Election

2014 Municipal Election

22,452 contributions totalling $11,492,523 from 16,298 contributors to 387 campaigns in the 2014 Municipal Election.

$11,492,523Total raised

22,452Contributions

16,298Contributors

387Campaigns

$300Median gift

$508,225Largest

By office

Mayor

$6,200,504 · 10,199

Councillor

$4,532,776 · 11,035

Toronto District School Board

$617,007 · 1,056

Toronto Catholic District School Board

$140,170 · 154

Conseil scolaire Viamonde

$1,167 · 3

Conseil scolaire catholique MonAvenir

$900 · 5

Where the money came from

Individual99%$11,378,31922,230 gifts

Corporation0.6%$65,196135 gifts

Trade Union0.4%$49,00887 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.

In this election corporate and union money was still legal for school board trustees, but barred from council and mayoral campaigns.

Largest campaigns

Ranked by money raised. Showing the top 20 of 387. 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.

Candidate	Office	Ward	Raised	Votes	Per vote	Contributors
Tory, John won	Mayor	—	$2,767,868.71	395,124	$7.01	2,600
Chow, Olivia	Mayor	—	$1,638,265.90	227,003	$7.22	3,534
Ford, Doug	Mayor	—	$889,897.30	331,006	$2.69	527
Ford, Robdropped out	Mayor	—	$387,648.17	—	—	436
Stintz, Karendropped out	Mayor	—	$242,805.00	—	—	234
Kelly, Norm won	Councillor	40	$145,055.60	16,052	$9.04	400
Soknacki, Daviddropped out	Mayor	—	$132,431.00	—	—	240
Karygiannis, Jim won	Councillor	39	$79,400.44	9,438	$8.41	234
Grimes, Mark won	Councillor	6	$76,739.50	11,337	$6.77	131
Thompson, Michael won	Councillor	37	$67,150.00	16,315	$4.12	167
Bailão, Ana won	Councillor	18	$65,850.00	8,797	$7.49	151
Augimeri, Maria won	Councillor	9	$65,533.37	6,373	$10.28	193
De Baeremaeker, Glenn won	Councillor	38	$62,712.00	13,626	$4.60	104
Berardinetti, Michelle won	Councillor	35	$62,029.85	11,919	$5.20	136
Cho, Raymond won	Councillor	42	$61,400.00	11,768	$5.22	159
Di Giorgio, Frank won	Councillor	12	$60,450.00	4,784	$12.64	122
West, Liz	Councillor	30	$56,085.00	6,644	$8.44	121
Pasternak, James won	Councillor	10	$54,308.00	11,183	$4.86	109
Mazer, Alex	Councillor	18	$54,080.00	7,992	$6.77	107
Burnside, Jon won	Councillor	26	$53,400.00	9,415	$5.67	130

Where mayoral donors also gave

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.

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.
Donors to ↓ · also gave to →	Miller ’06	Pitfield ’06	R. Ford ’10/’14	Smitherman ’10	Pantalone ’10	Rossi ’10	Chow ’14/’23	Tory ’14/’18/’22	D. Ford ’14	Keesmaat ’18	Penalosa ’22	Matlow ’23	Bailão ’23	Furey ’23	Saunders ’23	Bradford ’23
Tory, John	0.6	1.1	0.7	1.2	0.3	2.3	0.2	—	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.5	2.5	0.7	2.4	1.5
Ford, Doug	0.1	0.6	7.1	0.4	0.2	0.1	0.0	0.2	—	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.3	1.8	1.9	0.0
Chow, Olivia	1.2	0.1	0.0	0.3	1.6	0.0	—	0.2	0.0	1.4	1.4	1.1	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.1
Ford, Rob	0.3	1.0	—	0.8	0.5	1.1	0.0	0.7	6.8	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.3	1.7	0.5	0.2

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$25,700–$50,027$50,027–$81,174$81,174–$109,389$109,389–$142,700$142,700–$338,187

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.

Ranked wards

$117,738 · 245

$173,667 · 450

$108,784 · 245

$129,683 · 265

$147,820 · 226

$166,075 · 282

$84,821 · 144

$50,027 · 205

$139,007 · 413

$85,354 · 190

$55,547 · 164

$158,876 · 411

$35,187 · 85

$82,338 · 210

$81,174 · 206

$192,607 · 402

$115,617 · 305

$138,439 · 285

$44,145 · 118

$338,187 · 823

$45,365 · 117

$45,126 · 150

$83,790 · 203

$76,156 · 157

$44,645 · 131

$147,760 · 371

$92,634 · 220

$70,420 · 192

$80,887 · 202

$142,700 · 420

$76,272 · 295

$138,586 · 223

$41,585 · 124

$48,520 · 121

$99,211 · 232

$76,210 · 249

$72,850 · 182

$77,102 · 129

$109,389 · 320

$145,056 · 400

$83,902 · 233

$140,610 · 371

$25,700 · 81

$123,205 · 238

Where the money came from

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–$14,215$14,215–$39,041$39,041–$74,278$74,278–$119,872$119,872–$1,016,808none

96 of 96 Toronto postal areas have contributions on record. 5 Toronto codes have no shape on the map because nobody lives there, carrying $58,252. Statistics Canada draws only areas with residents, and downtown office towers such as M5X have none. Another 16 codes carrying $8,452 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

15% of the money in this election came from outside Toronto, which the map above does not cover.

Toronto$9,784,116.33 · 85.1%

Central Ontario (905)$1,521,308.97 · 13.2%

Eastern Ontario$94,452.05 · 0.8%

Southwestern Ontario$72,391.73 · 0.6%

Northern Ontario$12,662.00 · 0.1%

Elsewhere in Canada$3,327.00 · 0.0%

No postal code on file$4,265.00 · 0.0%

Largest contributors

Rows marked “combined” bring together records filed under different spellings or postal codes, matched by hand. How donors are matched.

Contributor	Postal area	Total	Gifts
Ford, Doug combined from 2 records	M9A	$562,724.73	6
Ford, Rob combined from 2 records	M9A	$214,896.14	10
Smith, David	M1G	$42,627.58	1
Sears, James	M4L	$35,200.45	1
Chhabra, Amajeet Kaur	M5C	$32,141.23	18
Vella, Tony	M8V	$30,750.00	9
Graff, Brian	M4E	$29,714.32	6
Levitan, Steven combined from 2 records	M5P	$25,530.00	4
Goldkind, Ari	M5P	$23,623.63	1
Surma, Kinga	M8Y	$23,550.00	5
Sims, Michael	M6J	$22,866.09	2
Manougian, Harout	M2J	$20,700.00	4

Source

From the City’s Open Data release. That release carries no contribution dates, and the EFD system does not hold elections this old.

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