A tally of campaign dollars candidates pulled in May showed that labor lawyer Matt Patton was the top fundraiser in the race to replace outgoing Frank Baker as District 3’s city councillor.

A Savin Hill resident, Patton raised $38,490, including $500 from former Gov. Deval Patrick and $250 from former Congressman John Tierney. Patton previously worked for them, as well as for former mayoral candidate John Barros, whose family also added to the campaign kitty for May.

Patton’s list of donors also includes other bold-faced names in Democratic politics, including Mark Kennedy Shriver ($1,000), strategist Doug Rubin ($500), Cape Cod state Sen. Julian Cyr ($200), communications executive Conor Yunits ($200), and Roger Lau, a top official at the Democratic National Committee ($100).

Shannon Liss-Riordan, the co-founder of the law firm that employs Patton and a former candidate for state attorney general, donated $1,000.

Patton had $34,110 in cash on hand at the end of the month.

Baker announced he would not run for a second two-year term in April, meaning May was the first full month of fundraising for a growing field of candidates.

John FitzGerald, a Boston Planning and Development Agency official who lives in Adams Village, raised $18,000, with some of the cash coming from his current and former colleagues at the authority. Teachers, police officers, attorneys, and carpenters also pitched in. The North Atlantic Regional Council of Carpenters, a Dorchester-based union, donated $500; former city clerk and District 3 Councillor Maureen Feeney gave $200. Both had endorsed him last month, as did IBEW Local 103. FitzGerald had $11,626 in cash on hand at the end of the month.

Joel Richards, a Boston Public Schools teacher from Fields Corner who jumped into the race last December, raised $15,551 in May, with $30,281 in cash left at the end of the month. Many of his donors included teachers from the school system.

Adams Village resident Pat O’Brien, an Army veteran and Department of Transportation official, raised $11,300 while Jennifer Johnson, a Meeting House Hill civic activist, raised $2,166.

In other accounts, Barry Lawton, a former schoolteacher and government aide, loaned himself $672; Rosalind Wornum, a housing activist from Ashmont, has not yet filed fundraising numbers for May, while an eighth candidate, Ann M. Walsh of Lower Mills, a nonprofit leader and former City Council aide, jumped in at the beginning of June. Walsh said Wednesday she raised $11,500 over the last six days.