Candidate

Pasternak, James

Pasternak, James raised $271,136 from 369 contributors across 5 Toronto municipal campaigns, 2006–2022.

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

$271,136Total raised

450Contributions

369Contributors

$500Median gift

5Campaigns

5/5Won

$5.99Per vote received

Across all campaigns5 campaigns · 2006–2022

Raised by campaign

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

2022 · Councillor, Ward 6

$87,322 · 102

2018 (25 Wards) · Councillor, Ward 6

$70,716 · 104

2014 · Councillor, Ward 10

$54,308 · 109

2010 · Councillor, Ward 10

$46,520 · 116

2006 · Toronto District School Board, Ward 5

$12,270 · 19

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
2022 Municipal Election	Councillor W6	12,187	$87,322.00	$7.17	Elected12,187 votes$7.17/vote
2018 Municipal Election (25 Wards)	Councillor W6	11,559	$70,716.00	$6.12	Elected11,559 votes$6.12/vote
2014 Municipal Election	Councillor W10	11,183	$54,308.00	$4.86	Elected11,183 votes$4.86/vote
2010 Municipal Election	Councillor W10	3,159	$46,520.00	$14.73	Elected3,159 votes$14.73/vote
2006 Municipal Election	Toronto District School Board W5	7,146	$12,270.00	$1.72	Elected7,146 votes$1.72/vote

Contributor types

Individual, corporate and union money across every campaign.

Individual99%$267,666445 gifts

Corporation1.3%$3,4705 gifts

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 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. Individuals are shown by postal area only; organizations in full.

Contributor	Postal area	Total	Gifts	Campaigns
Jacobs, Paul	M3H	$4,250.00	6	5
Hofstedter, George	M3H	$3,400.00	4	4
YUNGER, DAVID	M3H	$2,850.00	4	4
Herzig, Arthur	M3H	$2,750.00	3	3
Koschitzky, David	M3H	$2,700.00	3	3
Koschitzky, Henry	M3H	$2,700.00	3	3
Koschitzky, Julia	M3H	$2,700.00	3	3
Schwartz, Israel	M5N	$2,400.00	2	2
WERNER, B	M6B	$2,310.00	3	3
Koschitzky, Saul	M3H	$2,000.00	3	3
Kutner, David	M5M	$2,000.00	3	3
Grosz, Samuel	M5N	$1,950.00	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$200–$350$350–$800$800–$1,550$1,550–$5,100$5,100–$103,882none

46 of 96 Toronto postal areas have contributions on record. Boundaries adapted from Statistics Canada, 2021 Census cartographic boundary files.

Toronto and beyond

9% of this money came from outside Toronto, which the map above does not cover.

Toronto$246,561.00 · 90.9%

Central Ontario (905)$20,825.00 · 7.7%

No postal code on file$3,750.00 · 1.4%

Ranked areas

$103,882 · 172

$21,695 · 42

$19,840 · 40

$15,810 · 25

$10,550 · 18

$8,300 · 9

$7,300 · 10

$6,260 · 8

$5,600 · 8

$5,550 · 5

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

2022 Municipal Election — Councillor W6 · 6 months of contributions