Election
2024 Councillor Ward 15 By-Election
564 contributions totalling $291,912 from 529 contributors to 13 campaigns in the 2024 Councillor Ward 15 By-Election.
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. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Furey, Anthony | Councillor | 15 | $81,693.00 | 7,343 | $11.13 | 102 |
| Chernos Lin, Rachel won | Councillor | 15 | $78,185.43 | 12,899 | $6.06 | 183 |
| Jain, Dhruv | Councillor | 15 | $40,000.00 | 123 | $325.20 | 101 |
| Sambasivam, Evan | Councillor | 15 | $36,518.40 | 186 | $196.34 | 37 |
| Sharp, Sheena | Councillor | 15 | $16,575.00 | 575 | $28.83 | 30 |
| Robinson, Sam | Councillor | 15 | $15,875.00 | 1,271 | $12.49 | 45 |
| Stoyan, Lesley | Councillor | 15 | $9,650.00 | 345 | $27.97 | 24 |
| Lindow, Angeladropped out | Councillor | 15 | $4,750.00 | — | — | 2 |
| Sharipova, Shakhlo | Councillor | 15 | $2,350.00 | 301 | $7.81 | 5 |
| Xu, Calvin | Councillor | 15 | $2,325.54 | 72 | $32.30 | 1 |
| Progress Toronto | Third Party Advertiser | 100 | $2,150.00 | — | — | 6 |
| Marshall, Cleveland | Councillor | 15 | $939.99 | 37 | $25.41 | 1 |
| Stevens, Jason | Councillor | 15 | $900.00 | 70 | $12.86 | 1 |
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
11% of the money in this election came from outside Toronto, which the map above does not cover.
Largest contributors
| Contributor | Postal area | Total | Gifts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sambasivam, Evan | M5M | $19,810.40 | 2 |
| Jain, Dhruv | M4P | $4,200.00 | 1 |
| Lindow, Angela | — | $3,750.00 | 1 |
| Xu, Calvin | M1B | $2,325.54 | 1 |
| Sharp, Sheena | M4S | $1,775.00 | 3 |
| Orwell, Sol | M5T | $1,600.00 | 3 |
| Robinson, Chris | M4N | $1,200.00 | 1 |
| Welke, Matt | M5P | $1,200.00 | 1 |
| Bruce, Lesley | M4G | $1,200.00 | 1 |
| Chernos Lin, Rachel | M4G | $1,200.00 | 1 |
| Chernos, Beverley | M4G | $1,200.00 | 1 |
| Chernos, David | M4G | $1,200.00 | 1 |
Source
Scraped from the City’s Elections Financial Disclosure system, which publishes a date for every contribution.
Contributions to Lindow, Angela were entered by hand from their filed financial statements. The City never added them to its online disclosure data.