Senator political contributions from West Virginia

Senator and West Virginia as overlapping FEC fields

Occupation SENATOR and donor state WV produce $62,301, 217 contributions, and 5 donors. The occupation hub is $7,082,198, 2,443 contributions, and 276 donors. West Virginia’s dollar share is about 0.9%; contribution share about 8.9% (217 of 2,443); donor share about 1.8% (5 of 276). Five West Virginia donors are about 1.8% of 276 national donors; 217 contributions are about 8.9% of 2,443 national rows; dollars are about 0.9% of $7,082,198.

STATE SENATOR, U.S. SENATOR, and LEGISLATOR, if used, sit in other hubs and should not be added to this Senator total. Do not stack SENATOR with STATE SENATOR or LEGISLATOR into a single West Virginia professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

5 West Virginia donors produced 217 contributions, about 43.4 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 8.9 rows per donor nationally (2,443 contributions from 276 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this West Virginia cell is about $287, against about $2,899 nationwide. West Virginia’s about 8.9% contribution share from five people is a high-repeat slice of a thin occupation (2,443 national rows).

SENATOR without a STATE prefix

SENATOR is a filer-entered string. The FEC file does not verify a current chamber, a class, or a West Virginia seat. One word on the form is the filter. The $7,082,198 national total is SENATOR only. 276 donors produced 2,443 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 2,443 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to West Virginia (WV). Two hundred seventy-six national donors make this a small occupation. This tie asks how much of that labeled money also carries donor state WV.

West Virginia as donor state

5 West Virginia donors produced 217 contributions totaling $62,301. Donor state WV is the address on the record, not proof of a West Virginia license, and not a limit to West Virginia candidates. WV is the address on the itemized record, not proof of a West Virginia Senate seat, and not a map of which campaigns received the $62,301.

The West Virginia campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to WV. This join is only SENATOR. The Senator occupation hub without West Virginia still holds about 99.1% of the $7,082,198. West Virginia’s state hub includes every other occupation coded to WV. SENATOR is only this filter.

What the join is not

This page does not list West Virginia senators, add Iowa State Senator dollars, or claim that Senator-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. SENATOR is not STATE SENATOR. The Iowa State Senator join in this slice uses a different occupation string and a different state key.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. SENATOR is not a West Virginia Senate roster. Donor state WV is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. Chamber and class are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Senator filter

Subtract the West Virginia dollars on this page from the national SENATOR occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded SENATOR in every other state combined. That remainder ($7,019,897) 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 5 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 217 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $62,301 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the West Virginia dollars, or only the SENATOR national total, drops a key. Five donors producing 217 contributions totaling $62,301 is the fact to keep next to the dollar headline.

Related tables

Senator donations holds the $7,082,198 national occupation total. West Virginia 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. Iowa has a State Senator occupation-state tie that uses a different occupation string.

Questions

How much have Senator donors in West Virginia given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation SENATOR and state West Virginia total $62,301, from 217 contributions and 5 donors. Nationwide, SENATOR-coded receipts are $7,082,198 from 2,443 contributions and 276 donors. West Virginia is about 0.9% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Is Senator the same as State Senator?

No. This hub is the occupation string SENATOR. STATE SENATOR is a different key. State is WV. Five donors produced 217 gifts totaling $62,301. The 5 West Virginia donors used occupation SENATOR and state WV. Filers who wrote STATE SENATOR or U.S. SENATOR may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Senator FEC money is from West Virginia?

About 0.9% of the $7,082,198 occupation total is in this West Virginia join ($62,301). West Virginia also accounts for about 8.9% of contributions (217 of 2,443) and about 1.8% of donors (5 of 276). About 0.9% of dollars from 5 of 276 donors and 217 of 2,443 contributions.

Does this money go to West Virginia candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is West Virginia. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $62,301 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to WV; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.