Conservative leadership candidate Peter MacKay raised over a million dollars in the first quarter of 2020, but his rival Erin O’Toole had more donors.
New data published Thursday shows O’Toole raised nearly $785,000 in the first three months of the year from about 4,200 people, to MacKay’s $1.045 million from about 3,400 contributors.
MacKay announced on March 5 that he’d hit the million-dollar mark; an analysis of the data published by Elections Canada suggests that as of that date, roughly $838,000 in donations had been received by the party.
He’d had the wind taken out of his sails that day, however, by an announcement that conservative heavyweight Jason Kenney was endorsing O’Toole.