Kitchener, City of

Municipality facts

• Tier: lower
• Upper tier: Waterloo, Regional Municipality of
• Population (2021 Census): 256885

Official links

• Clerk's election page: https://www.kitchener.ca/council-and-city-administration/election/
• Candidate list: https://app2.kitchener.ca/election/
• 2022 results: none on file
• Coverage status (this dataset's own honesty flag): census, as of 2026-07-23

Races on file (13)

This section informs; it does not rank, endorse, attack, or characterize any candidate — same posture as every other candidate-facing page in this kit.

Mayor — Citywide

ON-kitchener-mayor

• Seats: 1
• Incumbent: Berry Vrbanovic — running in 2026: yes
• Open seat: no
• Filed candidates on file below: 4 (races.csv's own registrant count as of 2026-08-03: 4)
• 2022 baseline: turnout 20.3% · margin not on file pts · acclaimed: no
• Competitiveness tier (provisional, this dataset's own label): U-unknown

Filed candidates (4, alphabetical by surname; identical fields for everyone):

Source: races.csv ON-kitchener-mayor, source https://app2.kitchener.ca/election/candidates.aspx, as_of 2026-08-03.

Councillor — Ward 1

ON-kitchener-council-ward1

• Seats: 1
• Incumbent: none on file (open seat or not researched)
• Open seat: unknown
• Filed candidates on file below: 1 (races.csv's own registrant count as of 2026-08-03: 1)
• 2022 baseline: turnout 20.26% · margin not on file pts · acclaimed: unknown
• Competitiveness tier (provisional, this dataset's own label): U-unknown

Filed candidates (1, alphabetical by surname; identical fields for everyone):

Source: races.csv ON-kitchener-council-ward1, source https://app2.kitchener.ca/election/candidates.aspx, as_of 2026-08-03.

Councillor — Ward 10

ON-kitchener-council-ward10

• Seats: 1
• Incumbent: none on file (open seat or not researched)
• Open seat: unknown
• Filed candidates on file below: 2 (races.csv's own registrant count as of 2026-08-03: 2)
• 2022 baseline: turnout 20.26% · margin not on file pts · acclaimed: unknown
• Competitiveness tier (provisional, this dataset's own label): U-unknown

Filed candidates (2, alphabetical by surname; identical fields for everyone):

Source: races.csv ON-kitchener-council-ward10, source https://app2.kitchener.ca/election/candidates.aspx, as_of 2026-08-03.

Councillor — Ward 2

ON-kitchener-council-ward2

• Seats: 1
• Incumbent: none on file (open seat or not researched)
• Open seat: unknown
• Filed candidates on file below: 2 (races.csv's own registrant count as of 2026-08-03: 2)
• 2022 baseline: turnout 20.26% · margin not on file pts · acclaimed: unknown
• Competitiveness tier (provisional, this dataset's own label): U-unknown

Filed candidates (2, alphabetical by surname; identical fields for everyone):

Source: races.csv ON-kitchener-council-ward2, source https://app2.kitchener.ca/election/candidates.aspx, as_of 2026-08-03.

Councillor — Ward 3

ON-kitchener-council-ward3

• Seats: 1
• Incumbent: none on file (open seat or not researched)
• Open seat: unknown
• Filed candidates on file below: 5 (races.csv's own registrant count as of 2026-08-03: 5)
• 2022 baseline: turnout 20.26% · margin not on file pts · acclaimed: unknown
• Competitiveness tier (provisional, this dataset's own label): U-unknown

Filed candidates (5, alphabetical by surname; identical fields for everyone):

Source: races.csv ON-kitchener-council-ward3, source https://app2.kitchener.ca/election/candidates.aspx, as_of 2026-08-03.

Councillor — Ward 4

ON-kitchener-council-ward4

• Seats: 1
• Incumbent: none on file (open seat or not researched)
• Open seat: unknown
• Filed candidates on file below: 3 (races.csv's own registrant count as of 2026-08-03: 3)
• 2022 baseline: turnout 20.26% · margin not on file pts · acclaimed: unknown
• Competitiveness tier (provisional, this dataset's own label): U-unknown

Filed candidates (3, alphabetical by surname; identical fields for everyone):

Source: races.csv ON-kitchener-council-ward4, source https://app2.kitchener.ca/election/candidates.aspx, as_of 2026-08-03.

Councillor — Ward 5

ON-kitchener-council-ward5

• Seats: 1
• Incumbent: none on file (open seat or not researched)
• Open seat: unknown
• Filed candidates on file below: 8 (races.csv's own registrant count as of 2026-08-03: 8)
• 2022 baseline: turnout 20.26% · margin not on file pts · acclaimed: unknown
• Competitiveness tier (provisional, this dataset's own label): U-unknown

Filed candidates (8, alphabetical by surname; identical fields for everyone):

Source: races.csv ON-kitchener-council-ward5, source https://app2.kitchener.ca/election/candidates.aspx, as_of 2026-08-03.

