Candidate

Chernos Lin, Rachel

Chernos Lin, Rachel raised $119,601 from 215 contributors across 3 Toronto municipal campaigns, 2018–2024.

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

$119,601Total raised

250Contributions

215Contributors

$300Median gift

3Campaigns

3/3Won

$3.62Per vote received

Across all campaigns3 campaigns · 2018–2024

Raised by campaign

Each bar is one campaign for one office. Totals are what was filed with the City Clerk, before any contribution returned.

2024 Councillor Ward 15 By-Election · Councillor, Ward 15

$78,185 · 190

2022 · Toronto District School Board, Ward 11

$13,355 · 21

2018 (25 Wards) · Toronto District School Board, Ward 11

$28,061 · 39

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.

Campaign	Office	Votes	Raised	Per vote	Outcome
2024 Councillor Ward 15 By-Election	Councillor W15	12,899	$78,185.43	$6.06	Elected12,899 votes$6.06/vote
2022 Municipal Election	Toronto District School Board W11	10,692	$13,354.55	$1.25	Elected10,692 votes$1.25/vote
2018 Municipal Election (25 Wards)	Toronto District School Board W11	9,440	$28,061.17	$2.97	Elected9,440 votes$2.97/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 legal in the 2006 Toronto election and flowed to every office. They were barred from city council and mayoral campaigns from the 2010 election onward.

That ban did not cover school board trustee campaigns, which ran under provincial rules and kept accepting corporate and union money legally through 2014 — 148 such contributions to Toronto District School Board trustees in 2010 and 166 in 2014. A province-wide ban closed that gap for the 2018 election.

Third party advertisers, a category that first existed in 2018, were not covered by either ban and could still accept corporate and union contributions.

A small residue of corporate contributions to council campaigns survives after the ban — 23 in 2010 and 12 in 2014 — which the City publishes as filed and does not verify.

This candidate ran for both council and a school board, which were covered by the two bans at different times.

Largest contributors

Across every campaign. A contributor is identified by their full name and postal code together; 10 of these gave in more than one election. Individuals are shown by postal area only; organizations in full.

Contributor	Postal area	Total	Gifts	Campaigns
Chernos Lin, Rachel	M4G	$7,594.80	4	3
Kortleever, Wilmar	M4G	$5,000.00	1	1
Chernos, Beverley	M4G	$3,600.00	3	3
Chernos, Naomi	M4G	$3,600.00	3	3
Sakotic, George	M4W	$3,400.00	3	3
Bruce, Lesley	M4G	$2,400.00	2	2
Chernos, David	M4G	$2,400.00	2	2
Chernos, Martha	M4G	$2,400.00	2	2
Chernos, Elizabeth	M4G	$2,200.00	2	2
Robertson, Deborah	M4G	$1,500.00	2	2
Lin, Jeff	L9C	$1,494.93	4	3
Chernos, Saul	M5A	$1,200.00	1	1

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.

Total contributed$104–$250$250–$400$400–$521$521–$1,683$1,683–$60,507none

36 of 96 Toronto postal areas have contributions on record. 1 further Toronto code carrying $500 has no polygon to draw: Statistics Canada builds the file from the census, so codes with no residential population are absent — which is what downtown office towers like M5K and M5X are. Boundaries adapted from Statistics Canada, 2021 Census cartographic boundary files.

Toronto and beyond

8% of this money came from outside Toronto, which the map above does not cover.

Toronto$110,475.53 · 92.4%

Central Ontario (905)$5,760.79 · 4.8%

Southwestern Ontario$2,250.00 · 1.9%

Eastern Ontario$1,114.83 · 0.9%

Ranked areas

$60,507 · 104

$14,734 · 29

$4,694 · 11

$4,687 · 13

$4,150 · 6

$3,063 · 11

$2,400 · 2

$1,683 · 7

$1,541 · 2

$1,495 · 4

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.

Campaign

2024 Councillor Ward 15 By-Election — Councillor W15 · 6 months of contributions

Campaign detail

2024 Councillor Ward 15 By-Election

Councillor · Ward 15

Elected12,899 votes$6.06/vote

Raised: $78,185.43
Contributions: 190
Contributors: 183
Median gift: $300
Largest: $1,200
From the candidate: $1,200

2022 Municipal Election

Toronto District School Board · Ward 11

Elected10,692 votes$1.25/vote

Raised: $13,354.55
Contributions: 21
Contributors: 21
Median gift: $258
Largest: $3,072
From the candidate: $3,072

2018 Municipal Election (25 Wards)

Toronto District School Board · Ward 11

Elected9,440 votes$2.97/vote

Raised: $28,061.17
Contributions: 39
Contributors: 35
Median gift: $500
Largest: $5,000
From the candidate: $3,323

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