Candidate

Matlow, Josh

Matlow, Josh raised $1,400,622 from 2,079 contributors across 6 Toronto municipal campaigns, 2006–2023.

Photo: City of Toronto, 2022-2026 council term.

$1,400,622Total raised

3,235Contributions

2,079Contributors

$200Median gift

6Campaigns

5/6Won

$11.26Per vote received

Across all campaigns6 campaigns · 2006–2023

Raised by campaign

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

2023 By-Election for Mayor · Mayor

$1,139,323 · 2,515

2022 · Councillor, Ward 12

$81,201 · 226

2018 (25 Wards) · Councillor, Ward 12

$97,661 · 229

2014 · Councillor, Ward 22

$45,126 · 150

2010 · Councillor, Ward 22

$35,462 · 109

2006 · Toronto District School Board, Ward 11

$1,850 · 6

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
2023 By-Election for Mayor	Mayor	35,572	$1,139,322.63	$32.03	Defeated35,572 votes$32.03/vote
2022 Municipal Election	Councillor W12	22,670	$81,200.82	$3.58	Elected22,670 votes$3.58/vote
2018 Municipal Election (25 Wards)	Councillor W12	20,371	$97,660.54	$4.79	Elected20,371 votes$4.79/vote
2014 Municipal Election	Councillor W22	24,347	$45,126.00	$1.85	Elected24,347 votes$1.85/vote
2010 Municipal Election	Councillor W22	11,892	$35,462.00	$2.98	Elected11,892 votes$2.98/vote
2006 Municipal Election	Toronto District School Board W11	9,545	$1,850.00	$0.19	Elected9,545 votes$0.19/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 both council and a school board, which were covered by the two bans at different times.

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.

Contributor	Postal area	Total	Gifts	Campaigns
Matlow, Josh combined from 2 records	M4S	$7,896.29	6	3
Ewing, John combined from 2 records	M5P	$5,450.00	5	4
Powelson, Harriet	M4V	$4,900.00	3	3
Grady, Edward	M4V	$4,500.00	3	3
Keating, Chris combined from 2 records	M4V	$4,463.00	6	3
Nathanielsz, Paul	M5P	$4,450.00	6	5
Chown, Kirby	M4V	$4,000.00	5	3
Reitman, Jill	M5P	$3,700.00	3	2
Alper, Barry	M6J	$3,530.18	2	2
Fenton, Shane	M4V	$3,515.24	3	2
Bourgeois, Gary	M4V	$3,500.00	2	2
Stall, Nathan	M6C	$3,500.00	2	2

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$145–$700$700–$2,500$2,500–$6,450$6,450–$14,997$14,997–$214,290none

90 of 96 Toronto postal areas have contributions on record. 1 Toronto code has no shape on the map because nobody lives there, carrying $750. Statistics Canada draws only areas with residents, and downtown office towers such as M5X have none. Boundaries adapted from Statistics Canada, 2021 Census cartographic boundary files.

Toronto and beyond

10% of this money came from outside Toronto, which the map above does not cover.

Toronto$1,256,631.69 · 89.7%

Central Ontario (905)$129,137.00 · 9.2%

Southwestern Ontario$9,000.00 · 0.6%

Eastern Ontario$5,553.30 · 0.4%

Northern Ontario$300.00 · 0.0%

Ranked areas

$214,290 · 492

$144,068 · 320

$128,203 · 420

$78,849 · 148

$52,675 · 162

$50,190 · 58

$35,659 · 80

$35,595 · 100

$34,334 · 96

$26,600 · 38

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.

Campaign

2023 By-Election for Mayor — Mayor · 10 months of contributions