Abilene, TX political money — 2014 cycle

What the Abilene × 2014 overlap is

Two filters produce $184,391. Filter one is donor city ABILENE in TX. Filter two is FEC cycle 2014. 29 itemized rows survive both filters. $17,994,025 is the city dimension with the year filter removed. Divide $184,391 by $17,994,025 and 2014 is 1.0% of the Abilene, TX stack; $17,809,634 (99.0%) sits in other cycles.

The Abilene, TX hub still lists every cycle. The 2014 hub still lists every city. Citing either hub as if it were this page misstates the denominator. 29 contribution records and $184,391 are the intersection only. A city string is an address field, not a map of Texas campaigns. Recipients can file anywhere in the FEC system.

Abilene is stored as ABILENE in Texas; Dallas and other West Texas city strings are other keys. Cycle 2014 is tagged as a midterm window on FEC.gov. Presidential versus midterm is a calendar label on the cycle, not a finding about Abilene turnout or ideology. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold are omitted from $184,391. Independent expenditures and committee transfers are other files. Source: FEC.gov.

What the Abilene city aggregate includes

$17,994,025 is the Abilene, TX city book in this extract — every cycle, every employer string, so long as the city field stored ABILENE. $184,391 is already inside that book. Adding $184,391 to $17,994,025 would double-count the 2014 slice. $17,809,634 is the portion of the city book filed outside 2014.

Texas pages still include other cities. The Abilene hub still includes other years. This join keeps both nouns in the sentence: Abilene, TX and 2014. Abilene is stored as ABILENE in Texas; Dallas and other West Texas city strings are other keys. Donor city is an address on the individual receipt, not the location of the committee and not a Census place recode.

What cycle 2014 contributes to this page

2014 is a midterm even-year FEC cycle. Inside it, Abilene, TX shows 29 itemized individual contribution records totaling $184,391. Mean row size is about $6,358 ($184,391 / 29). That ratio uses only the two join numbers. It is not household income, not a typical check, and not a unique-person average.

The 2014 election-cycle hub mixes Abilene with every other donor city. This page does not. If a citation needs Abilene in 2014, use this tie. If a citation needs all of 2014 nationally, use the cycle hub. If a citation needs all of Abilene across years, use the city hub. Three different denominators.

How large 2014 is inside the Abilene stack

$184,391 ÷ $17,994,025 = 1.0%. $17,809,634 ÷ $17,994,025 = 99.0%. Those identities use the packet's city total and cycle total only. They do not use 29 except as a separate row count. Do not convert 29 into a percentage of citywide rows; the citywide row count is not here.

A 1.0% dollar share means most of the ABILENE book in this extract sits in other cycles ($17,809,634). That is a description of this table, not a claim that 2014 was quiet or loud in Abilene politics. Other cycles are not itemized on this page.

Rows are not unique donors

29 is a contribution-record count. $184,391 is a dollar sum. $6,358 is their ratio. None of those is a unique-donor count. None is a median. None is a party split. The packet did not include those fields, so this page does not publish them.

Omitted from $184,391: unitemized individual gifts, independent expenditures, PAC transfers, and non-individual sources. Omitted from the city comparison: any city other than ABILENE. Omitted from the cycle comparison: any year other than 2014, except as the $17,809,634 complement inside the same city label.

What this join does not prove

Cite the join with both sides: Abilene, TX and the 2014 election cycle. Dropping either side turns $184,391 into a hub number it is not. 29 itemized contributions and a mean near $6,358 stay attached to that pair. $17,994,025 is the city book, not the join.

FEC individual contributions are not USAspending awards. This packet has no obligation dollars. Do not add $184,391 to federal spending in Texas. Campaign receipts and federal awards are different statutes even when both mention Abilene. Open the four internal links: Abilene, TX; 2014 election cycle; Texas campaign finance; all FEC ties.

Questions

How much did Abilene, TX donors give in the 2014 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Abilene, TX total $184,391 in the 2014 cycle, across 29 contribution records. The same city label totals $17,994,025 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2014 is 1.0% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates of itemized individual gifts only.

Is the Abilene, TX city total only for 2014?

No. The city aggregate of $17,994,025 covers every cycle in the table for ABILENE. The 2014 filter is $184,391 from 29 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $17,809,634. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2014 slice only. Unitemized gifts are omitted from both totals.

Did Abilene, TX 2014 donations stay in Texas?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Abilene, TX; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $184,391 by office, state of the committee, or party. An TX city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Texas races or of where the money was spent.

How many Abilene, TX contributions were itemized in 2014?

29 itemized contribution records sum to $184,391. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $6,358 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts and are not invented here.