Victoria indicatorsAll measures City government and residents
Voter turnout in the City election
41.4% of registered voters
No target expected. This is a context measure. Turnout is decided by voters. No body sets a target for it. Targets and comparisons
Up 3.5 points since 2022.
Source: City of Victoria. We read it on Nov 11, 2026.
Over time
2026 Of registered voters, by year
- 41.4% of registered voters
M municipal election: Oct 15, 2022; Oct 17, 2026P provincial election: Oct 19, 2024
Targets and comparisons
Context measure: no target expected
Context measure: no target expected. Turnout is decided by voters. No body sets a target for it.
Show the numbers as a table
| Period | Value |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 41.4% |
| 2022 | 38.0% |
Who decides
No government decides this directly. The bodies below decide the rules around it.
Show all 2 bodies and the laws
No government decides this directly. Each voter decides whether to vote.
| Body | What it decides | Law or bylaw |
|---|---|---|
| City of Victoria Council | Runs the City’s elections through a chief election officer it appoints. | Local Government Act, s. 58 |
| Province of B.C. | Sets the rules for local elections, including that they’re held every 4 years. | Local Government Act, s. 52 |
Councils: last general local election October 17, 2026; next on October 19, 2030, the third Saturday of October set by the Local Government Act, s. 52. Province: last general election October 19, 2024; next set for October 21, 2028 unless called earlier (Constitution Act, s. 23).
Each row says what a body decides and links to the law, order or bylaw that gives it that role. It does not say who caused a change: markets, households and other governments also move these numbers. Who decides what, for every measure · How we choose
What this number does not show
- Turnout is calculated by the City's Chief Election Officer as voters ÷ registered voters (the City's voters list on election day).
Two more limits
- The 2022 declaration of official results does not print turnout, so the 2022 figure is read from the City's 2022 statement of votes cast, which uses the same base. That statement is marked preliminary.
- A better measure would be: A regular resident survey. Not published as data. Not asked for yet.
Not measured yet in city government and residents: share of Council business held in closed meetings, residents’ trust in local government. See all 17 gaps
In plain words
The share of registered voters (the City’s voters list) who cast a ballot in the most recent City general election, as certified by the Chief Election Officer.
How we decide “Better”
The change is 9.1% of the earlier value, at or above the 5% threshold.
A higher share means more registered voters took part. Turnout is a simple measure of participation, not of trust. The Chief Election Officer certified a turnout of 41.44% for the 2026 general local election (October 21, 2026); the City's statement of votes cast gives 31,281 voters of 75,490 registered. In the October 15, 2022 election, 27,452 of 72,284 registered voters voted (37.98%).
Outcome measures read Better, Worse or About the same; published government targets read Ahead of, On or Behind target; value-judgement measures read Rising, Falling or Steady in a neutral colour. A change smaller than the agency's own margin of error, or otherwise smaller than 5% of the earlier value, is About the same (or Steady). No change is calculated across a marked break in a series. The rule.
All notes on this number
Why it matters. Turnout is a simple measure of participation in local decisions.
- Turnout is calculated by the City's Chief Election Officer as voters ÷ registered voters (the City's voters list on election day).
- The 2022 declaration of official results does not print turnout, so the 2022 figure is read from the City's 2022 statement of votes cast, which uses the same base. That statement is marked preliminary.
- Estimates based on all eligible voters, such as CivicInfo BC's, give a different percentage.
A better measure
- What
- A regular resident survey
- Who could publish it
- City of Victoria
- Status
- Not published as data. Not asked for yet.
This page uses the best public number we found. Data requests
Which places
Area: City of Victoria
The City of Victoria municipality only, all neighbourhoods.
Included
- All City of Victoria neighbourhoods, including Downtown, James Bay, Fairfield, Fernwood, Oaklands, Hillside/Quadra, North Park, Burnside, Victoria West, Rockland, Jubilee and Gonzales
Not included
- Saanich, Oak Bay, Esquimalt, Langford and every other municipality in the region
Official definition
How the agency describes it: City of Victoria (municipality).
How we got it
This number is published by the agency as shown; it is not calculated here. The script reads it from the agency’s own document and refuses to show it unless the expected text is found.
Licence and credits
This figure is public but not under an open licence: the agency publishes it for anyone to read, and it is shown here with credit and a link to the agency’s terms. About licences.
- Licence
- Public data, not under an open licence. Used with attribution. Agency’s terms of use
- Updated by agency
- Every four years; latest release Oct 21, 2026 (date of the agency’s file)
- Retrieved
- Nov 11, 2026, 1:11 PM B.C. time
Source: City of Victoria, Declaration of Official Election Results, 2026. Public document, used with attribution; not endorsed by the publisher.
Spot a mistake?
Email [email protected]. Fixes are listed in the corrections log.