Office of the Chief Electoral Officer
What Office of the Chief Electoral Officer spent in fiscal year 2023-24: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.
Reports through Public Safety, Democratic Institutions and Intergovernmental Affairs; the overview shows it in that ministry.
Spending, 2023-24
Net spending, 2023-24
$249M
spent by Office of the Chief Electoral Officer, less revenues it kept
Share, 2023-24
0.1%
of the net spending of every federal organization
How did Office of the Chief Electoral Officer spend its budget in 2023-24?
By standard object. Revenues it kept are negative and netted against its spending. Transfer payments are broken into their largest named programs.
Spending by standard object, 2023-24
Personnel
Professional and special services
Rentals
Information
Transportation and communications
Acquisition of machinery and equipment
Transfer payments
Utilities, materials and supplies
Repair and maintenance
Other subsidies and payments
$153M
$58M
$20.2M
$5.3M
$4.7M
$3.9M
$2.3M
$953K
$582K
$424K
Total: $249M.
Spending by program, 2023-24
The same net spending by program, as GC InfoBase reports program actuals: $249M in all. Select a program for its history, plans and results.
$79.4M
$74.6M
$24.7M
$21.7M
$18.4M
$15.9M
$9.4M
$3.7M
$1.3M
Workforce, 2023-24
Full-time equivalents
1,208
the actual FTEs of its programs, as GC InfoBase reports them
Personnel spending
$153M
salaries, wages and benefits (the personnel standard object)
Personnel spending per FTE
$126K
personnel spending divided by full-time equivalents
A full-time equivalent is a measure of employment, not a headcount: two half-time employees are one FTE. Personnel spending includes benefits and pension contributions, so per FTE it is not an average salary.
Transfer payment programs, 2023-24
The grants, contributions and other transfers Office of the Chief Electoral Officer paid, program by program: $2.3M in all, against $2.3M for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).
| Subsidies to electoral district associations' auditorsPayments | Other transfer | $868,233 |
| Reimbursement of election expenses to candidates, and payments of subsidies to candidates' auditors for other general elections and by-electionsPayments | Other transfer | $786,179 |
| Reimbursement of election expenses to candidates for the 44th general election, paid to assigned recipientPayments | Other transfer | $443,709 |
| Reimbursement of election expenses to candidates and payments of subsidies to candidates' auditors for the current year by-electionsPayments | Other transfer | $149,975 |
| Payment of subsidies to candidates' auditors for the 44th general electionPayments | Other transfer | $25,874 |
| 5 programs | $2,273,970 | |
Contracts of $10,000 and under
Contracts this small are not published one by one: Treasury Board publishes each organization's totals, by calendar year, for contracts of $10,000 and under (their original value and their amendments) and for acquisition card purchases. They are the value of contracts entered into, not what was paid in a fiscal year, so they are not part of the net expenditure above, and the years are calendar years.
| Calendar year | Goods | Services | Construction | Acquisition cards | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $33,122 | $584,600 | $0 | $16,133,811 | $16,751,532 |
| 2024 | $6,684 | $561,867 | $0 | $2,170,444 | $2,738,994 |
| 2023 | $53,399 | $606,668 | $0 | $1,908,420 | $2,568,487 |
| 2022 | $53,060 | $473,836 | $0 | $1,639,636 | $2,166,532 |
| 2020 | $83,592 | $473,155 | $0 | $1,911,718 | $2,468,466 |
| 2019 | $72,160 | $771,066 | $0 | $13,269,264 | $14,112,490 |
| 2018 | $236,657 | $733,563 | $0 | $2,026,286 | $2,996,506 |
| 2017 | $43,107 | $912,991 | $0 | $1,619,054 | $2,575,152 |
Office of the Chief Electoral Officer’s share of federal net spending
Other organizations in Public Safety, Democratic Institutions and Intergovernmental Affairs
- Public Safety Canada
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- Correctional Service Canada
- Canada Border Services Agency
- Canadian Security Intelligence Service
- Parole Board of Canada
- Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages
- Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for the RCMP
- Canadian Intergovernmental Conference Secretariat
- The Correctional Investigator Canada
- RCMP External Review Committee
- Leaders’ Debates Commission
Sources
- Public Accounts of Canada 2024, Volume II: Ministerial expenditures by standard object (Table 3)
- Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II: Transfer payments (multi-year open data)
- GC InfoBase – Federal Programs – Actual and Planned Spending (programs_spending.csv)
- GC InfoBase – Federal Programs – Actual and Planned Employees (programs_ftes.csv)
- Proactive Publication - Contracts: Aggregated Total - Contracts $10K and under
Department figures are net expenditure (Public Accounts, Volume II), which doesn’t add up to the accrual expenses of the overview’s headline. See the methodology.
