Candidate

Minnan-Wong, Denzil

Minnan-Wong, Denzil raised $214,267 from 346 contributors across 4 Toronto municipal campaigns, 2006–2018.

Photo: City of Toronto, 2018-2022 council term.

$214,267Total raised

386Contributions

346Contributors

$400Median gift

4Campaigns

4/4Won

$5.47Per vote received

Across all campaigns4 campaigns · 2006–2018

Raised by campaign

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

2018 (25 Wards) · Councillor, Ward 16

$109,534 · 145

2014 · Councillor, Ward 34

$45,220 · 109

2010 · Councillor, Ward 34

$20,150 · 60

2006 · Councillor, Ward 34

$39,363 · 72

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
2018 Municipal Election (25 Wards)	Councillor W16	11,128	$109,534.00	$9.84	Elected11,128 votes$9.84/vote
2014 Municipal Election	Councillor W34	11,761	$45,220.00	$3.84	Elected11,761 votes$3.84/vote
2010 Municipal Election	Councillor W34	8,743	$20,150.00	$2.30	Elected8,743 votes$2.30/vote
2006 Municipal Election	Councillor W34	7,567	$39,362.50	$5.20	Elected7,567 votes$5.20/vote

Contributor types

Individual, corporate and union money across every campaign.

Individual: $189,242 (88%)

Corporation: $23,925 (11%)

Trade Union: $1,100 (0.5%)

Individual88% · $189,242 · 342 giftsCorporation11% · $23,925 · 41 giftsTrade Union0.5% · $1,100 · 3 gifts

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; 10 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
Minnan-Wong, Denzil	M3A	$9,158.50	3	3
LIBFELD, MARK	L3R	$1,950.00	2	2
Darvish, Fereydoon (Fred) combined from 2 records	M2L	$1,700.00	2	2
Gerofsky, David	M5N	$1,600.00	2	2
Zordel, Heather	M5J	$1,575.00	4	4
Sekhon, Avtar	L4L	$1,500.00	2	2
Cowie, Mark	M5P	$1,500.00	2	2
Cowie, Michael	M4N	$1,500.00	2	2
Goldring, Blake combined from 3 records	M4R	$1,350.00	3	3
Menkes, Alan combined from 2 records	M2N	$1,275.00	2	2
BERTUCCI, CATERINA	M4N	$1,200.00	1	1
Beveridge, David M	M4W	$1,200.00	1	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$200–$500$500–$1,000$1,000–$1,750$1,750–$3,500$3,500–$13,800none

69 of 96 Toronto postal areas have contributions on record. 2 Toronto codes have no shape on the map because nobody lives there, carrying $950. 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

28% of this money came from outside Toronto, which the map above does not cover.

Toronto$154,058.50 · 71.9%

Central Ontario (905)$58,708.00 · 27.4%

Eastern Ontario$1,225.00 · 0.6%

Southwestern Ontario$275.00 · 0.1%

Ranked areas

$13,800 · 18

$13,209 · 13

$9,008 · 13

$8,900 · 12

$6,425 · 10

$6,025 · 12

$5,775 · 8

$5,000 · 10

$4,600 · 6

$4,475 · 11

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.

2018 Municipal Election (25 Wards) — Councillor W16 · 4 months of contributions

Campaign detail

2018 Municipal Election (25 Wards)

Councillor · Ward 16

Elected11,128 votes$9.84/vote

Raised: $109,534.00
Contributions: 145
Contributors: 145
Median gift: $600
Largest: $3,776
From the candidate: $3,776

2014 Municipal Election

Councillor · Ward 34

Elected11,761 votes$3.84/vote

Raised: $45,220.00
Contributions: 109
Contributors: 109
Median gift: $275
Largest: $3,045
From the candidate: $3,045

2010 Municipal Election

Councillor · Ward 34

Elected8,743 votes$2.30/vote

Raised: $20,150.00
Contributions: 60
Contributors: 60
Median gift: $250
Largest: $750

2006 Municipal Election

Councillor · Ward 34

Elected7,567 votes$5.20/vote

Raised: $39,362.50
Contributions: 72
Contributors: 72
Median gift: $500
Largest: $2,338
From the candidate: $2,338

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