Sooke — council, mayor and 2026 candidates

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Mayor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Al Beddows	Mayor Running (served different)	Independent		CivicInfo BC
Kevin Pearson	Mayor Running (served different)	Sooke First		CivicInfo BC

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Councillor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Brian McHattie	Councillor Running	Sooke Together	at large	CivicInfo BC
Christine Thomas	Councillor Running	Sooke First	at large	CivicInfo BC
Curtis Peterec	Councillor Running	Sooke First	at large	CivicInfo BC
Elliott Lifton	Councillor Running	Sooke First	at large	CivicInfo BC
Helen Ritts	Councillor Running	Sooke Together	at large	CivicInfo BC
Herb Haldane	Councillor Running (incumbent)	Sooke First	at large	CivicInfo BC
Janet Evans	Councillor Running (served prior to 2022)	Sooke First	at large	CivicInfo BC
Katherine Strongwind f	Councillor Running	Independent	at large	CivicInfo BC
Kyra J Lazzar	Councillor Running	Independent	at large	CivicInfo BC
Landon Grams	Councillor Running	Independent	at large	CivicInfo BC
Nick Dickinson-Wilde f	Councillor Running	Independent	at large	CivicInfo BC
Noah Dowhy f	Councillor Running	Independent	at large	CivicInfo BC
Rob Pearce	Councillor Running	Sooke First	at large	CivicInfo BC
Steven Sorensen f	Councillor Running	Sooke Together	at large	CivicInfo BC
Susan Belford f	Councillor Running	Sooke Together	at large	CivicInfo BC
Tony St-Pierre	Councillor Running (incumbent)	Independent	at large	CivicInfo BC

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Member of Parliament

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Stephanie McLean ✉️ Elected	Member of Parliament	Liberal	Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke	House of Commons

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Notes on this record

How the lists were read, and what could not be.

Candidates from CivicInfo BC's candidate site (https://bc.localelections.ca/election_candidates/181_2026_candidates.html), which labels itself unofficial; the municipality's Declaration of Candidates is the official list. Phone numbers and the personal emails listed there are not copied, by the public-role rule.
Sitting council not yet captured from the municipality's own page; CivicInfo's "Previous Office: Incumbent" flag is the only incumbency signal here.
Candidates from CivicInfo BC's candidate site (https://bc.localelections.ca/election_candidates/181_2026_candidates.html), which labels itself unofficial; the municipality's Declaration of Candidates is the official list. Phone numbers and the personal emails listed there are not copied, by the public-role rule.
Sitting council not yet captured from the municipality's own page; CivicInfo's "Previous Office: Incumbent" flag is the only incumbency signal here.
Candidates from CivicInfo BC's candidate site (https://bc.localelections.ca/election_candidates/?ca-sooke), which labels itself unofficial; the municipality's Declaration of Candidates is the official list. Phone numbers and the personal emails listed there are not copied, by the public-role rule.
Sitting council not yet captured from the municipality's own page; CivicInfo's "Previous Office: Incumbent" flag is the only incumbency signal here.
Candidates from CivicInfo BC's candidate site (https://bc.localelections.ca/election_candidates/?ca-sooke), which labels itself unofficial; the municipality's Declaration of Candidates is the official list. Phone numbers and the personal emails listed there are not copied, by the public-role rule.
Sitting council not yet captured from the municipality's own page; CivicInfo's "Previous Office: Incumbent" flag is the only incumbency signal here.
Candidates from CivicInfo BC's candidate site (https://bc.localelections.ca/election_candidates/?ca-sooke), which labels itself unofficial; the municipality's Declaration of Candidates is the official list. Phone numbers and the personal emails listed there are not copied, by the public-role rule.
Sitting council not yet captured from the municipality's own page; CivicInfo's "Previous Office: Incumbent" flag is the only incumbency signal here.
Candidates from CivicInfo BC's candidate site (https://bc.localelections.ca/election_candidates/181_2026_candidates.html), which labels itself unofficial; the municipality's Declaration of Candidates is the official list. Phone numbers and the personal emails listed there are not copied, by the public-role rule.
Sitting council not yet captured from the municipality's own page; CivicInfo's "Previous Office: Incumbent" flag is the only incumbency signal here.
Candidates from CivicInfo BC's candidate site (https://bc.localelections.ca/election_candidates/181_2026_candidates.html), which labels itself unofficial; the municipality's Declaration of Candidates is the official list. Phone numbers and the personal emails listed there are not copied, by the public-role rule.
Sitting council not yet captured from the municipality's own page; CivicInfo's "Previous Office: Incumbent" flag is the only incumbency signal here.

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Sources

Prepared 2026-10-10. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.