Progress for Langley’s 2025 Filing: Less Fundraising, More Cash on Hand
I was looking through the annual financial reports filed with Elections BC for Langley elector organizations and one filing that stood out was the 2025 annual report for Progress for Langley.
For comparison purposes, I looked at the amended 2024 report filed under Contract With Langley and the 2025 report filed under Progress for Langley. This is the same elector organization. The name change is not new information, but it matters for reading the filings side by side.
Did Progress for Langley report less fundraising in 2025 than the same organization reported in 2024?
Fact Check: Yes, based on the Elections BC annual reports
The 2025 annual report for Progress for Langley lists $158,763 in campaign contributions.
The amended 2024 annual report, filed under Contract With Langley, lists $274,171 in campaign contributions.
That is a difference of $115,408.
Put another way, the organization reported about 42 percent less in campaign contributions in 2025 than it reported in 2024.
That does not tell us why contributions were lower. It also does not tell us whether the organization’s political support went up, down, or sideways. It simply tells us what was reported in the annual filings.
Did the organization still end 2025 with more money in its campaign accounts?
Fact Check: Yes
This is where the filing gets a bit more interesting.
The 2025 report lists $496,063 in campaign accounts at year-end.
The amended 2024 report lists $338,805 in campaign accounts at the end of 2024.
So even though the organization reported lower contributions in 2025, it ended the year with a higher campaign-account balance than it had a year earlier.
The increase was about $157,258, using the year-end account balances in the two reports.
Was the higher balance mainly because the organization spent very little in 2025?
Fact Check: That appears to be a primary explanation reflected in the filings
The 2025 statement of income and expenses reports $1,504 in total expenses.
The amended 2024 report lists $9,942 in total expenses.
The 2025 filing also shows zero dollars for transfers and other listed income categories outside campaign contributions.
That means the basic picture is pretty simple: Progress for Langley reported $158,763 in contributions, spent $1,504, and reported a surplus of $157,259.
That reported surplus is essentially the same as the increase in the organization’s campaign-account balance from the end of 2024 to the end of 2025. There is a one-dollar difference between the balance-change math and the reported surplus, which may just reflect rounding or a minor reporting difference, but either way the direction is clear.
This information indicates that firstly, the organization reported less fundraising in 2025 than it did in 2024. And second, it ended 2025 with more money in campaign accounts, which corresponds with very low reported spending during the year.
That
is not necessarily good or bad on its own. A larger campaign-account balance can give an elector organization more room to spend later, especially as the next municipal election gets closer. But the filing does not, on its face, show a year of higher fundraising than the year before. It shows a year where the organization raised less than the year before and reported very low spending.
As usual with these filings, the documents tell us what was reported: contributions, expenses, surplus, and year-end balances, not the donors’ intentions, why spending was so limited, or what the organization plans to do with the money later.