Candidate

Shan, Neethan

Shan, Neethan raised $274,307 from 512 contributors across 5 Toronto municipal campaigns, 2010–2025.

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

$274,307Total raised

591Contributions

512Contributors

$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 what was filed with the City Clerk, before any contribution 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 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 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; 7 of these gave in more than one election. Individuals are shown by postal area only; organizations in full.

Contributor	Postal area	Total	Gifts	Campaigns
Shan, Neethan	M1X	$52,779.27	6	3
Sinnathamby, Shanmugarajah	L3S	$3,450.00	6	5
Yanez, Gissel	M6E	$3,425.00	7	3
Shanmugarajah, Yalini	L3S	$1,600.00	4	3
Koneswaran, Rangith	M1X	$1,500.00	2	2
Vinayagamoorthy, Nimalraj	L3S	$1,500.00	2	2
Navaneethan, Thadsha	M1X	$1,400.00	3	2
Cerqueira, Salome	M4V	$1,200.00	1	1
Hamdani, Hussein	L7L	$1,200.00	1	1
Higgins, Charles	M4V	$1,200.00	1	1
James, Michelle	L1V	$1,200.00	1	1
Kalingarajan, Prasanna	L6P	$1,200.00	1	1

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 further Toronto codes carrying $420 have no polygon to draw: Statistics Canada builds the file from the census, so codes with no residential population are absent — which is what downtown office towers like M5K and M5X are. 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