Campaign Cash

Candidate

Smith, David

Smith, David raised $103,739 from 45 contributors across 4 Toronto municipal campaigns, 2006–2018.

$103,739Total raised
55Contributions
45Contributors
$350Median gift
4Campaigns
2/4Won
$3.64Per vote received
Across all campaigns4 campaigns · 2006–2018

Raised by campaign

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

2018 (25 Wards) · Toronto District School Board, Ward 17
$23,204 · 3
2014 · Toronto District School Board, Ward 19
$43,344 · 4
2010 · Toronto District School Board, Ward 19
$28,821 · 29
2006 · Toronto District School Board, Ward 19
$8,370 · 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.

CampaignOfficeVotesRaisedPer voteOutcome
2018 Municipal Election (25 Wards)Toronto District School Board W177,971$23,203.75$2.91Elected7,971 votes$2.91/vote
2014 Municipal ElectionToronto District School Board W195,265$43,343.58$8.23Defeated5,265 votes$8.23/vote
2010 Municipal ElectionToronto District School Board W197,456$28,821.37$3.87Elected7,456 votes$3.87/vote
2006 Municipal ElectionToronto District School Board W197,828$8,370.00$1.07Defeated7,828 votes$1.07/vote

Contributor types

Individual, corporate and union money across every campaign.

Individual88% · $91,429 · 32 giftsCorporation5.9% · $6,110 · 14 giftsTrade Union6.0% · $6,200 · 9 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 a school board, where corporate and union contributions remained legal through the 2014 election.

Largest contributors

Across every campaign. A contributor is identified by their full name and postal code together; 6 of these gave in more than one election. Individuals are shown by postal area only; organizations in full.

ContributorPostal areaTotalGiftsCampaigns
Smith, DavidM1G$65,331.3322
Smith, DavidM1G$17,852.3741
CUPE - Local 4400M5P 3H1$1,500.0022
Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation - 12M5P 3H1$1,500.0022
Campaign For Public EducationM5P 3H1$1,394.0033
Babic, BorkaM8Z$1,000.0022
Scholars Academy Tutoring Inc.M1P 4Y4$750.0011
The Remmant Corp.M8V 1G2$750.0011
Maintenance & Construction Skills Trades CouncilM1S 5B9$750.0011
Ontario Council of Painters Drywall Industry PromoM3J 3M9$750.0011
Public Progress IncM8V 2G8$750.0011
Rebuild Our School OrdM1S 5B9$750.0011

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: $170M1C: $700M1E: no contributions on recordM1G: $83,184M1H: $150M1J: no contributions on recordM1K: $325M1L: no contributions on recordM1M: $750M1N: no contributions on recordM1P: $950M1R: $150M1S: $2,250M1T: $300M1V: no contributions on recordM1W: no contributions on recordM1X: no contributions on recordM2H: no contributions on recordM2J: no contributions on recordM2K: no contributions on recordM2L: no contributions on recordM2M: no contributions on recordM2N: $170M2P: $650M2R: no contributions on recordM3A: no contributions on recordM3B: no contributions on recordM3C: no contributions on recordM3H: no contributions on recordM3J: $750M3K: $200M3L: no contributions on recordM3M: no contributions on recordM3N: no contributions on recordM4A: no contributions on recordM4B: no contributions on recordM4C: $200M4E: no contributions on recordM4G: no contributions on recordM4H: no contributions on recordM4J: no contributions on recordM4K: no contributions on recordM4L: no contributions on recordM4M: no contributions on recordM4N: no contributions on recordM4P: no contributions on recordM4R: no contributions on recordM4S: no contributions on recordM4T: no contributions on recordM4V: no contributions on recordM4W: no contributions on recordM4X: no contributions on recordM4Y: $300M5A: no contributions on recordM5B: no contributions on recordM5C: no contributions on recordM5E: no contributions on recordM5G: no contributions on recordM5H: no contributions on recordM5J: no contributions on recordM5M: $300M5N: no contributions on recordM5P: $4,610M5R: $500M5S: no contributions on recordM5T: no contributions on recordM5V: no contributions on recordM6A: no contributions on recordM6B: no contributions on recordM6C: no contributions on recordM6E: $800M6G: $600M6H: no contributions on recordM6J: no contributions on recordM6K: no contributions on recordM6L: no contributions on recordM6M: no contributions on recordM6N: $680M6P: $450M6R: no contributions on recordM6S: no contributions on recordM8V: $1,750M8W: no contributions on recordM8X: no contributions on recordM8Y: $300M8Z: $1,000M9A: no contributions on recordM9B: no contributions on recordM9C: no contributions on recordM9L: no contributions on recordM9M: no contributions on recordM9N: no contributions on recordM9P: no contributions on recordM9R: no contributions on recordM9V: no contributions on recordM9W: $500
Total contributed$150–$200$200–$325$325–$650$650–$950$950–$83,184none
27 of 96 Toronto postal areas have contributions on record. 1 further Toronto code carrying $200 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

1% of this money came from outside Toronto, which the map above does not cover.

Toronto$102,888.70 · 99.2%
Central Ontario (905)$700.00 · 0.7%
No postal code on file$150.00 · 0.1%

Ranked areas

$83,184 · 6
$4,610 · 8
$2,250 · 3
$1,750 · 3
$1,000 · 2
$950 · 2
$800 · 2
$750 · 2
$750 · 1
$700 · 2
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) — Toronto District School Board W17 · 2 months of contributions

$0$11k$23kOct 18Dec 18

Campaign detail

2018 Municipal Election (25 Wards)

Toronto District School Board · Ward 17

Elected7,971 votes$2.91/vote

Raised
$23,203.75
Contributions
3
Contributors
3
Median gift
$300
Largest
$22,704
From the candidate
$22,704

2014 Municipal Election

Toronto District School Board · Ward 19

Defeated5,265 votes$8.23/vote

Raised
$43,343.58
Contributions
4
Contributors
4
Median gift
$283
Largest
$42,628
From the candidate
$42,628

2010 Municipal Election

Toronto District School Board · Ward 19

Elected7,456 votes$3.87/vote

Raised
$28,821.37
Contributions
29
Contributors
26
Median gift
$450
Largest
$11,152
From the candidate
$17,852

2006 Municipal Election

Toronto District School Board · Ward 19

Defeated7,828 votes$1.07/vote

Raised
$8,370.00
Contributions
19
Contributors
19
Median gift
$300
Largest
$750
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