Bellevue, WA political money — 2010 cycle

How Bellevue, WA meets the 2010 election cycle

$129,825 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city BELLEVUE with state WA, and election cycle 2010. The match is $129,825 across 68 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $96,131,734. 2010 therefore accounts for 0.14% of Bellevue, WA itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $96,001,909 (99.9%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Bellevue, WA. That hub mixes 2010 with every other even-year window filed under BELLEVUE. It is also not a restatement of the 2010 election cycle hub, which mixes Bellevue, WA with every other donor city. The 68 rows and $129,825 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.

The Bellevue, WA side of the join

The city aggregate for Bellevue, WA is $96,131,734 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 $129,825 from 2010 and the $96,001,909 from every other cycle in the same city file. Washington campaign-finance pages still mix Bellevue with every other city in WA.

The stored city is Bellevue in King County, Washington. Seattle, Redmond, and Kirkland are other Washington city keys. Bellevue, Nebraska would be a different state code. Keep WA on every sentence that names the city. $96,131,734 is the WA key only. A large city total does not mean 2010 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2010 was small. For Bellevue, WA, the city stack is $96,131,734 while this cycle is $129,825 (0.14%). Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

The 2010 cycle side for Washington filers in Bellevue

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. 2010 is a midterm election cycle. That calendar label does not explain $129,825. Inside that window, Bellevue, WA donors itemized $129,825 on 68 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,909 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.

Sixty-eight receipts totaling $129,825 against a $96,131,734 Bellevue book is about 0.14% of city dollars. A large Eastside city stack and a modest 2010 midterm cut can sit together. Sixty-eight lines is not a workforce referendum. The national 2010 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Washington still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Bellevue × 2010. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted.

2010 as a small share of Bellevue’s city total

0.14% of $96,131,734 is a small slice of the published city book. The city hub is mostly other even-year windows, totaling $96,001,909. Put another way, about 0.14% of Bellevue, WA itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2010, and about 99.9% were not. Those percentages are $129,825 divided by $96,131,734 and $96,001,909 divided by $96,131,734. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.14%) and row volume (68 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 0.14% as Bellevue’s share of the 2010 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables.

What $129,825 does not measure

68 itemized contributions totaling $129,825 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 BELLEVUE. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Bellevue versus other Washington cities: this join has one geography and one cycle. Mean gift size of about $1,909 uses only $129,825 and 68 rows.

$129,825 is itemized federal individual contributions with contributor city BELLEVUE. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold sit outside it. State-office campaigns in Washington file under state law and sit outside it. A candidate who lives in Bellevue can raise money from other cities; those gifts are not this join. City labels are filer-entered. LobbyVault does not rewrite the city field into a Census place.

Reading Bellevue and 2010 without mixing tables

This page does not rank Bellevue against other cities, does not call 2010 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in Washington. Two columns matched. A WA address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a Washington candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Bellevue, WA hub or the live 2010 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls.

See Bellevue, WA, the 2010 election cycle, Washington 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. Canonical path is /ties/wa-bellevue-2010-donations/.

Questions

How much did Bellevue, WA donors itemize in 2010?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Bellevue, WA total $129,825 in the 2010 cycle, across 68 contribution records. The same city label totals $96,131,734 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2010 is 0.14% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Bellevue, WA city total only for 2010?

No. The city aggregate of $96,131,734 covers every cycle in the table for BELLEVUE. The 2010 filter is $129,825 from 68 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $96,001,909. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2010 slice.

Did Bellevue, WA 2010 donations stay in Washington?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Bellevue, WA; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $129,825 by office, state of the committee, or party. A WA city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Washington races.

How many Bellevue, WA contributions were itemized in 2010?

68 itemized contribution records sum to $129,825. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,909 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.