Campaign Cash

Candidate

Ward, Sheila

Ward, Sheila raised $35,911 from 61 contributors across 3 Toronto municipal campaigns, 2006–2014.

$35,911Total raised
69Contributions
61Contributors
$500Median gift
3Campaigns
3/3Won
$1.42Per 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 · 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.

CampaignOfficeVotesRaisedPer voteOutcome
2014 Municipal ElectionToronto District School Board W149,856$8,750.00$0.89Elected9,856 votes$0.89/vote
2010 Municipal ElectionToronto District School Board W148,134$17,460.55$2.15Elected8,134 votes$2.15/vote
2006 Municipal ElectionToronto District School Board W147,289$9,700.00$1.33Elected7,289 votes$1.33/vote

Contributor types

Individual, corporate and union money across every campaign.

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 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 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; 5 of these gave in more than one election. Individuals are shown by postal area only; organizations in full.

ContributorPostal areaTotalGiftsCampaigns
Ruth, NancyM4W$2,250.0033
443472 Ontario LtdM4W 2P7$1,500.0022
Maintenance & Construction Skilled Trades CouncilM1S 5B9$1,500.0022
Ward, SheilaM5T$1,010.5511
McQuaid, PatriciaM4T$1,000.0022
Liptay, ChristineM4W$950.0022
864503 Ontario Ltd.M5S 1M2$750.0011
Carpenters District Council of OntarioL4L 9T2$750.0011
Castleberry Investments Ltd.M2N 6K8$750.0011
Evanowich, GlenM4W$750.0011
Garden, StanM5S$750.0011
Krugarand CorporationM5S 2V1$750.0011

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: no contributions on recordM1E: no contributions on recordM1G: no contributions on recordM1H: no contributions on recordM1J: no contributions on recordM1K: no contributions on recordM1L: $500M1M: no contributions on recordM1N: no contributions on recordM1P: $250M1R: no contributions on recordM1S: $2,250M1T: 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: no contributions on recordM2M: no contributions on recordM2N: $750M2P: $300M2R: no contributions on recordM3A: no contributions on recordM3B: no contributions on recordM3C: no contributions on recordM3H: $750M3J: $750M3K: no contributions on recordM3L: no contributions on recordM3M: no contributions on recordM3N: no contributions on recordM4A: $750M4B: $200M4C: no contributions on recordM4E: no contributions on recordM4G: $200M4H: no contributions on recordM4J: no contributions on recordM4K: $200M4L: $200M4M: no contributions on recordM4N: $500M4P: no contributions on recordM4R: no contributions on recordM4S: no contributions on recordM4T: $3,050M4V: no contributions on recordM4W: $7,450M4X: no contributions on recordM4Y: no contributions on recordM5A: $200M5B: no contributions on recordM5C: no contributions on recordM5E: $900M5G: $500M5H: no contributions on recordM5J: no contributions on recordM5M: $200M5N: $750M5P: $1,500M5R: $250M5S: $2,250M5T: $1,761M5V: no contributions on recordM6A: no contributions on recordM6B: $750M6C: no contributions on recordM6E: no contributions on recordM6G: $400M6H: $1,500M6J: no contributions on recordM6K: no contributions on recordM6L: no contributions on recordM6M: $200M6N: no contributions on recordM6P: no contributions on recordM6R: no contributions on recordM6S: $450M8V: no contributions on recordM8W: no contributions on recordM8X: no contributions on recordM8Y: no contributions on recordM8Z: no contributions on recordM9A: $200M9B: no contributions on recordM9C: no contributions on recordM9L: no contributions on recordM9M: no contributions on recordM9N: no contributions on recordM9P: no contributions on recordM9R: no contributions on recordM9V: no contributions on recordM9W: no contributions on record
Total contributed$200$200–$400$400–$750$750–$1,500$1,500–$7,450none
30 of 96 Toronto postal areas have contributions on record. 2 further Toronto codes carrying $2,450 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

10% of this money came from outside Toronto, which the map above does not cover.

Toronto$32,360.55 · 90.1%
Central Ontario (905)$3,550.00 · 9.9%

Ranked areas

$7,450 · 14
$3,050 · 7
$2,250 · 3
$2,250 · 3
$2,250 · 3
$1,761 · 2
$1,500 · 2
$1,500 · 2
$1,250 · 2
$900 · 2
One campaign at a timeFigures below describe a single campaign, not the whole career

Campaign detail

2014 Municipal Election

Toronto District School Board · Ward 14

Elected9,856 votes$0.89/vote

Raised
$8,750.00
Contributions
12
Contributors
12
Median gift
$750
Largest
$750

2010 Municipal Election

Toronto District School Board · Ward 14

Elected8,134 votes$2.15/vote

Raised
$17,460.55
Contributions
29
Contributors
29
Median gift
$750
Largest
$1,011
From the candidate
$1,011

2006 Municipal Election

Toronto District School Board · Ward 14

Elected7,289 votes$1.33/vote

Raised
$9,700.00
Contributions
28
Contributors
28
Median gift
$250
Largest
$750
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