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Ford, Doug, who held elected office

Candidate

Ford, Doug

Ford, Doug raised $937,982 from 618 contributors across 2 Toronto municipal campaigns, 2010–2014.

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$937,982Total raised
724Contributions
618Contributors
$300Median gift
2Campaigns
1/2Won
$2.73Per vote received
Across all campaigns2 campaigns · 2010–2014

Raised by campaign

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

2014 · Mayor
$889,897 · 611
2010 · Councillor, Ward 2
$48,085 · 113

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 ElectionMayor331,006$889,897.30$2.69Defeated331,006 votes$2.69/vote
2010 Municipal ElectionCouncillor W212,660$48,085.00$3.80Elected12,660 votes$3.80/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; 9 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
Ford, DougM9A$558,874.7342
Gazzola, Vern combined from 2 recordsL5C$3,400.0032
Ford, RandyM9P$3,250.0022
Pappalardo, VictorM3C$3,250.0022
Visconti, Leonardo combined from 2 recordsM9P$3,250.0022
Collini, Peter combined from 2 recordsM9A$3,100.0022
Zhardanovsky, Roman combined from 2 recordsL4C$2,800.0022
Zuk, Sam combined from 2 recordsM6C$2,800.0022
Gazzola, Sandra combined from 2 recordsM8Z$2,650.0032
Andonov, JennyL4G$2,500.0011
Beddows, CrystalM5J$2,500.0011
chau, clementM2J$2,500.0011

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: $233M1C: $4,528M1E: $2,700M1G: $400M1H: $925M1J: $839M1K: $2,814M1L: $125M1M: $1,900M1N: $740M1P: $868M1R: $500M1S: no contributions on recordM1T: $108M1V: $1,325M1W: $1,000M1X: $125M2H: $3,225M2J: $3,000M2K: $1,025M2L: $1,850M2M: $2,975M2N: $7,269M2P: $550M2R: $325M3A: $1,250M3B: $375M3C: $9,150M3H: $2,000M3J: $2,191M3K: $375M3L: $150M3M: $950M3N: $2,777M4A: $650M4B: $3,206M4C: $1,950M4E: $3,700M4G: $1,549M4H: no contributions on recordM4J: $450M4K: $144M4L: $900M4M: $1,050M4N: $2,050M4P: $250M4R: $1,350M4S: $1,250M4T: $200M4V: $2,500M4W: $5,600M4X: no contributions on recordM4Y: $2,724M5A: $4,250M5B: $250M5C: no contributions on recordM5E: no contributions on recordM5G: no contributions on recordM5H: $1,200M5J: $4,850M5M: $2,950M5N: $500M5P: $4,875M5R: $5,718M5S: $1,300M5T: no contributions on recordM5V: $12,450M6A: $5,100M6B: $5,300M6C: $4,100M6E: $1,600M6G: $310M6H: $1,450M6J: $3,200M6K: no contributions on recordM6L: $425M6M: $3,150M6N: $3,550M6P: $1,400M6R: $1,550M6S: $1,550M8V: $7,686M8W: $255M8X: $5,750M8Y: $3,500M8Z: $11,900M9A: $596,098M9B: $5,581M9C: $2,000M9L: no contributions on recordM9M: $350M9N: $2,100M9P: $19,275M9R: $5,125M9V: $2,325M9W: $12,700
Total contributed$108–$425$425–$1,300$1,300–$2,500$2,500–$4,528$4,528–$596,098none
87 of 96 Toronto postal areas have contributions on record. 1 Toronto code has no shape on the map because nobody lives there, carrying $3,500. Statistics Canada draws only areas with residents, and downtown office towers such as M5X have none. Another 2 codes carrying $725 are not real postal areas at all, most likely typing errors in the filings. Boundaries adapted from Statistics Canada, 2021 Census cartographic boundary files.

Toronto and beyond

11% of this money came from outside Toronto, which the map above does not cover.

Toronto$837,986.92 · 89.3%
Central Ontario (905)$99,705.00 · 10.6%
Southwestern Ontario$290.38 · 0.0%

Ranked areas

$596,098 · 46
$19,275 · 36
$12,700 · 40
$12,450 · 13
$11,900 · 10
$9,150 · 7
$7,686 · 18
$7,269 · 9
$6,700 · 11
$6,650 · 6
One campaign at a timeFigures below describe a single campaign, not the whole career

Campaign detail

2014 Municipal Election

Mayor

Defeated331,006 votes$2.69/vote

Raised
$889,897.30
Contributions
611
Contributors
527
Median gift
$300
Largest
$508,225
From the candidate
$558,725

2010 Municipal Election

Councillor · Ward 2

Elected12,660 votes$3.80/vote

Raised
$48,085.00
Contributions
113
Contributors
109
Median gift
$300
Largest
$750
From the candidate
$150
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