Candidate

Thomson, Sarah

Thomson, Sarah raised $284,598 from 326 contributors across 3 Toronto municipal campaigns, 2010–2014.

$284,598Total raised

363Contributions

326Contributors

$400Median gift

3Campaigns

0/2Won

$53.29Per vote received

Across all campaigns3 campaigns · 2010–2014

Raised by campaign

Each bar is one campaign for one office. Totals are contributions filed with the City Clerk, less any the campaign returned. Two campaigns in the same year means this candidate left the first race before the nomination deadline and registered for the second — a person may seek only one office at a time, and contributions cannot be moved between campaigns.

2014 · Mayor

$34,628 · 40

2014 · Councillor, Ward 20

$4,100 · 9

2010 · Mayor

$245,870 · 314

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
2014 Municipal Election	Mayor	—	$34,627.95	—	Dropped out
2014 Municipal Election	Councillor W20	2,808	$4,100.00	$1.46	Defeated2,808 votes$1.46/vote
2010 Municipal Election	Mayor	1,883	$245,870.00	$130.57	Defeated1,883 votes$130.57/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; 3 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
Thomson, Sarah	M4W	$8,925.55	4	2
Thomson, Gregory combined from 2 records	M4W	$5,000.00	2	2
Thomson, Nancy	M4G	$2,800.00	3	1
Alder, Kerry	M3H	$2,500.00	1	1
Barford, Ralph M.	M2P	$2,500.00	1	1
Beheshti, Arash	M5V	$2,500.00	1	1
Bender, Elliot	N2A	$2,500.00	1	1
Benneyworth, Jon	L5G	$2,500.00	1	1
Bot, Brenda	P3G	$2,500.00	1	1
Casgrain, Tim	M4R	$2,500.00	2	1
Cohen, Mitchell	M1N	$2,500.00	2	2
Del Duca, Steven	L4L	$2,500.00	1	1

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$120–$400$400–$1,050$1,050–$2,175$2,175–$3,550$3,550–$34,669none

68 of 96 Toronto postal areas have contributions on record. 1 Toronto code has no shape on the map because nobody lives there, carrying $25,000. Statistics Canada draws only areas with residents, and downtown office towers such as M5X have none. Another 1 code carrying $300 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.