15,206 contributions totalling $9,377,183 from 12,388 contributors to 320 campaigns in the 2018 Municipal Election (25 Wards).
$9,377,183Total raised
15,206Contributions
12,388Contributors
320Campaigns
$300Median gift
$22,704Largest
Source discrepancy on record. Grimes, Mark appears in the Elections Financial Disclosure filing with 104 contributions, and in the City's Open Data release with none at all — $108,700 of contributions. This archive uses the Elections Financial Disclosure filing, the more complete of the two.
By office
Councillor
$5,319,600 · 10,019
Mayor
$3,330,897 · 4,105
Toronto District School Board
$575,107 · 887
Toronto Catholic District School Board
$86,681 · 96
Third Party Advertiser
$58,918 · 87
Conseil scolaire Viamonde
$5,980 · 12
Where the money came from
Individual100%$9,373,58315,203 gifts
Corporation<0.1%$1,2001 gift
Trade Union<0.1%$2,4002 gifts
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.
By this election corporate and union money was barred from candidate campaigns, but third party advertisers could still accept it.
Largest campaigns
Ranked by money raised. Showing the top 20 of 320. 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.
Money raised by council candidates in each ward. This election used 25 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$63,705–$157,919$157,919–$185,053$185,053–$204,487$204,487–$278,520$278,520–$506,674
The 25-ward model, which this election used. 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–$19,600$19,600–$44,859$44,859–$63,591$63,591–$92,728$92,728–$362,914none
96 of 96 Toronto postal areas have contributions on record. 14 further Toronto codes carrying $34,700 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
19% of the money in this election came from outside Toronto, which the map above does not cover.