Midland, TX political money — 2014 cycle

Midland, TX political money in 2014

The join keeps donor city Midland in Texas and election cycle 2014. The match is $312,746 across 232 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $82,334,215. 2014 therefore accounts for 0.38% of Midland, TX itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $82,021,469 (99.6%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Midland, TX. That hub mixes 2014 with every other even-year window filed under MIDLAND. It is also not a restatement of the 2014 election cycle hub, which mixes Midland, TX with every other donor city in the United States. The 232 rows and $312,746 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. Midland, TX here is the string that survived aggregation as MIDLAND in TX. 2014 is a midterm FEC cycle: a two-year window without a presidential general election. That calendar fact does not explain why Midland, TX donors itemized $312,746. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

The Midland, TX side of the join

The city aggregate for Midland, TX is $82,334,215 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 $312,746 from 2014 and the $82,021,469 from every other cycle in the same city file. Texas campaign-finance pages still mix Midland with every other city in Texas.

The stored city sits in Midland County, Texas, in the Permian Basin. Odessa is a different FEC city key and is not rolled into MIDLAND. State TX stays on the citation so Midland, TX is not merged with Midland in another state. $82,334,215 is the TX key only. A large city total does not mean 2014 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2014 was small. For Midland, TX, the city stack is $82,334,215 while this cycle is $312,746 (0.38%). Use the city hub to see Midland, TX without a year filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Midland in 2014. Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

The 2014 cycle side for Texas filers in Midland

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2014 cycle is the Commission's cycle tag on itemized receipts, not a calendar year of January gifts only. Inside that window, Midland, TX donors itemized $312,746 on 232 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,348 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 2014 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Texas still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Midland × 2014. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 232 itemized rows is a moderate file. Adjacent pages for Midland, TX, 2014 election cycle, and Texas campaign finance keep those broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only.

2014 versus the rest of Midland

0.38% of $82,334,215 is a small slice. The city hub is mostly other even-year windows, totaling $82,021,469. Put another way, about 0.38% of Midland, TX's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2014, and about 99.6% were not. Those percentages are $312,746 divided by $82,334,215 and $82,021,469 divided by $82,334,215. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.38%) and row volume (232 itemized gifts) are separate facts. A small slice of citywide dollars can sit next to a moderate 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 0.38% as Midland's share of the 2014 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

Counts, dollars, and what they omit

232 itemized contributions totaling $312,746 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 MIDLAND. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Midland versus other Texas cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,348 uses only the two numbers in the join: $312,746 and 232 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 $312,746 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed MIDLAND is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Midland.

Caveats on a geographic-cycle join

This page does not rank Midland against other cities, does not call 2014 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 Midland, TX hub or the live 2014 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Midland, TX, the 2014 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 Midland, TX donors give in the 2014 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Midland, TX total $312,746 in the 2014 cycle, across 232 contribution records. The same city label totals $82,334,215 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2014 is 0.38% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Midland, TX city total only for 2014?

No. The city aggregate of $82,334,215 covers every cycle in the table for MIDLAND. The 2014 filter is $312,746 from 232 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $82,021,469. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2014 slice.

Did Midland, TX 2014 donations stay in Texas?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Midland, TX; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $312,746 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 Midland, TX contributions were itemized in 2014?

232 itemized contribution records sum to $312,746. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,348 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.