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Sidney municipal election, 2026

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Election day
Saturday, October 17, 2026
On the ballot
1 mayor and 6 councillors
Confirmed candidates
12, 1 running for mayor, 5 currently in office

Sidney is the most walkable small town in the region: a compact seaside downtown, apartments and townhouses within a few blocks of it, and one of the oldest median ages in British Columbia. Its council's decisions land on housing that lets people age in place, transit and healthcare access to a town at the end of the peninsula, and keeping a main street that works without a car.

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

Who is running in Sidney

Returned the questionnaire Declined to take part No reply yet

Candidates for mayor

Candidates for council

Other candidates

  • No questionnaire returned yet. Rintoul, Chad Incumbent Councillor

Sidney by the numbers

The Sidney 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

33%

of confirmed Sidney candidates have returned the coalition questionnaire: 4 of 12, with 8 still outstanding.

  • 40% across the region: 85 of 214
  • 7th of 13 municipalities by reply rate
  • 66 questions asked, 54 graded

Grades in Sidney

Every published letter held by a candidate in Sidney, counted once per candidate per topic: 28 grades across 4 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 Sidney
Grade Grades awarded
A Excellent 7 25%
B Good 9 32%
C Mixed 8 29%
C- Weak 2 7%
F Poor 2 7%

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 Sidney, 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 Sidney
Topic Grades awarded, by letter
Transit A 2C 1C- 1
Housing B 1C 1C- 1F 1
Climate A 1B 1C 2
Arts B 1C 2F 1
Rolling & cycling A 1B 1C 2
Walking A 1B 3
Governance A 2B 2

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 Sidney candidates by incumbency
Standing Candidates
Incumbent 5 42%
Newcomer 5 42%
Former Incumbent 2 17%

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