Austin, TX political money — 2012 cycle

Two FEC columns: AUSTIN and 2012

Column A is city AUSTIN in TX. Column B is cycle 2012. Where both are true, the aggregate is $211,161 and the row count is 223. Column A alone is $242,363,379. 2012 is 0.09% of that city total; $242,152,218 (99.9%) is every other cycle. A thin slice of the city stack.

The Austin, TX hub still mixes cycles. The 2012 hub still mixes cities. This ties path keeps both filters. 223 and $211,161 are intersection facts. They do not show why a gift was made, who received it, or whether the committee was based in Texas. Correlation of city and year is not causation.

2012 is stored as a presidential two-year FEC cycle with a presidential general in the window. That classification does not interpret $211,161. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

Austin, TX without a year filter

$242,363,379 accumulates itemized individual receipts under Austin, TX for all cycles in the extract. Include 2012's $211,161 and exclude it and $242,152,218 remains. The figure is not a census of residents. Texas statewide pages still include cities other than 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. Only the TX key is in $242,363,379. Compare the stack ($242,363,379) with the 2012 cell ($211,161, 0.09%) rather than treating them as the same number. City hub = no year. This page = Austin in 2012. Committees on the other side of the receipt can be in any state.

Inside the 2012 presidential cycle

The Commission tags receipts with a two-year cycle. 2012 is that tag. Austin, TX donors itemized $211,161 on 223 lines, about $947 per line. The mean is not a median and not a person-level average. Unique donors are not reported in these facts.

Leave the national 2012 page for other cities and the Texas page for other years. This file isolates the pair. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and committee transfers are other datasets. 223 itemized rows is a large absolute count of receipts for this join. Linked hubs remain the wider tables.

Keep cityTotal and cycleTotal apart. $211,161 is the 2012 cell for Austin, TX: itemized individual contributions in that two-year FEC window only, across 223 records. $242,363,379 is the same city string across every cycle in this extract. Subtracting them leaves $242,152,218 in other even-year windows. Citing $242,363,379 as a 2012 figure mixes the city hub into this join. Citing $211,161 as the lifetime Austin total mixes the join into the city hub. 223 is cycleContributions for 2012 only; the packet has no all-cycle row count, so 223 cannot be turned into a share of citywide gifts. 0.09% is dollars only — $211,161 divided by $242,363,379 — not a share of Texas and not a share of the national 2012 cycle. PAC receipts, independent expenditures, and unitemized gifts are other FEC tables; they are not mixed into $211,161 or $242,363,379. Donor names are not in the packet and are not invented. Source: FEC.gov.

Dollar share of Austin's stack

$211,161 ÷ $242,363,379 = 0.09%. $242,152,218 ÷ $242,363,379 = 99.9%. So about 0.09% of Austin, TX itemized individual dollars in this aggregate carry the 2012 tag, and about 99.9% do not. Denominators are the city stack, not Texas and not the national 2012 cycle.

0.09% (money) and 223 (rows) are parallel facts. Without an all-cycle row count, a row share cannot be computed. Do not recast 0.09% as Austin's portion of nationwide 2012 receipts; that nationwide figure is not in the packet.

Contribution rows versus people

Operationally this page is 223 itemized contributions totaling $211,161. Repeat appearances and spelling variants of AUSTIN are possible. Unique persons are not derived. Austin is not ordered against other Texas cities here.

$947 = $211,161 / 223. Occupation, industry, and committee dimensions are other ties. This cell does not itemize recipients. Nearby suburbs typed under other city names are not folded into Austin.

Nonpartisan reading of the join

No city ranking, no claim that 2012 was a wave, no stand-in for Texas opinion. Donor city is not recipient city. TX on the receipt is not a Texas-only destination. Amended FEC reports can change the totals. Newer hub extracts win if they conflict.

Not included: unitemized individual gifts, independent expenditures, PAC transfers, federal award dollars. Adjacent tables: Austin, TX; 2012 election cycle; Texas campaign finance; all FEC ties. Source: FEC.gov.

Questions

What did Austin, TX itemize in the 2012 cycle?

$211,161 across 223 itemized individual contribution records. The citywide all-cycle total is $242,363,379, making 2012 0.09% of that stack. Data: FEC.gov aggregates by city and cycle.

Why is the Austin total ($242,363,379) larger than $211,161?

Because $242,363,379 sums every cycle for AUSTIN in TX, while $211,161 is the 2012 filter only (223 gifts). Other cycles account for $242,152,218. The city hub shows the sum; this tie shows 2012.

Is $211,161 from Austin confined to Texas candidates?

These facts do not allocate by candidate or committee state. Donor city is Austin, TX. Recipients can be any FEC-registered committee. A TX city field is not a roster of Texas races.

How many 2012 itemized gifts list Austin, TX?

223 records totaling $211,161, a mean of about $947 per record. Records are not unique donors. Unitemized and independent-expenditure activity is omitted. No unique-person count is available in this packet.