2025 Calgary municipal election

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2025 Calgary municipal election
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Mayor and 14 councillors to Calgary City Council
Turnout39.04% (Decrease2.svg 7.34 pp)
 Majority partyMinority partyThird party
  Jeromy Farkas 1.jpg Sonya Sharp 1.jpg Jyoti Gondek at Collision Conference 2022 HM1 0983 (cropped).jpg
Candidate Jeromy Farkas Sonya Sharp Jyoti Gondek
Party Independent Communities First Independent
Popular vote91,07190,48871,402
Percentage26.1%26.0%20.5%
 Fourth partyFifth party
  Jeff Davison 2021 interview (cropped).jpg Brian Thiessen interview.jpg
CandidateJeff DavisonBrian Thiessen
Party Independent The Calgary Party
Popular vote47,37540,521
Percentage13.6%11.6%
Mayor before election

Jyoti Gondek

Elected mayor

Jeromy Farkas

City Council election
14 seats on Calgary City Council [a]
8 seats needed for a majority
PartyLeaderVote %Seats+/–
Independent –46.86%8−6
Communities First Sonya Sharp25.56%4+4
The Calgary Party Brian Thiessen18.99%1+1
A Better Calgary Gordon Elliott8.59%1+1
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
2025 Calgary City Council election map.png
City Council winners by district

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.

Contents

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. [1]

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

PartyCandidate [2] Votes%
  Independent Jeromy Farkas 91,07126.12
  Communities First Sonya Sharp90,48825.95
  Independent Jyoti Gondek 71,40220.48
  Independent Jeff Davison47,37513.59
  The Calgary Party Brian Thiessen40,52111.62
  Independent Sarah Elder3,5111.01
  Independent Grant Prior2,1750.62
  Independent Larry R. Heather 1,2020.34
  Independent Jaeger Gustafson9050.26

Candidates

Opinion polling

Polling firmDateJeff
Davison		Jeromy FarkasJyoti GondekSonya SharpBrian ThiessenOtherSample
size		MOEPolling
method		Lead
Janet Brown Opinion Research/Trend Research [7] Oct 1-8, 202516%27%23%23%8%1,000±3.1ppOnline4%
Cardinal Research [8] Oct 2-4, 202512%25%14%16%6%726±3.6ppIVR9%
One Persuasion [9] Sept 26-30, 20258.8%17.7%16.8%11.7%6%804±3.5%ppOnline0.9%
ThinkHQ [10] Sept 22-29, 20259%20%16%17%6%1,200±2.8ppOnline3%
Leger [11] Sept 26-28, 20258%16%14%11%4%490±4.4ppOnline2%
Cardinal Research [12] Sept 17-20, 202514%34%15%10%3%910±3.3ppIVR19%
Leger [13] Aug 22-25, 20256%14%15%8%3%471±4.5ppOnline1%

City council elections

Summary

PartyParty leaderCandidatesSeats wonPopular vote%
Independent —448158,22046.86
Communities First Sonya Sharp9486,31625.56
The Calgary Party Brian Thiessen13164,12518.99
A Better Calgary Gordon Elliott7129,0188.59

Ward 1

PartyCandidateVote%
Communities First Kim Tyers7,80627.45
The Calgary Party Joey Nowak7,33225.79
Independent Dan Olesen5,23018.39
A Better Calgary Cathy Jacobs4,40015.47
Independent Ali Oonwala2,0787.31
Independent Matthew Fritz1,5885.58

Ward 2

PartyCandidateVote%
Independent Jennifer Wyness (X)8,87239.25
A Better Calgary John Garden6,10627.01
The Calgary Party Candy Lam4,87621.57
Independent Trevor Cavanaugh2,1309.42
Independent Shaukat Chaudhry6202.74

Ward 3

PartyCandidateVote%
Independent Andrew Yule9,84248.78
A Better Calgary Christy Edwards3,94919.57
Independent Danny Ng1,5757.81
Independent Jaspriya Johal1,3756.82
Independent Taran Dhillon1,0735.32
The Calgary Party Atul Chauhan9364.64
Independent Siraaj Shah8114.02
Independent Rajesh Angral6153.05

Ward 4

PartyCandidateVote%
The Calgary Party DJ Kelly11,88145.58
Communities First Jeremy Wong10,44340.06
Independent Sheldon Yakiwchuk3,74314.36

Ward 5

PartyCandidateVote%
Independent Raj Dhaliwal (X)6,24239.52
Independent Aryan Sadat3,71923.55
Independent Reet Mushiana2,87218.18
Independent Tariq Khan1,3078.28
The Calgary Party Gurpreet Dhillon1,2187.71
Independent Jigar Patel2251.42
Independent Harry Singh Purba2111.34

Ward 6

PartyCandidateVote%
Independent John Pantazopoulos12,89343.13
Independent Joanne Birce6,61022.11
The Calgary Party Inam Teja6,06920.30
Independent Jeff Watson 4,31814.45

