2025 Calgary municipal election

The 2025 Calgary municipal election was held on October 20, 2025, to elect a mayor and fourteen councillors to the Calgary City Council. In conjunction with the elections for city council, residents also cast ballots for trustees of the Calgary Board of Education and the Calgary Catholic School District.

Incumbent mayor Jyoti Gondek was defeated. She is the first incumbent mayor since Ross Alger in 1980 not to be elected to a second term.

Background

The 2025 Calgary election was the first election in many years featuring municipal political parties. Parties with candidates included Communities First, The Calgary Party, and the A Better Calgary Party.

Mayoral election

Candidates

• Jeff Davison, 2021 mayoral candidate and former councillor. (Independent candidate)
• Sarah Elder (Independent candidate)
• Jeromy Farkas, 2021 mayoral candidate and former councillor. (Independent candidate)
• Jyoti Gondek, Incumbent Mayor since 2021. (Independent candidate)
• Jaeger Gustafson (Independent candidate)
• Larry R. Heather, mayoral candidate in 2013, 2017, and 2021. (Independent candidate)
• Grant Prior (Independent candidate)
• Sonya Sharp, Ward 1 councillor since 2021. (Communities First candidate)
• Brian Thiessen, lawyer. (The Calgary Party candidate)

Opinion polling

City council elections

Summary

Ward 1

Ward 2

Ward 3

Ward 4

Ward 5

Ward 6

Ward 7

Ward 8

Ward 9

Ward 10

Ward 11

Ward 12

Ward 13

Ward 14

Calgary Board of Education trustee elections

• In Wards 1 and 2, Jenny Regal won with 7,491 votes.
• In Wards 3 and 4, Laura Hack won with 20,214 votes.
• In Wards 5 and 10, Cynthia Cordova won with 4,747 votes.
• In Wards 6 and 7, Patricia Bolger won with 11,280 votes.
• In Wards 8 and 9, Susan Vukadinovic won with 12,601 votes.
• In Wards 11 and 13, Nancy Close won with 20,734 votes.
• In Wards 12 and 14, Charlene May won with 9,615 votes.

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