2025 Calgary municipal election

2025 Calgary municipal election

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Mayor and 14 councillors to Calgary City Council
Majority party Minority party Third party   Candidate Jyoti Gondek Jeromy Farkas Jeff Davison Party Independent Independent Independent   Fourth party Fifth party   BT Candidate Sonya Sharp Brian Thiessen Party Communities First The Calgary Party
Mayor before election Jyoti Gondek Elected mayor TBD

The 2025 Calgary municipal election will be held on October 20, 2025, to elect a mayor and fourteen councillors to the Calgary City Council.

Background

The 2025 Calgary election will be the first election featuring municipal political parties. Parties with announced candidates include Communities First, The Calgary Party, and the A Better Calgary Party.

Candidates

Mayor

• Jeff Davison, 2021 mayoral candidate and former councillor. (Independent candidate) ^[1]
• Jeromy Farkas, 2021 mayoral candidate and former councillor. (Independent candidate) ^[2]
• Jyoti Gondek, Incumbent Mayor since 2021. (Independent candidate)
• Sonya Sharp, Ward 1 councillor since 2021. (Communities First candidate) ^[3]
• Brian Thiessen, lawyer. (The Calgary Party candidate) ^[4]

Mayoral opinion polling

Polling firm	Date	Jeff Davison	Jeromy Farkas	Jyoti Gondek	Sonya Sharp	Brian Thiessen	Other	Sample size	MOE	Polling method	Lead
Leger [5]	Aug 22-25, 2025	6%	14%	15%	8%	3%	Undecided 45% Jeffery Clauson 2% Jaeger Gustafson 1% Grant Prior <1%	471	±4.5pp	online	1%

References

1. "Former Calgary city councillor announces he will run for mayor". 11 October 2024.
2. "Jeromy Farkas announces 2nd run for Calgary mayor - Calgary | Globalnews.ca".
3. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/sonya-sharp-calgary-mayor-communities-first-1.7498860 ^{[ bare URL ]}
4. "Brian Thiessen will run with a municipal political party in 2025". calgaryherald.
5. "Calgary Municipal Polling" (PDF). Leger. August 29, 2025. Retrieved August 30, 2025.