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Saanich municipal election, 2026

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Election day
Saturday, October 17, 2026
On the ballot
1 mayor and 8 councillors
Confirmed candidates
31, 4 running for mayor, 7 currently in office

Saanich is the most populous municipality in the region, and the one whose council decides the most at once: it runs from the dense blocks bordering Victoria out to farmland and parkland behind the urban containment boundary, so the same council votes on tower proposals, rural road standards, and where that boundary should sit. It shares a border, a bus network, and an unresolved amalgamation question with Victoria, and elects the largest council in the Capital Region.

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

Who is running in Saanich

Returned the questionnaire Declined to take part No reply yet

Candidates for mayor

Candidates for council

Saanich by the numbers

The 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

55%

of confirmed Saanich candidates have returned the coalition questionnaire: 17 of 31, with 14 still outstanding.

  • 40% across the region: 85 of 214
  • 4th of 13 municipalities by reply rate
  • 66 questions asked, 54 graded

Grades in Saanich

Every published letter held by a candidate in Saanich, counted once per candidate per topic: 112 grades across 17 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 Saanich
Grade Grades awarded
A Excellent 42 38%
B Good 47 42%
C Mixed 16 14%
C- Weak 5 5%
F Poor 2 2%

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 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 Saanich
Topic Grades awarded, by letter
Transit A 9B 2C 4C- 1
Housing A 3B 5C 4C- 2F 2
Climate A 7B 9
Arts A 7B 6C 3
Rolling & cycling A 5B 7C 4
Walking A 7B 7C- 2
Governance A 4B 11C 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 Saanich candidates by incumbency
Standing Candidates
Newcomer 24 77%
Incumbent 7 23%

Electoral organizations

Slates, as a share of the whole 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 Saanich candidates by electoral organization, as a share of all candidates here
Electoral organization Candidates
Save Our Saanich 6 19%

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