Candidate

Spencer, Robert

Spencer, Robert raised $85,915 from 170 contributors across 4 Toronto municipal campaigns, 2006–2018.

$85,915Total raised

316Contributions

170Contributors

$200Median gift

4Campaigns

0/4Won

$4.65Per vote received

Across all campaigns4 campaigns · 2006–2018

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) · Toronto District School Board, Ward 18

$15,736 · 64

2014 · Councillor, Ward 36

$28,360 · 106

2010 · Councillor, Ward 36

$28,081 · 112

2006 · Toronto District School Board, Ward 18

$13,738 · 34

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)	Toronto District School Board W18	2,818	$15,736.06	$5.58	Defeated2,818 votes$5.58/vote
2014 Municipal Election	Councillor W36	6,390	$28,360.00	$4.44	Defeated6,390 votes$4.44/vote
2010 Municipal Election	Councillor W36	3,970	$28,081.00	$7.07	Defeated3,970 votes$7.07/vote
2006 Municipal Election	Toronto District School Board W18	5,287	$13,738.23	$2.60	Defeated5,287 votes$2.60/vote

Contributor types

Individual, corporate and union money across every campaign.

Individual: $80,215 (93%)

Corporation: $1,500 (1.7%)

Trade Union: $4,200 (4.9%)

Individual93% · $80,215 · 304 giftsCorporation1.7% · $1,500 · 2 giftsTrade Union4.9% · $4,200 · 10 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
Spencer, Robert combined from 2 records	M4L	$4,161.00	11	4
O'Grady, John combined from 3 records	M6H	$3,450.00	4	4
Mann, Helen W. combined from 3 records	M1M	$2,350.00	4	3
MacKenzie, Hugh combined from 2 records	M6G	$1,850.00	6	4
Empey, William F. combined from 4 records	M4S	$1,400.00	6	4
DALE, ROSEMARY	M1N	$1,384.60	5	3
Burrell, Terrence (Terry) combined from 3 records	M6R	$1,300.00	4	3
Johnson, John E. combined from 2 records	M6G	$1,250.00	6	4
Mccann, Joan combined from 2 records	L3T	$1,250.00	2	2
CLANDFIELD, DAVID	M5A	$1,246.49	8	3
Attfield, Mary combined from 2 records	M1N	$1,200.00	7	3
Skopek, Simone combined from 2 records	M4L	$1,160.00	6	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–$300$300–$851$851–$1,200$1,200–$2,050$2,050–$8,704none

49 of 96 Toronto postal areas have contributions on record. Boundaries adapted from Statistics Canada, 2021 Census cartographic boundary files.

Toronto and beyond

7% of this money came from outside Toronto, which the map above does not cover.

Toronto$79,755.29 · 92.8%

Central Ontario (905)$4,935.00 · 5.7%

Northern Ontario$925.00 · 1.1%

Eastern Ontario$300.00 · 0.3%

Ranked areas

$8,704 · 28

$8,537 · 29

$8,255 · 42

$5,250 · 12

$5,050 · 19

$3,150 · 12

$2,700 · 11

$2,271 · 14

$2,250 · 3

$2,250 · 4

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 W18 · 7 months of contributions

Campaign detail

2018 Municipal Election (25 Wards)

Toronto District School Board · Ward 18

Defeated2,818 votes$5.58/vote

Raised: $15,736.06
Contributions: 64
Contributors: 38
Median gift: $200
Largest: $1,200
From the candidate: $1,409

2014 Municipal Election

Councillor · Ward 36

Defeated6,390 votes$4.44/vote

Raised: $28,360.00
Contributions: 106
Contributors: 89
Median gift: $200
Largest: $750
From the candidate: $300

2010 Municipal Election

Councillor · Ward 36

Defeated3,970 votes$7.07/vote

Raised: $28,081.00
Contributions: 112
Contributors: 90
Median gift: $200
Largest: $750
From the candidate: $550

2006 Municipal Election

Toronto District School Board · Ward 18

Defeated5,287 votes$2.60/vote

Raised: $13,738.23
Contributions: 34
Contributors: 34
Median gift: $238
Largest: $1,902
From the candidate: $1,902

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