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Cressy, Joe, who held elected office

Candidate

Cressy, Joe

Cressy, Joe raised $124,637 from 268 contributors across 2 Toronto municipal campaigns, 2014–2018.

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$124,637Total raised
327Contributions
268Contributors
$250Median gift
2Campaigns
2/2Won
$4.39Per vote received
Across all campaigns2 campaigns · 2014–2018

Raised by campaign

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

2018 (25 Wards) · Councillor, Ward 10
$75,352 · 192
2014 · Councillor, Ward 20
$49,285 · 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
2018 Municipal Election (25 Wards)Councillor W1015,903$75,352.00$4.74Elected15,903 votes$4.74/vote
2014 Municipal ElectionCouncillor W2012,466$49,285.00$3.95Elected12,466 votes$3.95/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; 12 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
Broadbent, Judy combined from 2 recordsM5S$1,950.0022
Campbell, JoanneM5R$1,950.0032
CHIN-LOY, DONETTE M combined from 2 recordsM3B$1,950.0022
Galligan, PatrickM2K$1,950.0022
McCamus, Dave combined from 2 recordsL6L$1,950.0022
MARCHESE, BRUNOM6G$1,825.0032
Cressy, GordonM5R$1,750.0022
Wright, RobertM4T$1,700.0032
Walker, JanetM5J$1,450.0022
CRAWFORD, BEATRICEM4T$1,400.0022
Petcher, JosephineM5R$1,250.0022
Simon, Norman combined from 3 recordsM4R$1,250.0032

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: no contributions on recordM1C: no contributions on recordM1E: no contributions on recordM1G: no contributions on recordM1H: no contributions on recordM1J: $200M1K: no contributions on recordM1L: $550M1M: no contributions on recordM1N: $500M1P: no contributions on recordM1R: no contributions on recordM1S: $500M1T: no contributions on recordM1V: no contributions on recordM1W: no contributions on recordM1X: no contributions on recordM2H: no contributions on recordM2J: $750M2K: $1,950M2L: no contributions on recordM2M: no contributions on recordM2N: $200M2P: no contributions on recordM2R: no contributions on recordM3A: $1,300M3B: $1,950M3C: $150M3H: no contributions on recordM3J: no contributions on recordM3K: no contributions on recordM3L: no contributions on recordM3M: no contributions on recordM3N: no contributions on recordM4A: no contributions on recordM4B: no contributions on recordM4C: no contributions on recordM4E: $150M4G: $800M4H: no contributions on recordM4J: no contributions on recordM4K: $1,200M4L: $750M4M: no contributions on recordM4N: $1,250M4P: $1,650M4R: $500M4S: $500M4T: $5,200M4V: $1,950M4W: $5,450M4X: $1,700M4Y: $1,450M5A: $2,400M5B: no contributions on recordM5C: no contributions on recordM5E: $2,950M5G: $750M5H: no contributions on recordM5J: $4,202M5M: $300M5N: $300M5P: $500M5R: $25,485M5S: $12,000M5T: $8,550M5V: $6,875M6A: no contributions on recordM6B: $750M6C: no contributions on recordM6E: no contributions on recordM6G: $10,475M6H: $1,800M6J: $6,200M6K: no contributions on recordM6L: $200M6M: no contributions on recordM6N: no contributions on recordM6P: $150M6R: $450M6S: $850M8V: $200M8W: no contributions on recordM8X: $400M8Y: $300M8Z: no contributions on recordM9A: $200M9B: no contributions on recordM9C: no contributions on recordM9L: no contributions on recordM9M: no contributions on recordM9N: no contributions on recordM9P: no contributions on recordM9R: no contributions on recordM9V: no contributions on recordM9W: no contributions on record
Total contributed$150–$300$300–$550$550–$1,300$1,300–$2,950$2,950–$25,485none
46 of 96 Toronto postal areas have contributions on record. 1 Toronto code has no shape on the map because nobody lives there, carrying $550. 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

6% of this money came from outside Toronto, which the map above does not cover.

Toronto$117,437.00 · 94.2%
Central Ontario (905)$5,800.00 · 4.7%
Eastern Ontario$1,400.00 · 1.1%

Ranked areas

$25,485 · 69
$12,000 · 29
$10,475 · 31
$8,550 · 25
$6,875 · 21
$6,200 · 18
$5,450 · 10
$5,200 · 13
$4,202 · 13
$2,950 · 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.

2018 Municipal Election (25 Wards) — Councillor W10 · 8 months of contributions

$0$16k$32kMay 18Jul 18Sep 18Nov 18Dec 18

Campaign detail

2018 Municipal Election (25 Wards)

Councillor · Ward 10

Elected15,903 votes$4.74/vote

Raised
$75,352.00
Contributions
192
Contributors
178
Median gift
$250
Largest
$1,200

2014 Municipal Election

Councillor · Ward 20

Elected12,466 votes$3.95/vote

Raised
$49,285.00
Contributions
135
Contributors
130
Median gift
$300
Largest
$750
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