This bar chart presents contributions by regulated federal political entity from 2000 to 2014.
The X-axis depicts the years 2000 to 2014 and the Y-axis shows the distribution of contribution funding from $0 to over $70 million (highest data point is $74.9 million in 2000). The graph shows contributions for all regulated federal political entities from 2000 to 2003 which are only registered parties and candidates and contributions for all regulated federal political entities from 2004 to 2014 which are registered parties, candidates, EDAs, leadership contestants and nomination contestants.
The contributions by year for each regulated federal political entity from 2000 to 2014 in millions of dollars are:
2000:
Registered parties – $74.9
Candidates – $49.9
EDAs – unknown
Leadership contestants – unknown
Nomination contestants – unknown
2001:
Registered parties – $42.2
Candidates – $0.0
EDAs – unknown
Leadership contestants – unknown
Nomination contestants – unknown
2002:
Registered parties – $38.1
Candidates – $1.8
EDAs – unknown
Leadership contestants – unknown
Nomination contestants – unknown
2003:
Registered parties – $65.2
Candidates – $0.7
EDAs – unknown
Leadership contestants – unknown
Nomination contestants – unknown
2004:
Registered parties – $26.8
Candidates – $25.4
EDAs – $15.4
Leadership contestants – $0.1
Nomination contestants – $2.4
2005:
Registered parties – $38.5
Candidates – $0.1
EDAs – $18.5
Leadership contestants – $0.0
Nomination contestants – $0.6
2006:
Registered parties – $38.8
Candidates – $25.5
EDAs – $11.3
Leadership contestants – $8.1
Nomination contestants – $0.1
2007:
Registered parties – $31.0
Candidates – $0.2
EDAs – $12.3
Leadership contestants – $0.8
Nomination contestants – $0.6
2008:
Registered parties – $39.1
Candidates – $14.6
EDAs – $17.8
Leadership contestants – $2.3
Nomination contestants – $0.2
2009:
Registered parties – $36.4
Candidates – $0.2
EDAs – $14.0
Leadership contestants – $1.2
Nomination contestants – $0.4
2010:
Registered parties – $33.2
Candidates – $0.6
EDAs – $13.6
Leadership contestants – $0.3
Nomination contestants – $0.1
2011:
Registered parties – $45.5
Candidates – $11.8
EDAs – $15.9
Leadership contestants – $1.1
Nomination contestants – $0.2
2012:
Registered parties – $37.0
Candidates – $0.2
EDAs – $9.2
Leadership contestants – $3.2
Nomination contestants – $0.1
2013:
Registered parties – $41.8
Candidates – $0.2
EDAs – $8.3
Leadership contestants – $3.1
Nomination contestants – $0.1
2014:
Registered parties – $48.9
Candidates – $0.3
EDAs – $12.5
Leadership contestants – $0.5
Nomination contestants – $2.5
The data in this graph show that from 2000 to 2003, registered parties received 81% of all contributions compared to 19% for candidates. From 2004 to 2014, registered parties received 62% of contributions compared to 12% for candidates, 22% for EDAs, 3% for leadership contestants and 1% for nomination contestants.
On the bottom of the graph there are the following notes:
Bill C-24: Amendments to the Canada Elections Act and the Income Tax Act. Introduced publicly-funded quarterly allowances and contribution limits, brought EDAs, nomination and leadership contests into the regulatory system, increased reimbursements of paid regulatory system, increased reimbursements of paid election expenses and political contribution tax credits.
Bill C-2: The Federal Accountability Act. This legislation further reduced contribution limits and restricted eligibility to individuals only.
As well, at the bottom of the graph is the following footnote:
From 2000 to 2003, EDAs, nomination contestants and leadership contestants were not part of the regulatory regime. As such, their contributions were unknown. Contributions from 2000 to 2003 are for registered parties and candidates only. After 2003, contributions are for registered parties, candidates, EDAs, nomination contestants and leadership contestants.