Canada's big cities · Municipal tracker
Canada's biggest city halls, tracked every week.
Mayors, councils, elections, budgets and the issues on the table in Canada's 13 largest cities plus Saskatoon and Regina, from public sources only and reported the same way for every city.
Election night · unofficial results
Mayoral results as they come in
Source: each city clerk's posted count. Unofficial until the clerk declares the results. We report counts; we don't call races.
Election week
October 26, 2026. Five Ontario cities vote.
Toronto, Ottawa, Mississauga, Brampton and Hamilton vote today. Winnipeg votes Wednesday. Vancouver and Surrey swear in new councils on Nov. 2.
Where it stands
The cities today
By the numbers
The cities in three charts
Taxes
2026 tax change, by city
Each city's own headline figure, so the measures differ; the line under each bar says which. Sources: city budget releases.
This week's votes
Advance ballots, 2026 vs 2022
Thick bar 2026, thin bar 2022. Brampton reported about 25,000, up about 8%.
Terms
When each council was elected, and votes next
Open dot: last election. Filled dot: next scheduled election (four-year terms). Purple line: today.
Elections
Who votes, and when
The last or next council election in each city. Results are added from each city clerk's posted count, unofficial until the clerk declares them.
| City | Election | Mayor | Status |
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Council map and profiles
City by city
Pick a city on the map or the board to see who runs council, how it is elected, its ward map, where the money stands and what is on the table. Every issue links to its source.
Polls
What the polls say
The two newest published polls in each city, shown as each pollster released them, with dates, sample and margin of error. We do not average, rank or weight polls.
News cards
The latest, card by card
The newest developments as share-ready cards. Each one opens its source.
Analysis
This week and today
Municipal Insights
From the weekly blog
Every Monday: what changed at city hall last week, with the charts and the dates ahead.
Budget season
Every big city, first draft to final vote.
Calgary and Edmonton set new four-year budgets this fall. Ontario's new councils inherit 2027. Quebec cities must adopt theirs by Dec. 31.
Budgets
Where the money stands
Each city's latest adopted budget and the next step in its 2027 process. Tax figures are the city's own, for an average home where the city gives one.
| City | Latest budget | Next step |
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Issues
What councils are working on
Live issues in each city, mostly from the last 60 days, with the date and source. We record what is on the table; we don't rate it.
| Date | City | Issue | Theme | Source |
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How we report it
Public sources only. No predictions or endorsements.
Platforms and council decisions are recorded, never rated. Every city gets the same fields, the same sources and the same corrections policy.
Calendar
Dates that matter
Themes
What comes up most
Cities with at least one tracked issue in each theme, out of the 15 we track.
The mayors
Who holds the chair
| City | Mayor | Population |
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Population: Statistics Canada, 2021 census, city proper.
How we build this
Public numbers, reported the same way for every city.
Every item links to its source: city clerks and finance departments, council agendas and news reports. We don't publish polls, project results or endorse anyone. Election results stay unofficial until each city clerk declares them.
Churchill Strategy is an Edmonton event production and campaign firm. We have worked with conservative parties in Alberta, Saskatchewan and federally, with a campaign in Alberta's 2026 referendum and on a 2025 Edmonton mayoral campaign. That is why we keep this page to sourced facts. See something wrong? Email winston.pon@churchillstrategy.ca and we'll correct it the same day.