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View Royal municipal election, 2026

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Election day
Saturday, October 17, 2026
On the ballot
1 mayor and 6 councillors
Confirmed candidates
17, 5 running for mayor, 3 currently in office

View Royal sits between Victoria and the West Shore, and most of the region's traffic passes through it on the way somewhere else. That gives its council an unusual share of decisions about highway-adjacent land, the E&N rail corridor, and how a small town of a few thousand people absorbs growth generated by its much larger neighbours. It is also home to the region's hospital.

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

Who is running in View Royal

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Candidates for mayor

Candidates for council

View Royal by the numbers

The View Royal 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

77%

of confirmed View Royal candidates have returned the coalition questionnaire: 13 of 17, with 4 still outstanding.

  • 40% across the region: 85 of 214
  • 2nd of 13 municipalities by reply rate
  • 66 questions asked, 54 graded

Grades in View Royal

Every published letter held by a candidate in View Royal, counted once per candidate per topic: 91 grades across 13 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 View Royal
Grade Grades awarded
A Excellent 17 19%
B Good 39 43%
C Mixed 21 23%
C- Weak 5 6%
F Poor 9 10%

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 View Royal, 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 View Royal
Topic Grades awarded, by letter
Transit A 4B 3C 4C- 2
Housing A 1B 2C 1C- 1F 8
Climate A 5B 4C 4
Arts A 4B 4C 4F 1
Rolling & cycling A 1B 6C 6
Walking A 2B 7C 2C- 2
Governance B 13

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 View Royal candidates by incumbency
Standing Candidates
Newcomer 13 77%
Incumbent 3 18%
Former Incumbent 1 6%

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