Campaign Cash

Candidate

Sambasivam, Evan

Sambasivam, Evan raised $79,048 from 85 contributors across 2 Toronto municipal campaigns, 2022–2024.

$79,048Total raised
111Contributions
85Contributors
$250Median gift
2Campaigns
0/2Won
$21.76Per vote received
Across all campaigns2 campaigns · 2022–2024

Raised by campaign

Each bar is one campaign for one office. Totals are what was filed with the City Clerk, before any contribution returned.

$36,518 · 43
2022 · Councillor, Ward 8
$42,529 · 68

Results

Official results from the City's poll-by-poll releases. Money raised per vote received divides contributions by votes — it is not what the campaign spent, because the archive holds contributions and not expenses.

CampaignOfficeVotesRaisedPer voteOutcome
2024 Councillor Ward 15 By-ElectionCouncillor W15186$36,518.40$196.34Defeated186 votes$196.34/vote
2022 Municipal ElectionCouncillor W83,447$42,529.10$12.34Defeated3,447 votes$12.34/vote

Contributor types

Individual, corporate and union money across every campaign.

Every contribution came from an individual — no corporate or union money.

When corporate and union money was allowed

Corporate and union contributions were legal in the 2006 Toronto election and flowed to every office. They were barred from city council and mayoral campaigns from the 2010 election onward.

That ban did not cover school board trustee campaigns, which ran under provincial rules and kept accepting corporate and union money legally through 2014 — 148 such contributions to Toronto District School Board trustees in 2010 and 166 in 2014. A province-wide ban closed that gap for the 2018 election.

Third party advertisers, a category that first existed in 2018, were not covered by either ban and could still accept corporate and union contributions.

A small residue of corporate contributions to council campaigns survives after the ban — 23 in 2010 and 12 in 2014 — which the City publishes as filed and does not verify.

This candidate ran for council or mayor only, so any corporate or union money here should fall in 2006.

Largest contributors

Across every campaign. A contributor is identified by their full name and postal code together; 10 of these gave in more than one election. Individuals are shown by postal area only; organizations in full.

ContributorPostal areaTotalGiftsCampaigns
Sambasivam, EvanM5M$40,411.4032
Matthews, CaroleM5M$2,400.0032
Sambasivam, HariM5M$2,400.0032
Sambasivam, MichaelM5M$2,400.0022
Kennedy, ClaireM4R$1,700.0032
Peterson, DavidM5R$1,500.0022
Orwell, SolM5T$1,010.1011
Anderson, CameronN2P$1,000.0011
George, RalphM2L$1,000.0011
Nash, TimM4X$800.0022
Lato, VirginiaM5R$750.0022
Noble, AlisonM4N$750.0022

Where the money came from

By forward sortation area — the first three characters of the postal code, which is the finest geography the City publishes for individual donors. Shading is by quantile, so each band holds a fifth of the areas with money: contribution totals are skewed enough that equal dollar intervals would put almost every area in the lightest band.

M1B: no contributions on recordM1C: no contributions on recordM1E: no contributions on recordM1G: no contributions on recordM1H: no contributions on recordM1J: no contributions on recordM1K: no contributions on recordM1L: no contributions on recordM1M: no contributions on recordM1N: no contributions on recordM1P: no contributions on recordM1R: no contributions on recordM1S: no contributions on recordM1T: no contributions on recordM1V: no contributions on recordM1W: no contributions on recordM1X: no contributions on recordM2H: no contributions on recordM2J: no contributions on recordM2K: no contributions on recordM2L: $1,750M2M: no contributions on recordM2N: no contributions on recordM2P: no contributions on recordM2R: no contributions on recordM3A: no contributions on recordM3B: no contributions on recordM3C: no contributions on recordM3H: no contributions on recordM3J: no contributions on recordM3K: no contributions on recordM3L: no contributions on recordM3M: no contributions on recordM3N: no contributions on recordM4A: no contributions on recordM4B: no contributions on recordM4C: no contributions on recordM4E: no contributions on recordM4G: $200M4H: no contributions on recordM4J: $300M4K: no contributions on recordM4L: $200M4M: no contributions on recordM4N: $5,500M4P: $500M4R: $4,100M4S: $500M4T: $1,650M4V: $108M4W: no contributions on recordM4X: $800M4Y: $350M5A: $1,100M5B: no contributions on recordM5C: no contributions on recordM5E: no contributions on recordM5G: no contributions on recordM5H: no contributions on recordM5J: no contributions on recordM5M: $48,861M5N: $150M5P: $500M5R: $5,250M5S: $750M5T: $1,010M5V: no contributions on recordM6A: no contributions on recordM6B: $368M6C: $250M6E: no contributions on recordM6G: $250M6H: no contributions on recordM6J: no contributions on recordM6K: $350M6L: no contributions on recordM6M: no contributions on recordM6N: no contributions on recordM6P: $500M6R: no contributions on recordM6S: no contributions on recordM8V: $200M8W: no contributions on recordM8X: no contributions on recordM8Y: no contributions on recordM8Z: no contributions on recordM9A: no contributions on recordM9B: no contributions on recordM9C: no contributions on recordM9L: no contributions on recordM9M: no contributions on recordM9N: no contributions on recordM9P: no contributions on recordM9R: $500M9V: no contributions on recordM9W: no contributions on record
Total contributed$108–$250$250–$368$368–$500$500–$1,650$1,650–$48,861none
26 of 96 Toronto postal areas have contributions on record. Boundaries adapted from Statistics Canada, 2021 Census cartographic boundary files.

Toronto and beyond

4% of this money came from outside Toronto, which the map above does not cover.

Toronto$75,997.50 · 96.1%
Eastern Ontario$1,050.00 · 1.3%
Central Ontario (905)$1,000.00 · 1.3%
Southwestern Ontario$1,000.00 · 1.3%

Ranked areas

$48,861 · 17
$5,500 · 19
$5,250 · 12
$4,100 · 12
$1,750 · 4
$1,650 · 5
$1,100 · 3
$1,010 · 1
$1,000 · 1
$800 · 2
One campaign at a timeFigures below describe a single campaign, not the whole career

When the money came in

Monthly totals for one campaign. Contribution dates exist only from 2018 onward; the 2006–2014 Open Data releases never published them, so earlier campaigns cannot be charted this way.

2024 Councillor Ward 15 By-Election — Councillor W15 · 4 months of contributions

$0$7k$13kJul 24Aug 24Sep 24Oct 24

Campaign detail

2024 Councillor Ward 15 By-Election

Councillor · Ward 15

Defeated186 votes$196.34/vote

Raised
$36,518.40
Contributions
43
Contributors
37
Median gift
$300
Largest
$10,000
From the candidate
$19,810

2022 Municipal Election

Councillor · Ward 8

Defeated3,447 votes$12.34/vote

Raised
$42,529.10
Contributions
68
Contributors
62
Median gift
$250
Largest
$20,601
From the candidate
$20,601
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