Ottawa provided lucrative territory for federal political party fundraisers during the five years after the 2015 election, suggests a new analysis of Elections…
The riding of Ottawa Centre, which includes the Glebe and Parliament Hill, ranked first for total donations nationwide, contributing $5.9 million to federal political parties in the years following the Liberals’ sweeping 2015 election victory through the end of 2020.
Ottawa Centre residents’ engagement with politics motivates them to donate generously to federal political parties, said Geoff Turner, chair of the Ottawa Centre Federal Liberal Association. Residents in the riding, he noted, tend to work and volunteer in the public sphere. The analysis, which mostly focused on the 17 ridings in the 95th percentile, meaning that total donations were greater than in 95 per cent of all ridings, found a clear relationship between median income and total donations.
Erin Tolley, an associate professor of political science at Carleton University, said that compared with the United States, where “wealthy donors can really have considerable influence over political direction,” Canada’s political fundraising landscape is more focused on frequent, small donations.
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