Nashville, TN political money — 2010 cycle

2010 receipts from Nashville, TN donors

The join keeps donor city Nashville in Tennessee and election cycle 2010. The match is $430,196 across 316 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $165,206,315. 2010 therefore accounts for 0.26% of Nashville, TN itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $164,776,119 (99.7%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Nashville, TN. That hub mixes 2010 with every other even-year window filed under NASHVILLE. It is also not a restatement of the 2010 election cycle hub, which mixes Nashville, TN with every other donor city in the United States. The 316 rows and $430,196 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.

FEC individual contribution files record the contributor's city as entered on the itemized receipt. Spellings, abbreviations, and suburb-versus-city choices can split a metro across multiple city pages. Nashville, TN here is the string that survived aggregation as NASHVILLE in TN. 2010 is a midterm FEC cycle: a two-year window without a presidential general election. That calendar fact does not explain why Nashville, TN donors itemized $430,196. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

The city hub still mixes other cycles

The city aggregate for Nashville, TN is $165,206,315 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 $430,196 from 2010 and the $164,776,119 from every other cycle in the same city file. Tennessee campaign-finance pages still mix Nashville with every other city in Tennessee.

A large city total does not mean 2010 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2010 was small. For Nashville, TN, the city stack is $165,206,315 while this cycle is $430,196 (0.26%). Use the city hub to see Nashville, TN without a year filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Nashville in 2010. Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

How a midterm cycle is coded at the FEC

The 2010 election cycle is a two-year FEC reporting window labeled by its even year. Inside that window, Nashville, TN donors itemized $430,196 on 316 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,361 per itemized gift. That mean is an arithmetic average of rows, not a typical donor and not a median. A few large receipts can lift the mean while most rows sit far below it. This page does not publish a median or a unique-donor count.

The national 2010 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Tennessee still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Nashville × 2010. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures, party coordinated spends, and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 316 itemized contribution rows is a moderate file. The dollar total can still be skewed by a few large gifts without this page naming them. Adjacent pages for Nashville, TN, 2010 election cycle, and Tennessee campaign finance keep those broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only.

A thin cut of the Nashville stack

0.26% of $165,206,315 is a thin slice. Most of the Nashville, TN aggregate — $164,776,119 — sits in other cycles. Put another way, about 0.26% of Nashville, TN's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2010, and about 99.7% were not. Those percentages are $430,196 divided by $165,206,315 and $164,776,119 divided by $165,206,315. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.26%) and row volume (316 itemized gifts) are separate facts. A thin slice of citywide dollars can sit next to a moderate contribution file; those labels describe this pair, not other cities. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.26% as Nashville's share of the 2010 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

316 contribution records from one city-cycle pair

316 itemized contributions totaling $430,196 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 NASHVILLE. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Nashville versus other Tennessee cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,361 uses only the two numbers in the join: $430,196 and 316 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 $430,196 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee.

Limits of a city-by-cycle table

This page does not rank Nashville against other cities, does not call 2010 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in Tennessee. Two columns matched. The city of the contributor is not the city of the campaign. A TN address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a Tennessee candidate.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Nashville, TN, the 2010 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.

Questions

How much did Nashville, TN donors give in the 2010 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Nashville, TN total $430,196 in the 2010 cycle, across 316 contribution records. The same city label totals $165,206,315 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2010 is 0.26% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Nashville, TN city total only for 2010?

No. The city aggregate of $165,206,315 covers every cycle in the table for NASHVILLE. The 2010 filter is $430,196 from 316 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $164,776,119. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2010 slice.

Did Nashville, TN 2010 donations stay in Tennessee?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Nashville, TN; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $430,196 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 Nashville, TN contributions were itemized in 2010?

316 itemized contribution records sum to $430,196. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,361 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.