285 contributions totalling $151,270 from 258 contributors to 22 campaigns in the 2018 Municipal Election (47 Wards).
$151,270Total raised
285Contributions
258Contributors
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
$5,365 · 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 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 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$150–$400$400–$900$900–$1,500$1,500–$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.