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Metchosin municipal election, 2026

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Election day
Saturday, October 17, 2026
On the ballot
1 mayor and 4 councillors
Confirmed candidates
10, 3 running for mayor, 2 currently in office

Metchosin is rural by design: large lots, working farms, and a council whose land-use decisions have consistently been about holding that pattern against regional growth pressure on every side. Agricultural land, parks and trails, and how a municipality with almost no commercial tax base pays for its services are the questions its council keeps returning to.

Everyone confirmed to be running in Metchosin 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 Metchosin. For voting places, advance voting and the official candidate list, see Metchosin's own election page.

Who is running in Metchosin

Returned the questionnaire No reply yet

Candidates for mayor

Candidates for council

Metchosin by the numbers

The Metchosin 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

10%

of confirmed Metchosin candidates have returned the coalition questionnaire: 1 of 10, with 9 still outstanding.

  • 40% across the region: 85 of 214
  • 10th of 13 municipalities by reply rate
  • 66 questions asked, 54 graded

Grades in Metchosin

Every published letter held by a candidate in Metchosin, 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 Metchosin
Grade Grades awarded
A Excellent 0 0%
B Good 1 14%
C Mixed 4 57%
C- Weak 1 14%
F Poor 1 14%

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 Metchosin, 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 Metchosin
Topic Grades awarded, by letter
Transit C 1
Housing F 1
Climate C 1
Arts B 1
Rolling & cycling C 1
Walking C- 1
Governance C 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 Metchosin candidates by incumbency
Standing Candidates
Newcomer 8 80%
Incumbent 2 20%

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