285 contributions totalling $148,770 from 256 contributors to 22 campaigns in the 2018 Municipal Election (47 Wards).
$148,770Total raised
285Contributions
256Contributors
22Campaigns
$300Median gift
$5,900Largest
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
$145,906 · 277
Toronto District School Board
$2,865 · 8
Where the money came from
Every contribution in this election 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.
By this election corporate and union money was barred from every candidate campaign.
Largest campaigns
Ranked by money raised. Showing the top 20 of 22. 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 47 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$550–$1,130$1,130–$3,900$3,900–$11,637$11,637–$19,000$19,000–$35,085none
The 47-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$89–$300$300–$750$750–$1,400$1,400–$2,925$2,925–$14,670none
56 of 96 Toronto postal areas have contributions on record. 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.
