Follow the money
Who pays for City Hall.
Every campaign dollar disclosed to the City for the 2022 council race — who bankrolled their own campaign, the insiders who quietly funded a half-dozen councillors at once, and which voting bloc their money backs.
$1,713,889
Raised, 2022 race
3,395
Disclosed donations
$105,830
Self-funded by candidates
16
Flagged for review
Out of their own pocket
Who bankrolled themselves.
Candidates can pour their own money into their campaign far past the $1,200 limit that applies to everyone else. These put in the most.
The insiders
The donors who fund the whole council.
Toronto bans corporate and union money, so every dollar comes from an individual. These people wrote cheques to several different councillors in 2022. The dot shows the average alignment-with-the-mayor of the councillors they funded — i.e. which bloc their money backs. Tap a name to see who.
Flagged for review
Donations that appear over the limit.
An automated check against Toronto's contribution limits ($1,200 per candidate in 2018/2022; $2,500 for the 2023 mayoral by-election; $5,000 total across the city). These are flags to verify, not findings of wrongdoing — a flag can be a spouse's contribution, a later refund, or how the source record was filed.
2018over per-candidate limit
2023over per-candidate limit
2023over per-candidate limit
2022over per-candidate limit
2022over per-candidate limit
2022over per-candidate limit
2018over per-candidate limit
2022over per-candidate limit
2022over per-candidate limit
2022over per-candidate limit
2022over per-candidate limit
2022over per-candidate limit
2022over per-candidate limit
2023over $5,000 jurisdiction cap
2018over $5,000 jurisdiction cap
2023over $5,000 jurisdiction cap
Where it comes from
See the geography of every donation — which postal codes, and how much flows in from outside Toronto. Including all three mayor's races: John Tory's machine in 2018 and 2022, and the wide-open 2023 by-election where Ana Bailão out-raised the eventual winner, Olivia Chow.
Open the donor map →A note on the data
Figures come from candidates' official financial statements filed with the City of Toronto. Only individuals may contribute — corporate and union donations have been banned since 2009. "Bloc lean" reuses each councillor's alignment-with-the-mayor from the Council Alignment Map, averaged over the councillors a donor funded.
And remember: you helped pay for these campaigns. Toronto's contribution-rebate program reimburses donors from public funds — so a share of every cheque here came back out of the city budget.