There is a little over a month left until Montgomery's city elections take place. Nearly 40 candidates have qualified in both the mayor and the City Council races, and some campaigns have begun to separate themselves financially.

While the money spent by a candidate doesn't automatically translate into success, several mayoral campaigns have vastly out raised their opponents.

Steven Reed and David Woods lead the pack, according to publicly available campaign finance forms. Both candidates have raised more than $300,000, a threshold seen by many as a necessity in the mayoral race.

Ed Crowell has raised more than $150,000, a sizable amount. Artur Davis, Elton Dean and JC Love all have raised enough money to get their names out.

Money also started to flow in from political action committees last month, and several candidates now have more than 10% of their total hauls donated by the political money groups.

The groups, which infamously help shroud political dollars, had given in previous months, but June was especially active.

The other candidates certainly shouldn't be counted out, but they face an uphill battle as leaders will be able to blanket the airwaves over the final stretch. Four campaigns haven't shown a single dollar raised, either failing to file campaign fiance forms or showing no money on their forms, putting them at a significant disadvantage.

Here are the latest numbers from June. Figures are current as of July 17.

Mayor

Ed Crowell

Cash on hand: $129,315

Money raised so far: $168,875

Dollars spent: $27,560

Note: A little more than 10% of Crowell's money has come from PACs.

Some of those funds came from PACs run by Fine Geddie, whose stated purposed is "to promote candidates who share a common philosophy for pro-industry pro-development business and education environment for Alabama."

Artur Davis

Cash on hand: $2,941

Money raised so far: $70,741

Dollars spent: $67,800

Note: While Davis has the highest percentage overall of PAC contributions at almost 13%, his PAC funding — unlike other candidates — exclusively came in past months instead of the vast inflow this month.

Ronald Davis

Cash on hand: $3,305

Money raised so far: $5,912

Dollars spent: $1,856

Elton Dean

Cash on hand: $20,083

Money raised so far: $55,825

Dollars spent: $35,693

Note: Dean has brought in a little less than 10% of his contributions through PACs. Almost all of it came from engineering and architecture firm Goodwyn, Mills and Cawood's PAC.

Victorrus Felder

Cash on hand: $1,100

Money raised so far: $1,070

Dollars spent: $40

JC Love

Cash on hand: $16,689

Money raised so far: $38,050

Dollars spent: $21,995

Steven Reed

Cash on hand: $112,035

Money raised so far: $307,068

Dollars spent: $190,583

Note: Almost 12% of Reed's funding has come from political action committees, he has the highest total sum in the field. While it is only a fraction of his total amount, the over $35,000 raised from PACs is more than six of his candidates have raised total from all sources.

Much of that money came from two chain PACs run by Michael Echols — whose stated purpose is to elect "fiscally conservative candidates for various political offices" — and Heather Darby Coleman, whose group's are considered pro-business, according to Birmingham Watch.

David Woods

Cash on hand: $210,331

Money raised so far: $307,380

Dollars spent: $94,449

Butler Browder, Hobson Cox, Shannon Ferrari and Bibby Simmons have yet to file campaign finance forms. David Sadler, who announced his intention to run in the race, did not qualify.

City Council

District 1

Richard Bollinger (incumbent)

Cash on hand: $9,816

Money raised so far: $10,510

Dollars spent: $1,273

Carlton Avery

Cash on hand: $0

Money raised so far: $0

Dollars spent: $0

District 2

Brantley Lyons (incumbent)

Cash on hand: $350

Money raised so far: $1,232

Dollars spent: $882

Thomas Bass (not pictured)

Cash on hand: $0

Money raised so far: $0

Dollars spent: $0

Eric Satcher (not pictured)

Cash on hand: $160

Money raised so far: $1,134

Dollars spent: $974

District 3

Tracy Larkin (incumbent)

Cash on hand: $0

Money raised so far: $0

Dollars spent: $0

Ernest Claybon

Cash on hand: $724

Money raised so far: $1,300

Dollars spent: $1,125

Marche Johnson

Cash on hand: $689

Money raised so far: $12,798

Dollars spent: $3,639

Patricia Holliday June

Cash on hand: $1,322

Money raised so far: $3,502

Dollars spent: $1,040

Ron Sanders (not pictured)

Cash on hand: $0

Money raised so far: $0

Dollars spent: $0

District 4

Audrey Graham (incumbent)

Cash on hand: $284

Money raised so far: $1,301

Dollars spent: $421

William Boyd

Cash on hand: $0

Money raised so far: $0

Dollars spent: $0

James Brown Jr.

Cash on hand: $0

Money raised so far: $0

Dollars spent: $0

District 5

William Green (incumbent)

Cash on hand: $1,954

Money raised so far: $1,850

Dollars spent: $256

CC Calhoun

Cash on hand: $2,540

Money raised so far: $15,360

Dollars spent: $12,320

Roosevelt Crawford

Cash on hand: $0

Money raised so far: $0

Dollars spent: $0

Phyllis Harvey Hall

Cash on hand: $644

Money raised so far: $1,446

Dollars spent: $751

District 6

Jon Dow

Cash on hand: $801

Money raised so far: $2,650

Dollars spent: $1,126

Michael Jackson (not pictured)

Cash on hand: $0

Money raised so far: $0

Dollars spent: $0

Katina James

Cash on hand: $615

Money raised so far: $4,331

Dollars spent: $143

Emma Johnson

Cash on hand: $0

Money raised so far: $490

Dollars spent: $0

Note: All money comes from in-kind contributions

Oronde Mitchell

Cash on hand: $2,188

Money raised so far: $4,352

Dollars spent: $2,164

District 7

Clay McInnis

Cash on hand: $30,691

Money raised so far: $53,768

Dollars spent: $23,077

Johnnie Sankey

Cash on hand: $132

Money raised so far: $2,691

Dollars spent: $2,711

District 8

Glen Pruitt (incumbent)

Cash on hand: $7,676

Money raised so far: $11,250

Dollars spent: $3,576

Chad DuBois

Cash on hand: $400

Money raised so far: $2,407

Dollars spent: $2,051

District 9

Charles Jinright (incumbent)

Cash on hand: $6,571

Money raised so far: $0

Dollars spent: $0

Note: Money is left over from last election