Campaign Cash
Stintz, Karen, who held elected office

Candidate

Stintz, Karen

Stintz, Karen raised $333,356 from 497 contributors across 3 Toronto municipal campaigns, 2006–2014.

Photo: City of Toronto.

$333,356Total raised
541Contributions
497Contributors
$300Median gift
3Campaigns
2/2Won
$4.42Per vote received
Across all campaigns3 campaigns · 2006–2014

Raised by campaign

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

2014 · Mayor
$242,805 · 244
2010 · Councillor, Ward 16
$49,051 · 171
2006 · Councillor, Ward 16
$41,500 · 126

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
2014 Municipal ElectionMayor$242,805.00Dropped out
2010 Municipal ElectionCouncillor W1611,607$49,051.00$4.23Elected11,607 votes$4.23/vote
2006 Municipal ElectionCouncillor W168,880$41,500.00$4.67Elected8,880 votes$4.67/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; 6 of these gave in more than one election. Individuals are shown by postal area only; organizations in full.

ContributorPostal areaTotalGiftsCampaigns
Laren, DavidM2N$3,250.0022
Singer, MiguelM5N$3,250.0032
Brown, PaulM5M$3,200.0033
Rizakos, PeterM4R$3,000.0022
Pavkovic, MarkM9R$2,800.0022
Pettingill, AlexanderM5N$2,650.0022
Barnicke, PeterM4N$2,500.0021
Barnicke, VictoriaM4N$2,500.0011
Bear, MurrayM4N$2,500.0011
Boutros, Jean PierreM4R$2,500.0011
Budden, BrianM4R$2,500.0011
Cohen, BarryM2P$2,500.0011

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: $500M1E: no contributions on recordM1G: $250M1H: no contributions on recordM1J: no contributions on recordM1K: no contributions on recordM1L: $150M1M: $200M1N: $500M1P: $300M1R: no contributions on recordM1S: no contributions on recordM1T: $150M1V: no contributions on recordM1W: $700M1X: $200M2H: no contributions on recordM2J: $2,600M2K: $200M2L: $3,200M2M: $1,500M2N: $6,450M2P: $5,950M2R: no contributions on recordM3A: $1,450M3B: $2,450M3C: $4,300M3H: $5,000M3J: $1,400M3K: no contributions on recordM3L: no contributions on recordM3M: no contributions on recordM3N: $300M4A: no contributions on recordM4B: no contributions on recordM4C: no contributions on recordM4E: $2,000M4G: $2,850M4H: no contributions on recordM4J: $2,775M4K: $4,700M4L: $1,000M4M: $150M4N: $27,700M4P: $2,100M4R: $43,095M4S: $6,820M4T: $850M4V: $9,750M4W: $11,330M4X: $3,950M4Y: $2,300M5A: $851M5B: $200M5C: $450M5E: $2,150M5G: no contributions on recordM5H: $7,950M5J: $5,350M5M: $21,050M5N: $21,960M5P: $25,275M5R: $8,800M5S: $1,850M5T: $2,250M5V: $2,000M6A: $6,950M6B: $2,500M6C: $200M6E: $500M6G: $150M6H: $400M6J: $1,000M6K: $500M6L: $300M6M: no contributions on recordM6N: no contributions on recordM6P: $150M6R: no contributions on recordM6S: $1,925M8V: $875M8W: no contributions on recordM8X: $1,400M8Y: no contributions on recordM8Z: $2,500M9A: $4,300M9B: no contributions on recordM9C: no contributions on recordM9L: no contributions on recordM9M: no contributions on recordM9N: $600M9P: $1,250M9R: $3,000M9V: $300M9W: $2,200
Total contributed$150–$300$300–$1,000$1,000–$2,200$2,200–$5,000$5,000–$43,095none
69 of 96 Toronto postal areas have contributions on record. 4 further Toronto codes carrying $3,450 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

12% of this money came from outside Toronto, which the map above does not cover.

Toronto$293,706.00 · 88.1%
Central Ontario (905)$34,050.00 · 10.2%
Eastern Ontario$4,700.00 · 1.4%
Southwestern Ontario$900.00 · 0.3%

Ranked areas

$43,095 · 67
$27,700 · 26
$25,275 · 21
$21,960 · 48
$21,050 · 60
$11,330 · 16
$9,750 · 16
$8,800 · 15
$7,950 · 7
$6,950 · 7
One campaign at a timeFigures below describe a single campaign, not the whole career

Campaign detail

2014 Municipal Election

Mayor

Dropped out

Raised
$242,805.00
Contributions
244
Contributors
234
Median gift
$750
Largest
$2,500

2010 Municipal Election

Councillor · Ward 16

Elected11,607 votes$4.23/vote

Raised
$49,051.00
Contributions
171
Contributors
170
Median gift
$250
Largest
$750

2006 Municipal Election

Councillor · Ward 16

Elected8,880 votes$4.67/vote

Raised
$41,500.00
Contributions
126
Contributors
124
Median gift
$200
Largest
$750
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