Election
2023 By-Election for Mayor
11,858 contributions totalling $8,533,948 from 8,885 contributors to 46 campaigns in the 2023 By-Election for Mayor.
By office
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 candidate campaigns, but third party advertisers could still accept it.
Largest campaigns
Ranked by money raised. Showing the top 20 of 46. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bailão, Ana | Mayor | — | $2,127,839.85 | 235,175 | $9.05 | 1,273 |
| Chow, Olivia won | Mayor | — | $1,463,870.56 | 269,372 | $5.43 | 3,212 |
| Matlow, Josh | Mayor | — | $1,139,322.63 | 35,572 | $32.03 | 1,730 |
| Saunders, Mark | Mayor | — | $992,629.60 | 62,167 | $15.97 | 732 |
| Bradford, Brad | Mayor | — | $777,026.00 | 9,254 | $83.97 | 526 |
| Gong, Xiao Hua | Mayor | — | $696,888.98 | 2,983 | $233.62 | 300 |
| Furey, Anthony | Mayor | — | $490,105.00 | 35,899 | $13.65 | 772 |
| Perruzza, Anthony | Mayor | — | $292,575.00 | 3,025 | $96.72 | 200 |
| Hunter, Mitzie | Mayor | — | $275,929.00 | 21,229 | $13.00 | 347 |
| Heaps, Toby | Mayor | — | $37,363.00 | 593 | $63.01 | 37 |
| Brown, Chloe | Mayor | — | $34,204.63 | 18,831 | $1.82 | 83 |
| Wiener, Kevin | Third Party Advertiser | — | $25,000.00 | — | — | 1 |
| Davis, Rob | Mayor | — | $24,575.00 | 378 | $65.01 | 26 |
| Caesar-Chavannes, Celina | Mayor | — | $23,300.00 | 254 | $91.73 | 38 |
| Tang, Weizhen | Mayor | — | $19,667.00 | 125 | $157.34 | 13 |
| Abdulsalam, Bahira | Mayor | — | $15,265.75 | 913 | $16.72 | 13 |
| Progress Toronto | Third Party Advertiser | — | $14,445.00 | — | — | 35 |
| D'Angelo, Frank | Mayor | — | $9,525.00 | 343 | $27.77 | 3 |
| Tull, Reginald | Mayor | — | $9,500.00 | 482 | $19.71 | 4 |
| He, Heather | Mayor | — | $8,486.98 | 297 | $28.58 | 12 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Bailão, Ana | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 2.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.8 | — | 0.0 | 3.0 | 3.1 |
| Saunders, Mark | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 2.1 | 1.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 3.0 | 2.0 | — | 3.0 |
| Furey, Anthony | 0.1 | 1.9 | 1.9 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 1.8 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.1 | — | 2.3 | 2.5 |
| Matlow, Josh | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 1.6 | 3.0 | — | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.8 |
| Bradford, Brad | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 1.4 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 3.2 | 2.2 | 3.0 | — |
Hover over or tap a cell for the counts behind it.
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
25% of the money in this election came from outside Toronto, which the map above does not cover.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wiener, Kevin | M4W | $25,000.00 | 2 |
| Heaps, Toby | M5V | $21,713.00 | 2 |
| Gong, Xiao Hua | M5P | $16,903.48 | 2 |
| Hunter, Mitzie | M5V | $13,000.00 | 2 |
| Williams, Jody | M6E | $8,455.00 | 1 |
| D'Angelo, Frank | M9L | $8,400.00 | 1 |
| Green, David combined from 2 records | M4S | $7,500.00 | 3 |
| Sabato, Robert combined from 2 records | M8Z | $6,200.00 | 3 |
| Smith, Geoffrey combined from 2 records | L6J | $6,059.99 | 3 |
| FERRIS, PAUL | M4E | $6,000.00 | 4 |
| Love, Jon combined from 2 records | M5R | $6,000.00 | 8 |
| Singer, David | M6C | $5,850.00 | 3 |
Source
Scraped from the City’s Elections Financial Disclosure system, which publishes a date for every contribution.