Columbia, SC and the 2014 FEC election cycle

$135,302 is the intersection, not the city hub

Quote the join as “Columbia, SC × 2014 = $135,302 (110 itemized contributions).” Do not quote $44,314,231 in the same sentence unless you label it as the all-cycle city total. About 0.31% of the stored Columbia money sits in 2014; about 99.7% does not.

Source language: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle. That sentence is the sourceNote on this file. It does not cover committee-to-committee transfers, operating expenditures, or independent-expenditure filings. Those are other tables.

Why Columbia is not a metro rollup

The city side of the join answers “which donor-city string?” The answer is COLUMBIA in SC, displayed as Columbia, SC. It does not answer “which ZIP,” “which employer,” or “which occupation.” Those are other LobbyVault dimensions. Occupation-cycle and city-industry pages are different kinds.

Lifetime city money $44,314,231 can look large next to a single-cycle cell of $135,302. That contrast is expected. It is not a finding that 2014 was a weak or strong year in any causal sense. Other cycles simply are not this page.

Nationwide 2014 pages versus this Columbia cell

Calling 2014 a “presidential cycle” or a “midterm cycle” is calendar context for the even year. It is not a finding that $135,302 went to a presidential ticket or to House races. Recipient offices are not in the packet. Keep the citation as city × cycle dollars.

The cycle hub will include every city. This tie includes one city. Mixing those grains produces a false South Carolina or false national number. Stay on $135,302.

Missing grains: names, parties, offices

Same-city strings in other states are out. Same-year receipts with a different city spelling are out. ZIP codes that sit in Columbia but were filed with another city name are out. Columbia is stored as COLUMBIA in South Carolina. Charleston, Greenville, and Columbia strings in other states are other pages. Those exclusions are why $135,302 can look different from a journalist’s handmade city scrape.

Citation order: dollars, keys, source

City-industry, occupation-cycle, and committee-cycle pages answer other questions. This kind is city-cycle only. If a later packet adds donor counts or committee names, that would be a different file. This one stops at $135,302, 110, $44,314,231, 0.31%, and the keys COLUMBIA / SC / 2014.

Keep the two sides named

Title and H1 name both sides because the page is a join. If a downstream template dropped 2014 or dropped Columbia, the remaining label would describe the wrong object. Keep Columbia, SC and 2014 in any reuse of $135,302. Restating without new facts: Columbia, SC in 2014 is $135,302 from 110 itemized individual contributions on FEC.gov. The city string stores $44,314,231 across cycles, so this window is about 0.31% and other windows hold $44,178,929. Arithmetic mean per line is about $1,230. Unique donors, recipient committees, party split, and USAspending dollars are not in the packet. Live overlays at the city hub, the 2014 hub, and All FEC ties outrank this snapshot if they differ. Keep both join sides in any reuse of $135,302: donor city Columbia, SC and FEC cycle 2014, sourced from FEC.gov itemized individual receipts. The 110 contribution lines are volume for this cell only and are not added to counts from other Columbia cycle pages. City lifetime money $44,314,231 already includes the 2014 window; do not add $135,302 to $44,314,231.

Columbia, SC remains one donor-city string on FEC.gov. Cycle 2014 remains one even-year tag. Together they produce $135,302 from 110 itemized individual contributions. The city key still stores $44,314,231 when every stored cycle is included, so 2014 is about 0.31% of that running total and $44,178,929 sits in other windows. Those other windows are not listed here and are not estimated. Mean line size about $1,230 is $135,302 divided by 110, an arithmetic mean rather than a median.

Questions

How much did Columbia, SC donors give in 2014?

The 2014 cell for Columbia, SC is $135,302 across 110 itemized individual contributions. FEC.gov is the source. The same city string stores $44,314,231 when every cycle is included, so 2014 is about 0.31% of that running sum. No donor names are published in this aggregate.

What share of Columbia, SC FEC money is 2014?

$135,302 divided by $44,314,231 is about 0.31%. Remainder $44,178,929 belongs to other cycles stored on the same COLUMBIA key. Do not read the percentage as a share of South Carolina giving or of all 2014 itemized gifts. Those denominators are absent from the packet.

Is this Columbia, Missouri?

Only the FEC city field COLUMBIA with state SC is in this cell. Neighboring towns, metro labels, and other spellings of Columbia are other keys. Columbia is stored as COLUMBIA in South Carolina. Charleston, Greenville, and Columbia strings in other states are other pages. The 2014 dollars remain $135,302 on that exact string.

Where are the Columbia, SC and 2014 overlay pages?

Use /cities/sc-columbia/ for Columbia, SC without a year filter, /election-cycles/2014/ for the 2014 cycle without a city filter, /states/SC/ for statewide South Carolina context, and /ties/ for other two-dimension pages. This tie stays on $135,302 and 110 lines. Overlay pages are the current record if numbers move.