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Central Saanich municipal election, 2026

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Election day
Saturday, October 17, 2026
On the ballot
1 mayor and 6 councillors
Confirmed candidates
12, 2 running for mayor, 4 currently in office

Central Saanich holds much of the region's remaining farmland, and its council spends more time than most on the boundary between growing Brentwood Bay and Saanichton and the agricultural land around them. Highway corridor safety, transit to the peninsula, and whether new housing goes inside the existing village centres or at their edges are decided here.

Everyone confirmed to be running in Central Saanich in the 2026 municipal election. Each of them is sent the same questionnaire on transit, housing, climate, arts, and the rest of what a council decides, and a candidate's own page shows how each of their answers was graded. To compare them against each other and against the region, use the full scorecard filtered to Central Saanich. For voting places, advance voting and the official candidate list, see Central Saanich's own election page.

Who is running in Central Saanich

Returned the questionnaire No reply yet

Candidates for mayor

  • No questionnaire returned yet. Bryant, Pat Newcomer
  • No questionnaire returned yet. King, Zeb Incumbent Councillor

Candidates for council

Central Saanich by the numbers

The Central Saanich field as numbers: who has replied, how that compares with the rest of the region, and how the grades fall here once they are published. Every figure is counted from the same data the list above is built from. No candidate is named in this section; for how one person answered, open their page from the list.

Questionnaire replies

8%

of confirmed Central Saanich candidates have returned the coalition questionnaire: 1 of 12, with 11 still outstanding.

  • 40% across the region: 85 of 214
  • 11th of 13 municipalities by reply rate
  • 66 questions asked, 54 graded

Grades in Central Saanich

Every published letter held by a candidate in Central Saanich, counted once per candidate per topic: 7 grades across 1 candidates here. Only the 7 topics the coalition grades are counted — General and Healthcare access carry no graded question, so no letter is ever awarded in them.

Distribution of published letter grades in Central Saanich
Grade Grades awarded
A Excellent 1 14%
B Good 3 43%
C Mixed 3 43%
C- Weak 0 0%
F Poor 0 0%

Grades by topic

The same grades, split by the topic they were awarded in. Each bar is one topic's full set of grades in Central Saanich, so the segments read left to right from the best mark to the worst. A topic with nothing published here yet is left out rather than drawn empty.

Distribution of published letter grades by topic in Central Saanich
Topic Grades awarded, by letter
Transit C 1
Housing C 1
Climate B 1
Arts A 1
Rolling & cycling C 1
Walking B 1
Governance B 1

Incumbency

Grouped by whether a candidate holds elected office now, used to, or is standing for the first time. Incumbency is role-specific on a candidate's own row — a sitting councillor running for mayor is not the incumbent mayor — and those two land in the same bucket here.

Confirmed Central Saanich candidates by incumbency
Standing Candidates
Newcomer 8 67%
Incumbent 4 33%

Electoral organizations

Slates, as a share of the whole Central Saanich field rather than of each other: most candidates in this region have no slate recorded, and a chart of slate against slate would imply a race organized into them. Naming a slate is not an endorsement.

Confirmed Central Saanich candidates by electoral organization, as a share of all candidates here
Electoral organization Candidates
Sustain Our Central Saanich 4 33%

Wondering how a candidate earns a letter grade, or how someone gets onto this list? The FAQ has answers.