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McConnell, Pam, who held elected office

Candidate

McConnell, Pam

McConnell, Pam raised $118,413 from 287 contributors across 3 Toronto municipal campaigns, 2006–2014.

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$118,413Total raised
437Contributions
287Contributors
$200Median gift
3Campaigns
3/3Won
$3.45Per vote received
Across all campaigns3 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.

2014 · Councillor, Ward 28
$36,464 · 131
2010 · Councillor, Ward 28
$38,199 · 126
2006 · Councillor, Ward 28
$43,750 · 180

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 ElectionCouncillor W2814,047$36,464.00$2.60Elected14,047 votes$2.60/vote
2010 Municipal ElectionCouncillor W2811,883$38,198.50$3.21Elected11,883 votes$3.21/vote
2006 Municipal ElectionCouncillor W288,434$43,750.00$5.19Elected8,434 votes$5.19/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 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; 15 of these gave in more than one election. Individuals are shown by postal area only; organizations in full.

ContributorPostal areaTotalGiftsCampaigns
FENTON, BARRYM5P$2,250.0033
Perlitz, DanielM5A$2,000.0033
Ambrose, JamesM5A$1,500.0022
Bleeman, NathanM6B$1,500.0022
Callahan, StephenM5A$1,500.0022
Cohen, HowardM5B$1,500.0022
Clarke, NickyM5R$1,350.0022
Mazza, PamM5J$1,350.0043
MacDougall, CynthiaM4W$1,300.0033
Mazumdar, PaulineM4X$1,250.0032
Frei, EllenM5E$1,200.0043
Moore, ElizaM5J$1,200.0033

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: $750M1C: $2,250M1E: no contributions on recordM1G: $750M1H: no contributions on recordM1J: $750M1K: $200M1L: no contributions on recordM1M: $600M1N: no contributions on recordM1P: no contributions on recordM1R: $150M1S: no contributions on recordM1T: no contributions on recordM1V: no contributions on recordM1W: no contributions on recordM1X: $900M2H: no contributions on recordM2J: no contributions on recordM2K: $600M2L: $750M2M: no contributions on recordM2N: $1,100M2P: no contributions on recordM2R: no contributions on recordM3A: no contributions on recordM3B: no contributions on recordM3C: no contributions on recordM3H: $225M3J: $200M3K: no contributions on recordM3L: no contributions on recordM3M: no contributions on recordM3N: no contributions on recordM4A: no contributions on recordM4B: no contributions on recordM4C: $400M4E: $850M4G: $1,200M4H: no contributions on recordM4J: $700M4K: $3,800M4L: $175M4M: $600M4N: no contributions on recordM4P: no contributions on recordM4R: $950M4S: $200M4T: $1,500M4V: $2,560M4W: $3,050M4X: $16,025M4Y: $1,500M5A: $28,674M5B: $3,900M5C: $200M5E: $5,850M5G: $700M5H: $1,150M5J: $10,179M5M: $500M5N: $450M5P: $2,250M5R: $4,950M5S: $475M5T: no contributions on recordM5V: $600M6A: $750M6B: $2,250M6C: $750M6E: no contributions on recordM6G: $500M6H: $1,300M6J: $1,400M6K: $1,200M6L: no contributions on recordM6M: $250M6N: no contributions on recordM6P: no contributions on recordM6R: $1,750M6S: $200M8V: no contributions on recordM8W: no contributions on recordM8X: no contributions on recordM8Y: no contributions on recordM8Z: no contributions on recordM9A: no contributions on recordM9B: $200M9C: 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$150–$300$300–$700$700–$1,100$1,100–$2,250$2,250–$28,674none
51 of 96 Toronto postal areas have contributions on record. 1 further Toronto code carrying $300 has 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

4% of this money came from outside Toronto, which the map above does not cover.

Toronto$113,462.50 · 95.8%
Central Ontario (905)$4,550.00 · 3.8%
Eastern Ontario$400.00 · 0.3%

Ranked areas

$28,674 · 111
$16,025 · 65
$10,179 · 41
$5,850 · 27
$4,950 · 13
$3,900 · 12
$3,800 · 16
$3,050 · 10
$2,560 · 11
$2,250 · 3
One campaign at a timeFigures below describe a single campaign, not the whole career

Campaign detail

2014 Municipal Election

Councillor · Ward 28

Elected14,047 votes$2.60/vote

Raised
$36,464.00
Contributions
131
Contributors
119
Median gift
$225
Largest
$750

2010 Municipal Election

Councillor · Ward 28

Elected11,883 votes$3.21/vote

Raised
$38,198.50
Contributions
126
Contributors
114
Median gift
$250
Largest
$750

2006 Municipal Election

Councillor · Ward 28

Elected8,434 votes$5.19/vote

Raised
$43,750.00
Contributions
180
Contributors
147
Median gift
$200
Largest
$750
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