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.
In this election corporate and union contributions were legal for every office.
Largest campaigns
Ranked by money raised. Showing the top 20 of 295. Per vote divides contributions by votes received, not campaign spending. A candidate may seek only one office at a time, so anyone listed twice ran two separate campaigns and left the first before the ballot was set — money raised for the abandoned campaign could not follow them.
Each row is a mayoral campaign in this election. Each column is one of the 16 mayoral campaigns in the archive with 500 or more individual donors; this race’s are in bold. A cell shows how likely the row’s donors were to back the column’s campaign, compared with the normal rate. 1.0 is normal, above 1 more likely, below 1 less likely.
under 0.5×0.5–0.8×0.8–1.25×1.25–2×2–4×4–8×8× and up
Rows are this election’s major mayoral campaigns. Columns are every mayoral campaign in the archive with 500+ individual donors. Each cell is how likely the row campaign’s donors were to give to the column campaign, as a multiple of the normal rate.
Hover over or tap a cell for the counts behind it.
By ward
Money raised by council candidates in each ward. This election used 44 wards. School board trustees are excluded: their wards carry different numbers over different boundaries, so adding them to a council ward would place money in the wrong geography.
Raised by council candidates$15,025–$45,500$45,500–$60,642$60,642–$82,318$82,318–$100,977$100,977–$246,039
The 44-ward model, which this election used. Boundaries are the City's May 2010 revision, the earliest 44-ward file published; ward lines were stable across 2006–2014. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Toronto.
By forward sortation area — the first three characters of the postal code, the finest geography the City publishes for individual donors. Shading is by quantile, so each band holds a fifth of the areas with money.
Total contributed$150–$8,860$8,860–$25,336$25,336–$39,617$39,617–$60,698$60,698–$151,896none
96 of 96 Toronto postal areas have contributions on record. 4 Toronto codes have no shape on the map because nobody lives there, carrying $23,214. Statistics Canada draws only areas with residents, and downtown office towers such as M5X have none. Another 20 codes carrying $8,950 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
18% of the money in this election came from outside Toronto, which the map above does not cover.
