Richmond, VA political money — 2014 cycle

$232,860 at the Richmond, VA × 2014 intersection

At the intersection of Richmond, VA and the 2014 FEC cycle, itemized individual contributions sum to $232,860. The count of those itemized records is 119. Divide the two numbers and the mean line is about $1,957. Keep that ratio in its lane: it is $232,860 divided by 119, not a household survey and not a median gift.

Across cycles, RICHMOND in VA totals $89,411,164. $232,860 is 0.3% of that book; $89,178,304 is the other 99.7%. A small or large share does not grade the city. It only locates this even-year tag inside a multi-cycle stack. Later or earlier cycles for the same city string live on other tie URLs.

2014 is a midterm election cycle. Federal cycles are two-year FEC windows, not a January-to-December census of an independent city in Virginia. National 2014 activity — every city — lives on the cycle hub. Virginia-wide activity lives on the state hub. This page keeps the filter pair.

All-cycle Richmond, VA dollars versus this window

$89,411,164 answers “how much itemized individual money has this city string produced in the extract?” $232,860 answers “how much of that carried cycle 2014?” Those are different questions. 0.3% is the second divided by the first. 99.7% is the rest.

Keep VA on the city name. Richmond in another state would be a different slug and a different dollar stack. Henrico, Chesterfield, and Midlothian illustrate the split: those county and CDP strings are separate FEC city keys and are not rolled into RICHMOND. The Richmond, VA hub remains the all-cycle door; this URL remains the 2014 door.

Presidential versus midterm labeling for 2014

A midterm FEC cycle: a two-year window labeled by its even year, without a presidential general on the ballot. Inside it, Richmond, VA itemized $232,860. Outside it, the same city string still has $89,178,304 in other tags. The midterm label does not allocate $232,860 by presidential versus down-ballot committees; that split is not in the packet.

Two-year windows overlap calendar years. A gift dated in the odd year before 2014 can still carry the 2014 tag. Do not treat $232,860 as “calendar 2014 only.” Treat it as FEC cycle 2014 for city RICHMOND.

Filer-entered city strings

What is out: unitemized federal gifts, independent expenditures, party coordinated expenditures, PAC-to-PAC transfers, and Virginia state-office filings. What is in: itemized federal individual contributions with city RICHMOND and cycle 2014. $232,860 and 119 describe only the in-set.

Filer-entered cities split metros. Henrico, Chesterfield, and Midlothian show the split. those county and CDP strings are separate FEC city keys and are not rolled into RICHMOND. Quote RICHMOND as stored. For PHILA, that stored token is an abbreviation, not a recode of every Philadelphia spelling.

Repeat the filters in one sentence: contributor city RICHMOND, state VA, election cycle 2014, itemized dollars $232,860, itemized rows 119, all-cycle city dollars $89,411,164. Any citation that drops the cycle or drops the city is a different claim. 2014 is a midterm 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.

What the packet leaves out

Four hrefs ship with the packet: /cities/va-richmond/, /election-cycles/2014/, /states/VA/, and /ties/. Those are the only internal destinations used here. Anchors match the packet: Richmond, VA; 2014 election cycle; Virginia campaign finance; All FEC ties.

Read the join as bookkeeping. 0.3% of $89,411,164 is $232,860. 119 lines. Mean about $1,957. Source note: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

Neighboring city strings remain outside this join. Around Richmond, VA, filers also use labels such as Henrico, Chesterfield, and Midlothian; those county and CDP strings are separate FEC city keys and are not rolled into RICHMOND. Those dollars, if any, sit on other city keys. Unitemized federal gifts, independent expenditures, PAC transfers, and Virginia state-office filings sit outside $232,860 and outside $89,411,164. FEC.gov is the source; USAspending is a different statute and is not funded by these receipts.

Use the four adjacent tables

Closed arithmetic: $232,860 + $89,178,304 = $89,411,164. 0.3% + 99.7% = 100% of the city book. The national cycle is a different 100% and is not supplied here.

119 receipts produced the $232,860 addend. Mean about $1,957. Repeat: mean is not median, rows are not people, city is not recipient.

Arithmetic that stays inside the packet: $232,860 is 0.3% of $89,411,164; $89,178,304 is the other 99.7%; mean itemized line is about $1,957 ($232,860 ÷ 119). No unique-donor count, median, party split, or committee list is available here. Donor city is not recipient city. If the live Richmond, VA hub or the live 2014 cycle hub disagrees with this snapshot, the newer FEC extract controls.

Questions

Richmond, VA 2014 donations: how much is itemized at the FEC?

$232,860 across 119 itemized individual contribution records. Citywide across cycles the same string is $89,411,164. Unitemized federal gifts and Virginia state filings are outside both numbers. Source: FEC.gov. 2014 is 0.3% of that city book by dollars. This is the city-cycle join, not a unique-donor census.

Does the $89.4 million Richmond, VA total equal the 2014 cycle?

No. $89.4 million ($89,411,164) is every cycle. 2014 is $232,860 (0.3%). Subtract to get $89,178,304 in other cycles. Adding $232,860 to the city book would double-count this window. Use the city hub for the stack and this tie page for the 2014 slice.

Where did Richmond, VA 2014 contributions go?

This join does not list recipient committees, parties, or offices. Donor city RICHMOND is an address field. Recipients can be anywhere the FEC accepts filings. $232,860 is not allocated in these facts and is not a map of Virginia campaigns.

Is 119 the number of Richmond, VA donors in 2014?

No. 119 is itemized receipts, not unique donors. One person can appear on several lines. Mean about $1,957 per line uses $232,860 ÷ 119. A unique-donor census is not in the packet, and unitemized gifts are omitted. Treat 119 as Schedule A lines for this city string.