Salt Lake City, UT political money — 2012 cycle

Salt Lake City, UT and the 2012 election cycle

The join keeps donor city Salt Lake City in Utah and election cycle 2012. The match is $5,834,788 across 193 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $93,960,108. 2012 therefore accounts for 6.2% of Salt Lake City, UT itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $88,125,320 (93.8%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Salt Lake City, UT. That hub mixes 2012 with every other even-year window filed under SALT LAKE CITY. It is also not a restatement of the 2012 election cycle hub, which mixes Salt Lake City, UT with every other donor city in the United States. The 193 rows and $5,834,788 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, abbreviations, 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. 2012 is a presidential FEC cycle: a two-year window that includes a presidential general election. This page does not split the $5,834,788 by office, party, or candidate. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

What the Salt Lake City, UT city total covers

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 $5,834,788 from 2012 and the $88,125,320 from every other cycle in the same city file. Utah campaign-finance pages still mix Salt Lake City with every other city in Utah.

A large city total does not mean 2012 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2012 was small. For Salt Lake City, UT, the city stack is $93,960,108 while this cycle is $5,834,788 (6.2%). 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 2012. Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

The 2012 cycle slice: 193 itemized gifts

The 2012 election cycle is a two-year FEC reporting window labeled by its even year. Inside that window, Salt Lake City, UT donors itemized $5,834,788 on 193 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $30,232 per itemized gift. That mean is an arithmetic average of rows, not a typical donor and not a median. A few large receipts can lift the mean while most rows sit far below it. This page does not publish a median or a unique-donor count.

The national 2012 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Utah still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Salt Lake City × 2012. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures, party coordinated spends, and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 193 itemized rows is a moderate file. The $5,834,788 can still be skewed by a few large gifts without this page naming them. Adjacent pages for Salt Lake City, UT, 2012 election cycle, and Utah campaign finance keep those broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only.

6.2% of citywide FEC dollars

6.2% of $93,960,108 is a notable slice. Other cycles still hold $88,125,320 (93.8%) of the city total. Put another way, about 6.2% of Salt Lake City, UT's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2012, and about 93.8% were not. Those percentages are $5,834,788 divided by $93,960,108 and $88,125,320 divided by $93,960,108. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (6.2%) and row volume (193 itemized gifts) are separate facts. A notable slice of citywide dollars can sit next to a moderate contribution 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 6.2% as Salt Lake City's share of the 2012 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

Itemized rows, not a census of every donor

193 itemized contributions totaling $5,834,788 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 $30,232 uses only the two numbers in the join: $5,834,788 and 193 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 $5,834,788 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee.

What this join is not

This page does not rank Salt Lake City against other cities, does not call 2012 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.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Salt Lake City, UT, the 2012 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 2012 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Salt Lake City, UT total $5,834,788 in the 2012 cycle, across 193 contribution records. The same city label totals $93,960,108 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2012 is 6.2% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Salt Lake City, UT city total only for 2012?

No. The city aggregate of $93,960,108 covers every cycle in the table for SALT LAKE CITY. The 2012 filter is $5,834,788 from 193 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $88,125,320. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2012 slice.

Did Salt Lake City, UT 2012 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 $5,834,788 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 2012?

193 itemized contribution records sum to $5,834,788. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $30,232 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.