Ward 7

PartyCandidateVote%
Independent Myke Atkinson8,52737.24
Communities First Terry Wong (X)7,24531.64
The Calgary Party Heather McRae2,88412.60
Independent David Barrett2,54111.10
A Better Calgary Anthony Ascue9584.18
Independent Greg Amoruso7403.23

Ward 8

PartyCandidateVote%
Independent Nathaniel Schmidt8,80632.58
Communities First Cornelia Wiebe7,75428.69
Independent Gary Bobrovitz4,87118.02
Independent Kent Hehr 3,53913.09
Independent Josie Kirkpatrick1,5195.62
Independent Miguel Cortines5391.99

Ward 9

PartyCandidateVote%
Independent Harrison M. Clark4,84527.24
Independent Gar Gar4,57825.74
A Better Calgary Tony Dinh3,09017.37
The Calgary Party Ariana Kippers1,82610.26
Communities First Alison Karim-McSwiney1,5788.87
Independent Marina Ortman1,5688.81
Independent Shirley Brun Parungao Do3041.71

Ward 10

PartyCandidateVote%
Communities First Andre Chabot (X)8,81554.78
The Calgary Party Nickie Brockhoff3,04818.94
Independent Mahmoud Mourra2,65716.51
Independent Tarlochan Singh Sidhu1.5739.77

Ward 11

PartyCandidateVote%
Communities First Rob Ward21,02262.01
Independent Kourtney Penner (X)8,39224.75
The Calgary Party Alex Williams4,48913.24

Ward 12

PartyCandidateVote%
A Better Calgary Mike Jamieson6,84830.03
The Calgary Party Sarah Ferguson6,81929.90
Communities First Shane Byciuk5,31423.30
Independent Brent Curtis2,96913.02
Independent Raj-Kumar Khuttan8543.74

Ward 13

PartyCandidateVote%
Communities First Dan McLean (X)16,33964.94
The Calgary Party Elliot Weinstein8,82335.06

Ward 14

PartyCandidateVote%
Independent Landon Johnston9,18431.63
Independent Devin Elkin5,41718.65
Independent Erin Averbukh4,19214.44
The Calgary Party Ryan Stutt3,92413.51
A Better Calgary Keener Hachey3,66712.63
Independent Chima Akuchie1,9906.85
Independent Sunjiv Raval6662.29

Calgary Board of Education trustee elections

Notes

  1. ↑ The mayor is a member of City Council, but for the purposes of documentation is treated as their own individual.
  2. ↑ Includes 3% for Jeffery Clauson, who is not on the ballot.

References

  1. ↑ "Braid: Jyoti Gondek could be the first mayor in nearly 50 years to lose after one term". calgaryherald. Archived from the original on June 24, 2025. Retrieved October 21, 2025.
  2. ↑ "List of nominated (official) candidates & candidates elected by acclamation available for 2025 General Election". City of Calgary . September 23, 2025. Retrieved September 25, 2025.
  3. ↑ Michael Franklin (October 11, 2024). "Former Calgary city councillor announces he will run for mayor". CTV News. Retrieved September 9, 2025.
  4. ↑ "Jeromy Farkas announces 2nd run for Calgary mayor - Calgary | Globalnews.ca". Global News. February 26, 2025. Retrieved September 9, 2025.
  5. ↑ "Coun. Sonya Sharp joins race to be Calgary's next mayor". CBC News. April 1, 2025. Retrieved September 9, 2025.
  6. ↑ Wilhelm, Steven; Kaufmann, Bill (October 24, 2024). "Brian Thiessen will run with a municipal political party in 2025". Calgary Herald. Retrieved September 9, 2025.
  7. ↑ "Calgary Mayoral Survey" (PDF). Janet Brown Opinion Polling. October 6, 2025. Retrieved October 10, 2025.
  8. ↑ "Calgary Mayoral Survey". Cardinal Research. October 6, 2025. Retrieved October 6, 2025.
  9. ↑ Marshall, Hamish I. (October 8, 2025). "Calgary Public Opinion Survey for Alberta Proud" (PDF). Western Standard . One Persuasion. Retrieved October 10, 2025.
  10. ↑ "THREE CANDIDATES IN CONTENTION FOR MAYOR'S CHAIR IN CALGARY" (PDF). ThinkHQ. October 3, 2025. Retrieved October 3, 2025.
  11. ↑ "Calgary Municipal Polling September 2025" (PDF). Leger. October 3, 2025. Retrieved October 3, 2025.
  12. ↑ "Calgary Mayoral Survey". Cardinal Research. September 22, 2025. Retrieved September 22, 2025.
  13. ↑ "Calgary Municipal Polling" (PDF). Leger. August 29, 2025. Retrieved August 30, 2025.
  14. ↑ https://www.electionscalgary.ca/results/2025-results.html#section-public-school-board-trustee-results
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