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2025 Calgary municipal election
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October 20, 2025
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Mayor and 14 councillors to Calgary City Council
Turnout39.04% (Decrease 7.34 pp)
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
Candidate Jeromy Farkas Sonya Sharp Jyoti Gondek
Party Independent Communities First Independent
Popular vote 91,071 90,488 71,402
Percentage 26.1% 26.0% 20.5%
  Fourth party Fifth party
 
Candidate Jeff Davison Brian Thiessen
Party Independent The Calgary Party
Popular vote 47,375 40,521
Percentage 13.6% 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
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
Independent – 46.86% 8 −6
Communities First Sonya Sharp 25.56% 4 +4
The Calgary Party Brian Thiessen 18.99% 1 +1
A Better Calgary Gordon Elliott 8.59% 1 +1
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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.

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]

In the Calgary city election, only three of the 15 elected members (mayor plus 14 city councillors) were elected with majority of votes cast in the ward (or city-wide in the mayor's case). The other 12 were elected with just a minority of votes cast, with winner's percentage as low as 27 percent for two councillors, and the mayor himself elected with just 26 percent of votes cast.

Background

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The 2025 Calgary election was the first election in many years featuring municipal political parties. Three parties - Communities First, The Calgary Party, and the A Better Calgary Party - ran candidates.

Electoral system

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The mayor and each city councillor is elected in a single-winner contest using first-past-the-post voting.

Mayoral election

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Party Candidate[2] Votes %
  Independent Jeromy Farkas 91,071 26.12
  Communities First Sonya Sharp 90,488 25.95
  Independent Jyoti Gondek 71,402 20.48
  Independent Jeff Davison 47,375 13.59
  The Calgary Party Brian Thiessen 40,521 11.62
  Independent Sarah Elder 3,511 1.01
  Independent Grant Prior 2,175 0.62
  Independent Larry R. Heather 1,202 0.34
  Independent Jaeger Gustafson 905 0.26

Candidates

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Opinion polling

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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[7] 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[8] Oct 2-4, 2025 12% 25% 14% 16% 6% Undecided 24%
Others 3%		 726 ±3.6pp IVR 9%
One Persuasion[9] 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[10] Sept 22-29, 2025 9% 20% 16% 17% 6% Undecided 27%
Another candidate 1%		 1,200 ±2.8pp Online 3%
Leger[11] 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[12] Sept 17-20, 2025 14% 34% 15% 10% 3% Undecided 21%
Others 3%		 910 ±3.3pp IVR 19%
Leger[13] 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

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Summary

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Party Party leader Candidates Seats won Popular 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

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Party Candidate Vote %
Communities FirstKim Tyers7,80627.45
The Calgary PartyJoey Nowak7,33225.79
IndependentDan Olesen5,23018.39
A Better CalgaryCathy Jacobs4,40015.47
IndependentAli Oonwala2,0787.31
IndependentMatthew Fritz1,5885.58

Ward 2

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Party Candidate Vote %
IndependentJennifer Wyness (X)8,87239.25
A Better CalgaryJohn Garden6,10627.01
The Calgary PartyCandy Lam4,87621.57
IndependentTrevor Cavanaugh2,1309.42
IndependentShaukat Chaudhry6202.74

Ward 3

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Party Candidate Vote %
IndependentAndrew Yule9,84248.78
A Better CalgaryChristy Edwards3,94919.57
IndependentDanny Ng1,5757.81
IndependentJaspriya Johal1,3756.82
IndependentTaran Dhillon1,0735.32
The Calgary PartyAtul Chauhan9364.64
IndependentSiraaj Shah8114.02
IndependentRajesh Angral6153.05

Ward 4

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Party Candidate Vote %
The Calgary PartyDJ Kelly11,88145.58
Communities FirstJeremy Wong10,44340.06
IndependentSheldon Yakiwchuk3,74314.36

Ward 5

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Party Candidate Vote %
IndependentRaj Dhaliwal (X)6,24239.52
IndependentAryan Sadat3,71923.55
IndependentReet Mushiana2,87218.18
IndependentTariq Khan1,3078.28
The Calgary PartyGurpreet Dhillon1,2187.71
IndependentJigar Patel2251.42
IndependentHarry Singh Purba2111.34

Ward 6

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Party Candidate Vote %
IndependentJohn Pantazopoulos12,89343.13
IndependentJoanne Birce6,61022.11
The Calgary PartyInam Teja6,06920.30
IndependentJeff Watson4,31814.45

Ward 7

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Party Candidate Vote %
IndependentMyke Atkinson8,52737.24
Communities FirstTerry Wong (X)7,24531.64
The Calgary PartyHeather McRae2,88412.60
IndependentDavid Barrett2,54111.10
A Better CalgaryAnthony Ascue9584.18
IndependentGreg Amoruso7403.23

Ward 8

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Party Candidate Vote %
IndependentNathaniel Schmidt8,80632.58
Communities FirstCornelia Wiebe7,75428.69
IndependentGary Bobrovitz4,87118.02
IndependentKent Hehr3,53913.09
IndependentJosie Kirkpatrick1,5195.62
IndependentMiguel Cortines5391.99

Ward 9

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Party Candidate Vote %
IndependentHarrison M. Clark4,84527.24
IndependentGar Gar4,57825.74
A Better CalgaryTony Dinh3,09017.37
The Calgary PartyAriana Kippers1,82610.26
Communities FirstAlison Karim-McSwiney1,5788.87
IndependentMarina Ortman1,5688.81
IndependentShirley Brun Parungao Do3041.71

Ward 10

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Party Candidate Vote %
Communities FirstAndre Chabot (X)8,81554.78
The Calgary PartyNickie Brockhoff3,04818.94
IndependentMahmoud Mourra2,65716.51
IndependentTarlochan Singh Sidhu1.5739.77

Ward 11

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Party Candidate Vote %
Communities FirstRob Ward21,02262.01
IndependentKourtney Penner (X)8,39224.75
The Calgary PartyAlex Williams4,48913.24

Ward 12

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Party Candidate Vote %
A Better CalgaryMike Jamieson6,84830.03
The Calgary PartySarah Ferguson6,81929.90
Communities FirstShane Byciuk5,31423.30
IndependentBrent Curtis2,96913.02
IndependentRaj-Kumar Khuttan8543.74

Ward 13

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Party Candidate Vote %
Communities FirstDan McLean (X)16,33964.94
The Calgary PartyElliot Weinstein8,82335.06

Ward 14

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Party Candidate Vote %
IndependentLandon Johnston9,18431.63
IndependentDevin Elkin5,41718.65
IndependentErin Averbukh4,19214.44
The Calgary PartyRyan Stutt3,92413.51
A Better CalgaryKeener Hachey3,66712.63
IndependentChima Akuchie1,9906.85
IndependentSunjiv Raval6662.29

Calgary Board of Education trustee elections

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  • 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.[14]

Notes

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  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

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  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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