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Victoria municipal election, 2026

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Election day
Saturday, October 17, 2026
On the ballot
1 mayor and 8 councillors
Confirmed candidates
29, 8 running for mayor, 8 currently in office

Victoria is the regional core and the provincial capital: the densest housing, the most transit service, the region's largest arts sector, and the separated bike network that every other council here is compared against. Its council also carries decisions the surrounding municipalities do not, from downtown street design to the services concentrated in a city centre that the whole region uses. It is one of two municipalities in the region that elects eight councillors.

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

Who is running in Victoria

Returned the questionnaire No reply yet

Candidates for mayor

Candidates for council

Victoria by the numbers

The Victoria 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 Victoria candidates have returned the coalition questionnaire: 16 of 29, with 13 still outstanding.

  • 40% across the region: 85 of 214
  • 3rd of 13 municipalities by reply rate
  • 66 questions asked, 54 graded

Grades in Victoria

Every published letter held by a candidate in Victoria, counted once per candidate per topic: 105 grades across 16 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 Victoria
Grade Grades awarded
A Excellent 62 59%
B Good 22 21%
C Mixed 14 13%
C- Weak 3 3%
F Poor 4 4%

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 Victoria, 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 Victoria
Topic Grades awarded, by letter
Transit A 10B 2C 2F 1
Housing A 7B 4C 2C- 1F 1
Climate A 9B 3C 3
Arts A 8B 3C 3F 1
Rolling & cycling A 9B 2C 3F 1
Walking A 10B 4C- 1
Governance A 9B 4C 1C- 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 Victoria candidates by incumbency
Standing Candidates
Newcomer 21 72%
Incumbent 8 28%

Electoral organizations

Slates, as a share of the whole Victoria 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 Victoria candidates by electoral organization, as a share of all candidates here
Electoral organization Candidates
Victoria For All 2 7%

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