View Royal — council, mayor and 2026 candidates

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Mayor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Anna Becker	Mayor Running (unknown/undisclosed)	Independent	CivicInfo BC
David Screech f	Mayor Running (served prior to 2022)	Independent	CivicInfo BC
Ryan Painter f 𝕏 ig	Mayor Running (served other)	Independent	CivicInfo BC
Teodora Kristof	Mayor Running	Independent	CivicInfo BC
Volker Dammann	Mayor Running	Independent	CivicInfo BC

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Councillor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Amy McCooey	Councillor Running	Independent	at large	CivicInfo BC
Cam Harris	Councillor Running	Independent	at large	CivicInfo BC
Carolynne Clark f	Councillor Running	Independent	at large	CivicInfo BC
Diane Fownes	Councillor Running	Independent	at large	CivicInfo BC
Don Brown f	Councillor Running (incumbent)	Independent	at large	CivicInfo BC
Gery Lemon f	Councillor Running (incumbent)	Independent	at large	CivicInfo BC
Jay Josh	Councillor Running (unknown/undisclosed)	Independent	at large	CivicInfo BC
Owen Marshall	Councillor Running	Independent	at large	CivicInfo BC
Ron Mattson	Councillor Running (incumbent)	Independent	at large	CivicInfo BC
Sacha Christensen f	Councillor Running	Independent	at large	CivicInfo BC
Sean MacKenzie f	Councillor Running	Independent	at large	CivicInfo BC
Spencer Dixon	Councillor Running	Independent	at large	CivicInfo BC

3

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/143_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/143_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-view-royal), 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-view-royal), 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-view-royal), 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/143_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/143_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.