Why does Arlington, VA have a separate 2014 page?

Because the city hub and the cycle hub answer different questions. Arlington, VA across cycles is $801,865,991. 2014 nationally mixes every donor city. The tie page isolates contributor city ARLINGTON in VA during cycle 2014: $144,767 across 72 itemized receipts.

Can I add $144,767 to the Virginia state total?

Do not add it a second time. Virginia campaign-finance pages already include Arlington when the same extract is used. Double-counting $144,767 inflates the state figure. This join is a filter, not a new pool of money sitting outside the state table.

What does the 2014 cycle tag mean for Arlington?

2014 is a midterm election cycle: a two-year FEC window, not a single calendar year of January gifts. Inside that window, Arlington, VA donors itemized $144,767 on 72 rows. The tag is the Commission’s cycle field on the receipt, not an explanation of motive.

Does this page name Arlington committees or donors?

No. The packet has city, state, cycle, cycle dollars, cycle row count, and citywide dollars. It does not list contributor names, committee IDs, occupations, or parties. Inventing those labels would go beyond FEC.gov aggregates stored here. Use the live hubs for row-level browsing.

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Arlington, VA political money — 2014 cycle

Subtract $144,767 from Arlington, VA's $801,865,991 citywide itemized book and $801,721,224 remains in other cycles. The subtracted piece is the 2014 join: 72 FEC individual contribution records from contributor city ARLINGTON in VA. Figures are FEC.gov aggregates. The subtraction is arithmetic on this extract, not a finding that 2014 was unusually high or low.

Key figures

Arlington, VA donors itemized $144,767 in the 2014 FEC cycle across 72 contributions.
The Arlington, VA city aggregate across cycles is $801,865,991; 2014 is under 0.1% of that total.
This page joins donor city Arlington with election cycle 2014; it is not the city hub or the national cycle hub.
Donor city is not recipient city; the $144,767 is not allocated by office or party here.
Mean itemized gift size is about $2,011 ($144,767 / 72 rows), not a unique-donor average.

Remainder math for Arlington after 2014

$801,865,991 minus $144,767 equals $801,721,224. $144,767 is under 0.1% of the city book; $801,721,224 is 100.0%. Both percentages use the same denominator. They are not shares of Virginia and not shares of the national 2014 cycle. A thin slice of the citywide book describes this pair only.

The 2014 piece still has a row count (72, a modest itemized file) and a mean (about $2,011). 2014 is a midterm election cycle. Calendar class and remainder dollars are separate facts. Neither identifies recipients or donors by name.

What each hub still holds for Arlington, VA

The city hub still holds $801,865,991, including the 2014 slice. The 2014 election cycle hub still holds every city, including Arlington. This tie page holds only the overlap. Reading any one of those three pages as if it were the other two is the error this URL is meant to prevent.

Arlington is an independent county in Virginia, across the Potomac from the District. Arlington, Texas is a different state key; Alexandria and McLean are other Virginia strings. State VA is part of the key. Virginia campaign finance includes this city and every other city in the state; do not stack $144,767 onto that total.

Donor city is not recipient city. A VA address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a Virginia candidate. Party, office, and committee ID are not in this packet.

Omitted money

Unitemized gifts never enter $144,767 or $801,865,991. Independent expenditures never enter them. State-office campaigns never enter them. Federal contract and grant obligations never enter them. All FEC ties lists other LobbyVault joins; none converts FEC receipts into USAspending awards.

City labels are filer-entered. Adjacent suburbs and neighborhood names are other keys. 72 counts lines stored as ARLINGTON in 2014, not a metro total.

No ranking, no motive

This page does not rank Arlington against other cities and does not treat itemized giving as public opinion. Correlation is not causation. Amended filings can revise either dollar figure. If live pages disagree, the newer FEC extract controls.

Source note, restated: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle. Original reports remain on the Commission site. LobbyVault indexes the join so a reader can hold $144,767 for Arlington, VA in 2014 without mistaking it for the $801,865,991 city book. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission filing controls.

Source and next links

Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle. Continue to Arlington, VA, the 2014 election cycle, Virginia campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Operational definition: 72 itemized contributions totaling $144,767 for Arlington, VA in 2014, against $801,865,991 citywide.

Dollar share (under 0.1%) and row volume (72) are separate facts. A thin dollar slice can sit next to a modest itemized 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 under 0.1% as Arlington's share of the 2014 national cycle.

Occupation, industry, and committee cuts of $144,767 are other joins. This city-cycle page does not break the 72 receipts by employer, occupation, party, or recipient. Inventing those breakdowns would go beyond the facts. The only names on this page are the stored city string ARLINGTON, the state VA, and the cycle year 2014.

A candidate who lives in Arlington can raise money from other cities; those gifts are not this join. A candidate who lives elsewhere can raise money from Arlington; those gifts are this join when the contributor city stored ARLINGTON. Residence of the candidate is not a field in this packet. $144,767 is contributor geography in cycle 2014, nothing else.

Operational definition: contributor city ARLINGTON in VA during election cycle 2014 equals $144,767 across 72 itemized individual contribution records. The same city label across every cycle in this extract equals $801,865,991. Subtracting the cycle from the book leaves $801,721,224 in other even-year windows. Those three dollar figures and the row count are the entire numeric inventory for this page. FEC.gov is the source. No donor names, committee IDs, occupation strings, or award recipients appear in the packet, so none are invented in this prose.

Questions

Why does Arlington, VA have a separate 2014 page?: Because the city hub and the cycle hub answer different questions. Arlington, VA across cycles is $801,865,991. 2014 nationally mixes every donor city. The tie page isolates contributor city ARLINGTON in VA during cycle 2014: $144,767 across 72 itemized receipts.
Can I add $144,767 to the Virginia state total?: Do not add it a second time. Virginia campaign-finance pages already include Arlington when the same extract is used. Double-counting $144,767 inflates the state figure. This join is a filter, not a new pool of money sitting outside the state table.
What does the 2014 cycle tag mean for Arlington?: 2014 is a midterm election cycle: a two-year FEC window, not a single calendar year of January gifts. Inside that window, Arlington, VA donors itemized $144,767 on 72 rows. The tag is the Commission’s cycle field on the receipt, not an explanation of motive.
Does this page name Arlington committees or donors?: No. The packet has city, state, cycle, cycle dollars, cycle row count, and citywide dollars. It does not list contributor names, committee IDs, occupations, or parties. Inventing those labels would go beyond FEC.gov aggregates stored here. Use the live hubs for row-level browsing.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.