Prince Edward Island, Canada Municipal elections 2026 — Live Results & Map

Prince Edward Island votes on 2 November

Prince Edward Island holds its municipal elections on Monday 2 November 2026. Voters elect mayors and councillors in the province's incorporated municipalities for four-year terms. PEI is Canada's smallest province by both area and population — around 175,000 people — and its municipal landscape is correspondingly compact: a handful of substantial towns and cities, and a long tail of small communities.

Charlottetown, Summerside and the amalgamated towns

Charlottetown, the provincial capital, elects a mayor and a city council by ward, and is the largest municipality on the Island at roughly 40,000 people. Summerside, the second city, elects its own mayor and council. Stratford and Cornwall, both of which have grown quickly as commuter communities around Charlottetown, elect councils of their own, and Three Rivers — created in 2018 from the amalgamation of Montague, Georgetown, Cardigan, Lorne Valley and several surrounding communities — elects a mayor and council across a much larger rural territory.

How Island municipalities elect their councils

Voting is first-past-the-post. Mayors are elected at large; councillors are elected by ward in the larger municipalities and at large in the smaller ones. Municipal elections in PEI are non-partisan, and in the smallest communities it is common for some or all seats to be filled by acclamation. Elections are run under the province's Municipal Government Act, with Elections PEI providing support and publishing results centrally — which makes PEI unusual among the provinces in having a single place to look on the night.

What these councils decide

Municipal government covers a smaller share of public services on the Island than in most provinces, because a large part of PEI's territory is unincorporated and served directly by the province. Where councils do exist, they handle land-use planning, water and sewer, fire services, recreation and local roads — and land-use planning has become the sharpest of those, as population growth driven by interprovincial and international migration has pushed housing and development pressure onto communities that had seen little of it for decades.

Results and where they come from

This page will publish the mayoral results for Charlottetown, Summerside, Stratford, Cornwall and Three Rivers as Elections PEI releases them, with vote shares to two decimal places and turnout where reported. Seats filled by acclamation are stated as such. ElectioMap publishes no projections or forecasts, and names no winner before the count settles it.

Frequently asked questions

When are Prince Edward Island's 2026 municipal elections?

Monday 2 November 2026. Voters elect mayors and councillors in the province's incorporated municipalities for four-year terms.

Which municipalities are voting?

Charlottetown, the provincial capital and the Island's largest municipality at roughly 40,000 people; Summerside, the second city; Stratford and Cornwall, both fast-growing commuter communities around Charlottetown; and Three Rivers, created in 2018 from the amalgamation of Montague, Georgetown, Cardigan, Lorne Valley and surrounding communities. Numerous smaller communities vote alongside them.

How are Island councils elected?

First past the post. Mayors are elected at large; councillors by ward in the larger municipalities and at large in the smaller ones. The elections are non-partisan, and in the smallest communities it is common for some or all seats to be filled by acclamation.

Who runs the vote?

Elections run under the province's Municipal Government Act, with Elections PEI providing support and publishing results centrally — unusual among Canadian provinces, where results normally come from each municipality separately.

What do PEI municipal councils decide?

Land-use planning, water and sewer, fire services, recreation and local roads. Municipal government covers a smaller share of public services here than in most provinces, because much of PEI's territory is unincorporated and served directly by the province.

What is the main issue this cycle?

Land-use planning and housing. Population growth driven by interprovincial and international migration has pushed development pressure onto communities that had seen little of it for decades, and planning decisions have become the sharpest municipal question on the Island.

When will results be available?

Elections PEI publishes results on the evening of the vote. This page carries the mayoral results for Charlottetown, Summerside, Stratford, Cornwall and Three Rivers as they are released, with vote shares to two decimal places and turnout where reported.

Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.