Eleni Kounalakis

Office

Office

Lieutenant Governor

Body

California's statewide elected offices

Website

Official site ↗

Source

Last verified Oct 5, 2026.

Record

Lieutenant Governor, elected statewide. ThePillory tracks the President's and the Governor's executive orders and bill actions; other executive offices have no separate record here yet.

Totals

• Raised

  24 statements, Summary Page line 5
  $9,596,718
• Spent

  Summary Page line 11
  $16,746,799
• From individuals (itemized)

  2,941 contributions of $100 or more, net of refunds
  $5,934,904 62%

Sums of each statement's own figures for its period. Contributions under $100 aren't itemized, so they're in "Raised" but not in the lists below.

Top contributing industries (approximate)

• Government and public sector
  $641,820
• Finance, insurance and banking
  $611,277
• Labor unions
  $581,250
• Lawyers and lobbyists
  $531,282
• Agriculture and food
  $409,450
• Health care
  $293,845
• Real estate
  $280,011
• Education
  $248,431

Approximate. Industries are assigned by keywords in organizations' names and in the employers individual donors named; 56% of these itemized dollars matched an industry, and the rest are left unclassified rather than guessed.

Top employers of individual donors

• STATE OF CALIFORNIA

  18 donors · Government and public sector
  $594,470
• DOWNEY BRAND LLP

  5 donors · Lawyers and lobbyists
  $63,600
• GR TRUCKING

  10 donors · Transportation
  $60,100
• STANDARD COMMUNITIES

  6 donors · Not classified
  $58,800
• SAKER SHOPRITES

  5 donors · Not classified
  $46,200
• ADEPT DEVELOPMENT

  5 donors · Not classified
  $39,700
• MCDONALD'S

  4 donors · Not classified
  $39,200
• ENVISION MOTORS

  8 donors · Not classified
  $37,400
• UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO

  18 donors · Education
  $32,350
• MEDLEY PARTNERS

  6 donors · Not classified
  $29,800

The employers individual donors named, summed; an employer is listed only when 3 or more people named it. $1,099,201 came from people who listed no employer (retired, not employed or self-employed). Individual donors are never named on ThePillory, at any amount.

Committees, parties and organizations

• California Professional Firefighters PAC Small Contributor Committee

  6 contributions · small contributor committee · Labor unions
  $39,200
• California Teachers Association/Association For Better Citizenship Small Contributor Committee

  3 contributions · small contributor committee · Education
  $39,200
• Professional Engineers in California Government PECG PAC Small Contributor Committee

  9 contributions · small contributor committee · Construction and engineering
  $39,200
• United Domestic Workers of America Action Fund Small Contributor Committee

  7 contributions · small contributor committee · Labor unions
  $39,200
• Association of California School Administrators PAC Small Contributor Committee

  7 contributions · small contributor committee · Education
  $38,800
• California Federation of Teachers COPE Small Contributor Committee

  5 contributions · small contributor committee · Labor unions
  $35,000
• State Building and Construction Trades Council of California PAC Small Contributor Committee

  4 contributions · small contributor committee · Construction and engineering
  $33,800
• Building a Stronger California, Sponsored by Southwest Regional Council of Carpenters Small Contributor Committee

  3 contributions · small contributor committee · Labor unions
  $32,400
• Cal Fire Local 2881 PAC Small Contributor Committee

  5 contributions · small contributor committee · Not classified
  $32,400
• California Association of Highway Patrolmen PAC Small Contributor Committee

  6 contributions · small contributor committee · Not classified
  $32,400

Contributions itemized on Schedule A from political committees, parties, businesses and other organizations, by the name reported. Transfers between Eleni Kounalakis's own committees aren't counted.

Independent expenditures for and against

Spending on ads and outreach about Eleni Kounalakis by committees that don't coordinate with the campaign; this money isn't given to the campaign. From Form 496 reports, which are filed for independent expenditures of $1,000 or more made in the 90 days before an election; spending outside that window isn't included. Each spender links to its committee record, where its own donors are listed.