Campaign Cash
Karygiannis, Jim, who held elected office

Candidate

Karygiannis, Jim

Karygiannis, Jim raised $397,250 from 652 contributors across 2 Toronto municipal campaigns, 2014–2018.

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$397,250Total raised
683Contributions
652Contributors
$300Median gift
2Campaigns
2/2Won
$18.03Per vote received
Across all campaigns2 campaigns · 2014–2018

Raised by campaign

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

2018 (25 Wards) · Councillor, Ward 22
$317,849 · 442
2014 · Councillor, Ward 39
$79,400 · 241

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
2018 Municipal Election (25 Wards)Councillor W2212,593$317,849.44$25.24Elected12,593 votes$25.24/vote
2014 Municipal ElectionCouncillor W399,438$79,400.44$8.41Elected9,438 votes$8.41/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; 1 of these gave in more than one election. Individuals are shown by postal area only; organizations in full.

ContributorPostal areaTotalGiftsCampaigns
Karygiannis, JimM1W$12,898.8832
Anparasan, SivachchelviL6A$1,200.0011
BEAMER, JEREMYM1W$1,200.0011
Bekederemo, PereL6Y$1,200.0011
Berlinghoff, ChrisN0B$1,200.0011
Brandley, JoshuaM6B$1,200.0011
Burgess, RamonaL1B$1,200.0011
CHAMBERLAIN, KYLE ANDREWM1R$1,200.0011
Chapnik, JasonM6C$1,200.0011
CHAU, THIEN HUNGM1W$1,200.0011
CHEN, CHUM1W$1,200.0011
Chen, ChunpingM1W$1,200.0011

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: $3,600M1C: $1,300M1E: $800M1G: no contributions on recordM1H: no contributions on recordM1J: no contributions on recordM1K: $4,100M1L: $300M1M: no contributions on recordM1N: no contributions on recordM1P: $1,000M1R: $2,700M1S: $12,200M1T: $10,750M1V: $30,200M1W: $31,500M1X: no contributions on recordM2H: $2,200M2J: $2,400M2K: $4,900M2L: $3,500M2M: $2,300M2N: $13,700M2P: $1,500M2R: no contributions on recordM3A: $1,800M3B: $5,000M3C: $4,100M3H: $2,700M3J: no contributions on recordM3K: no contributions on recordM3L: no contributions on recordM3M: $300M3N: $300M4A: no contributions on recordM4B: $500M4C: $1,800M4E: no contributions on recordM4G: no contributions on recordM4H: no contributions on recordM4J: no contributions on recordM4K: $2,250M4L: no contributions on recordM4M: $500M4N: $200M4P: no contributions on recordM4R: $1,200M4S: $1,000M4T: no contributions on recordM4V: $1,200M4W: no contributions on recordM4X: no contributions on recordM4Y: $1,700M5A: $1,050M5B: no contributions on recordM5C: no contributions on recordM5E: no contributions on recordM5G: $500M5H: no contributions on recordM5J: $1,000M5M: $2,400M5N: $1,200M5P: $4,600M5R: $1,700M5S: $1,200M5T: $900M5V: $1,200M6A: no contributions on recordM6B: $2,000M6C: $2,400M6E: no contributions on recordM6G: no contributions on recordM6H: $800M6J: $1,000M6K: $500M6L: $200M6M: no contributions on recordM6N: no contributions on recordM6P: no contributions on recordM6R: no contributions on recordM6S: no contributions on recordM8V: $300M8W: $200M8X: no contributions on recordM8Y: no contributions on recordM8Z: no contributions on recordM9A: $1,250M9B: $300M9C: no contributions on recordM9L: no contributions on recordM9M: no contributions on recordM9N: $300M9P: $2,400M9R: $1,500M9V: $7,200M9W: $6,600
Total contributed$200–$500$500–$1,200$1,200–$2,000$2,000–$4,100$4,100–$31,500none
58 of 96 Toronto postal areas have contributions on record. 2 further Toronto codes carrying $1,000 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

50% of this money came from outside Toronto, which the map above does not cover.

Toronto$197,199.88 · 49.6%
Central Ontario (905)$194,350.00 · 48.9%
Southwestern Ontario$5,700.00 · 1.4%

Ranked areas

$31,500 · 33
$30,200 · 34
$20,500 · 29
$17,900 · 60
$15,250 · 17
$14,800 · 14
$13,700 · 20
$12,850 · 45
$12,200 · 11
$11,200 · 13
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.

2018 Municipal Election (25 Wards) — Councillor W22 · 10 months of contributions

$0$51k$102kMay 18Jul 18Sep 18Nov 18Jun 19Jul 19

Campaign detail

2018 Municipal Election (25 Wards)

Councillor · Ward 22

Elected12,593 votes$25.24/vote

Raised
$317,849.44
Contributions
442
Contributors
440
Median gift
$500
Largest
$6,349
From the candidate
$6,549

2014 Municipal Election

Councillor · Ward 39

Elected9,438 votes$8.41/vote

Raised
$79,400.44
Contributions
241
Contributors
235
Median gift
$300
Largest
$6,349
From the candidate
$6,349
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