The report, «By the People: The New York City Campaign
Finance Program in the 2013
Elections,» shows, among other things, that: the number
of candidates participating in the
public - funding system in 2013 remained high; more than two - thirds
of all New York City contributors gave $ 175 or less; and more than 90 percent
of the
total raised came from individual contributors, rather than from PACs or unions.