Tyler, TX political money — 2010 cycle

How Tyler, TX meets the 2010 election cycle

$124,620 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city TYLER with state TX, and election cycle 2010. The match is $124,620 across 88 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $22,499,970. 2010 therefore accounts for 0.55% of Tyler, TX itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $22,375,350 (99.4%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Tyler, TX. That hub mixes 2010 with every other even-year window filed under TYLER. It is also not a restatement of the 2010 election cycle hub, which mixes Tyler, TX with every other donor city. The 88 rows and $124,620 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.

The Tyler, TX side of the join

The city aggregate for Tyler, TX is $22,499,970 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 $124,620 from 2010 and the $22,375,350 from every other cycle in the same city file. Texas campaign-finance pages still mix Tyler with every other city in TX.

The stored city is Tyler in Smith County, Texas. Dallas, Houston, and Longview are other Texas city keys. Keep TX so Tyler, TX is not mixed with a same-named place in another state. $22,499,970 is the TX key only. A large city total does not mean 2010 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2010 was small. For Tyler, TX, the city stack is $22,499,970 while this cycle is $124,620 (0.55%). Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

The 2010 cycle side for Texas filers in Tyler

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2010 cycle is the Commission’s cycle tag on itemized receipts, not a calendar year of January gifts only. 2010 is a midterm election cycle. That calendar label does not explain $124,620. Inside that window, Tyler, TX donors itemized $124,620 on 88 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,416 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.

Eighty-eight receipts totaling $124,620 against a $22,499,970 Tyler book is about 0.55% of city dollars. Eighty-eight 2010 midterm lines is a mid-size East Texas file. This page does not rank Tyler against other Texas cities. The national 2010 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Texas still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Tyler × 2010. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted.

2010 inside Tyler’s published city aggregate

0.55% of $22,499,970 is a small slice of the published city book. The city hub is mostly other even-year windows, totaling $22,375,350. Put another way, about 0.55% of Tyler, TX itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2010, and about 99.4% were not. Those percentages are $124,620 divided by $22,499,970 and $22,375,350 divided by $22,499,970. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.55%) and row volume (88 itemized gifts) are separate facts. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.55% as Tyler’s share of the 2010 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables.

What $124,620 does not measure

88 itemized contributions totaling $124,620 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 TYLER. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Tyler versus other Texas cities: this join has one geography and one cycle. Mean gift size of about $1,416 uses only $124,620 and 88 rows.

$124,620 is itemized federal individual contributions with contributor city TYLER. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold sit outside it. State-office campaigns in Texas file under state law and sit outside it. A candidate who lives in Tyler can raise money from other cities; those gifts are not this join. City labels are filer-entered. LobbyVault does not rewrite the city field into a Census place.

Reading Tyler and 2010 without mixing tables

This page does not rank Tyler against other cities, does not call 2010 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in Texas. Two columns matched. 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 Tyler, TX hub or the live 2010 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls.

See Tyler, TX, the 2010 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. Canonical path is /ties/tx-tyler-2010-donations/.

Questions

How much did Tyler, TX donors give in the 2010 cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Tyler, TX total $124,620 in the 2010 cycle, across 88 contribution records. The same city label totals $22,499,970 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2010 is 0.55% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Tyler, TX city total only for 2010?

No. The city aggregate of $22,499,970 covers every cycle in the table for TYLER. The 2010 filter is $124,620 from 88 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $22,375,350. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2010 slice.

Did Tyler, TX 2010 donations stay in Texas?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Tyler, TX; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $124,620 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 Tyler, TX contributions were itemized in 2010?

88 itemized contribution records sum to $124,620. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,416 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.