Waco, TX political money — 2014 cycle

How Waco, TX meets the 2014 election cycle

$133,155 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city WACO with state TX, and election cycle 2014. The match is $133,155 across 61 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $25,504,084. 2014 therefore accounts for 0.52% of Waco, TX itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $25,370,929 (99.5%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Waco, TX. That hub mixes 2014 with every other even-year window filed under WACO. It is also not a restatement of the 2014 election cycle hub, which mixes Waco, TX with every other donor city. The 61 rows and $133,155 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 Waco, TX side of the join

The city aggregate for Waco, TX is $25,504,084 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 $133,155 from 2014 and the $25,370,929 from every other cycle in the same city file. Texas campaign-finance pages still mix Waco with every other city in TX.

The stored city is Waco in McLennan County, Texas. Dallas and Fort Worth are other Texas city fields; they are not parents of WACO. Keep TX on every citation so Waco, TX is not mixed with a same-named string elsewhere. $25,504,084 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 Waco, TX, the city stack is $25,504,084 while this cycle is $133,155 (0.52%). 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 Waco

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. 2014 is a midterm election cycle. That calendar label does not explain $133,155. Inside that window, Waco, TX donors itemized $133,155 on 61 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $2,183 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.

Sixty-one receipts totaling $133,155 is a thinner 2014 line file than many presidential-year city cuts, with a higher dollars-per-line ratio than a high-volume city. About 0.52% of the $25,504,084 Waco book sits in this midterm window. Do not call that a quiet year; it is a share of a published stack. The national 2014 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Texas still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Waco × 2014. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted.

2014 as a slice of Waco’s all-cycle stack

0.52% of $25,504,084 is a small slice of the published city book. The city hub is mostly other even-year windows, totaling $25,370,929. Put another way, about 0.52% of Waco, TX itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2014, and about 99.5% were not. Those percentages are $133,155 divided by $25,504,084 and $25,370,929 divided by $25,504,084. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.52%) and row volume (61 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 0.52% as Waco’s share of the 2014 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables.

What $133,155 does not measure

61 itemized contributions totaling $133,155 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 WACO. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Waco versus other Texas cities: this join has one geography and one cycle. Mean gift size of about $2,183 uses only $133,155 and 61 rows.

$133,155 is itemized federal individual contributions with contributor city WACO. 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 Waco 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 Waco and 2014 without mixing tables

This page does not rank Waco 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. 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 Waco, TX hub or the live 2014 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls.

See Waco, 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. Canonical path is /ties/tx-waco-2014-donations/.

Questions

What is the Waco, TX × 2014 FEC join total?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Waco, TX total $133,155 in the 2014 cycle, across 61 contribution records. The same city label totals $25,504,084 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2014 is 0.52% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Waco, TX city total only for 2014?

No. The city aggregate of $25,504,084 covers every cycle in the table for WACO. The 2014 filter is $133,155 from 61 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $25,370,929. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2014 slice.

Did Waco, TX 2014 donations stay in Texas?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Waco, TX; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $133,155 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 Waco, TX contributions were itemized in 2014?

61 itemized contribution records sum to $133,155. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $2,183 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.