2025 Edmonton municipal election

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2025 Edmonton municipal election
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October 20, 2025
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Mayor and 12 councillors to Edmonton City Council
Turnout30.41%[1] (Decrease7.2 pp)
  Majority party Minority party
 
Candidate Andrew Knack Tim Cartmell
Party Independent Better Edmonton
Popular vote 78,519 61,668
Percentage 37.98% 29.83%
  Third party Fourth party
 
OM
Candidate Michael Walters Omar Mohammad
Party Independent Independent
Popular vote 24,596 20,505
Percentage 11.90% 9.92%
Mayor before election

Amarjeet Sohi

 Elected mayor

Andrew Knack

City Council election
12 seats on Edmonton City Council[a]
7 seats needed for a majority
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
Ind – 66.40% 9 −3
BE Tim Cartmell 24.89% 3 +3
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

The 2025 Edmonton municipal election was held on October 20, 2025, to elect a mayor, twelve councillors to the Edmonton City Council, nine trustees to the Edmonton Public Schools board of trustees, and seven trustees to the Edmonton Catholic Schools. Each of these were elected using the first-past-the-post voting election system.

Of Edmonton's 679,945 eligible voters, a total of 206,799 voters voted in this election.[2]

The 2025 election was the first election (in many years) featuring political parties and slates. Two were formed: the Principled Accountable Coalition for Edmonton (PACE) and Better Edmonton (led by sitting councillor Tim Cartmell).[3]

Incumbent mayor Amarjeet Sohi, elected in 2021, did not seek re-election.[4]

Mayoral election

Party Candidate[5] Votes %
  Independent Andrew Knack 78,519 37.98
  Better Edmonton Tim Cartmell 61,668 29.83
  Independent Michael Walters 24,596 11.90
  Independent Omar Mohammad 20,505 9.92
  Independent Rahim Jaffer 8,980 4.34
  Independent Tony Caterina 6,502 3.14
  Independent Vanessa Denman 1,719 0.83
  Independent Paul Bakhmut 1,192 0.58
  Independent Ronald Stewart Billingsley, Jr. 1,066 0.52
  Independent Abdul Malik Chukwudi 778 0.38
  Independent Andy Andrzej Gudanowski 573 0.28
  Independent Olney Tugwell 356 0.17
  Independent Utha Nadauk 291 0.14

Candidates

  • Paul Bakhmut (Independent candidate)[6]
  • Ronald Stewart Billingsley, Jr. (Independent candidate)
  • Tim Cartmell, Incumbent Ward pihêsiwin councillor since 2017 (Better Edmonton candidate)
  • Tony Caterina, former councillor (Independent candidate)[7]
  • Abdul Malik Chukwudi, 2021 mayoral candidate (Independent candidate)
  • Vanessa Denman, 2021 mayoral candidate (Independent candidate)
  • Andy Andrzej Gudanowski (Independent candidate)
  • Rahim Jaffer, former Conservative MP (Independent candidate)[8]
  • Andrew Knack, Incumbent Ward Nakota Isga councillor since 2013. (Independent candidate)[9]
  • Omar Mohammad, pediatric dental surgeon (Independent candidate)
  • Utha Nadauk (Independent candidate)
  • Olney Tugwell (Independent candidate)
  • Michael Walters, former councillor (Independent candidate)

Opinion polling

Polling firm Date Tim
Cartmell		 Tony Caterina Abdul Malik
Chukwudi		 Vanessa
Denman		 Rahim
Jaffer		 Andrew
Knack		 Omar
Mohammad		 Michael
Walters		 Other Sample
size		 MOE Polling
method		 Lead
Janet Brown Opinion Research/Trend Research[10][b] Oct 1-8, 2025 21% 6% 1% 1% 7% 41% 10% 10% Paul Bakhmut 1%
Ronald Stewart Billingsley, Jr. <1%
Andy, Andrzej Gudanowski <1%
Utha Nadauk <1%
Olney Tugwell 0%		 1,000 ±3.1pp online 20%
Abacus Data[12] Sep 25-29, 2025 22% — — — 7% 17% 8% 6% Undecided 37%, Another candidate 3% 700 ±3.8pp online 5%
Léger[13] Sep 26-28, 2025 14% 3% 1% 2% 3% 14% 6% 5% Undecided 41%
Olney Tugwell 1%
Someone else 1%
Andy Andrzej Gudanowski <1%		 419 ±4.8pp online Tie
Cardinal Research[14] Sep 17-20, 2025 13% — — — 5% 13% 4% 15% Undecided 48%, Others 2% 914 ±3.3pp IVR 2%
Léger[15] Aug 22-25, 2025 10% 2% 1% 1% 5% 12% 4% 7% Undecided 48%
Olney Tugwell <1%
Andy Andrzej Gudanowski <1%
Someone else <1%		 401 ±4.9pp online 2%

City council elections

Summary

Party Party leader Candidates Seats won Popular vote %
Independent —609135,29066.40
Better Edmonton Tim Cartmell12350,71224.89
PACE Doug Main9017,7548.71

Eight incumbent councillors were re-elected. One incumbent trying for re-election was not re-elected. Incumbents are marked with an X below.


