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Candidate

Lin, Roland

Lin, Roland raised $149,823 from 282 contributors across 3 Toronto municipal campaigns, 2018–2022.

$149,823Total raised
416Contributions
282Contributors
$300Median gift
3Campaigns
0/3Won
$30.75Per vote received
Across all campaigns3 campaigns · 2018–2022

Raised by campaign

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

2022 · Councillor, Ward 22
$23,946 · 56
$73,782 · 198
2018 (25 Wards) · Councillor, Ward 22
$52,096 · 162

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
2022 Municipal ElectionCouncillor W221,549$23,945.67$15.46Defeated1,549 votes$15.46/vote
2021 Councillor Ward 22 By-ElectionCouncillor W22534$73,781.52$138.17Defeated534 votes$138.17/vote
2018 Municipal Election (25 Wards)Councillor W222,789$52,095.87$18.68Defeated2,789 votes$18.68/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; 15 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
Lin, RolandM1W$5,971.19133
LIN, MEI RONGM1W$3,000.0043
LIN, MINNAM1W$2,689.2663
LI, TIAN DIM1W$2,337.4133
Cheng, SumM1W$2,309.1253
FAN, FENG YUNM1V$2,300.0033
GAO, LANCEM1S$2,000.0022
Lin, Qiu Yu combined from 2 recordsM1V$1,800.0043
LAM, YUK KAMM1W$1,700.0033
Lin, Mei Ying (May)M2J$1,676.0032
Wang, Jiang Bin combined from 2 recordsM2J$1,610.0043
LIN, MEI YINGM1W$1,602.0043

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: no contributions on recordM1K: no contributions on recordM1L: no contributions on recordM1M: no contributions on recordM1N: no contributions on recordM1P: $300M1R: no contributions on recordM1S: $10,501M1T: $600M1V: $17,085M1W: $44,558M1X: $600M2H: $2,700M2J: $7,886M2K: $200M2L: no contributions on recordM2M: no contributions on recordM2N: $3,700M2P: no contributions on recordM2R: no contributions on recordM3A: no contributions on recordM3B: $600M3C: no contributions on recordM3H: 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: no contributions on recordM4G: no contributions on recordM4H: no contributions on recordM4J: no contributions on recordM4K: no contributions on recordM4L: $200M4M: 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: no contributions on recordM4X: no contributions on recordM4Y: no contributions on recordM5A: no contributions on recordM5B: $900M5C: no contributions on recordM5E: no contributions on recordM5G: no contributions on recordM5H: no contributions on recordM5J: no contributions on recordM5M: no contributions on recordM5N: no contributions on recordM5P: no contributions on recordM5R: no contributions on recordM5S: no contributions on recordM5T: $2,100M5V: $1,100M6A: no contributions on recordM6B: no contributions on recordM6C: no contributions on recordM6E: no contributions on recordM6G: no contributions on recordM6H: no contributions on recordM6J: $3,200M6K: no contributions on recordM6L: no contributions on recordM6M: no contributions on recordM6N: no contributions on recordM6P: no contributions on recordM6R: $300M6S: no contributions on recordM8V: no contributions on recordM8W: no contributions on recordM8X: no contributions on recordM8Y: no contributions on recordM8Z: no contributions on recordM9A: no contributions on recordM9B: $600M9C: 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$200–$300$300–$600$600–$2,100$2,100–$7,886$7,886–$44,558none
18 of 96 Toronto postal areas have contributions on record. Boundaries adapted from Statistics Canada, 2021 Census cartographic boundary files.

Toronto and beyond

35% of this money came from outside Toronto, which the map above does not cover.

Toronto$97,130.06 · 64.8%
Central Ontario (905)$51,693.00 · 34.5%
Eastern Ontario$1,000.00 · 0.7%

Ranked areas

$44,558 · 112
$17,085 · 53
$11,600 · 37
$10,501 · 25
$9,705 · 21
$7,886 · 21
$5,100 · 17
$4,888 · 14
$4,100 · 10
$3,700 · 12
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.

2022 Municipal Election — Councillor W22 · 4 months of contributions

$0$6k$12kSep 22Oct 22Nov 22Dec 22

Campaign detail

2022 Municipal Election

Councillor · Ward 22

Defeated1,549 votes$15.46/vote

Raised
$23,945.67
Contributions
56
Contributors
43
Median gift
$300
Largest
$15,000
From the candidate
$1,146
Returned
$16,164

2021 Councillor Ward 22 By-Election

Councillor · Ward 22

Defeated534 votes$138.17/vote

Raised
$73,781.52
Contributions
198
Contributors
183
Median gift
$300
Largest
$4,000
From the candidate
$3,826
Returned
$5,004

2018 Municipal Election (25 Wards)

Councillor · Ward 22

Defeated2,789 votes$18.68/vote

Raised
$52,095.87
Contributions
162
Contributors
156
Median gift
$300
Largest
$10,379
From the candidate
$1,000
Returned
$10,379
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