Candidate

Thompson, Michael

Thompson, Michael raised $331,763 from 585 contributors across 4 Toronto municipal campaigns, 2006–2018.

Photo: City of Toronto, 2022-2026 council term.

$331,763Total raised

643Contributions

585Contributors

$500Median gift

4Campaigns

4/4Won

$5.53Per 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) · Councillor, Ward 21

$116,503 · 141

2014 · Councillor, Ward 37

$67,150 · 170

2010 · Councillor, Ward 37

$83,700 · 185

2006 · Councillor, Ward 37

$64,410 · 147

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 W21	16,542	$116,502.50	$7.04	Elected16,542 votes$7.04/vote
2014 Municipal Election	Councillor W37	16,315	$67,150.00	$4.12	Elected16,315 votes$4.12/vote
2010 Municipal Election	Councillor W37	15,129	$83,700.00	$5.53	Elected15,129 votes$5.53/vote
2006 Municipal Election	Councillor W37	11,987	$64,410.12	$5.37	Elected11,987 votes$5.37/vote

Contributor types

Individual, corporate and union money across every campaign.

Individual: $298,313 (90%)

Corporation: $31,950 (9.6%)

Trade Union: $1,500 (0.5%)

Individual90% · $298,313 · 574 giftsCorporation9.6% · $31,950 · 67 giftsTrade Union0.5% · $1,500 · 2 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 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; 14 of these gave in more than one election. Individuals are shown by postal area only; organizations in full.

Contributor	Postal area	Total	Gifts	Campaigns
Puri, Anil	M2L	$1,950.00	2	2
Goldman, Murray	M5P	$1,800.00	3	3
Wagemans, Ingrid	M4K	$1,700.00	2	2
Alter, Jeremy	M6A	$1,700.00	2	2
Goldring, Blake	M4R	$1,700.00	3	2
Cicirello, Diana	M1E	$1,600.00	2	2
Feldberg, Rochelle	M3B	$1,550.00	3	3
Thompson, Michael	M1R	$1,535.12	1	1
Gasparro, Albert	L4J	$1,500.00	2	2
Wexler, Jerry	M1R	$1,500.00	2	2
Mandronis, Peter	M1V	$1,450.00	2	2
Singer, Miguel	M5N	$1,450.00	3	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$200–$800$800–$1,400$1,400–$2,450$2,450–$4,550$4,550–$12,850none

83 of 96 Toronto postal areas have contributions on record. 2 further Toronto codes carrying $1,650 have 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

25% of this money came from outside Toronto, which the map above does not cover.

Toronto$247,862.62 · 74.7%

Central Ontario (905)$80,800.00 · 24.4%

Southwestern Ontario$1,400.00 · 0.4%

Eastern Ontario$1,200.00 · 0.4%

Elsewhere in Canada$500.00 · 0.2%

Ranked areas

$12,850 · 20

$12,235 · 24

$11,375 · 27

$11,100 · 17

$10,500 · 19

$9,750 · 19

$9,700 · 17

$8,350 · 12

$8,150 · 16

$8,000 · 15

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 W21 · 4 months of contributions

Campaign detail

2018 Municipal Election (25 Wards)

Councillor · Ward 21

Elected16,542 votes$7.04/vote

Raised: $116,502.50
Contributions: 141
Contributors: 139
Median gift: $800
Largest: $1,200

2014 Municipal Election

Councillor · Ward 37

Elected16,315 votes$4.12/vote

Raised: $67,150.00
Contributions: 170
Contributors: 167
Median gift: $500
Largest: $750

2010 Municipal Election

Councillor · Ward 37

Elected15,129 votes$5.53/vote

Raised: $83,700.00
Contributions: 185
Contributors: 184
Median gift: $500
Largest: $900
From the candidate: $900

2006 Municipal Election

Councillor · Ward 37

Elected11,987 votes$5.37/vote

Raised: $64,410.12
Contributions: 147
Contributors: 144
Median gift: $400
Largest: $1,535

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