Municipal elections were held in Quebec City on November 2, 2025, the same day as elections in Montreal and other municipalities in the province.
In the 2021 elections, mayoral candidates Bruno Marchand and Marie-Josée Savard were neck-and-neck, separated by only 739 votes. Although Marchand was elected mayor, his party Québec forte et fière only had a minority of seats on the city council. Four of the ten members of Marchand's first executive committee came from other parties.
During the 2021-2025 city council term, several changes took place with the city council seats. Nine members of the 21 seat council changed parties during the term. More specifically, Marchand's Québec forte et fière went from 6 to 11 councillors and became the majority party in the council following the additions of David Weiser, Steve Verret, and Claude Lavoie in 2022, with Bianca Dussault and Jean-François Gosselin joining the next year. These seat gains were at the expense of Québec d'abord (formerly ÃÂquipe Marie-Josée Savard), who went from 10 to 5 councillors, and ÃÂquipe Priorité Québec (formerly Québec 21) who went from 4 to 2 councillors, before completely disappearing in August 2025.
A new party, Leadership Québec was founded in April 2025. It entered the council only a few months before the elections thanks to the addition of two councillors originally elected under Québec d'abord. Leadership Québec absorbed what remained of ÃÂquipe Priorité Québec on August 13.
Between the 2021 and 2025 elections, several councillors changed parties:
<small>Québec d'abord</small> â <small>Québec forte et fière</small>
<small>Québec d'abord</small> â <small>Leadership Québec</small>
<small>Québec 21</small> â <small>Indépendant</small> â <small>Québec forte et fière</small>
<small>Québec 21 â Indépendant â ÃÂquipe priorité Québec</small> â <small>Leadership Québec</small>
<small>Québec 21 â ÃÂquipe priorité Québec</small> â <small>Indépendant</small>
On January 12, 2024, incumbent mayor Bruno Marchand (Québec forte et fière) announced he would seek a second term in office. Council opposition leader Claude Villeneuve (Québec d'abord) announced his candidacy for mayor on January 22, 2025. On March 10, Stéphane Lachance, former provincial candidate for the Parti conservateur du Québec, became leader of Respect Citoyens, a party founded in 2023. After several months of speculation, Sam Hamad, former Member of the National Assembly for Louis-Hébert from 2003 to 2017, officially announced his candidacy on April 6 under the banner of Leadership Québec. Incumbent councillor for Limoilou and leader of Transition Québec Jackie Smith followed with her own announcement on May 10. Finally on June 11, former councillor Anne Guérette announced she would also be running for mayor. Two independent candidates with low media visibility also announced their candidacy: Claudine Martineau and Yves Laberge, the latter a sociologist opposed to the tramway project and the third link between Quebec and Levis.
In June 2025, a poll revealed that 78% of the population was either very or somewhat interested in the election campaign. Six political parties would be participating in this election, half of which were new. All the parties presented candidates in all council districts, with the exception of Parti du monde which was only running in the mayoral seat. In addition to the independent candidates, the election campaign began with 8 candidates for mayor and 115 candidates for city council. Of that, 50 were women and 73 were men. One candidate in MontcalmâÂÂSaint-Sacrement withdrew from the race on October 7, denouncing a "toxic climate" on the campaign trail.
The first debate came on October 2 between Bruno Marchand and Sam Hamad on BLVD 102.1. This formula of "duels" between candidates was repeated by different media in the following days. A debate between the six party-affiliated candidadteas was organized by the Quebec City Chamber of Commerce at La salle Jean-Paul-Tardif on 7 October. A debate between five candidates was broadcast on Noovo on October 14.