Candidate for Councillor in Ward 21 Scarborough Centre, running on transit, road safety and spending.
Madura Shanmugaratnam is on the City of Toronto’s list of certified candidates for Councillor in Ward 21 Scarborough Centre, with a nomination filed on May 11, 2026. Her campaign website says she is running because Ward 21 has been overlooked for too long. The Local says she works as a coordinator at Laurentian Bank, according to her LinkedIn page.
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Madura Shanmugaratnam appears on the City of Toronto’s list of certified candidates for Councillor in Ward 21 Scarborough Centre. A certified candidate is one whose nomination the City Clerk has accepted. The list shows the nomination date as May 11, 2026 and the campaign website madura4ward21.ca.
Her campaign website, the campaign’s own statement, says she is running for City Council because she believes Ward 21 has been overlooked for too long. It says she is committed to advocating for reliable transit, safer roads, improved city services for families and responsible spending that puts residents’ everyday needs first, and that she wants to bring a new community-focused voice to City Hall. Its menu lists About, Education, Contact and Volunteer sections, and only the home page was read.
The Local’s candidate tracker, written by that outlet’s journalists, says she works as a coordinator at Laurentian Bank, according to her LinkedIn page, and that she has been involved with the Toronto District School Board’s Parent Involvement Advisory Committee. It says she has no platform available online beyond her website. voche.me did not open her LinkedIn page and did not check either statement with the bank or the board.
TTCriders’ Ward 21 page records no response from her to its 18 transit questions, and Build Canada’s page lists her as yet to answer its questionnaire.
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Her website says she will advocate for reliable transit, safer roads, improved city services for families, and responsible spending that puts residents’ everyday needs first, because property taxes are increasing and residents should see improvements in services and infrastructure.
Madura Shanmugaratnam · campaign websiteEvidence reviewed on October 4, 2026: the City of Toronto’s list of certified candidates, its Members of Council page, her campaign website home page, The Local’s Ward 21 tracker, Build Canada’s Ward 21 page, TTCriders’ Ward 21 page and The Green Line’s list of events for council candidates. Every statement taken from her campaign website is written as the campaign’s own account.
Ward context. The sitting Ward 21 councillor on the City’s Members of Council page is Michael Thompson, who is also a candidate. The 11 candidates on the City’s list are Taiba Ahmed, Bahareh Barahmand, Patience Evbagharu, Uthish Ganesh, Stella Kargiannakis, Nisha Kumari, Akina Lalla, Willie Reodica, Madura Shanmugaratnam, Michael Thompson and Krissan Veerasingam. The City Clerk’s 2022 results for Ward 21 list 6 candidates: Michael Thompson (9,977 votes, elected), Muhammad Ayub (2,478), Paul Beatty (1,857), Kiri Vadivelu (1,800), Hansie Daniel (1,375) and Luigi Lisciandro (570). Of the 2026 candidates, only Michael Thompson appears in the Clerk’s Ward 21 results. Build Canada’s Ward 21 page says 1 of 11 candidates, Taiba Ahmed, had answered its questionnaire. TTCriders’ Ward 21 page lists 8 of the 11 candidates and records answers to its 18 questions from 3 of them: Michael Thompson, Bahareh Barahmand and Krissan Veerasingam. The Green Line’s list of events for council candidates, opened on October 4, 2026, has no entry naming Ward 21 or Scarborough Centre, so voche.me states no debate date, host or attendance.
Gaps. Her website links Instagram and LinkedIn accounts. Her Instagram profile opened with a web reader and returned only profile details and post thumbnails, with no readable post text, so nothing from it is used. Her LinkedIn page was not opened. The employer and the school board committee come from The Local alone, and no other source ties them to her. The questionnaire has not been sent.
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