Money, money: candidates’ spending and federal election expenses limits

Only a small percentage of all federal candidates spent more than 90 per cent of the limit on election expenses.

This is the first of two pieces on the relationship between candidates' "election expenses" and the legal limit on such outlays, based on the four federal elections between 1997 and 2006. We focus on "per cent spent," the ratio of actual election expenses to the legal limit.

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