The 2026 election
The candidate list is final, in the ballot order drawn on 18 September: 8 candidates for mayor, 56 for the ten council seats, 35 for seven park board seats and 31 for nine school trustee seats — 130 people for 27 positions. Voters also answer three capital-plan borrowing questions and, on a second ballot, two public-safety plebiscite questions.
The outgoing bodies
Composition today, after the 2025 by-election and several changes of affiliation since 2022. See how it got here →
Mayor
City Council
Park Board
School Board
Who’s running, and your ballot
Every candidate in official ballot order with their ballot number, or grouped by party, or A to Z. Filter to one party, tick the names you’d mark, and the summary at the top becomes a ballot you can print or send to your phone.
My ballot
Tick names below to build it. It stays in this browser, and the page address carries the same picks so you can send it to your phone or print it for the booth. Nothing is sent anywhere. The numbers are the official ballot numbers: the City suggests writing them down to find your candidates quickly.
Mayor
The City’s final list: 8 candidates for 1 seat, shown in official ballot order with their ballot numbers. Tick up to 1; you can leave some blank.
City Council
The City’s final list: 56 candidates for 10 seats, shown in official ballot order with their ballot numbers. Tick up to 10; you can leave some blank.
Park Board
The City’s final list: 35 candidates for 7 seats, shown in official ballot order with their ballot numbers. Tick up to 7; you can leave some blank.
School Board
The City’s final list: 31 candidates for 9 seats, shown in official ballot order with their ballot numbers. Tick up to 9; you can leave some blank.
Also on the ballot
Three capital-plan borrowing questions, on the same ballot as the candidates. Two non-binding public-safety questions approved by council on 14 August 2026, on a second ballot form.
- Are you in favour of the City of Vancouver strengthening its laws to forbid open-air hard drug (heroin, meth, fentanyl and crack) use in public spaces?
- Should the City of Vancouver formally ask the Province of BC to convert portions of the old St. Paul’s Hospital, or another similar site, into a secure medical facility that provides acute voluntary and 100-plus involuntary care beds for individuals posing a serious risk to themselves or others due to severe substance use and mental health disorders?
Notes
How voting works
Plurality at large: mark up to one name for mayor, ten for council, seven for park board and nine for school board. The top vote-getters win. Residents of the UBC lands and University Endowment Lands vote for school trustees only. You don’t have to use every mark; leaving spots blank is a valid strategy called plumping.
The ballot builder
Your picks are stored only in this browser and in the page address (the ?ballot= part, which uses the official ballot numbers), so you can copy it to another device or print it. No account, nothing sent to a server. The list is the City’s final one; one nominee withdrew before the 18 September deadline.
Parties this year
ABC Vancouver defends a majority won in 2022. The Greens, COPE and OneCity return and agreed to limit their slates to avoid splitting the vote; TEAM for a Livable Vancouver runs a second time; and new banners — Vote Vancouver, the Vancouver Liberals, Bright Future Vancouver, TrueBlue Vancouver, the Vancouver Independent Parks Party and the Affordable Housing Coalition — field candidates. The once-dominant NPA fielded no one.
Sources
City of Vancouver final candidate list, ballot order drawn 18 September 2026. City of Vancouver, final candidate list and ballot order after the 18 September 2026 random draw, as published by the City (news release, 18 Sep 2026) and transcribed by Daily Hive (dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-2026-civic-election-candidates-ballot-order); mayor list verified against vancouver.ca/your-government/2026-candidates-mayor.aspx (12 Sep capture) and park board list against the 15 Sep capture of the City page (35/35 names and parties agree).; Wikipedia — 2026 Vancouver municipal election (CC BY-SA 4.0), for candidate biographies.