The following are official candidates for Edmonton's twelve council seats:[16]

Anirniq

Party Candidate Vote %
IndependentErin Rutherford (X)6,19439.18
IndependentJesse Watson4,72229.87
PACERob Fediuk2,00212.66
IndependentAli Haymour1,0246.48
Better EdmontonNurmaiya Brady1,0146.41
IndependentAli Al Kassab6994.42
IndependentAggripa Wajo1560.99

Dene

Party Candidate Vote %
IndependentAaron Paquette (X)6,45343.15
Better EdmontonBanisha Sandhu2,73318.27
IndependentLana Palmer2,50016.72
PACEAlbert Mazzocca2,32815.57
IndependentPaul Brake5994.01
IndependentJean Pierre Valois3432.29

Ipiihkoohkanipiaohtsi

Party Candidate Vote %
IndependentJon Morgan6,40636.81
IndependentJennifer Rice (X)5,77133.16
IndependentFunke Olokude2,89516.64
Better EdmontonNicholas Rheubottom1,1626.68
IndependentRamey Demian4472.57
IndependentFahad Mughal3952.27
IndependentBeth Mathison3271.88

Karhiio

Party Candidate Vote %
IndependentKeren Tang (X)6,97544.87
IndependentJason Bale3,00719.35
Better EdmontonJoti Buttar2,90018.66
IndependentManny Bautista1,0036.45
IndependentAtiq Rehman6424.13
PACEHali Kaur4482.88
IndependentYogesh Garg2751.77
IndependentPaul Mah1971.27
IndependentAvinash Soochit970.62

Métis

Party Candidate Vote %
IndependentAshley Salvador (X)10,56448.57
Better EdmontonCaroline Matthews6,24428.71
PACEJustin Thomas3,55516.34
IndependentJames Gosse6823.14
IndependentNorm Paradis4331.99
IndependentAbdulhakim Dalel2711.25

Nakota Isga

Party Candidate Vote %
Better EdmontonReed Clarke6,17735.78
IndependentRajah Maggay5,71433.10
PACEDiana Steele2,04411.84
IndependentNicky Gocuan1,3637.90
IndependentJordon Woodruff1,1946.92
IndependentJoseph Mugodo7704.46

O-Day'Min

Party Candidate Vote %
IndependentAnne Stevenson (X)6,26950.38
Better EdmontonStephen Hammerschmidt2,19817.66
IndependentAnand Pye1,88415.14
IndependentPatrick Stewart9237.42
IndependentDavid Aaron5194.17
IndependentJames Miller2982.39
IndependentMully Tesfay1661.33
IndependentAdil Pirbhai1000.80
IndependentLee Permann860.69

Papastew

Party Candidate Vote %
IndependentMichael Janz (X)10,62056.87
Better EdmontonJoshua Doyle3,53318.92
PACEMark Hillman3,17717.01
IndependentTerrie Holgerson7994.28
IndependentRozalia Janiszewska5462.92

Pihêsiwin

Party Candidate Vote %
Better EdmontonMichael Elliott8.05441.17
IndependentJackie Liu6,06831.02
IndependentLarry Langley2,34611.99
IndependentRupesh Patel1,1715.99
IndependentSara Awatta1,0065.14
IndependentMohammed Ali Kamal9174.69

sipiwiyiniwak

A preliminary recount took place in this ward on October 22, after Darrell Friesen won the initial count by six votes.[17] The recount changed the result to Thu Parmar winning, after human error in the hand-counting ballot process was discovered.[18]

Party Candidate Vote %
IndependentThu Parmar6,66730.36
Better EdmontonDarrell Friesen6,04027.50
IndependentGiselle General4,85022.08
IndependentDanny Heikkinen2,0559.36
IndependentRoger Kotch1,0554.80
IndependentBassam Fares6763.08
PACEKen Ropcean6192.82

Sspomitapi

Party Candidate Vote %
IndependentJo-Anne Wright (X)5,45239.59
Better EdmontonHarman Singh Kandola3,29123.90
PACESteve Van Diest1,63211.85
IndependentSandeep Singh1,0297.47
IndependentAnnie Chua-Frith8576.22
IndependentImran Bashir6154.47
IndependentSukhi Randhawa5173.75
IndependentAshok Sui3782.74

tastawiyiniwak

Party Candidate Vote %
Better EdmontonKaren Principe (X)7,52649.79
IndependentJennifer Porritt2,83218.74
PACEFidel Ammar2,05113.57
IndependentFarhan Chak1,96913.03
IndependentJimmy Clement7364.87

Edmonton Public Schools trustee elections

The following are Official Candidates for Edmonton's nine Public School Board seats:

CandidateVotes%
Ward A
Sherri O'Keefe (X)3,94635.70
Marcelle Kosman2,64423.92
Nicole Renaud2,39421.66
Hassan Tukade Mohamed2,06918.72
Ward B
Linda Lindsay8,20469.66
Ahmed Muruh Ali1,86915.87
Erik Scott Olesen1,70514.48
Ward C
Holly Nichol 12,80083.99
Amyjoy Clow2,44016.01
Ward D
Nickela Anderson9,03947.21
Nancy Hunt5,54528.96
Colette Bachand3,82519.98
Rufino Comia Ranon7383.85
Ward E
Sarah Doll8,74159.45
Chuck Smit2,98120.27
Jodi Howard2,44716.64
Raine Turner5353.64
Ward F
Julie Kusiek (X)13,36464.96
Alex Marshall7,20935.04
Ward G
Saadiq Sumar (X)7,52243.53
Corrine Rondeau4,78527.69
Aleen Lenana3,07317.78
Pranshu Patel1,90111.00
Ward H
Melanie Hoffman7,84961.45
Edison Li2,39718.77
Dhaval Patel1,0408.14
Rajesh Kumar9957.79
Joshua Boateng Akom4923.85
Ward I
Jan Sawyer (X)6,09165.89
Gursharan Singh Chohan1,76419.08
Sanjay Patel104111.26
Tamilvanan Mani3483.76

Edmonton Catholic Separate School Division trustee elections

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