Memphis, TN political money — 2014 cycle

How Memphis, TN meets the 2014 election cycle

$127,616 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city MEMPHIS with state TN, and election cycle 2014. The match is $127,616 across 134 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $81,045,423. 2014 therefore accounts for 0.16% of Memphis, TN itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $80,917,807 (99.8%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Memphis, TN. That hub mixes 2014 with every other even-year window filed under MEMPHIS. It is also not a restatement of the 2014 election cycle hub, which mixes Memphis, TN with every other donor city. The 134 rows and $127,616 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.

The Memphis, TN side of the join

The city aggregate for Memphis, TN is $81,045,423 in itemized individual contributions. That figure is the running total for this city label across cycles, not a single-year census and not a count of unique residents. It includes the $127,616 from 2014 and the $80,917,807 from every other cycle in the same city file. Tennessee campaign-finance pages still mix Memphis with every other city in TN.

The stored city is Memphis in Shelby County, Tennessee. Nashville and Knoxville are other Tennessee city keys. West Memphis, Arkansas would be a different state code. Keep TN on every sentence that names Memphis. $81,045,423 is the TN key only. A large city total does not mean 2014 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2014 was small. For Memphis, TN, the city stack is $81,045,423 while this cycle is $127,616 (0.16%). Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

The 2014 cycle side for Tennessee filers in Memphis

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2014 cycle is the Commission’s cycle tag on itemized receipts, not a calendar year of January gifts only. 2014 is a midterm election cycle. That calendar label does not explain $127,616. Inside that window, Memphis, TN donors itemized $127,616 on 134 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $952 per itemized gift. That mean is an arithmetic average of rows, not a typical donor and not a median. This page does not publish a median or a unique-donor count.

One hundred thirty-four receipts totaling $127,616 against an $81,045,423 Memphis book is about 0.16% of city dollars. A 2014 midterm cut with 134 lines is a mid-size file. Do not treat it as Memphis turnout or as a ranking against Nashville. The national 2014 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Tennessee still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Memphis × 2014. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted.

2014 inside Memphis’s all-cycle city book

0.16% of $81,045,423 is a small slice of the published city book. The city hub is mostly other even-year windows, totaling $80,917,807. Put another way, about 0.16% of Memphis, TN itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2014, and about 99.8% were not. Those percentages are $127,616 divided by $81,045,423 and $80,917,807 divided by $81,045,423. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.16%) and row volume (134 itemized gifts) are separate facts. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.16% as Memphis’s share of the 2014 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables.

What $127,616 does not measure

134 itemized contributions totaling $127,616 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 MEMPHIS. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Memphis versus other Tennessee cities: this join has one geography and one cycle. Mean gift size of about $952 uses only $127,616 and 134 rows.

$127,616 is itemized federal individual contributions with contributor city MEMPHIS. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold sit outside it. State-office campaigns in Tennessee file under state law and sit outside it. A candidate who lives in Memphis can raise money from other cities; those gifts are not this join. City labels are filer-entered. LobbyVault does not rewrite the city field into a Census place.

Reading Memphis and 2014 without mixing tables

This page does not rank Memphis 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 Memphis, TN hub or the live 2014 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls.

See Memphis, TN, the 2014 election cycle, Tennessee campaign finance, and all FEC ties for the adjacent tables. Dollar figures are FEC itemized individual contribution aggregates. They are not federal spending awards and they do not fund USAspending totals. Source: FEC.gov. Canonical path is /ties/tn-memphis-2014-donations/.

Questions

What is the Memphis, TN × 2014 FEC join total?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Memphis, TN total $127,616 in the 2014 cycle, across 134 contribution records. The same city label totals $81,045,423 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2014 is 0.16% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Memphis, TN city total only for 2014?

No. The city aggregate of $81,045,423 covers every cycle in the table for MEMPHIS. The 2014 filter is $127,616 from 134 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $80,917,807. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2014 slice.

Did Memphis, TN 2014 donations stay in Tennessee?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Memphis, TN; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $127,616 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 Memphis, TN contributions were itemized in 2014?

134 itemized contribution records sum to $127,616. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $952 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.