Bellevue, WA political money — 2012 cycle

Joining donor city Bellevue with cycle 2012

The join keeps donor city Bellevue in Washington and election cycle 2012. The match is $845,511 across 79 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $96,131,734. 2012 therefore accounts for 0.88% of Bellevue, WA itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $95,286,223 (99.1%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Bellevue, WA. That hub mixes 2012 with every other even-year window filed under BELLEVUE. It is also not a restatement of the 2012 election cycle hub, which mixes Bellevue, WA with every other donor city in the United States. The 79 rows and $845,511 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. Bellevue, WA here is the string that survived aggregation as BELLEVUE in WA. 2012 is a presidential FEC cycle: a two-year window that includes a presidential general election. This page does not split the $845,511 by office, party, or candidate. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

Bellevue, WA across every cycle in the aggregate

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 $845,511 from 2012 and the $95,286,223 from every other cycle in the same city file. Washington campaign-finance pages still mix Bellevue with every other city in Washington.

A large city total does not mean 2012 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2012 was small. For Bellevue, WA, the city stack is $96,131,734 while this cycle is $845,511 (0.88%). Use the city hub to see Bellevue, WA without a year filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Bellevue in 2012. Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

2012 as a two-year FEC window

The 2012 election cycle is a two-year FEC reporting window labeled by its even year. Inside that window, Bellevue, WA donors itemized $845,511 on 79 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $10,703 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 Washington still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Bellevue × 2012. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures, party coordinated spends, and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 79 itemized rows is a relatively sparse file. A small number of large gifts can move $845,511 without representing a broad local donor pool. Adjacent pages for Bellevue, WA, 2012 election cycle, and Washington campaign finance keep those broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only.

Share of $96,131,734 sitting in 2012

0.88% of $96,131,734 is a small slice. The city hub is mostly other even-year windows, totaling $95,286,223. Put another way, about 0.88% of Bellevue, WA's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2012, and about 99.1% were not. Those percentages are $845,511 divided by $96,131,734 and $95,286,223 divided by $96,131,734. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.88%) and row volume (79 itemized gifts) are separate facts. A small slice of citywide dollars can sit next to a sparse 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 0.88% as Bellevue's share of the 2012 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

79 contribution records from one city-cycle pair

79 itemized contributions totaling $845,511 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 $10,703 uses only the two numbers in the join: $845,511 and 79 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 $845,511 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee.

Limits of a city-by-cycle table

This page does not rank Bellevue against other cities, does not call 2012 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in Washington. Two columns matched. The city of the contributor is not the city of the campaign. A WA address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a Washington candidate.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Bellevue, WA, the 2012 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.

Questions

How much did Bellevue, WA donors give in the 2012 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Bellevue, WA total $845,511 in the 2012 cycle, across 79 contribution records. The same city label totals $96,131,734 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2012 is 0.88% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Bellevue, WA city total only for 2012?

No. The city aggregate of $96,131,734 covers every cycle in the table for BELLEVUE. The 2012 filter is $845,511 from 79 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $95,286,223. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2012 slice.

Did Bellevue, WA 2012 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 $845,511 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 2012?

79 itemized contribution records sum to $845,511. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $10,703 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.