Election
2018 Municipal Election (25 Wards)
15,278 contributions totalling $9,432,726 from 12,195 contributors to 348 campaigns in the 2018 Municipal Election (25 Wards).
By office
Where the money came from
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.
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 348. 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 | — | $2,666,385.00 | 479,659 | $5.56 | 2,119 |
| Keesmaat, Jennifer | Mayor | — | $479,049.50 | 178,193 | $2.69 | 1,037 |
| Karygiannis, Jim won | Councillor | 22 | $317,849.44 | 12,593 | $25.24 | 440 |
| Kelly, Norm | Councillor | 22 | $122,950.00 | 9,944 | $12.36 | 216 |
| Thompson, Michael won | Councillor | 21 | $116,502.50 | 16,542 | $7.04 | 139 |
| Minnan-Wong, Denzil won | Councillor | 16 | $109,534.00 | 11,128 | $9.84 | 145 |
| Grimes, Mark won | Councillor | 3 | $108,700.00 | 16,527 | $6.58 | 104 |
| Cho, Sonny | Councillor | 18 | $101,752.00 | 3,130 | $32.51 | 286 |
| Matlow, Josh won | Councillor | 12 | $97,660.54 | 20,371 | $4.79 | 217 |
| Ford, Michael won | Councillor | 1 | $94,830.00 | 10,648 | $8.91 | 104 |
| Bailão, Ana won | Councillor | 9 | $93,868.00 | 26,219 | $3.58 | 149 |
| Olawoye, Lekan | Councillor | 5 | $93,656.37 | 3,889 | $24.08 | 167 |
| Perruzza, Anthony won | Councillor | 7 | $93,132.50 | 8,336 | $11.17 | 128 |
| Lai, Cynthia won | Councillor | 23 | $89,700.00 | 5,589 | $16.05 | 249 |
| Burnside, Jon | Councillor | 15 | $88,803.50 | 14,440 | $6.15 | 175 |
| Smitherman, George | Councillor | 13 | $88,038.25 | 4,734 | $18.60 | 144 |
| Nunziata, Frances won | Councillor | 5 | $84,484.76 | 8,425 | $10.03 | 121 |
| Goldy, Faith | Mayor | — | $82,050.83 | 25,667 | $3.20 | 186 |
| Mihevc, Joe | Councillor | 12 | $81,208.00 | 16,634 | $4.88 | 169 |
| Crawford, Gary won | Councillor | 20 | $77,650.00 | 10,505 | $7.39 | 106 |
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.
| 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 |
| Keesmaat, Jennifer | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | — | 4.9 | 1.6 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.1 |
Hover over or tap a cell for the counts behind it.
By ward
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.
Ranked wards
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.
Toronto and beyond
20% of the money in this election came from outside Toronto, which the map above does not cover.
Largest contributors
| Contributor | Postal area | Total | Gifts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smith, David | M1G | $22,703.75 | 1 |
| Campaign For Public Education (Inc) | M5P | $22,599.56 | 1 |
| Rowlands, Joyce | M4W | $19,998.40 | 8 |
| Budo, Chris | M4J | $17,052.16 | 3 |
| Mousavi, David | M2N | $16,881.43 | 6 |
| Kim, Albert | M2M | $15,570.89 | 6 |
| Lister, Ken | M2J | $15,354.57 | 37 |
| Gregor, Matthew | M1T | $15,100.00 | 2 |
| Larbie, Gladys | M3H | $14,698.17 | 1 |
| ksiazek, stephen | M3C | $13,930.86 | 3 |
| Tonks, Chris | M6L | $12,834.90 | 3 |
| Levy, Beth | M5N | $12,350.00 | 3 |
Source
Scraped from the City’s Elections Financial Disclosure system, which publishes a date for every contribution.
Contributions to Alam, Mahbubul; Andrachuk, Ann; Bari, Ferduse; Canning, Alison; Gadoutsis, Diane; Godbout, Anne; Gracias, Denise; Greto, Vito; Iman, Senai; Kennedy, Angela; Mian, Mahboob; Morrison, Kevin; Neto, Deepti; Perez, Alex; Poplawski, Barbara; Robert, Chloë; Vassal, John; Wright, Roxanne; Harrison, Scott; Lin, Shawn; Lubinski, Teresa; Di Pasquale, Norm; Mamdouhi, Haman; Mohammed, Aziza; Donaldson, Stephanie; Huff, Brandy; Singh, Knia; and Hutcheon, Annette were entered by hand from their filed financial statements. The City never added them to its online disclosure data.