• choose your election, and click on "Continue"
  
• on the Introduction page, click on "Continue"
  
• choose Search by custom query
• choose the following reports (one at a time) and click on "Continue":
  
  
  i) List of contributors of goods, services and discounts (Part 3 of candidate’s return)
  ii) List of contributors of more than $100 (Part 4 of candidate’s return)

• select the fields you would like to view and click on "Continue"
• pick your candidate by choosing first the province and then, if you wish, the electoral district and/or party
• transfer the candidate(s) you want from the left box to the right, using the arrows
• click on "Submit Query"
• you can either:
  • print the results using the "Print" command on your browser (if the report is too wide, you can change the print settings of your browser to print on legal paper, landscape orientation or reduce your margins); or
  • click on "View a tab-delimited text version of this report"
    • if you choose "View a tab-delimited...", you can use the command "Save as" in the File menu of your browser and save that page as a text file. (You can then import it to your favourite software.)

Political parties do not report contributions for an electoral event. They do, however, submit annual fiscal returns with detailed information on their contributors. Click here to access the financial returns of political parties.

Just follow the directions given in answer to the first question above but choose the report "Details of expenses (Part 6 of candidate’s return)".

Political parties report election expenses, for general elections only, as total amounts broken down into categories. You can look these over in the various tables presented in the Search by common query option.

After choosing your election, choose the Search by electoral district. You can search up to six ridings at a time.

After choosing your election, choose Search by candidate. After choosing the candidate, just click on "Continue" at the bottom of each results page.

After choosing your election, choose Search by contributor. Enter the name of the contributor you wish to search for. Tip: enter the family name only; the contributor about whom you want information may be listed with full name, initial(s) only, or a combination thereof. The report will give you the names of the candidate(s) to whom the person contributed, the electoral district, the candidate’s political affiliation, and the amount and category of the donation.

When you are on the results page, click on "View a tab-delimited text version of this report". You can then choose "Save As" from the File menu of your browser and save this text file on your computer. Be sure to give the file a ".txt" extension. Please note that the newest versions of certain browsers (Netscape, Firefox, etc.) will not permit you to use this function. Please use an Internet Explorer version (new or old) if you encounter problems in trying to use the download function with other browsers.

Every results page from the Search by custom query to the Search by contributor can be sorted as you choose. Just click on the title of the field by which you would like to sort the results (all the fields titles are linked) and the database will re-order the data either alphabetically or in a descending numerical order.

The Search by electoral district results can all be printed on 8 1/2 " × 11" paper, portrait orientation (normal settings).

The Search by custom query and the Search by candidate results can be printed on legal paper, landscape orientation, for the largest pages. Printing needs vary depending on the number of candidates and number of fields you are searching. One more tip: should you not be able to print legal, landscape, you can try to reduce your browser’s default font size or reduce your margins.

Click here to access the first version of these reports (downloadable raw data format).

This database uses Java Script and has been tested on versions 3 and up of both Netscape and MS Explorer. It offers best performance with version 4 browsers and up.

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