Stella Kargiannakis

Stella Kargiannakis 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 August 6, 2026 and the campaign website citizenreview.ca.

Her campaign website, the campaign’s own statement, says she is retired, born and raised in Toronto, not affiliated with any political party, and does not accept donations or contributions of any type. It describes public office as a civic responsibility and not a career. Under “remunerated experience” it lists a role as a Project Development Officer at a municipal non-profit housing corporation in the 1980s, work as a housing market analyst for the building and development industry, a business partnership with a TICO retail and wholesale licence, daycare administration and restaurant management. voche.me did not check any of these entries with the organizations.

Her home page says she fights for taxpayers, tracks public spending and calls out ideas she considers absurd, and links her written submissions to the City’s Budget Committee in January 2024 and January 2026 and a statement she made at the Executive Committee on August 24, 2023. voche.me opened none of them.

The City Clerk’s declaration of results for the October 24, 2022 general election lists Stella Kargiannakis with 700 votes for Councillor in Ward 16 Don Valley East, where Jon Burnside won with 8,147 votes. She was sixth of the 11 candidates the Clerk lists. The 11 declared totals add up to 18,234 votes, so her share was 3.8 percent, calculated by voche.me from those figures. The Local ties that entry to her, saying she ran in Ward 16 in 2022. The Local also lists earlier campaigns for Ward 17, a former Ward 22 and a provincial seat. voche.me opened no result documents for those and gives no figures for them.

The Local’s candidate tracker says her campaign website proposes lower taxes, eliminating grants and rebates, ending the land transfer tax, widening arterial roads, restricting running, skipping and biking events to parks and trails, and a larger share of Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) costs paid by riders. It also says she opposes the City’s Multi-Unit Residential Acquisition Program. That is The Local’s reading of her website.

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.