The NPA spent $2.5 million on its 2011 election campaign, with $960,000 coming from a development company whose owner was the partys chief fundraiser, according to documents filed at city hall today.
Robert Macdonald of Macdonald Development Corporation donated the $960,000 and provided the NPA with its downtown campaign office in a campaign that failed to win back an NPA majority at city hall.
Other large contributions to the NPAs campaign came from Newway Concrete Framing ($100,000), an individual identified as L. Lundin ($100,000), Amacon Construction ($50,000) and Peter Armstrong, head of Rocky Mountaineer and the partys campaign chair ($50,000).
More than $1 million was spent on advertising and another $700,000 on research and polling.
The details of the partys financing were declared in a campaign organizer declaration by Norman Stowe of the Pace Group, which organized the NPAs campaign. Armstrong, who donated $50,00, said the amount spent was worth it, despite the NPA losing heavily at the polls.
We think it was important to democracy and the democratic process, Armstrong said.
On Thursday, Vision Vancouver disclosed that it spent $2.2 million on its campaign. Vision elected all its candidates running for city council, school board and park board. Mayor Gregor Robertson was re-elected, beating the NPAs Suzanne Anton by more than 18,000 votes.
Monday March 19 is the deadline for all candidates, parties and campaign organizers to disclose their finances related to the 2011 election campaign.
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