Austin, TX political money — 2010 cycle

How 2010 sits inside Austin, TX

Start with the intersection: $198,317 from 174 itemized rows where city = AUSTIN (TX) and cycle = 2010. The city dimension without the year is $242,363,379. 0.08% of that stack is 2010; 99.9% ($242,165,062) is not. A thin slice of the city stack of Austin's own dollars.

The Austin, TX hub still folds in other even-year windows. The 2010 hub still folds in other cities. This ties slug keeps both. Matching a city string to a cycle tag does not prove intent, ideology, or a Texas recipient committee.

2010 is filed as a midterm two-year FEC cycle without a presidential general. The cycle type does not explain $198,317. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

What $242,363,379 includes

$242,363,379 is every cycle under Austin, TX in this extract, including $198,317 from 2010 and $242,165,062 from the rest. It is not a headcount. Texas pages still show cities besides Austin.

The stored city is Austin, the Texas capital. Round Rock, Cedar Park, and Austin in Minnesota are not rolled into AUSTIN in TX. $ figures on this page use the Texas key only. Keep TX on the key so $242,363,379 is not mixed with a homonym. Stack $242,363,379 and slice $198,317 (0.08%) are different facts. City hub for the unfiltered city; this page for Austin in 2010. Recipients need not be in Austin or in Texas.

FEC cycle 2010 with a Austin filter

A federal cycle is two years. 2010 is the tag, not a January-only sample. Austin, TX in that window: $198,317, 174 records, about $1,140 per record. The mean is dollars divided by rows. No median. No unique-donor count.

National 2010 coverage still lists other cities; Texas coverage still lists other years. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and committee transfers are other tables. 174 itemized rows is a sizable absolute count of receipts for this join. Linked city, cycle, state, and ties pages hold the broader views.

Keep cityTotal and cycleTotal apart. $198,317 is the 2010 cell for Austin, TX: itemized individual contributions in that two-year FEC window only, across 174 records. $242,363,379 is the same city string across every cycle in this extract. Subtracting them leaves $242,165,062 in other even-year windows. Citing $242,363,379 as a 2010 figure mixes the city hub into this join. Citing $198,317 as the lifetime Austin total mixes the join into the city hub. 174 is cycleContributions for 2010 only; the packet has no all-cycle row count, so 174 cannot be turned into a share of citywide gifts. 0.08% is dollars only — $198,317 divided by $242,363,379 — not a share of Texas and not a share of the national 2010 cycle. PAC receipts, independent expenditures, and unitemized gifts are other FEC tables; they are not mixed into $198,317 or $242,363,379. Donor names are not in the packet and are not invented. Source: FEC.gov.

2010 versus other Austin cycles

0.08% = $198,317 / $242,363,379; 99.9% = $242,165,062 / $242,363,379. About 0.08% of Austin, TX itemized individual dollars in this aggregate carry cycle 2010; about 99.9% do not. Those percentages are not shares of Texas, the national 2010 cycle, or eligible voters.

Dollar share 0.08% and row count 174 are not interchangeable. The packet has no all-cycle row total, so a row percentage is not computed. 0.08% is not Austin's share of nationwide 2010 itemized receipts.

Arithmetic mean and missing medians

174 itemized contributions totaling $198,317 is the cell. Repeat gifts and AUSTIN spelling variants can occur. Unique people are not counted. Austin is not ranked against other Texas cities.

$1,140 uses $198,317 and 174 only. Occupation and committee joins are separate. The $198,317 is not listed by recipient. Other city strings in the same metro are other pages.

Source limits and adjacent pages

No ranking of Austin, no wave label for 2010, no proxy for Texas opinion. Contributor city is not campaign city. A TX receipt does not mean the money supported a Texas candidate. Amendments can change $198,317 or $242,363,379. Prefer live hubs if they disagree.

Not in this file: unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, non-individual sources, federal spending awards. See Austin, TX; 2010 election cycle; Texas campaign finance; all FEC ties. Source: FEC.gov.

Questions

What is the 2010 itemized total from Austin, TX?

$198,317 in FEC itemized individual contributions, 174 records. The all-cycle city figure is $242,363,379, so 2010 is 0.08% of that stack. Source: FEC.gov.

Is $242,363,379 the amount Austin gave in 2010?

No. $242,363,379 covers every cycle for AUSTIN in TX. 2010 is $198,317 (174 gifts). Other cycles hold $242,165,062. Use the city hub for the stack and this page for 2010.

Did 2010 gifts from Austin go to Texas campaigns only?

The facts do not allocate recipients. Donor city is Austin, TX. Committees can be anywhere the FEC files. $198,317 is not split by office, party, or committee state.

How should readers treat the 174 contribution count?

As 174 itemized rows summing to $198,317, about $1,140 per row. Not unique donors. Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are excluded. No unique-person total is in the packet.