANCHER and state is NM. One hundred eighty donors are not a USDA operator list. The 180 New Mexico donors used occupation RANCHER and state NM. Filers who wrote RANCH OWNER or CATTLEMAN may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Rancher FEC money is from New Mexico?

About 4.1% of the $17,057,096 occupation total is in this New Mexico join ($698,933). New Mexico also accounts for about 4.8% of contributions (1,954 of 40,878) and about 5.3% of donors (180 of 3,387). Colorado’s Rancher join is a different state cell and is not included here.

Does this money go to New Mexico candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is New Mexico. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $698,933 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to NM; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.