Candidate

Pasternak, James

Pasternak, James raised $271,136 from 343 contributors across 5 Toronto municipal campaigns, 2006–2022.

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

$271,136Total raised

450Contributions

343Contributors

$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 contributions filed with the City Clerk, less any the campaign 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 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
Jacobs, Paul	M3H	$4,250.00	6	5
Koschitzky, David combined from 2 records	M3H	$3,900.00	4	4
Koschitzky, Henry combined from 2 records	M3H	$3,900.00	4	4
Hofstedter, George	M3H	$3,400.00	4	4
Herzig, Arthur combined from 2 records	M3H	$3,250.00	4	4
Koschitzky, Saul combined from 2 records	M3H	$3,200.00	4	4
Friedman, Ben combined from 2 records	M5M	$2,950.00	3	3
YUNGER, DAVID	M3H	$2,850.00	4	4
Cooper, Richard combined from 2 records	M5P	$2,700.00	3	3
Koschitzky, Julia	M3H	$2,700.00	3	3
Lax, Michael combined from 2 records	M3H	$2,650.00	4	4
Reichmann, Philip combined from 2 records	M6B	$2,500.00	3	3

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