Salt Lake City, UT political money — 2008 cycle

How Salt Lake City, UT meets the 2008 election cycle

$289,651 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city SALT LAKE CITY with state UT, and election cycle 2008. The match is $289,651 across 175 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $93,960,108. 2008 therefore accounts for 0.31% of Salt Lake City, UT itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $93,670,457 (99.7%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Salt Lake City, UT. That hub mixes 2008 with every other even-year window filed under SALT LAKE CITY. It is also not a restatement of the 2008 election cycle hub, which mixes Salt Lake City, UT with every other donor city in the United States. The 175 rows and $289,651 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. Salt Lake City, UT here is the string that survived aggregation as SALT LAKE CITY in UT. 2008 is a presidential FEC cycle: a two-year window that includes a presidential general election. That calendar fact does not explain why Salt Lake City, UT donors itemized $289,651. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

The Salt Lake City, UT side of the join

The city aggregate for Salt Lake City, UT is $93,960,108 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 $289,651 from 2008 and the $93,670,457 from every other cycle in the same city file. Utah campaign-finance pages still mix Salt Lake City with every other city in Utah.

The stored city sits in Salt Lake County, Utah. Provo, Ogden, and Sandy are not rolled into SALT LAKE CITY. State UT stays on the citation so Salt Lake City is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $93,960,108 is the UT key only. A large city total does not mean 2008 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2008 was small. For Salt Lake City, UT, the city stack is $93,960,108 while this cycle is $289,651 (0.31%). Use the city hub to see Salt Lake City, UT without a year filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Salt Lake City in 2008. Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

The 2008 cycle side for Utah filers in Salt Lake City

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2008 cycle is the Commission's cycle tag on itemized receipts, not a calendar year of January gifts only. Inside that window, Salt Lake City, UT donors itemized $289,651 on 175 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,655 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 2008 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Utah still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Salt Lake City × 2008. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 175 itemized rows is a modest file. Adjacent pages for Salt Lake City, UT, 2008 election cycle, and Utah campaign finance keep those broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only.

2008 versus the rest of Salt Lake City

0.31% of $93,960,108 is a small slice. The city hub is mostly other even-year windows, totaling $93,670,457. Put another way, about 0.31% of Salt Lake City, UT's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2008, and about 99.7% were not. Those percentages are $289,651 divided by $93,960,108 and $93,670,457 divided by $93,960,108. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.31%) and row volume (175 itemized gifts) are separate facts. A small 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 0.31% as Salt Lake City's share of the 2008 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

Counts, dollars, and what they omit

175 itemized contributions totaling $289,651 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 SALT LAKE CITY. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Salt Lake City versus other Utah cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,655 uses only the two numbers in the join: $289,651 and 175 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 $289,651 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed SALT LAKE CITY is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Salt Lake City.

Caveats on a geographic-cycle join

This page does not rank Salt Lake City against other cities, does not call 2008 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in Utah. Two columns matched. The city of the contributor is not the city of the campaign. A UT address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a Utah candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Salt Lake City, UT hub or the live 2008 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Salt Lake City, UT, the 2008 election cycle, Utah 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 Salt Lake City, UT donors give in the 2008 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Salt Lake City, UT total $289,651 in the 2008 cycle, across 175 contribution records. The same city label totals $93,960,108 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2008 is 0.31% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Salt Lake City, UT city total only for 2008?

No. The city aggregate of $93,960,108 covers every cycle in the table for SALT LAKE CITY. The 2008 filter is $289,651 from 175 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $93,670,457. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2008 slice.

Did Salt Lake City, UT 2008 donations stay in Utah?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Salt Lake City, UT; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $289,651 by office, state of the committee, or party. A UT city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Utah races.

How many Salt Lake City, UT contributions were itemized in 2008?

175 itemized contribution records sum to $289,651. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,655 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.