Liberals quadruple fundraising totals

[jdobbin]

Here is more data on donations:

http://www.edmontonsun.com/news/canada/200...361386-sun.html

Returns filed with Elections Canada show that for the three-month period to the end of June, the Conservatives attracted $3,957,662 in contributions, ahead of their take for the same period last year, which was about $3.5 million.

They also increased the number of individual contributors to that total, convincing more than 35,000 Canadians to part with their money this year. Last year, 33,833 donated to the Tories in the March-June period.

Even so, they were nipped by the resurgent Liberals, whose final Elections Canada tally for March to June this year was just over $4 million.

In fact, the Liberals, at a cumulative $5.9 million for the first six months of 2009 under Ignatieff’s leadership, are very close to raising what they did for all of last year when the party was led by Stephane Dion. And they’ve doubled their number of individual contributors to that tally, from about 9,500 to about 19,500.

The Liberals still need to increase their donor base but is an improvement.

[jdobbin]

The Elections Canada report from the Sun.

http://www.edmontonsun.com/news/canada/200...363476-sun.html

Fundraising for first six months of 2009:

Conservative

$8.32 million

Liberal

$5.91 million

NDP

$1.83 million

Green

$410,000

Boc

$332,444 Fundraising for first six months of 2009:

Conservative

$8.32 million

Liberal

$5.91 million

NDP

$1.83 million

Green

$410,000

Boc

$332,444

Edited August 5, 2009 by jdobbin