2025 Calgary municipal election

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.

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.

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	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	Oct 2-4, 2025	12%	25%	14%	16%	6%	Undecided 24% Others 3%	726	±3.6pp	IVR	9%
One Persuasion	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	Sept 22-29, 2025	9%	20%	16%	17%	6%	Undecided 27% Another candidate 1%	1,200	±2.8pp	Online	3%
Leger	Sept 26-28, 2025	8%	16%	14%	11%	4%	Undecided 35% Someone else 4% Grant Prior 2% Jaeger Gustafson <1%	490	±4.4pp	Online	2%
Cardinal Research	Sept 17-20, 2025	14%	34%	15%	10%	3%	Undecided 21% Others 3%	910	±3.3pp	IVR	19%
Leger	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%