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Tory, John, who held elected office

Candidate

Tory, John

Tory, John raised $7,435,544 from 5,173 contributors across 3 Toronto municipal campaigns, 2014–2022.

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

$7,435,544Total raised
6,433Contributions
5,173Contributors
$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 contributions filed with the City Clerk, less any the campaign returned.

2022 · Mayor
$2,001,290 · 1,620
$2,666,385 · 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$2,666,385.00$5.56Elected479,659 votes$5.56/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 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; 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.

ContributorPostal areaTotalGiftsCampaigns
Etherington, WilliamM5R$8,500.0043
Squibb, G. Wayne combined from 3 recordsM5S$8,250.0063
Armstrong, HeatherM4W$7,500.0033
Baillie, A. Charles combined from 2 recordsM4W$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
Shisholm, Jeffrey combined from 3 recordsM4V$7,500.0033
Cockwell, Jack L.M5E$7,500.0033
Daniher, MichaelM4N$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: $536,395M4P: $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: $531,925M5S: $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. 4 Toronto codes have no shape on the map because nobody lives there, carrying $77,450. Statistics Canada draws only areas with residents, and downtown office towers such as M5X have none. Another 8 codes carrying $9,900 are not real postal areas at all, most likely typing errors in the filings. 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$6,398,957.71 · 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
$536,395 · 406
$531,925 · 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
1,569
Median gift
$1,000
Largest
$2,500

2018 Municipal Election (25 Wards)

Mayor

Elected479,659 votes$5.56/vote

Raised
$2,666,385.00
Contributions
2,211
Contributors
2,119
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
2,600
Median gift
$500
Largest
$2,500
From the candidate
$2,500
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