Campaign Cash
Tory, John, who held elected office

Candidate

Tory, John

Tory, John raised $7,439,544 from 5,312 contributors across 3 Toronto municipal campaigns, 2014–2022.

Photo: City of Toronto, 2018-2022 council term.

$7,439,544Total raised
6,433Contributions
5,312Contributors
$1,000Median gift
3Campaigns
3/3Won
$6.11Per vote received
Across all campaigns3 campaigns · 2014–2022

Raised by campaign

Each bar is one campaign for one office. Totals are what was filed with the City Clerk, before any contribution returned.

2022 · Mayor
$2,001,290 · 1,620
$2,670,385 · 2,211
2014 · Mayor
$2,767,869 · 2,602

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.

CampaignOfficeVotesRaisedPer voteOutcome
2022 Municipal ElectionMayor342,158$2,001,290.00$5.85Elected342,158 votes$5.85/vote
2018 Municipal Election (25 Wards)Mayor479,659$2,670,385.00$5.57Elected479,659 votes$5.57/vote
2014 Municipal ElectionMayor395,124$2,767,868.71$7.01Elected395,124 votes$7.01/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 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; 15 of these gave in more than one election. Individuals are shown by postal area only; organizations in full.

ContributorPostal areaTotalGiftsCampaigns
Love, NancyM5R$10,000.0043
Etherington, WilliamM5R$8,500.0043
Armstrong, HeatherM4W$7,500.0033
Beattie, W. GeoffreyM4W$7,500.0033
Beeston, PaulM4N$7,500.0033
Belsher, GeoffreyM4W$7,500.0033
Belzberg, BrentM4V$7,500.0033
Bunston-Gunn, PattiM4N$7,500.0033
Cockwell, Jack L.M5E$7,500.0033
Daniher, MichaelM4N$7,500.0033
Danniels, RaymondM2L$7,500.0033
Delaney, CatherineM4V$7,500.0033

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.

M1B: $5,000M1C: $8,935M1E: $2,700M1G: $2,750M1H: no contributions on recordM1J: $400M1K: $4,800M1L: $5,250M1M: $11,550M1N: $17,600M1P: $7,500M1R: $3,075M1S: $2,400M1T: $1,800M1V: $1,150M1W: $12,050M1X: $1,450M2H: $5,950M2J: $8,600M2K: $28,600M2L: $145,510M2M: $15,115M2N: $62,601M2P: $83,820M2R: $7,200M3A: $16,450M3B: $102,616M3C: $40,000M3H: $88,925M3J: $15,925M3K: no contributions on recordM3L: $300M3M: $500M3N: no contributions on recordM4A: $12,550M4B: $13,550M4C: $8,250M4E: $52,475M4G: $125,280M4H: $7,000M4J: $9,450M4K: $25,550M4L: $40,250M4M: $37,138M4N: $537,895M4P: $74,525M4R: $85,775M4S: $68,502M4T: $296,325M4V: $651,820M4W: $770,975M4X: $25,025M4Y: $36,300M5A: $41,125M5B: $18,125M5C: $29,700M5E: $56,999M5G: $7,550M5H: $99,450M5J: $97,525M5M: $186,420M5N: $149,683M5P: $367,730M5R: $534,425M5S: $128,750M5T: $13,610M5V: $140,376M6A: $8,230M6B: $54,022M6C: $60,080M6E: $17,700M6G: $57,601M6H: $15,200M6J: $43,850M6K: $20,250M6L: $4,000M6M: $14,050M6N: $1,750M6P: $23,300M6R: $19,775M6S: $76,627M8V: $34,150M8W: $8,500M8X: $141,450M8Y: $19,750M8Z: $20,061M9A: $159,625M9B: $15,235M9C: $9,500M9L: $2,125M9M: $5,300M9N: $1,900M9P: $5,550M9R: $5,650M9V: $1,050M9W: $8,700
Total contributed$250–$4,000$4,000–$9,450$9,450–$24,950$24,950–$76,627$76,627–$770,975none
93 of 96 Toronto postal areas have contributions on record. 12 further Toronto codes carrying $87,350 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

14% of this money came from outside Toronto, which the map above does not cover.

Toronto$6,402,957.71 · 86.1%
Central Ontario (905)$983,561.00 · 13.2%
Eastern Ontario$27,550.00 · 0.4%
Southwestern Ontario$20,400.00 · 0.3%
Northern Ontario$2,875.00 · 0.0%
Elsewhere in Canada$2,200.00 · 0.0%

Ranked areas

$770,975 · 545
$651,820 · 458
$537,895 · 406
$534,425 · 396
$367,730 · 276
$296,325 · 250
$186,420 · 163
$159,625 · 154
$149,683 · 155
$145,510 · 117
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.

2022 Municipal Election — Mayor · 6 months of contributions

$0$268k$536kMay 22Jun 22Jul 22Aug 22Sep 22Oct 22

Campaign detail

2022 Municipal Election

Mayor

Elected342,158 votes$5.85/vote

Raised
$2,001,290.00
Contributions
1,620
Contributors
1,570
Median gift
$1,000
Largest
$2,500

2018 Municipal Election (25 Wards)

Mayor

Elected479,659 votes$5.57/vote

Raised
$2,670,385.00
Contributions
2,211
Contributors
2,121
Median gift
$1,000
Largest
$2,500
Returned
$4,000

2014 Municipal Election

Mayor

Elected395,124 votes$7.01/vote

Raised
$2,767,868.71
Contributions
2,602
Contributors
2,601
Median gift
$500
Largest
$2,500
From the candidate
$2,500
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