Salt Lake City, UT political money — 2010 cycle

Reading Salt Lake City against cycle 2010

$240,519 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city SALT LAKE CITY with state UT, and election cycle 2010. The match is $240,519 across 157 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $93,960,108. 2010 therefore accounts for 0.26% of Salt Lake City, UT itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $93,719,589 (99.74%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Salt Lake City, UT. That hub mixes 2010 with every other even-year window filed under SALT LAKE CITY. It is also not a restatement of the 2010 election cycle hub, which mixes Salt Lake City, UT with every other donor city in the United States. The 157 rows and $240,519 exist only where both filters are true. Correlation is not causation: a city code plus a cycle year does not prove why someone gave.

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. 2010 is a midterm FEC cycle: a two-year window that includes congressional general elections without a presidential contest on the federal calendar. That calendar fact does not explain why Salt Lake City, UT donors itemized $240,519. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

Salt Lake City's city aggregate, without a year filter

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 $240,519 from 2010 and the $93,719,589 from every other cycle in the same city file. State-level UT campaign-finance pages still mix Salt Lake City with every other city in UT.

The stored city is Salt Lake City in Salt Lake County, Utah. Provo, Ogden, and Park City are not rolled into SALT LAKE CITY. State UT stays on the citation so Salt Lake City, UT is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $93,960,108 is the UT key only. For Salt Lake City, UT, the city stack is $93,960,108 while this cycle is $240,519 (0.26%). Use the city hub for Salt Lake City, UT without a year filter; use this tie for Salt Lake City in 2010. Donor city is not recipient city: committees that received these gifts can file anywhere in the FEC system. SALT LAKE CITY is not recoded from a Park City or Sandy city field.

Isolating Salt Lake City inside the 2010 cycle hub

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. Inside that window, Salt Lake City, UT donors itemized $240,519 on 157 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,532 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 2010 hub still includes every other city. State pages for UT still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Salt Lake City × 2010. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 157 itemized contribution records produced $240,519. Mean about $1,532 per row is division, not a median and not a unique-donor average. This URL is the intersection only.

Where $240,519 sits inside $94 million

0.26% of $93,960,108 is a slice of the city book, not a ranking against other cities. Put another way, about 0.26% of Salt Lake City, UT's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2010, and about 99.74% were not. Those percentages are $240,519 divided by $93,960,108 and $93,719,589 divided by $93,960,108. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.26%) and row volume (157 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 0.26% as Salt Lake City's share of the 2010 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts. Salt Lake County is a geography note for readers; it is not a Census population weight on $240,519.

Schedule A city strings and missing tables

157 itemized contributions totaling $240,519 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 UT cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,532 uses only the two numbers in the join: $240,519 and 157 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 page does not break $240,519 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed SALT LAKE CITY is counted; a nearby suburb they typed instead is not recoded into Salt Lake City.

Citing this pair on FEC.gov terms

This page does not rank Salt Lake City against other cities and does not treat itemized giving as public opinion in UT. Two columns matched. Contributor city is not campaign city. An UT address does not mean the money supported an UT candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Salt Lake City, UT hub or the live 2010 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 2010 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 2010 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Salt Lake City, UT total $240,519 in the 2010 cycle, across 157 contribution records. The same city label totals $93,960,108 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2010 is 0.26% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Salt Lake City, UT city total only for 2010?

No. The city aggregate of $93,960,108 covers every cycle in the table for SALT LAKE CITY. The 2010 filter is $240,519 from 157 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $93,719,589. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2010 slice.

Did Salt Lake City, UT 2010 donations stay in UT?

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 $240,519 by office, state of the committee, or party. An UT city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of UT races.

How many Salt Lake City, UT contributions were itemized in 2010?

157 itemized contribution records sum to $240,519. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,532 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.