Alexandria, VA political money — 2012 cycle

Overlap dollars for Alexandria, VA in 2012

Alexandria, VA in 2012 is a filter, not a story about why money moved. The filtered dollars are $235,136. The filtered rows are 292. The unfiltered city dollars are $251,483,471. FEC.gov publishes the underlying itemized individual contribution file; this page reports the aggregate join only.

0.1% of the Alexandria, VA stack landed in the 2012 tag under this extract. That is $235,136 out of $251,483,471. The other 99.9% — $251,248,335 — carries other cycle labels. Dollar share and row volume are separate facts. This packet has no all-cycle row count, so a row-share percentage is not computed.

2012 is a presidential FEC cycle: a two-year window labeled by its even year that includes a presidential general election. The presidential or midterm label is a ballot calendar, not a finding about an independent city in Virginia. Committees that received these gifts can file from any state. Donor city is not recipient city.

Geography: an independent city in Virginia

Map first, then dollars: Alexandria, VA is stored against an independent city in Virginia. Neighbors include Arlington, Fairfax, and Alexandria's nearby ZIP strings; those neighbors are separate FEC city keys and are not rolled into ALEXANDRIA. The dollar facts remain $235,136 in 2012 and $251,483,471 across cycles. Geography does not change the arithmetic.

Virginia pages accumulate every city in the state. Do not add $235,136 to a state total from that hub; the state page already contains this city when the same extract is used. The city page already contains this cycle. Only the tie page isolates both filters at once.

Cycle 2012 is not a calendar-year census

FEC.gov cycle 2012 is a presidential FEC cycle: a two-year window labeled by its even year that includes a presidential general election. Alexandria, VA activity inside that window is $235,136 / 292 receipts. Mean about $805. The mean is not a typical an independent city in Virginia household.

State-office campaigns in Virginia file under state law and sit outside both $235,136 and $251,483,471. Federal itemized individual contributions are the only dollars on this page.

Unitemized gifts sit outside $235,136

Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted from both $235,136 and $251,483,471. Independent expenditures are another table. PAC transfers are another table. Mixing those tables with this join would misstate 2012 activity in Alexandria, VA.

A candidate based in Alexandria can raise from other cities; those receipts have other city keys. Money that left ALEXANDRIA addresses in 2012 can support committees anywhere. Donor city ≠ recipient city.

Repeat the filters in one sentence: contributor city ALEXANDRIA, state VA, election cycle 2012, itemized dollars $235,136, itemized rows 292, all-cycle city dollars $251,483,471. Any citation that drops the cycle or drops the city is a different claim. 2012 is a presidential election cycle. That label is a two-year FEC window, not a reason the dollars moved and not a ranking of an independent city in Virginia against other places.

Correlation is not causation

Use Alexandria, VA when the year does not matter. Use 2012 election cycle when the city does not matter. Use Virginia campaign finance when the question is Virginia-wide. Use this page when both city and 2012 matter. Use All FEC ties to move to another pair.

The source system is FEC.gov. LobbyVault indexes aggregates. Neither site is a bank of federal awards. USAspending is a different statute and a different table.

Neighboring city strings remain outside this join. Around Alexandria, VA, filers also use labels such as Arlington, Fairfax, and Alexandria's nearby ZIP strings; those neighbors are separate FEC city keys and are not rolled into ALEXANDRIA. Those dollars, if any, sit on other city keys. Unitemized federal gifts, independent expenditures, PAC transfers, and Virginia state-office filings sit outside $235,136 and outside $251,483,471. FEC.gov is the source; USAspending is a different statute and is not funded by these receipts.

0.1% of the city stack is still one join

Alexandria × 2012 remains $235,136 / 292 / mean $805 / city $251,483,471 / share 0.1%. That is the recap. The rest of the page exists to stop those numbers from being pasted onto the wrong hub.

See Alexandria, VA, 2012 election cycle, Virginia campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Do not invent donor names. Do not claim donations fund federal awards.

Arithmetic that stays inside the packet: $235,136 is 0.1% of $251,483,471; $251,248,335 is the other 99.9%; mean itemized line is about $805 ($235,136 ÷ 292). No unique-donor count, median, party split, or committee list is available here. Donor city is not recipient city. If the live Alexandria, VA hub or the live 2012 cycle hub disagrees with this snapshot, the newer FEC extract controls.

Questions

How much did Alexandria, VA donors give in the 2012 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Alexandria, VA total $235,136 in the 2012 cycle, across 292 contribution records. The same city label totals $251,483,471 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2012 is 0.1% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Alexandria, VA city total only for 2012?

No. The city aggregate of $251,483,471 covers every cycle in the table for ALEXANDRIA. The 2012 filter is $235,136 from 292 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $251,248,335. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2012 slice.

Did Alexandria, VA 2012 donations stay in Virginia?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Alexandria, VA; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $235,136 by office, state of the committee, or party. A VA city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Virginia races.

How many Alexandria, VA contributions were itemized in 2012?

292 itemized contribution records sum to $235,136. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $805 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.