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   Candidate Sonya Sharp Brian Thiessen Party Communities First The Calgary Party
Mayor before election Jyoti Gondek Elected mayor TBD
City Council election
14 seats on Calgary City Council [a] 8 seats needed for a majority
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/– Independent – Communities First Sonya Sharp The Calgary Party Brian Thiessen A Better Calgary Gordon Elliott This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

The 2025 Calgary municipal election will be 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 will also cast ballots for trustees of the Calgary Board of Education and the Calgary Catholic School District.

Background

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

Mayoral election

Party		Candidate [1]	Votes	%
	Communities First	Sonya Sharp
	The Calgary Party	Brian Thiessen
	Independent	Jeff Davison
	Independent	Sarah Elder
	Independent	Jeromy Farkas
	Independent	Jyoti Gondek
	Independent	Jaeger Gustafson
	Independent	Larry R. Heather
	Independent	Grant Prior

• Jeff Davison, 2021 mayoral candidate and former councillor. (Independent candidate) ^[2]
• Sarah Elder (Independent candidate)
• Jeromy Farkas, 2021 mayoral candidate and former councillor. (Independent candidate) ^[3]
• Jyoti Gondek, Incumbent Mayor since 2021. (Independent candidate)
• Jaeger Gustafson (Independent candidate)
• Larry R. Heather (Independent candidate)
• Grant Prior (Independent candidate)
• Sonya Sharp, Ward 1 councillor since 2021. (Communities First candidate) ^[4]
• Brian Thiessen, lawyer. (The Calgary Party candidate) ^[5]

Opinion polling

Polling firm	Date	Jeff Davison	Jeromy Farkas	Jyoti Gondek	Sonya Sharp	Brian Thiessen	Other	Sample size	MOE	Polling method	Lead
Janet Brown Opinion Research/Trend Research [6]	Oct 1-8, 2025	16%	27%	23%	23%	8%	Sarah Elder 1% Grant Prior 1% Larry R. Heather <1% Jaeger Gustafson <1%	1,000	±3.1pp	Online	4%
Cardinal Research [7]	Oct 2-4, 2025	12%	25%	14%	16%	6%	Undecided 24% Others 3%	726	±3.6pp	IVR	9%
One Persuasion [8]	Sept 26-30, 2025	8.8%	17.7%	16.8%	11.7%	6%	Undecided 26.1% Larry Heather 3.1% Jaeger Gustafson 1.7% Grant Prior 0.9%	804	±3.5%pp	Online	0.9%
ThinkHQ [9]	Sept 22-29, 2025	9%	20%	16%	17%	6%	Undecided 27% Another candidate 1%	1,200	±2.8pp	Online	3%
Leger [10]	Sept 26-28, 2025	8%	16%	14%	11%	4%	Undecided 35% Someone else 4% [b] Grant Prior 2% Jaeger Gustafson <1%	490	±4.4pp	Online	2%
Cardinal Research [11]	Sept 17-20, 2025	14%	34%	15%	10%	3%	Undecided 21% Others 3%	910	±3.3pp	IVR	19%
Leger [12]	Aug 22-25, 2025	6%	14%	15%	8%	3%	Undecided 45% Jeffery Clauson 2% Someone else 2% Jaeger Gustafson 1% Grant Prior <1%	471	±4.5pp	Online	1%

City council elections

Ward 1

Party		Candidate	Vote	%
	Independent	Matthew Fritz
	A Better Calgary	Cathy Jacobs
	The Calgary Party	Joey Nowak
	Independent	Dan Olesen
	Independent	Ali Oonwala
	Communities First	Kim Tyers

Ward 2

Party		Candidate	Vote	%
	Independent	Jennifer Wyness (X)
	Independent	Trevor Cavanaugh
	Independent	Shaukat Chaudhry
	A Better Calgary	John Garden
	The Calgary Party	Candy Lam

Ward 3

Party		Candidate	Vote	%
	Independent	Rajesh Angral
	The Calgary Party	Atul Chauhan
	Independent	Taran Dhillon
	A Better Calgary	Christy Edwards
	Independent	Jaspriya Johal
	Independent	Danny Ng
	Independent	Siraaj Shah
	Independent	Andrew Yue

Ward 4

Party		Candidate	Vote	%
	The Calgary Party	DJ Kelly
	Communities First	Jeremy Wong
	Independent	Sheldon Yakiwchuk

