Realtor political contributions from Illinois

Realtor and Illinois as overlapping FEC fields

Occupation REALTOR and donor state IL produce $1,500,598, 5,324 contributions, and 256 donors. The occupation hub is $49,791,079, 243,658 contributions, and 10,968 donors. Illinois’s dollar share is about 3.0%; contribution share about 2.2% (5,324 of 243,658); donor share about 2.3% (256 of 10,968). Two hundred fifty-six Illinois donors are about 2.3% of 10,968 national donors; 5,324 contributions are about 2.2% of 243,658 national rows; dollars are about 3.0% of $49,791,079.

REAL ESTATE AGENT, REAL ESTATE BROKER, and REALTOR ASSOCIATE, if used, sit in other hubs and should not be added to this Realtor total. Do not stack REALTOR with REAL ESTATE AGENT or REAL ESTATE BROKER into a single Illinois professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

256 Illinois donors produced 5,324 contributions, about 20.8 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 22.2 rows per donor nationally (243,658 contributions from 10,968 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this Illinois cell is about $282, against about $204 nationwide. Illinois’s about 3.0% share of $49,791,079 is a many-person slice of a 243,658-row occupation, not a listing-volume census.

REALTOR as a trade-title string

REALTOR is a filer-entered string. The FEC file does not verify a REALTOR membership, an Illinois broker license, or a closed-sale count. The $49,791,079 national total is REALTOR only. 10,968 donors produced 243,658 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 243,658 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to Illinois (IL). Ten thousand nine hundred sixty-eight national donors make this a many-person bucket. This tie asks how much of that labeled money also carries donor state IL.

Illinois on the state side

256 Illinois donors produced 5,324 contributions totaling $1,500,598. Donor state IL is the address on the record, not proof of a Illinois license, and not a limit to Illinois candidates. IL is the address on the itemized record, not proof of an Illinois listing, and not a map of which campaigns received the $1,500,598.

The Illinois campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to IL. This join is only REALTOR. The Realtor occupation hub without Illinois still holds about 97.0% of the $49,791,079. Illinois’s state hub includes every other occupation coded to IL. REALTOR is only this filter.

What the join is not

This page does not count licensed brokers, merge agent strings, or claim that Realtor-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. REALTOR is not REAL ESTATE AGENT even when filers meant a sales associate.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. REALTOR is not a real-estate licensing extract. Donor state IL is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. MLS IDs are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Realtor filter

Subtract the Illinois dollars on this page from the national REALTOR occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded REALTOR in every other state combined. That remainder ($48,290,481) 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 256 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 5,324 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $1,500,598 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Illinois dollars, or only the REALTOR national total, drops a key. Two hundred fifty-six donors producing 5,324 contributions is the fact to keep next to the $1,500,598 headline.

Related tables

Realtor donations holds the $49,791,079 national occupation total. Illinois 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. REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER is a different occupation hub if that string exists.

Questions

How much have Realtor donors in Illinois given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation REALTOR and state Illinois total $1,500,598, from 5,324 contributions and 256 donors. Nationwide, REALTOR-coded receipts are $49,791,079 from 243,658 contributions and 10,968 donors. Illinois is about 3.0% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Are these licensed Illinois realtors?

The FEC file does not verify licenses or association membership. Occupation is the string REALTOR and state is IL. The 256 Illinois donors used occupation REALTOR and state IL. Filers who wrote REAL ESTATE AGENT or BROKER may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Realtor FEC money is from Illinois?

About 3.0% of the $49,791,079 occupation total is in this Illinois join ($1,500,598). Illinois also accounts for about 2.2% of contributions (5,324 of 243,658) and about 2.3% of donors (256 of 10,968). About 3.0% of dollars from 256 of 10,968 donors and 5,324 of 243,658 contributions.

Does this money go to Illinois candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Illinois. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $1,500,598 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to IL; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.