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Sooke municipal election, 2026

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Election day
Saturday, October 17, 2026
On the ballot
1 mayor and 6 councillors
Confirmed candidates
19, 2 running for mayor, 4 currently in office

Sooke is the region's western edge and has grown quickly while remaining connected to the rest of the Capital Region by a single highway. That one fact shapes most of what its council decides: how much housing to approve and where, whether transit on the Highway 14 corridor can carry commuters, and how a community that grew out of forestry and fishing pays for the services a much larger population now needs.

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

Who is running in Sooke

Returned the questionnaire No reply yet

Candidates for mayor

  • No questionnaire returned yet. Beddows, Al Incumbent Councillor
  • No questionnaire returned yet. Pearson, Kevin Incumbent Councillor · Sooke First

Candidates for council

Sooke by the numbers

The Sooke 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

32%

of confirmed Sooke candidates have returned the coalition questionnaire: 6 of 19, with 13 still outstanding.

  • 40% across the region: 85 of 214
  • 8th of 13 municipalities by reply rate
  • 66 questions asked, 54 graded

Grades in Sooke

Every published letter held by a candidate in Sooke, counted once per candidate per topic: 42 grades across 6 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 Sooke
Grade Grades awarded
A Excellent 14 33%
B Good 17 41%
C Mixed 6 14%
C- Weak 0 0%
F Poor 5 12%

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 Sooke, 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 Sooke
Topic Grades awarded, by letter
Transit A 3C 3
Housing B 1F 5
Climate A 3B 3
Arts B 4C 2
Rolling & cycling A 4B 1C 1
Walking A 2B 4
Governance A 2B 4

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 Sooke candidates by incumbency
Standing Candidates
Newcomer 14 74%
Incumbent 4 21%
Former Incumbent 1 5%

Electoral organizations

Slates, as a share of the whole Sooke 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 Sooke candidates by electoral organization, as a share of all candidates here
Electoral organization Candidates
Sooke First 7 37%
Sooke Together 4 21%

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