Union Pacific Railroad and the 2012 FEC election cycle

Union Pacific Railroad crossed with 2012

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Union Pacific Railroad and 2012 — sum to $621,496. 1,811 itemized contributions and 209 unique donors produced it. The total is not an official organization disbursement and does not name recipients. Independent expenditures and committee transfers live in other FEC tables.

Neither the Union Pacific Railroad hub nor the 2012 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Two hundred nine donors and 1,811 lines in 2012 sit under the three-word railroad employer string — a high receipts-per-donor cell consistent with payroll-style repeat gifts. Shorter UNION PACIFIC spellings without Railroad remain other keys if stored separately. Surface Transportation Board filings are not this table. UNION PACIFIC, UP RAILROAD, UNION PACIFIC CORP, and generic RAILROAD occupation strings are other keys.

9.9% of the Union Pacific Railroad roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $6,248,507 ($6.2 million). The 2012 slice of $621,496 is about 9.9% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 90.1%. Treating 2012 as the Union Pacific Railroad FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $6,248,507 as the denominator for the 9.9% share. It is not market capitalization, not revenue, and not proof of a multi-year political program. The industry hub is the year index for this string. This tie keeps 2012 from being folded silently into $6,248,507.

1,811 contributions from 209 donors

Dividing $621,496 by 1,811 contributions yields about $343 per itemized gift. Dividing by 209 donors yields about $2,974 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 8.7. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split.

209 unique donors are contributor identities, not a headcount of employees, licensees, or members. Retirees and household members who reuse a workplace or title can appear. Repeat gifts raise the contribution count faster than the donor count. The overlay for Union Pacific Railroad 2012 holds the rows.

2012 as the cycle dimension

The 2012 election cycle hub includes every stored employer for that window. Union Pacific Railroad is one cell in that matrix. This packet does not publish a cycle-wide denominator, so no national share is stated. Open the 2012 election cycle to drop the employer filter and Union Pacific Railroad to drop the year.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $621,496 cell because the cycle is a two-year tag, not a single Tuesday. That mechanical fact is easy to forget when a searcher wants an election-night number. The overlay is where dates become visible. This join publishes the cycle total, the 1,811 contributions, the 209 unique donors, and the 9.9% share of $6,248,507.

Limits of the Union Pacific Railroad × 2012 join

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $621,496. Federal awards in other databases are different datasets. Sharing an employer string and a calendar year does not turn these gifts into contracts or grants. The page is not a rail-transportation NAICS total and not a Union Pacific PAC.

Correlation between an employer or occupation string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 209 donors, and 1,811 contributions. UNION PACIFIC, UP RAILROAD, UNION PACIFIC CORP, and generic RAILROAD occupation strings are other keys. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Citing Union Pacific Railroad and 2012 together

Start with $621,496, then Union Pacific Railroad 2012 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2012 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: Union Pacific Railroad, 2012, $621,496, 1,811 contributions, 209 donors, 9.9% of $6,248,507, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string.

The 9.9% share, the 209-donor count, and the $343 mean gift belong to this intersection. Carry them onto a successor label or a sibling occupation word and they stop being facts from this packet. This prose is a packet snapshot. If a later extract disagrees, FEC.gov and the live overlay control.

Questions

How much did Union Pacific Railroad donors give in 2012?

FEC.gov aggregates show $621,496 in itemized individual contributions for the Union Pacific Railroad grouping in the 2012 cycle, across 1,811 contributions and 209 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $6,248,507 all-cycle figure.

What share of Union Pacific Railroad FEC money is 2012?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $6,248,507. The 2012 cell of $621,496 is about 9.9% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 90.1% on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Union Pacific Railroad hub holds other cycles; the 2012 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Is this Union Pacific Railroad’s PAC or an official account?

No. $621,496 is itemized individual receipts whose employer or occupation text grouped to Union Pacific Railroad. Committee PAC filings and official organization accounts sit outside this rollup unless an individual receipt itself carries the string. The key is not a rail-transportation NAICS total and not a Union Pacific PAC.

Where is the overlay for the Union Pacific Railroad 2012 join?

Open Union Pacific Railroad 2012 for the cycle overlay, Union Pacific Railroad for the grouping hub, and the 2012 election cycle for the year without this employer filter. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. This JSON file names the join; the overlay holds the itemized rows.