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Bradford, Brad, who held elected office

Candidate

Bradford, Brad

Bradford, Brad raised $948,342 from 714 contributors across 3 Toronto municipal campaigns, 2018–2023.

Photo: City of Toronto, 2022-2026 council term.

$948,342Total raised
836Contributions
714Contributors
$1,000Median gift
3Campaigns
2/3Won
$24.50Per vote received
Across all campaigns3 campaigns · 2018–2023

Raised by campaign

Each bar is one campaign for one office. Totals are contributions filed with the City Clerk, less any the campaign returned.

$777,026 · 538
2022 · Councillor, Ward 19
$102,166 · 163
2018 (25 Wards) · Councillor, Ward 19
$69,150 · 135

Results

Official results from the City's poll-by-poll releases. Money raised per vote received divides contributions by votes — it is not what the campaign spent, because the archive holds contributions and not expenses.

CampaignOfficeVotesRaisedPer voteOutcome
2023 By-Election for MayorMayor9,254$777,026.00$83.97Defeated9,254 votes$83.97/vote
2022 Municipal ElectionCouncillor W1915,169$102,166.00$6.74Elected15,169 votes$6.74/vote
2018 Municipal Election (25 Wards)Councillor W1914,286$69,150.00$4.84Elected14,286 votes$4.84/vote

Contributor types

Individual, corporate and union money across every campaign.

Every contribution came from an individual — no corporate or union money.

When corporate and union money was allowed

Corporate and union contributions were still legal in the 2006 Toronto election. They were banned for city council and mayoral campaigns starting in 2010.

But that ban did not cover school board trustee campaigns. They kept accepting corporate and union contributions until a province-wide ban took effect for the 2018 election.

Third party advertisers, which were required to register starting in 2018, can still accept corporate and union contributions.

A small number of corporate contributions to council campaigns exists in the database after the ban. Some may have been for goods and services, or improperly recorded. The data doesn't tell us.

This candidate ran for council or mayor only, so any corporate or union money here should fall in 2006.

Largest contributors

Across every campaign. A contributor is identified by their full name and postal code together; 15 of these gave in more than one election. Rows marked “combined” bring together records filed under different spellings or postal codes, matched by hand. Individuals are shown by postal area only; organizations in full.

ContributorPostal areaTotalGiftsCampaigns
Applegath, Craig combined from 3 recordsM4V$4,900.0033
Bradford, ValerieN2P$4,900.0043
Kuswanto, MeiM4E$4,900.0033
Demirov, KostadinM4E$4,700.0043
Moore, LeithM4L$4,700.0033
Bedkowski, HelenM1N$3,700.0022
Ablett, DarrenM4N$3,700.0022
Capern, GordonP1H$3,700.0022
Coletto, DavidK1Y$3,700.0022
Frischkorn, NorbertL5A$3,700.0022
Graham, AndrewM4K$3,700.0022
Hockey, Timothy combined from 2 recordsM5R$3,700.0022

Where the money came from

By forward sortation area — the first three characters of the postal code, which is the finest geography the City publishes for individual donors. Shading is by quantile, so each band holds a fifth of the areas with money: contribution totals are skewed enough that equal dollar intervals would put almost every area in the lightest band.

M1B: $500M1C: $3,350M1E: $1,100M1G: $300M1H: $1,000M1J: $1,000M1K: $2,500M1L: $2,900M1M: $4,500M1N: $8,700M1P: no contributions on recordM1R: no contributions on recordM1S: $500M1T: no contributions on recordM1V: $2,000M1W: no contributions on recordM1X: no contributions on recordM2H: $500M2J: $1,200M2K: $2,600M2L: $17,350M2M: $5,000M2N: $11,850M2P: $12,850M2R: $10,000M3A: $3,950M3B: $14,100M3C: $3,975M3H: $17,200M3J: $500M3K: no contributions on recordM3L: no contributions on recordM3M: no contributions on recordM3N: no contributions on recordM4A: no contributions on recordM4B: $2,400M4C: $13,456M4E: $71,301M4G: $4,400M4H: $2,500M4J: $4,700M4K: $7,050M4L: $32,825M4M: $17,850M4N: $26,350M4P: $2,000M4R: $6,700M4S: $6,250M4T: $15,050M4V: $32,550M4W: $54,350M4X: $4,000M4Y: $9,200M5A: $5,450M5B: $1,700M5C: $5,050M5E: $13,675M5G: $5,450M5H: $11,500M5J: $4,050M5M: $19,850M5N: $9,350M5P: $26,210M5R: $40,500M5S: $12,650M5T: $3,150M5V: $16,050M6A: $1,500M6B: $1,450M6C: $8,450M6E: no contributions on recordM6G: $6,500M6H: $2,750M6J: $11,750M6K: $500M6L: $1,100M6M: $200M6N: $2,500M6P: $1,900M6R: $3,050M6S: $4,600M8V: $9,250M8W: $6,000M8X: $7,700M8Y: $5,000M8Z: $500M9A: $18,500M9B: $3,750M9C: $4,700M9L: $6,000M9M: $500M9N: $2,200M9P: $2,750M9R: $1,000M9V: no contributions on recordM9W: $3,600
Total contributed$200–$1,700$1,700–$3,750$3,750–$6,000$6,000–$13,456$13,456–$71,301none
84 of 96 Toronto postal areas have contributions on record. 1 Toronto code has no shape on the map because nobody lives there, carrying $5,000. Statistics Canada draws only areas with residents, and downtown office towers such as M5X have none. Boundaries adapted from Statistics Canada, 2021 Census cartographic boundary files.

Toronto and beyond

22% of this money came from outside Toronto, which the map above does not cover.

Toronto$739,692.00 · 78.0%
Central Ontario (905)$189,400.00 · 20.0%
Southwestern Ontario$9,850.00 · 1.0%
Eastern Ontario$5,200.00 · 0.5%
Northern Ontario$4,200.00 · 0.4%

Ranked areas

$71,301 · 82
$54,350 · 41
$40,500 · 29
$32,825 · 46
$32,550 · 24
$26,350 · 19
$26,210 · 23
$19,850 · 20
$18,500 · 12
$17,850 · 15
One campaign at a timeFigures below describe a single campaign, not the whole career

When the money came in

Monthly totals for one campaign. Contribution dates exist only from 2018 onward; the 2006–2014 Open Data releases never published them, so earlier campaigns cannot be charted this way.

2023 By-Election for Mayor — Mayor · 7 months of contributions

$0$218k$435kApr 23Jun 23Oct 23Dec 23

Campaign detail

2023 By-Election for Mayor

Mayor

Defeated9,254 votes$83.97/vote

Raised
$777,026.00
Contributions
538
Contributors
526
Median gift
$1,100
Largest
$2,500

2022 Municipal Election

Councillor · Ward 19

Elected15,169 votes$6.74/vote

Raised
$102,166.00
Contributions
163
Contributors
155
Median gift
$500
Largest
$1,926
From the candidate
$2,106

2018 Municipal Election (25 Wards)

Councillor · Ward 19

Elected14,286 votes$4.84/vote

Raised
$69,150.00
Contributions
135
Contributors
121
Median gift
$300
Largest
$1,200
From the candidate
$500
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