Seattle, WA political money — 2010 cycle

The city-cycle join for SEATTLE in 2010

LobbyVault isolates contributor city SEATTLE (WA) crossed with cycle 2010. The isolated total is $228,434 on 260 itemized Schedule A lines. Put beside the city book of $327,126,798, the 2010 window is 0.1% of Seattle, WA itemized individual dollars in this extract. $326,898,364 remains in other even-year tags on the same city key.

A JOIN page exists because two tables meet. Opening only Seattle, WA hides the year. Opening only 2010 election cycle hides the city. Opening Washington campaign finance mixes Seattle, WA with every other Washington city. All FEC ties is the index of other two-dimension pages. None of those four URLs is a duplicate of $228,434.

The packet facts stop at city, state, city-wide total, cycle, cycle total, and contribution count. No donor names appear here because none appear in the packet. No committee list appears here because none appears in the packet. FEC.gov is the source system; LobbyVault is an index of aggregates.

Where Seattle, WA sits in the FEC city field

SEATTLE is an address string, not a metro statistical area. King County, Washington is the usual map location for this key. Nearby labels — Bellevue, Tacoma, and Redmond — stay out unless a filer typed SEATTLE. those nearby strings are separate FEC city keys and are not rolled into SEATTLE. $327,126,798 therefore does not equal “the metro’s political money.”

The all-cycle city total mixes presidential windows and midterm windows. $228,434 is only the 2010 tag. Do not add $228,434 to $327,126,798; the city book already contains this slice. Subtracting is valid: $327,126,798 − $228,434 = $326,898,364 in other cycles. Adding would double-count.

2010 as a two-year FEC window

2010 on an FEC receipt is an even-year cycle code. 2010 is a midterm election cycle. Itemized Seattle, WA dollars inside that code: $228,434. Itemized Seattle, WA rows inside that code: 260. The cycle hub still mixes every U.S. city. This join does not.

Amended filings can move either dollar figure after this snapshot. If the live Seattle, WA hub or the live 2010 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls. This snapshot is not a third disclosure system.

Itemized rows versus unique people

260 itemized contributions totaling $228,434 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 SEATTLE. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Seattle versus other Washington cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $879 uses only the two numbers in the join: $228,434 and 260 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 $228,434 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. Unitemized gifts and Washington state-office filings sit outside $228,434.

Repeat the filters in one sentence: contributor city SEATTLE, state WA, election cycle 2010, itemized dollars $228,434, itemized rows 260, all-cycle city dollars $327,126,798. Any citation that drops the cycle or drops the city is a different claim. 2010 is a midterm election cycle. That label is a two-year FEC window, not a reason the dollars moved and not a ranking of King County, Washington against other places.

State pages still mix other Washington cities

Washington campaign finance still mixes cities. The 2010 cycle still mixes states. Seattle, WA still mixes years. Only this path applies both filters. All FEC ties is the catalog of other filter pairs (city-industry, occupation-cycle, and the rest).

FEC receipts are not USAspending obligations. Do not claim that $228,434 funded federal awards in Washington or in King County, Washington. Different datasets, same country, no cash pipeline in this packet.

Neighboring city strings remain outside this join. Around Seattle, WA, filers also use labels such as Bellevue, Tacoma, and Redmond; those nearby strings are separate FEC city keys and are not rolled into SEATTLE. Those dollars, if any, sit on other city keys. Unitemized federal gifts, independent expenditures, PAC transfers, and Washington state-office filings sit outside $228,434 and outside $327,126,798. FEC.gov is the source; USAspending is a different statute and is not funded by these receipts.

FEC receipts are not federal spending awards

A 0.1% cut can sit next to 260 itemized gifts. 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.

Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle. Quote both $228,434 and $327,126,798 when summarizing Seattle, WA in 2010.

Questions

What is the Seattle, WA FEC total for 2010?

$228,434 in itemized individual contributions, from 260 receipts tagged city SEATTLE and cycle 2010. Source: FEC.gov aggregates on LobbyVault. The all-cycle city figure is $327,126,798, which already includes this $228,434. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and Washington state-office filings sit outside both numbers.

How does 2010 compare with all Seattle, WA cycles combined?

2010 is 0.1% of the Seattle, WA city book: $228,434 out of $327,126,798. The other 99.9% is $326,898,364 in other even-year tags. That is a dollar share inside one city key, not a rank against other cities and not a share of the national 2010 cycle, which is not in these facts.

Are Seattle, WA 2010 gifts limited to Washington candidates?

No. The facts identify donor city, not recipient office or recipient state. Committees anywhere in the FEC system can receive itemized gifts from SEATTLE addresses. $228,434 is not a map of Washington races, and this join does not allocate dollars by party or committee.

What does 260 contributions mean for Seattle, WA in 2010?

It is a count of itemized contribution records that sum to $228,434. Repeat donors produce multiple rows. The mean line is about $879. Unique people, medians, and unitemized gifts are not in this packet, so 260 is not a household or voter census for King County, Washington.