Candidate

Smitherman, George

Smitherman, George raised $2,229,206 from 2,205 contributors across 2 Toronto municipal campaigns, 2010–2018.

$2,229,206Total raised

2,398Contributions

2,205Contributors

$500Median gift

2Campaigns

0/2Won

$7.57Per vote received

Across all campaigns2 campaigns · 2010–2018

Raised by campaign

Each bar is one campaign for one office. Totals are contributions filed with the City Clerk, less any the campaign returned.

2018 (25 Wards) · Councillor, Ward 13

$88,038 · 158

2010 · Mayor

$2,141,168 · 2,240

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
2018 Municipal Election (25 Wards)	Councillor W13	4,734	$88,038.25	$18.60	Defeated4,734 votes$18.60/vote
2010 Municipal Election	Mayor	289,832	$2,141,168.00	$7.39	Defeated289,832 votes$7.39/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 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 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; 13 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
Smitherman, George	M5A	$10,000.00	2	1
Choi, Bill	M2K	$3,700.00	2	2
Choi, Laird	M2K	$3,700.00	2	2
Devine, Patrick combined from 2 records	M4W	$3,700.00	3	2
Libfeld, Sheldon combined from 2 records	L4C	$3,700.00	2	2
Bloomberg, Fran combined from 2 records	M5R	$3,500.00	2	2
Bloomberg, Lawrence combined from 2 records	M5R	$3,500.00	2	2
Di Lorenzo, Julie	M5R	$3,500.00	2	2
Mihalik, Tom combined from 2 records	M5T	$3,500.00	2	1
Goring, Peter combined from 2 records	M4V	$3,000.00	2	2
Hall, Barbara Joan combined from 2 records	M4X	$3,000.00	2	2
Al Zaibak, Mohammad combined from 2 records	M4V	$2,750.00	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$300–$3,500$3,500–$7,050$7,050–$12,300$12,300–$21,600$21,600–$117,625none

90 of 96 Toronto postal areas have contributions on record. 4 Toronto codes have no shape on the map because nobody lives there, carrying $26,850. Statistics Canada draws only areas with residents, and downtown office towers such as M5X have none. Another 2 codes carrying $1,200 are not real postal areas at all, most likely typing errors in the filings. Boundaries adapted from Statistics Canada, 2021 Census cartographic boundary files.

Toronto and beyond

33% of this money came from outside Toronto, which the map above does not cover.

Toronto$1,493,270.25 · 67.0%

Central Ontario (905)$694,081.00 · 31.1%

Southwestern Ontario$25,050.00 · 1.1%

Eastern Ontario$15,505.00 · 0.7%

Northern Ontario$1,300.00 · 0.1%

Ranked areas

$117,625 · 83

$99,329 · 118

$86,334 · 99

$67,550 · 37

$63,175 · 58

$59,050 · 36

$51,750 · 39

$51,100 · 42

$50,344 · 46

$40,250 · 57

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) — Councillor W13 · 6 months of contributions

Campaign detail

2018 Municipal Election (25 Wards)

Councillor · Ward 13

Defeated4,734 votes$18.60/vote

Raised: $88,038.25
Contributions: 158
Contributors: 144
Median gift: $300
Largest: $5,000
From the candidate: $10,000
Returned: $50

2010 Municipal Election

Mayor

Defeated289,832 votes$7.39/vote

Raised: $2,141,168.00
Contributions: 2,240
Contributors: 2,096
Median gift: $500
Largest: $2,500

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