Candidate

Ward, Sheila

Ward, Sheila raised $35,911 from 59 contributors across 3 Toronto municipal campaigns, 2006–2014.

$35,911Total raised

69Contributions

59Contributors

$500Median gift

3Campaigns

3/3Won

$0.93Per vote received

Across all campaigns3 campaigns · 2006–2014

Raised by campaign

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

2014 · Toronto District School Board, Ward 14

$8,750 · 12

2010 · Toronto District School Board, Ward 14

$17,461 · 29

2006 · Toronto District School Board, Ward 14

$9,700 · 28

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
2014 Municipal Election	Toronto District School Board W14	17,543	$8,750.00	$0.50	Elected17,543 votes$0.50/vote
2010 Municipal Election	Toronto District School Board W14	13,844	$17,460.55	$1.26	Elected13,844 votes$1.26/vote
2006 Municipal Election	Toronto District School Board W14	7,289	$9,700.00	$1.33	Elected7,289 votes$1.33/vote

Contributor types

Individual, corporate and union money across every campaign.

Individual: $23,561 (66%)

Corporation: $7,100 (20%)

Trade Union: $5,250 (15%)

Individual66% · $23,561 · 49 giftsCorporation20% · $7,100 · 12 giftsTrade Union15% · $5,250 · 8 gifts

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 a school board, where corporate and union contributions remained legal through the 2014 election.

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. 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
443472 Ontario Ltd combined from 2 records	M4W 2P7	$2,250.00	3	3
Ruth, Nancy	M4W	$2,250.00	3	3
Maintenance & Construction Skilled Trades Council	M1S 5B9	$1,500.00	2	2
Ward, Sheila	M5T	$1,010.55	1	1
McQuaid, Patricia	M4T	$1,000.00	2	2
Liptay, Christine	M4W	$950.00	2	2
Opler, Susan combined from 2 records	M4T	$850.00	2	2
864503 Ontario Ltd.	M5S 1M2	$750.00	1	1
Carpenters District Council of Ontario	L4L 9T2	$750.00	1	1
Castleberry Investments Ltd.	M2N 6K8	$750.00	1	1
Evanowich, Glen	M4W	$750.00	1	1
Garden, Stan	M5S	$750.00	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$200$200–$400$400–$750$750–$1,500$1,500–$7,450none

30 of 96 Toronto postal areas have contributions on record. 1 Toronto code has no shape on the map because nobody lives there, carrying $200. Statistics Canada draws only areas with residents, and downtown office towers such as M5X have none. Another 1 code carrying $2,250 is not a real postal area at all, most likely a typing error in the filings. Boundaries adapted from Statistics Canada, 2021 Census cartographic boundary files.