Here’s the current slate of people running for mayor in Edmonton for the October 20, 2025 municipal election, according to the official and major news listings of candidates.

Quick Scoop: Who’s Running for Mayor in Edmonton?

These are the names reported as official mayoral candidates in the 2025 Edmonton municipal race:

  • Tim Cartmell (current city councillor, affiliated with the Better Edmonton slate)
  • Andrew Knack (current city councillor)
  • Michael Walters (former city councillor, 2013–2021)
  • Rahim Jaffer (former federal Conservative MP)
  • Omar Mohammad (pediatric dental surgeon)
  • Abdul Malik Chukwudi
  • Vanessa Denman
  • Andrzej Gudanowski
  • Utha Nadauk
  • Olney Tugwell
  • Tony Caterina (former long‑time city councillor)
  • Other officially listed mayoral contenders appear on the city’s official candidate list for the 2025 election.

Different outlets mention 12–13 candidates because some reports were published before the final nomination list was locked, but the names above capture the publicly reported mayoral hopefuls highlighted by major local media and the official list.

Mini context: what they’re talking about

Coverage of the race says the key themes in this election include: housing and affordability, transit and mobility, infrastructure planning, public safety, and transparency at city hall.

Debates and interviews so far have especially focused on property taxes, downtown revitalization, and the city’s relationship with the province.

In local forums, people are already comparing candidates on issues like taxes vs. services, how to handle infill and zoning changes, and how “business‑friendly” each platform really is.

If you’d like, I can break down what a few of these candidates are promising on specific topics (like property taxes, LRT, or crime) using the latest coverage.

Information gathered from public forums or data available on the internet and portrayed here.