Councillor — Ward 6

ON-kitchener-council-ward6

• Seats: 1
• Incumbent: none on file (open seat or not researched)
• Open seat: unknown
• Filed candidates on file below: 2 (races.csv's own registrant count as of 2026-08-03: 2)
• 2022 baseline: turnout 20.26% · margin not on file pts · acclaimed: unknown
• Competitiveness tier (provisional, this dataset's own label): U-unknown

Filed candidates (2, alphabetical by surname; identical fields for everyone):

Source: races.csv ON-kitchener-council-ward6, source https://app2.kitchener.ca/election/candidates.aspx, as_of 2026-08-03.

Councillor — Ward 7

ON-kitchener-council-ward7

• Seats: 1
• Incumbent: none on file (open seat or not researched)
• Open seat: unknown
• Filed candidates on file below: 2 (races.csv's own registrant count as of 2026-08-03: 2)
• 2022 baseline: turnout 20.26% · margin not on file pts · acclaimed: unknown
• Competitiveness tier (provisional, this dataset's own label): U-unknown

Filed candidates (2, alphabetical by surname; identical fields for everyone):

Source: races.csv ON-kitchener-council-ward7, source https://app2.kitchener.ca/election/candidates.aspx, as_of 2026-08-03.

Councillor — Ward 8

ON-kitchener-council-ward8

• Seats: 1
• Incumbent: none on file (open seat or not researched)
• Open seat: unknown
• Filed candidates on file below: 1 (races.csv's own registrant count as of 2026-08-03: 1)
• 2022 baseline: turnout 20.26% · margin not on file pts · acclaimed: unknown
• Competitiveness tier (provisional, this dataset's own label): U-unknown

Filed candidates (1, alphabetical by surname; identical fields for everyone):

Source: races.csv ON-kitchener-council-ward8, source https://app2.kitchener.ca/election/candidates.aspx, as_of 2026-08-03.

Councillor — Ward 9

ON-kitchener-council-ward9

• Seats: 1
• Incumbent: none on file (open seat or not researched)
• Open seat: unknown
• Filed candidates on file below: 2 (races.csv's own registrant count as of 2026-08-03: 2)
• 2022 baseline: turnout 20.26% · margin not on file pts · acclaimed: unknown
• Competitiveness tier (provisional, this dataset's own label): U-unknown

Filed candidates (2, alphabetical by surname; identical fields for everyone):

Source: races.csv ON-kitchener-council-ward9, source https://app2.kitchener.ca/election/candidates.aspx, as_of 2026-08-03.

Trustee — WRDSB — Kitchener zone (per WRDSB's own official trustee zone map)

ON-BD-wrdsb-trustee-kitchener

• Seats: 4
• Incumbent: none on file (open seat or not researched)
• Open seat: unknown
• Filed candidates on file below: 2 (races.csv's own registrant count as of 2026-08-03: 2)
• 2022 baseline: turnout 20.26% · margin not on file pts · acclaimed: unknown
• Competitiveness tier (provisional, this dataset's own label): U-unknown

Filed candidates (2, alphabetical by surname; identical fields for everyone):

Source: races.csv ON-BD-wrdsb-trustee-kitchener, source https://www.wrdsb.ca/trustees/, as_of 2026-08-03.

Trustee — CSCMonAvenir — Région 10 — Waterloo, Brant, Haldimand, Norfolk

ON-BD-cscmonavenir-trustee-norfolk-haldimand

• Seats: 1
• Incumbent: none on file (open seat or not researched)
• Open seat: unknown
• Filed candidates on file below: 1 (races.csv's own registrant count as of 2026-08-03: 1)
• Competitiveness tier (provisional, this dataset's own label): U-unknown

Filed candidates (1, alphabetical by surname; identical fields for everyone):

Source: races.csv ON-BD-cscmonavenir-trustee-norfolk-haldimand, source https://cscmonavenir.ca/elections/, as_of 2026-08-03.

How to correct an error

This page is generated mechanically from municipalities.csv / races.csv / candidates.csv; it is not hand-edited. If anything above is wrong, out of date, or missing:

1. Check the candidate's own current public campaign site or social account, and the municipality's own live candidate list (linked above) — those are the primary sources this page draws from.
2. Corrections should point to a public, verifiable source (a candidate's own site, a clerk record, an official results document) — unsourced claims about any candidate are not taken.
3. This page should be regenerated from the source CSVs after any correction, not edited in place.

This page’s figures come from this project’s own published election dataset, regenerated from the source CSVs on each run.

Provisional — nominations close 2026-08-21.