Candidate

Shan, Neethan

Shan, Neethan raised $274,307 from 473 contributors across 5 Toronto municipal campaigns, 2010–2025.

Photo: City of Toronto, 2022-2026 council term.

$274,307Total raised

591Contributions

473Contributors

$300Median gift

5Campaigns

2/5Won

$7.78Per vote received

Across all campaigns5 campaigns · 2010–2025

Raised by campaign

Each bar is one campaign for one office. Totals are contributions filed with the City Clerk, less any the campaign returned.

2025 Councillor Ward 25 By-Election · Councillor, Ward 25

$75,633 · 163

2022 · Toronto District School Board, Ward 17

$45,613 · 43

2018 (25 Wards) · Councillor, Ward 25

$68,755 · 183

2014 · Councillor, Ward 42

$41,710 · 72

2010 · Councillor, Ward 42

$42,596 · 130

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.

Campaign	Office	Votes	Raised	Per vote	Outcome
2025 Councillor Ward 25 By-Election	Councillor W25	5,174	$75,633.30	$14.62	Elected5,174 votes$14.62/vote
2022 Municipal Election	Toronto District School Board W17	4,363	$45,613.00	$10.45	Elected4,363 votes$10.45/vote
2018 Municipal Election (25 Wards)	Councillor W25	11,470	$68,755.00	$5.99	Defeated11,470 votes$5.99/vote
2014 Municipal Election	Councillor W42	7,393	$41,709.98	$5.64	Defeated7,393 votes$5.64/vote
2010 Municipal Election	Councillor W42	6,873	$42,596.00	$6.20	Defeated6,873 votes$6.20/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 still legal in the 2006 Toronto election. They were banned for city council and mayoral campaigns starting in 2010.

But that ban did not cover school board trustee campaigns. They kept accepting corporate and union contributions until a province-wide ban took effect for the 2018 election.

Third party advertisers, which were required to register starting in 2018, can still accept corporate and union contributions.

A small number of corporate contributions to council campaigns exists in the database after the ban. Some may have been for goods and services, or improperly recorded. The data doesn't tell us.

This candidate ran for both council and a school board, which were covered by the two bans at different times.

Largest contributors

Across every campaign. A contributor is identified by their full name and postal code together; 15 of these gave in more than one election. Rows marked “combined” bring together records filed under different spellings or postal codes, matched by hand. Individuals are shown by postal area only; organizations in full.

Contributor	Postal area	Total	Gifts	Campaigns
Shan, Neethan	M1X	$52,779.27	6	3
Yanez, Gissel combined from 2 records	M6E	$3,925.00	8	4
Sinnathamby, Shanmugarajah	L3S	$3,450.00	6	5
Vinayagamoorthy, Nimalraj combined from 3 records	L3S	$2,800.00	4	4
Koneswaran, Rangith combined from 2 records	M1X	$2,700.00	3	3
Navaneethan, Thadsha combined from 3 records	M1X	$2,300.00	5	4
Navaratnam, Kubes combined from 4 records	L1S	$2,300.00	4	4
Cerqueira, Salome combined from 3 records	M4W	$2,250.00	3	3
Higgins, Charles combined from 2 records	M4W	$1,950.00	2	2
Nieto, Robin combined from 3 records	M6E	$1,900.00	5	2
Yanez, Juan combined from 2 records	M5N	$1,750.00	2	2
Shanmugarajah, Yalini	L3S	$1,600.00	4	3

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.

Total contributed$120–$320$320–$800$800–$1,300$1,300–$2,350$2,350–$67,999none

57 of 96 Toronto postal areas have contributions on record. 2 Toronto codes carrying $420 are not real postal areas at all, most likely typing errors in the filings. Boundaries adapted from Statistics Canada, 2021 Census cartographic boundary files.

Toronto and beyond

40% of this money came from outside Toronto, which the map above does not cover.

Toronto$165,012.27 · 60.2%

Central Ontario (905)$106,875.01 · 39.0%

Eastern Ontario$1,670.00 · 0.6%

Southwestern Ontario$600.00 · 0.2%

Northern Ontario$150.00 · 0.1%

Ranked areas

$67,999 · 49

$29,125 · 75

$12,570 · 36

$8,170 · 23

$7,900 · 13

$7,575 · 15

$7,570 · 22

$6,340 · 19

$5,050 · 13

$4,071 · 11

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.

Campaign

2025 Councillor Ward 25 By-Election — Councillor W25 · 8 months of contributions