Chattanooga, TN political money — 2014 cycle

Chattanooga, TN meets the 2014 midterm cycle

$180,300 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city CHATTANOOGA with state TN, and election cycle 2014. The match is $180,300 across 40 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $40,880,211. 2014 therefore accounts for 0.44% of Chattanooga, TN itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $40,699,911 (99.6%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Chattanooga, TN. That hub mixes 2014 with every other even-year window filed under CHATTANOOGA. It is also not a restatement of the 2014 election cycle hub, which mixes Chattanooga, TN with every other donor city in the United States. The 40 rows and $180,300 exist only where both filters are true. Correlation is not causation: a city code plus a cycle year does not prove why someone gave, whom they supported, or whether the recipient was local.

CHATTANOOGA as a Hamilton County address field

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city CHATTANOOGA in Tennessee totals $40.9 million ($40,880,211). $180,300 is 0.44% of that city book. A small share does not mean 2014 was quiet in Chattanooga; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. Do not add $180,300 to $40,880,211; the city book already contains this slice. Subtracting is valid: $40,880,211 − $180,300 = $40,699,911 in other cycles.

The stored city sits in Hamilton County, Tennessee, on the Georgia line. East Ridge, Hixson, and Lookout Mountain are other FEC city strings, not subsets of CHATTANOOGA. State TN stays on the citation so Chattanooga is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $40.9 million is the TN key only. Donor city is not recipient city: committees that received these gifts can file from anywhere in the FEC system.

How 2014 is coded on Chattanooga receipts

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. 2014 is a midterm election cycle: a two-year FEC window labeled by its even year, without a presidential general on the ballot. Inside that window, Chattanooga, TN filers itemized $180,300 on 40 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $4,508 per itemized gift ($180,300 ÷ 40). That mean is an arithmetic average of rows, not a typical resident and not a median. This page does not publish a median or a unique-donor count.

a compact 40-row extract — more than a one-line posting, still a short receipt file for this city string. The national 2014 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Tennessee still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Chattanooga × 2014. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. Tennessee campaign-finance pages already contain this city when the same extract is used; do not add $180,300 into the state hub a second time.

2014 versus other cycles in the Chattanooga book

0.44% of $40,880,211 is the 2014 slice. Put another way, about 0.44% of Chattanooga, TN’s itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2014, and about 99.6% were not. Those percentages are $180,300 divided by $40,880,211 and $40,699,911 divided by $40,880,211. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.44%) and row volume (40 itemized gifts) are separate facts. Georgia cities across the state line are other state keys. A CHATTANOOGA, TN row is not merged with a Georgia city string of a similar place name. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.44% as Chattanooga’s share of the 2014 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

40 itemized gifts are rows, not unique people

40 itemized contributions totaling $180,300 is the operational definition of this page. The FEC file can list the same household on multiple dates, to multiple committees, and under spelling variants of CHATTANOOGA. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Chattanooga versus other Tennessee cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $4,508 uses only the two numbers in the join: $180,300 and 40 rows. It is a trivial ratio, not a finding about wealth, turnout, or ideology. Employer and occupation strings on those receipts are other joins. This city-cycle page does not break the $180,300 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed CHATTANOOGA is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Chattanooga.

Caveats on a Chattanooga–2014 match

This page does not rank Chattanooga against other cities, does not call 2014 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in Tennessee. Two columns matched. A TN address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a Tennessee candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Chattanooga, TN hub or the live 2014 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls. Forty rows with a mid-four-figure mean can hide a few large receipts. This page does not publish a median or a top-gift list.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Chattanooga, TN, the 2014 election cycle, Tennessee campaign finance, and All FEC ties for the adjacent tables. Nashville and Knoxville are other Tennessee city keys. They are not rolled into CHATTANOOGA and are not this join. Dollar figures are FEC itemized individual contribution aggregates. They are not federal spending awards and they do not fund USAspending totals. Source: FEC.gov.

Questions

How much did Chattanooga, TN donors give in the 2014 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Chattanooga, TN total $180,300 in the 2014 cycle, across 40 contribution records. The same city label totals $40,880,211 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2014 is 0.44% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Chattanooga city aggregate only 2014 money?

No. The city aggregate of $40,880,211 covers every cycle in the table for CHATTANOOGA. The 2014 filter is $180,300 from 40 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $40,699,911. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2014 slice.

Do 2014 Chattanooga itemized gifts stay in Tennessee?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Chattanooga, TN; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $180,300 by office, state of the committee, or party. A TN city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Tennessee races.

How many Chattanooga, TN contributions were itemized in 2014?

40 itemized contribution records sum to $180,300. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $4,508 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.