Friday, August 9, 2013

Liberal Collect Big In By-election Campaigns

Ontario's governing Liberals may have lost three of five provincial by-elections last week, but they raised the most money by far of any party during the campaign for the August 1 votes.

Preliminary figures from Elections Ontario show the Liberals raised just under $1 million.

The Progressive Conservatives raised $245-thousand.

Figures for the NDP had been posted at $68-thousand in July, but removed at the party's request because of a problem with the way the money was allocated.