Campaign Cash

Candidate

Laforet, John

Laforet, John raised $32,430 from 83 contributors across 2 Toronto municipal campaigns, 2006–2010.

$32,430Total raised
88Contributions
83Contributors
$300Median gift
2Campaigns
0/2Won
$6.04Per vote received
Across all campaigns2 campaigns · 2006–2010

Raised by campaign

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

2010 · Councillor, Ward 43
$27,555 · 72
2006 · Councillor, Ward 43
$4,875 · 16

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
2010 Municipal ElectionCouncillor W434,440$27,555.49$6.21Defeated4,440 votes$6.21/vote
2006 Municipal ElectionCouncillor W43933$4,875.00$5.23Defeated933 votes$5.23/vote

Contributor types

Individual, corporate and union money across every campaign.

Individual99%$32,13087 gifts
Trade Union0.9%$3001 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; 1 of these gave in more than one election. Individuals are shown by postal area only; organizations in full.

ContributorPostal areaTotalGiftsCampaigns
Laforet, JohnM5E$1,515.4911
Laforet, RaylynM5E$1,050.0022
Hawtin, GeorgeM4B$750.0011
Laforet, GaryM3E$750.0011
FARLEY, ANITAM1J$750.0011
Haab, KarlM1E$750.0011
Hume, JeffM9A$750.0011
RAGHURAI, ANNEM1E$750.0011
RAGHURAI, MELISSA R.S.M1E$750.0011
SINGH, GITANGALI D.M1M$750.0011
VONGDARA, SOUVANHM1T$750.0011
WOLOSZCZUK, ANDREAM1E$750.0011

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: $450M1C: $250M1E: $14,665M1G: no contributions on recordM1H: $125M1J: $750M1K: $250M1L: no contributions on recordM1M: $2,450M1N: no contributions on recordM1P: no contributions on recordM1R: no contributions on recordM1S: no contributions on recordM1T: $750M1V: no contributions on recordM1W: no contributions on recordM1X: no contributions on recordM2H: no contributions on recordM2J: no contributions on recordM2K: no contributions on recordM2L: no contributions on recordM2M: no contributions on recordM2N: no contributions on recordM2P: no contributions on recordM2R: no contributions on recordM3A: no contributions on recordM3B: no contributions on recordM3C: $1,200M3H: 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: $950M4C: no contributions on recordM4E: $1,900M4G: no contributions on recordM4H: no contributions on recordM4J: no contributions on recordM4K: no contributions on recordM4L: no contributions on recordM4M: no contributions on recordM4N: no contributions on recordM4P: no contributions on recordM4R: no contributions on recordM4S: no contributions on recordM4T: no contributions on recordM4V: no contributions on recordM4W: $125M4X: $125M4Y: no contributions on recordM5A: no contributions on recordM5B: no contributions on recordM5C: $350M5E: $3,065M5G: no contributions on recordM5H: $125M5J: no contributions on recordM5M: $125M5N: no contributions on recordM5P: no contributions on recordM5R: no contributions on recordM5S: no contributions on recordM5T: no contributions on recordM5V: $200M6A: no contributions on recordM6B: no contributions on recordM6C: no contributions on recordM6E: no contributions on recordM6G: no contributions on recordM6H: no contributions on recordM6J: no contributions on recordM6K: no contributions on recordM6L: no contributions on recordM6M: no contributions on recordM6N: no contributions on recordM6P: no contributions on recordM6R: no contributions on recordM6S: no contributions on recordM8V: no contributions on recordM8W: no contributions on recordM8X: no contributions on recordM8Y: no contributions on recordM8Z: no contributions on recordM9A: $900M9B: 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$125$125–$300$300–$750$750–$1,200$1,200–$14,665none
19 of 96 Toronto postal areas have contributions on record. 2 further Toronto codes carrying $1,050 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.

Toronto and beyond

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

Toronto$29,805.49 · 91.9%
Central Ontario (905)$2,025.00 · 6.2%
Eastern Ontario$250.00 · 0.8%
Southwestern Ontario$200.00 · 0.6%
Northern Ontario$150.00 · 0.5%

Ranked areas

$14,665 · 36
$3,065 · 5
$2,450 · 6
$1,900 · 5
$1,200 · 4
$1,200 · 4
$950 · 2
$900 · 2
$750 · 1
$750 · 1
One campaign at a timeFigures below describe a single campaign, not the whole career

Campaign detail

2010 Municipal Election

Councillor · Ward 43

Defeated4,440 votes$6.21/vote

Raised
$27,555.49
Contributions
72
Contributors
71
Median gift
$300
Largest
$1,515
From the candidate
$1,515

2006 Municipal Election

Councillor · Ward 43

Defeated933 votes$5.23/vote

Raised
$4,875.00
Contributions
16
Contributors
13
Median gift
$250
Largest
$750
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