Ft Worth, TX political money — 2012 cycle

How Ft Worth, TX meets the 2012 election cycle

$301,833 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city FT WORTH with state TX, and election cycle 2012. The match is $301,833 across 173 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $16,004,978. 2012 therefore accounts for 1.9% of Ft Worth, TX itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $15,703,145 (98.1%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Ft Worth, TX. That hub mixes 2012 with every other even-year window filed under FT WORTH. It is also not a restatement of the 2012 election cycle hub, which mixes Ft Worth, TX with every other donor city in the United States. The 173 rows and $301,833 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 and suburb-versus-city choices can split a metro across multiple city pages. Ft Worth, TX here is the string that survived aggregation as FT WORTH in TX. 2012 is a presidential FEC cycle: a two-year window that includes a presidential general election. That calendar fact does not explain why Ft Worth, TX donors itemized $301,833. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

The Ft Worth, TX side of the join

The city aggregate for Ft Worth, TX is $16,004,978 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 $301,833 from 2012 and the $15,703,145 from every other cycle in the same city file. Texas campaign-finance pages still mix Ft Worth with every other city in Texas.

The stored string is FT WORTH in Texas — an abbreviated spelling of Fort Worth, not a recode of DALLAS or FORT WORTH if those strings exist separately. Arlington and Dallas are not rolled into FT WORTH. State TX stays on the citation. $16,004,978 is the TX key only. A large city total does not mean 2012 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2012 was small. For Ft Worth, TX, the city stack is $16,004,978 while this cycle is $301,833 (1.9%). Use the city hub to see Ft Worth, TX without a year filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Ft Worth in 2012. Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

The 2012 cycle side for Texas filers in Ft Worth

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2012 cycle is the Commission's cycle tag on itemized receipts, not a calendar year of January gifts only. Inside that window, Ft Worth, TX donors itemized $301,833 on 173 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,745 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.

The national 2012 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Texas still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Ft Worth × 2012. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 173 itemized rows is a modest file. Adjacent pages for Ft Worth, TX, 2012 election cycle, and Texas campaign finance keep those broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only.

2012 versus the rest of Ft Worth

1.9% of $16,004,978 is a modest slice. The city hub is mostly other even-year windows, totaling $15,703,145. Put another way, about 1.9% of Ft Worth, TX's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2012, and about 98.1% were not. Those percentages are $301,833 divided by $16,004,978 and $15,703,145 divided by $16,004,978. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (1.9%) and row volume (173 itemized gifts) are separate facts. A modest slice of citywide dollars can sit next to a modest 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 1.9% as Ft Worth's share of the 2012 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

Counts, dollars, and what they omit

173 itemized contributions totaling $301,833 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 FT WORTH. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Ft Worth versus other Texas cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,745 uses only the two numbers in the join: $301,833 and 173 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 $301,833 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed FT WORTH is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Ft Worth.

Caveats on a geographic-cycle join

This page does not rank Ft Worth against other cities, does not call 2012 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in Texas. Two columns matched. The city of the contributor is not the city of the campaign. A TX address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a Texas candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Ft Worth, TX hub or the live 2012 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Ft Worth, TX, the 2012 election cycle, Texas 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 Ft Worth, TX donors give in the 2012 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Ft Worth, TX total $301,833 in the 2012 cycle, across 173 contribution records. The same city label totals $16,004,978 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2012 is 1.9% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Ft Worth, TX city total only for 2012?

No. The city aggregate of $16,004,978 covers every cycle in the table for FT WORTH. The 2012 filter is $301,833 from 173 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $15,703,145. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2012 slice.

Did Ft Worth, TX 2012 donations stay in Texas?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Ft Worth, TX; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $301,833 by office, state of the committee, or party. A TX city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Texas races.

How many Ft Worth, TX contributions were itemized in 2012?

173 itemized contribution records sum to $301,833. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,745 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.