Money per vote

This is not campaign spending. It's a simple calculation dividing total contributions received by the number of votes. This database does not include any record of how much money each campaign spent. Campaigns that never appeared on a ballot have been removed from this analysis. That's 89 of 1,765 campaigns: 47 where the candidate withdrew before the nomination deadline; 2 for other reasons: Lai, Cynthia, 2022 (died during campaign) and Rawdat, Salah, 2022 (election voided); 22 from the 2018 election under the 47-ward map, which was cancelled when the province cut council to 25 wards in the middle of the campaign; and 18 third party advertisers, who raise money to campaign for or against candidates but are never on the ballot themselves. Candidates who suspended their campaigns — often to endorse another candidate — are still included, but may skew the results. Totals leave out contributions of $100 or less, which the City never itemizes, so every figure here is lower than what the campaign took in.