Campaign Cash

Candidate

Rupasinghe, Kevin

Rupasinghe, Kevin raised $175,748 from 331 contributors across 2 Toronto municipal campaigns, 2022–2023.

$175,748Total raised
556Contributions
331Contributors
$206Median gift
2Campaigns
0/2Won
$24.89Per vote received
Across all campaigns2 campaigns · 2022–2023

Raised by campaign

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

$98,778 · 305
2022 · Councillor, Ward 20
$76,970 · 251

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
2023 Councillor Ward 20 By-ElectionCouncillor W203,854$98,777.87$25.63Defeated3,854 votes$25.63/vote
2022 Municipal ElectionCouncillor W203,208$76,969.82$23.99Defeated3,208 votes$23.99/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
Rupasinghe, KevinM1N$8,211.32102
Danielson, JulieM1N$2,400.0022
Habicher, MikeM6H$2,400.0022
Masterson, PaulaM1M$2,400.0032
Parker, ColinM4R$2,400.0022
Reid, HollyM4G$2,400.0022
Schaffter, AlexM6R$2,400.0032
Slater, JeffM4Y$2,400.0032
Spieker, JessM4L$2,400.0022
Wolofsky, GabrielM6G$2,300.0032
Chin, NicholasM1V$2,230.1822
Zeeman, BrantM5S$2,230.1822

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: $150M1C: $604M1E: $200M1G: no contributions on recordM1H: no contributions on recordM1J: $427M1K: $7,447M1L: $12,160M1M: $8,852M1N: $27,003M1P: $2,632M1R: $400M1S: no contributions on recordM1T: no contributions on recordM1V: $2,230M1W: $307M1X: no contributions on recordM2H: $103M2J: $573M2K: no contributions on recordM2L: no contributions on recordM2M: $103M2N: $515M2P: no contributions on recordM2R: no contributions on recordM3A: $131M3B: no contributions on recordM3C: $554M3H: no contributions on recordM3J: no contributions on recordM3K: no contributions on recordM3L: no contributions on recordM3M: no contributions on recordM3N: no contributions on recordM4A: $300M4B: no contributions on recordM4C: $2,417M4E: $503M4G: $2,400M4H: $300M4J: $1,818M4K: $1,918M4L: $4,405M4M: $359M4N: $719M4P: $491M4R: $4,903M4S: $403M4T: $312M4V: $830M4W: no contributions on recordM4X: $714M4Y: $4,732M5A: $3,456M5B: no contributions on recordM5C: $1,133M5E: $350M5G: no contributions on recordM5H: $309M5J: no contributions on recordM5M: $604M5N: no contributions on recordM5P: $2,607M5R: $4,811M5S: $6,759M5T: $562M5V: $4,386M6A: no contributions on recordM6B: no contributions on recordM6C: $2,133M6E: $700M6G: $12,163M6H: $8,721M6J: $4,346M6K: $769M6L: $103M6M: $104M6N: $923M6P: $1,333M6R: $8,925M6S: $3,563M8V: $1,614M8W: no contributions on recordM8X: no contributions on recordM8Y: $300M8Z: no contributions on recordM9A: no contributions on recordM9B: $309M9C: no contributions on recordM9L: no contributions on recordM9M: no contributions on recordM9N: $1,200M9P: no contributions on recordM9R: no contributions on recordM9V: $400M9W: no contributions on record
Total contributed$103–$309$309–$562$562–$1,614$1,614–$4,386$4,386–$27,003none
62 of 96 Toronto postal areas have contributions on record. Boundaries adapted from Statistics Canada, 2021 Census cartographic boundary files.

Toronto and beyond

6% of this money came from outside Toronto, which the map above does not cover.

Toronto$164,503.96 · 93.6%
Eastern Ontario$6,012.95 · 3.4%
Central Ontario (905)$4,714.28 · 2.7%
Southwestern Ontario$516.50 · 0.3%

Ranked areas

$27,003 · 71
$12,163 · 27
$12,160 · 54
$8,925 · 18
$8,852 · 34
$8,721 · 19
$7,447 · 22
$6,759 · 11
$4,903 · 12
$4,811 · 17
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.

2023 Councillor Ward 20 By-Election — Councillor W20 · 5 months of contributions

$0$21k$42kSep 23Oct 23Nov 23Dec 23Jan 24

Campaign detail

2023 Councillor Ward 20 By-Election

Councillor · Ward 20

Defeated3,854 votes$25.63/vote

Raised
$98,777.87
Contributions
305
Contributors
217
Median gift
$208
Largest
$4,209
From the candidate
$5,479
Returned
$300

2022 Municipal Election

Councillor · Ward 20

Defeated3,208 votes$23.99/vote

Raised
$76,969.82
Contributions
251
Contributors
197
Median gift
$206
Largest
$1,200
From the candidate
$2,732
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