Knoxville, TN political money — 2012 cycle

Overlap dollars for Knoxville, TN in 2012

Knoxville, TN in 2012 is a filter, not a story about why money moved. The filtered dollars are $218,707. The filtered rows are 136. The unfiltered city dollars are $76,226,082. FEC.gov publishes the underlying itemized individual contribution file; this page reports the aggregate join only.

0.3% of the Knoxville, TN stack landed in the 2012 tag under this extract. That is $218,707 out of $76,226,082. The other 99.7% — $76,007,375 — carries other cycle labels. Dollar share and row volume are separate facts. This packet has no all-cycle row count, so a row-share percentage is not computed.

2012 is a presidential FEC cycle: a two-year window labeled by its even year that includes a presidential general election. The presidential or midterm label is a ballot calendar, not a finding about Knox County, Tennessee. Committees that received these gifts can file from any state. Donor city is not recipient city.

Geography: Knox County, Tennessee

Map first, then dollars: Knoxville, TN is stored against Knox County, Tennessee. Neighbors include Farragut, Maryville, and Oak Ridge; those nearby strings are separate FEC city keys and are not rolled into KNOXVILLE. The dollar facts remain $218,707 in 2012 and $76,226,082 across cycles. Geography does not change the arithmetic.

Tennessee pages accumulate every city in the state. Do not add $218,707 to a state total from that hub; the state page already contains this city when the same extract is used. The city page already contains this cycle. Only the tie page isolates both filters at once.

Cycle 2012 is not a calendar-year census

FEC.gov cycle 2012 is a presidential FEC cycle: a two-year window labeled by its even year that includes a presidential general election. Knoxville, TN activity inside that window is $218,707 / 136 receipts. Mean about $1,608. The mean is not a typical Knox County, Tennessee household.

State-office campaigns in Tennessee file under state law and sit outside both $218,707 and $76,226,082. Federal itemized individual contributions are the only dollars on this page.

Unitemized gifts sit outside $218,707

Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted from both $218,707 and $76,226,082. Independent expenditures are another table. PAC transfers are another table. Mixing those tables with this join would misstate 2012 activity in Knoxville, TN.

A candidate based in Knoxville can raise from other cities; those receipts have other city keys. Money that left KNOXVILLE addresses in 2012 can support committees anywhere. Donor city ≠ recipient city.

Repeat the filters in one sentence: contributor city KNOXVILLE, state TN, election cycle 2012, itemized dollars $218,707, itemized rows 136, all-cycle city dollars $76,226,082. Any citation that drops the cycle or drops the city is a different claim. 2012 is a presidential election cycle. That label is a two-year FEC window, not a reason the dollars moved and not a ranking of Knox County, Tennessee against other places.

Correlation is not causation

Use Knoxville, TN when the year does not matter. Use 2012 election cycle when the city does not matter. Use Tennessee campaign finance when the question is Tennessee-wide. Use this page when both city and 2012 matter. Use All FEC ties to move to another pair.

The source system is FEC.gov. LobbyVault indexes aggregates. Neither site is a bank of federal awards. USAspending is a different statute and a different table.

Neighboring city strings remain outside this join. Around Knoxville, TN, filers also use labels such as Farragut, Maryville, and Oak Ridge; those nearby strings are separate FEC city keys and are not rolled into KNOXVILLE. Those dollars, if any, sit on other city keys. Unitemized federal gifts, independent expenditures, PAC transfers, and Tennessee state-office filings sit outside $218,707 and outside $76,226,082. FEC.gov is the source; USAspending is a different statute and is not funded by these receipts.

0.3% of the city stack is still one join

Knoxville × 2012 remains $218,707 / 136 / mean $1,608 / city $76,226,082 / share 0.3%. That is the recap. The rest of the page exists to stop those numbers from being pasted onto the wrong hub.

See Knoxville, TN, 2012 election cycle, Tennessee campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Do not invent donor names. Do not claim donations fund federal awards.

Arithmetic that stays inside the packet: $218,707 is 0.3% of $76,226,082; $76,007,375 is the other 99.7%; mean itemized line is about $1,608 ($218,707 ÷ 136). No unique-donor count, median, party split, or committee list is available here. Donor city is not recipient city. If the live Knoxville, TN hub or the live 2012 cycle hub disagrees with this snapshot, the newer FEC extract controls.

Questions

How much did Knoxville, TN donors give in the 2012 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Knoxville, TN total $218,707 in the 2012 cycle, across 136 contribution records. The same city label totals $76,226,082 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2012 is 0.3% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Knoxville, TN city total only for 2012?

No. The city aggregate of $76,226,082 covers every cycle in the table for KNOXVILLE. The 2012 filter is $218,707 from 136 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $76,007,375. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2012 slice.

Did Knoxville, TN 2012 donations stay in Tennessee?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Knoxville, TN; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $218,707 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 Knoxville, TN contributions were itemized in 2012?

136 itemized contribution records sum to $218,707. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,608 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.