Retail political contributions from Minnesota

Retail and Minnesota as a one-word industry join

32 Minnesota donors produced 1,016 contributions totaling $150,139. That is 3.0% of the $5,030,135 Retail occupation total. Correlation is not causation: occupation does not cause the gifts, and Minnesota as donor state does not cause recipient geography.

Rows per donor in the Minnesota cell average 31.8, versus about 33.9 nationally for RETAIL. Repeat itemization can lift the contribution count without lifting unique donors. Unitemized gifts under the FEC itemization threshold never enter either total.

This relationship is a bookkeeping join on two fields from FEC.gov. It is not a store-count census, a NAICS retail-trade table, or a sales-tax extract. RETAIL is a one-word industry string, not a Minnesota seller's-permit file.

RETAIL as an underspecified occupation string

Filers typed RETAIL. The FEC does not rewrite that text into a standard occupational taxonomy. RETAIL is a one-word industry string, not a Minnesota seller's-permit file. Nationwide, 1,213 donors produced 41,084 contributions totaling $5,030,135.

Keep Retail on its own Minnesota page. Mixing it with a sibling string would double-count some people and miss others, and this packet has no counts for those other strings. The Minnesota cell is only the RETAIL × MN overlap: $150,139, 1,016 contributions, 32 donors.

Thirty-two Minnesota Retail donors

32 Minnesota donors produced 1,016 contributions totaling $150,139. Donor state MN is the address on the contribution record, not proof of a Minnesota workplace, and not a limit to Minnesota candidates.

The Minnesota campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to MN. This join is only RETAIL. RETAIL SALES, RETAIL MANAGER, and MERCHANT, if used, sit in other occupation hubs. They are not this page even when they share the MN state code.

Retail donations without Minnesota still holds the remainder of the $5,030,135 occupation total ($4,879,996). A Minnesota directory of workplaces would need employment data this FEC join does not contain.

A one-word label is not a store census

RETAIL is a one-word industry string, not a Minnesota seller's-permit file. Public records, two fields, one intersection. FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates; occupation labels are filer-entered.

Independent expenditures, party coordinated spends, and committee-to-committee transfers are other FEC tables. They are not added into $150,139. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not name committees or donors.

Read the three Minnesota counts as one cell: $150,139 dollars, 1,016 contributions, 32 donors. Read the three national Retail counts as the other: $5,030,135, 41,084, 1,213. Percentages (3.0% of dollars, 2.5% of rows, 2.6% of donors) are ratios of those six integers. No election cycle is named in these aggregates, so the totals are the LobbyVault FEC extract window rather than a single even-year cycle. Thirty-two Minnesota donors produced 1,016 itemized rows inside a 1,213-donor national Retail bucket.

Retail dollars from every other state

3.0% of $5,030,135 is $150,139. The complementary $4,879,996 is the same occupation string in states that are not Minnesota. Do not treat the complement as a single rival state; it is every other state added together.

Citation practice: name both sides. Retail without Minnesota is the occupation hub. Minnesota without Retail is the state hub. The tie path is the intersection only. Source note: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by self-reported occupation and donor state.

Related tables for Retail and Minnesota

Retail donations holds the $5,030,135 national occupation total and the 1,213-donor count. Minnesota campaign finance holds all itemized individual activity coded to MN. All occupations and all FEC ties place this pair among other occupation-state intersections. None of those hubs is a substitute for quoting $150,139, 1,016 contributions, and 32 donors together.

Keep the citation two-sided: Retail and Minnesota. The occupation hub without the state is a different page. The state hub without the occupation is a different page. The tie is only the overlap at $150,139. FEC.gov remains the underlying source for itemized individual contributions. No contractor names, award recipients, or donor names appear in this packet, so none are invented here.

Questions

How much have Retail donors in Minnesota contributed?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation Retail and state Minnesota total $150,139, from 1,016 contributions and 32 donors. Nationwide, Retail-coded receipts are $5,030,135 from 41,084 contributions and 1,213 donors. Minnesota is 3.0% of those dollars. Source: FEC.gov.

Does Retail mean store owners, clerks, or chains in Minnesota?

The FEC file does not verify licenses or registrations. Occupation is RETAIL and state is MN. The 32 Minnesota donors produced $150,139 across 1,016 contributions. RETAIL is a one-word industry string, not a Minnesota seller's-permit file. This is not a store-count census, a NAICS retail-trade table, or a sales-tax extract.

Is Retail the same FEC bucket as Retail Sales?

Minnesota holds 3.0% of the $5,030,135 occupation total ($150,139). Minnesota also accounts for 2.5% of contributions (1,016 of 41,084) and 2.6% of donors (32 of 1,213). RETAIL is a filer-entered string. Unitemized gifts are omitted. Sibling labels are other hubs.

Do Minnesota Retail gifts stay in Minnesota races?

No. Donor state is Minnesota. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $150,139 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. The 1,016 contributions and 32 donors are the RETAIL-and-MN overlap only. FEC.gov is the source.