Candidate

Thompson, Michael

Thompson, Michael raised $434,082 from 646 contributors across 5 Toronto municipal campaigns, 2006–2022.

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

$434,082Total raised

767Contributions

646Contributors

$500Median gift

5Campaigns

5/5Won

$6.21Per vote received

Across all campaigns5 campaigns · 2006–2022

Raised by campaign

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

Contributions for the 2022 Municipal Election were entered by hand from this candidate's filed financial statement. The City never added them to its online disclosure data.

2022 · Councillor, Ward 21

$102,319 · 124

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
2022 Municipal Election	Councillor W21	9,977	$102,318.93	$10.26	Elected9,977 votes$10.26/vote
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: $400,632 (92%)

Corporation: $31,950 (7.4%)

Trade Union: $1,500 (0.3%)

Individual92% · $400,632 · 698 giftsCorporation7.4% · $31,950 · 67 giftsTrade Union0.3% · $1,500 · 2 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 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. 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
Thompson, Michael	—	$5,818.93	4	1
Cheung, Chi combined from 3 records	M5B	$3,400.00	4	3
Feldberg, Jeffrey combined from 2 records	M2P	$3,000.00	4	4
Goldman, Murray	M5P	$3,000.00	4	4
Lazo, Waleuska combined from 3 records	M2P	$3,000.00	4	4
Goldring, Blake	M4R	$2,900.00	4	3
Singer, Miguel	M5N	$2,650.00	4	3
Rogol, Olena combined from 2 records	M2H	$2,500.00	3	3
Herczeg, Ronald combined from 3 records	M4V	$2,450.00	3	3
Mandronis, Peter	M1V	$2,450.00	3	3
Green, Cary	M3H	$2,400.00	2	2
Mehan, Sushrat combined from 2 records	M4Y	$2,195.00	3	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–$750$750–$1,500$1,500–$3,100$3,100–$5,200$5,200–$17,535none

84 of 96 Toronto postal areas have contributions on record. 2 Toronto codes have no shape on the map because nobody lives there, carrying $1,650. Statistics Canada draws only areas with residents, and downtown office towers such as M5X have none. Another 1 code carrying $500 is not a real postal area at all, most likely a typing error in the filings. Boundaries adapted from Statistics Canada, 2021 Census cartographic boundary files.

Toronto and beyond

28% of this money came from outside Toronto, which the map above does not cover.

Toronto$313,362.62 · 72.2%

Central Ontario (905)$110,800.00 · 25.5%

Southwestern Ontario$1,400.00 · 0.3%

Eastern Ontario$1,200.00 · 0.3%

Elsewhere in Canada$500.00 · 0.1%

No postal code on file$6,818.93 · 1.6%

Ranked areas

$17,535 · 29

$15,900 · 21

$14,350 · 22

$12,900 · 21

$12,575 · 28

$12,340 · 17

$12,050 · 21

$11,400 · 19

$11,350 · 17

$10,750 · 18

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.

Campaign

2022 Municipal Election — Councillor W21 · 6 months of contributions