Campaign Cash

Candidate

Cusimano, Gus

Cusimano, Gus raised $108,815 from 279 contributors across 2 Toronto municipal campaigns, 2010–2014.

$108,815Total raised
336Contributions
279Contributors
$300Median gift
2Campaigns
0/2Won
$11.34Per vote received
Across all campaigns2 campaigns · 2010–2014

Raised by campaign

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

2014 · Councillor, Ward 9
$30,425 · 99
2010 · Councillor, Ward 9
$78,390 · 237

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
2014 Municipal ElectionCouncillor W94,230$30,425.00$7.19Defeated4,230 votes$7.19/vote
2010 Municipal ElectionCouncillor W95,363$78,390.00$14.62Defeated5,363 votes$14.62/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 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. Individuals are shown by postal area only; organizations in full.

ContributorPostal areaTotalGiftsCampaigns
Cusimano, MichaelM2N$1,500.0022
Cusimano, SalvatoreM3A$1,500.0032
Cusimano, StevenL8E$1,500.0022
Cosentino, JosephL3X$950.0032
Cusimano, MariaM3A$950.0032
Graham, LouiseM3A$950.0022
Sacchetti, JohnM9A$900.0032
Tonelli, JohnL4L$900.0032
Cusimano, JosephM4A$865.0042
Cusimano, AnthonyM6A$850.0022
Grosso, DinoM6M$800.0032
Schieda, JosephineM3K$800.0032

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: $600M1G: no contributions on recordM1H: no contributions on recordM1J: no contributions on recordM1K: no contributions on recordM1L: $300M1M: $1,050M1N: no contributions on recordM1P: $300M1R: no contributions on recordM1S: no contributions on recordM1T: no contributions on recordM1V: no contributions on recordM1W: no contributions on recordM1X: no contributions on recordM2H: $625M2J: no contributions on recordM2K: no contributions on recordM2L: $200M2M: $1,850M2N: $1,950M2P: no contributions on recordM2R: $800M3A: $5,400M3B: $1,700M3C: no contributions on recordM3H: $2,400M3J: $1,000M3K: $14,500M3L: $900M3M: $5,050M3N: $600M4A: $865M4B: $200M4C: $300M4E: no contributions on recordM4G: no contributions on recordM4H: no contributions on recordM4J: no contributions on recordM4K: no contributions on recordM4L: no contributions on recordM4M: no contributions on recordM4N: $900M4P: $600M4R: no contributions on recordM4S: $600M4T: $1,350M4V: $1,050M4W: $700M4X: no contributions on recordM4Y: no contributions on recordM5A: no contributions on recordM5B: no contributions on recordM5C: $200M5E: $150M5G: no contributions on recordM5H: no contributions on recordM5J: no contributions on recordM5M: $2,100M5N: $700M5P: $950M5R: $1,100M5S: $650M5T: $1,100M5V: no contributions on recordM6A: $1,950M6B: $1,600M6C: $750M6E: $1,000M6G: no contributions on recordM6H: $1,050M6J: $900M6K: $500M6L: $1,150M6M: $1,500M6N: $600M6P: $300M6R: $200M6S: $400M8V: $200M8W: $300M8X: $400M8Y: no contributions on recordM8Z: $250M9A: $3,450M9B: $2,550M9C: $1,050M9L: $600M9M: $300M9N: $200M9P: $1,350M9R: $1,200M9V: $900M9W: $1,350
Total contributed$150–$300$300–$625$625–$1,000$1,000–$1,500$1,500–$14,500none
61 of 96 Toronto postal areas have contributions on record. 1 further Toronto code carrying $300 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

27% of this money came from outside Toronto, which the map above does not cover.

Toronto$79,040.00 · 72.6%
Central Ontario (905)$29,775.00 · 27.4%

Ranked areas

$14,500 · 50
$5,400 · 14
$5,350 · 16
$5,050 · 20
$3,450 · 9
$3,000 · 4
$2,550 · 4
$2,400 · 8
$2,250 · 4
$2,100 · 7
One campaign at a timeFigures below describe a single campaign, not the whole career

Campaign detail

2014 Municipal Election

Councillor · Ward 9

Defeated4,230 votes$7.19/vote

Raised
$30,425.00
Contributions
99
Contributors
97
Median gift
$200
Largest
$750

2010 Municipal Election

Councillor · Ward 9

Defeated5,363 votes$14.62/vote

Raised
$78,390.00
Contributions
237
Contributors
212
Median gift
$300
Largest
$750
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