Wealthy urban ridings, especially those represented by higher-profile politicians, offered the most lucrative fundraising terrain for Canada’s federal political parties in the five years following the 2015 election, suggests a new analysis of Elections Canada political donations data.

The ridings, which include many of the country’s richest neighbourhoods, in most cases also had voter turnouts higher than the national participation rate in the 2019 election, according to the analysis by the Local News Data Hub at Toronto Metropolitan University and the Investigative Journalism Foundation, a non-profit journalism startup tracking political donations and lobbyist activity in partnership with scholars from Canadian universities.