Ward 5

Party		Candidate	Vote	%
	Independent	Raj Dhaliwal (X)
	The Calgary Party	Gurpreet Dhillon
	Independent	Tariq Khan
	Independent	Reet Mushiana
	Independent	Jigar Patel
	Independent	Harry Singh Purba
	Independent	Aryan Sadat

Ward 6

Party		Candidate	Vote	%
	Independent	Joanne Birce
	Independent	John Pantazopoulos
	The Calgary Party	Inam Teja
	Independent	Jeff Watson

Ward 7

Party		Candidate	Vote	%
	Communities First	Terry Wong (X)
	Independent	Greg Amoruso
	A Better Calgary	Anthony Ascue
	Independent	Myke Atkinson
	Independent	David Barrett
	The Calgary Party	Heather McRae

Ward 8

Party		Candidate	Vote	%
	Independent	Gary Bobrovitz
	Independent	Miguel Cortines
	Independent	Kent Hehr
	Independent	Josie Kirkpatrick
	Independent	Nathaniel Schmidt
	Communities First	Cornelia Wiebe

Ward 9

Party		Candidate	Vote	%
	Independent	Harrison M. Clark
	A Better Calgary	Tony Dinh
	Independent	Shirley Brun Parungao Do
	Independent	Gar Gar
	Communities First	Alison Karim-McSwiney
	The Calgary Party	Ariana Kippers
	Independent	Marina Ortman

Ward 10

Party		Candidate	Vote	%
	Communities First	Andre Chabot (X)
	The Calgary Party	Nickie Brockhoff
	Independent	Mahmoud Mourra
	Independent	Tarlochan Singh Sidhu

Ward 11

Party		Candidate	Vote	%
	Independent	Kourtney Penner (X)
	Communities First	Rob Ward
	The Calgary Party	Alex Williams

Ward 12

Party		Candidate	Vote	%
	Communities First	Shane Byciuk
	Independent	Brent Curtis
	The Calgary Party	Sarah Ferguson
	A Better Calgary	Mike Jamieson
	Independent	Raj-Kumar Khuttan

Ward 13

Party		Candidate	Vote	%
	Communities First	Dan McLean (X)
	The Calgary Party	Elliot Weinstein

Ward 14

Party		Candidate	Vote	%
	Independent	Chima Akuchie
	Independent	Erin Averbukh
	Independent	Devin Elkin
	A Better Calgary	Keener Hachey
	Independent	Landon Johnson
	Independent	Sunjiv Raval
	The Calgary Party	Ryan Stutt

References

1. "List of nominated (official) candidates & candidates elected by acclamation available for 2025 General Election". City of Calgary . 23 September 2025. Retrieved 25 September 2025.
2. Michael Franklin (October 11, 2024). "Former Calgary city councillor announces he will run for mayor". CTV News. Retrieved September 9, 2025.
3. "Jeromy Farkas announces 2nd run for Calgary mayor - Calgary | Globalnews.ca". Global News. February 26, 2025. Retrieved September 9, 2025.
4. "Coun. Sonya Sharp joins race to be Calgary's next mayor". CBC News. April 1, 2025. Retrieved September 9, 2025.
5. Wilhelm, Steven; Kaufmann, Bill (October 24, 2024). "Brian Thiessen will run with a municipal political party in 2025". Calgary Herald. Retrieved September 9, 2025.
6. "Calgary Mayoral Survey" (PDF). Janet Brown Opinion Polling. October 6, 2025. Retrieved October 10, 2025.
7. "Calgary Mayoral Survey". Cardinal Research. October 6, 2025. Retrieved October 6, 2025.
8. Marshall, Hamish I. (8 October 2025). "Calgary Public Opinion Survey for Alberta Proud" (PDF). Western Standard . One Persuasion. Retrieved 10 October 2025.
9. "THREE CANDIDATES IN CONTENTION FOR MAYOR'S CHAIR IN CALGARY" (PDF). ThinkHQ. 3 October 2025. Retrieved 3 October 2025.
10. "Calgary Municipal Polling September 2025" (PDF). Leger. 3 October 2025. Retrieved 3 October 2025.
11. "Calgary Mayoral Survey". Cardinal Research. September 22, 2025. Retrieved September 22, 2025.
12. "Calgary Municipal Polling" (PDF). Leger. August 29, 2025. Retrieved August 30, 2025.

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.