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OTTAWA — The Conservatives and Liberals are duking it out for the title of federal fundraising champs while the NDP watches its donations dry up.

Financial reports filed with Elections Canada show the Conservative party, long the undisputed fundraising champion, raked in $5.07 million in the second quarter of 2016 from 37,223 donors.

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That was just marginally more than the ruling Liberals, who pulled in $4.9 million from 36,080 contributors.

The New Democratic Party, meanwhile, took in just $1.08 million from 15,906 donors.

The Liberals, who took power last October, are the only federal party so far this year to see donations — and the number of contributors — increase over the first six months of 2015, albeit only slightly.

The Tories are down about $3 million and the NDP is down more than $4 million.