Top Donors and Their Effect on Total Donations to 6 Main Federal Canadian Political Parties from 2016-2022 Inclusive

As the figures in Chart 10 show, donors who donated $1,000 or more during 2016 to 2022 made up only one to seven percent of all donors to each party (average was 3.25 percent), but they were responsible for six to 11 times (7.8 times on average) the percentage of total donations as they represented as a percentage of total donors. [...] total $6,957,922 $6,658,993 $151,875 $1,260,660 $580,401 $385,114 donated by (out of (out of (out of (out of (out of (out of donors of $16.48 $23.18 $1.27 $6.43 $3.36 $1.87 $1,000 or million million million million million million more average average average average average average total total total total total total donated donated donated donated donated donated annually) annually) annually) an. [...] 2 The People’s Party of Canada was established and registered in August 2018, and it became the fifth main party in 2021 after it won a higher percentage of the popular vote than the Green Party, so the statistics for the PPC are based only on donation data from the calendar years 2021 and 2022. [...] The significance of top donors for each party is equally clear when the percentage of donors who donated the maximum legal amount annually is considered, as Chart 12 below shows.3 As the figures in Chart 11 show, the donors who donated the legal maximum amount annually from 2016 to 2022 were only 0.2 to two percent of donors to any of the parties during any of these seven years, but they donated t. [...] To give some other related statistics from other studies of top donors in Election Canada’s donation data that various media outlets have undertaken, the Globe and Mail reported in 2016 that only 790 people (0.85 percent of all donors to the Liberals) donated $1,500 or more in 2015, and in 2014 only 522 people (0.68 percent out of 77,064 total donors) donated $1,200 or more (the amount needed to a.