Campaign Cash

Candidate

Saunders, Mark

Saunders, Mark raised $992,630 from 733 contributors across 1 Toronto municipal campaign, 2023.

$992,630Total raised
752Contributions
733Contributors
$1,000Median gift
1Campaign
0/1Won
$15.97Per vote received
Across all campaigns1 campaign · 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.

$992,630 · 752

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 By-Election for MayorMayor62,167$992,629.60$15.97Defeated62,167 votes$15.97/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. Individuals are shown by postal area only; organizations in full.

ContributorPostal areaTotalGiftsCampaigns
Tighe, GavinM5H$2,750.0021
Ahmed, NadeemL5M$2,500.0011
Ajmera, OjusL6A$2,500.0011
Ajmera, PayalL6A$2,500.0011
Ajmera, RobertaL6A$2,500.0011
Ajmera, ShailaL6A$2,500.0011
Ajmera, SohamL6A$2,500.0011
Ajmera, TejusL6A$2,500.0011
Alikakis, VasilikiM4B$2,500.0011
Anari, NahidL4S$2,500.0011
Antonutti, JenniferM9B$2,500.0011
Appel, GailM5R$2,500.0011

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: $285M1C: no contributions on recordM1E: $2,500M1G: no contributions on recordM1H: no contributions on recordM1J: $400M1K: $2,900M1L: $1,000M1M: $6,460M1N: $1,250M1P: no contributions on recordM1R: no contributions on recordM1S: no contributions on recordM1T: no contributions on recordM1V: $5,500M1W: $700M1X: no contributions on recordM2H: no contributions on recordM2J: $3,300M2K: $1,200M2L: $27,100M2M: $1,500M2N: $5,350M2P: $6,158M2R: $2,700M3A: $3,000M3B: $12,000M3C: $2,500M3H: $10,500M3J: $400M3K: $2,000M3L: $1,000M3M: $800M3N: $250M4A: $1,000M4B: $5,000M4C: $1,850M4E: $2,300M4G: $12,200M4H: no contributions on recordM4J: $2,000M4K: $900M4L: $8,750M4M: no contributions on recordM4N: $43,050M4P: $7,000M4R: $4,000M4S: $5,300M4T: $13,700M4V: $25,000M4W: $41,450M4X: $2,750M4Y: $1,274M5A: $20,050M5B: no contributions on recordM5C: $300M5E: $1,250M5G: $1,000M5H: $23,750M5J: $5,500M5M: $12,500M5N: $16,050M5P: $36,150M5R: $29,450M5S: $7,300M5T: $4,000M5V: $11,500M6A: $900M6B: $22,910M6C: $8,750M6E: no contributions on recordM6G: $4,400M6H: $5,250M6J: $5,700M6K: $1,000M6L: $3,250M6M: $2,800M6N: no contributions on recordM6P: $1,000M6R: no contributions on recordM6S: $10,500M8V: $8,500M8W: $5,250M8X: $8,750M8Y: $2,800M8Z: $9,400M9A: $51,400M9B: $16,000M9C: $2,000M9L: $2,200M9M: $2,800M9N: $800M9P: $8,000M9R: $2,500M9V: $450M9W: $800
Total contributed$250–$1,000$1,000–$2,500$2,500–$5,350$5,350–$11,500$11,500–$51,400none
81 of 96 Toronto postal areas have contributions on record. 1 further Toronto code carrying $500 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

36% of this money came from outside Toronto, which the map above does not cover.

Toronto$635,686.50 · 64.0%
Central Ontario (905)$353,043.10 · 35.6%
Eastern Ontario$3,500.00 · 0.4%
Northern Ontario$250.00 · 0.0%
Southwestern Ontario$150.00 · 0.0%

Ranked areas

$51,400 · 29
$43,050 · 25
$41,450 · 32
$39,800 · 23
$36,150 · 28
$29,450 · 21
$27,600 · 16
$27,100 · 23
$25,000 · 18
$23,750 · 16
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 By-Election for Mayor — Mayor · 11 months of contributions

$0$189k$377kApr 23Jun 23Aug 23Oct 23Dec 23Feb 24

Campaign detail

2023 By-Election for Mayor

Mayor

Defeated62,167 votes$15.97/vote

Raised
$992,629.60
Contributions
752
Contributors
733
Median gift
$1,000
Largest
$2,500
From the candidate
$2,500
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