Candidate

Ford, Rob

Ford, Rob raised $2,282,750 from 2,736 contributors across 4 Toronto municipal campaigns, 2006–2014.

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$2,282,750Total raised

3,305Contributions

2,736Contributors

$300Median gift

4Campaigns

3/3Won

$4.70Per vote received

Across all campaigns4 campaigns · 2006–2014

Raised by campaign

Each bar is one campaign for one office. Totals are what was filed with the City Clerk, before any contribution returned. Two campaigns in the same year means this candidate left the first race before the nomination deadline and registered for the second — a person may seek only one office at a time, and contributions cannot be moved between campaigns.

2014 · Mayor

$387,648 · 538

2014 · Councillor, Ward 2

$5,157 · 9

2010 · Mayor

$1,862,712 · 2,698

2006 · Councillor, Ward 2

$27,233 · 60

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
2014 Municipal Election	Mayor	—	$387,648.17	—	Dropped out
2014 Municipal Election	Councillor W2	11,629	$5,157.48	$0.44	Elected11,629 votes$0.44/vote
2010 Municipal Election	Mayor	383,501	$1,862,711.84	$4.86	Elected383,501 votes$4.86/vote
2006 Municipal Election	Councillor W2	8,421	$27,232.50	$3.23	Elected8,421 votes$3.23/vote

Contributor types

Individual, corporate and union money across every campaign.

Individual99%$2,266,5503,274 gifts

Corporation0.7%$15,45030 gifts

Trade Union<0.1%$7501 gift

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; 8 of these gave in more than one election. Individuals are shown by postal area only; organizations in full.

Contributor	Postal area	Total	Gifts	Campaigns
Ford, Rob	M9A	$214,096.14	8	1
Martin, Eleanor	M9W	$4,250.00	3	3
Cranston, Jacqueline	M4Y	$3,569.00	11	2
Corke, Lawrence	M9A	$3,500.00	2	2
DeGasperis, Silvio	L4L	$3,500.00	2	2
Ford, Diane	M9P	$3,250.00	2	1
Gazzola, Mark	M8Z	$2,800.00	4	2
Gazzola, Vern	L5C	$2,800.00	2	2
Ford, Doug	M9A	$2,750.00	2	2
Winter, Edward	M9P	$2,650.00	4	2
Adessky, Jim	M5N	$2,500.00	1	1
Anagnostopoulos, Nikolas	M3H	$2,500.00	2	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$184–$3,070$3,070–$7,150$7,150–$10,700$10,700–$18,135$18,135–$310,307none

96 of 96 Toronto postal areas have contributions on record. 7 further Toronto codes carrying $7,284 have 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.