Jim Karahalios is a Canadian politician and lawyer who ran as the New Blue candidate for Kitchener—Conestoga in the 2022 Ontario general election.

By March 19, 2020, he was the third candidate in the race to raise the $300,000 in donations and 3,000 endorsement signatures the party required to have his name added to the ballot.

On March 20, 2020, the party disqualified Karahalios from the race due to accusations of anti-Islamic bigotry over a mass-distributed letter targeting Erin O'Toole's campaign chair Walied Soliman, a Toronto corporate lawyer who is Muslim.

[10] On May 20, 2020, Superior Court Justice Paul Perell quashed the party’s initial disqualification of Karahalios because the decision was made by a subcommittee that didn’t have the authority to do so.

However, the decision left open the possibility of the party’s 18-member leadership election organizing committee (LEOC) taking up the matter and choosing to disqualify Karahalios through the proper means, which it did a few days later.