Edmonton election: Andrew Knack builds 11,000-vote lead over Cartmell in mayoral race
Posted October 20, 2025 11:43 pm.
Last Updated October 21, 2025 1:56 pm.
Vote counting for Edmonton mayor resumed Tuesday morning with veteran city councillor Andrew Knack growing his advantage over Tim Cartmell in a vote that quickly revealed itself to be a two-horse race, as predicted.
With 127 polls reporting – 27 per cent of the vote – Knack (45,583 votes, 38 per cent) led Cartmell (34,178 votes, 29 per cent) by 11,405 votes.
The two presumed frontrunners of Edmonton’s municipal election distanced themselves from the rest of the pack early into the vote-counting process.
Michael Walters (12 per cent), Omar Mohammad (10 per cent), Rahim Jaffer (four per cent) and Tony Caterina (three per cent) rounded out the top six candidates.
Voter turnout was 30 per cent.
Counting ended early Tuesday morning at 1 a.m. before resuming at 9 a.m.
Councillor races
Ward Anirniq: With 13 polls reporting, incumbent Erin Rutherford (39 per cent) had a big lead over Jesse Watson (29 per cent).
Ward Dene: With 12 polls reporting, incumbent Aaron Paquette (43 per cent) held a commanding lead over Better Edmonton’s Banisha Sandhu (19 per cent).
Ward Karhiio: With six polls reporting, incumbent Keren Tang (45 per cent) led Better Edmonton’s Joti Buttar (21 per cent).
Ward papastew: With eight polls reporting, incumbent Michael Janz (58 per cent) was well ahead of Better Edmonton’s Joshua Doyle (18 per cent).
Slow results
Results were slow to come in for Alberta’s capital due to long lines at polling stations and because ballots are being hand counted this year.
Results only began rolling in around 10:30 p.m. By midnight, only seven per cent of the mayoral vote was counted.
“Edmonton is Alberta’s capital city and shouldn’t be in limbo like this for this long,” Alexandra Hryciw, Cartmell’s campaign manager, told CityNews earlier in the night. “These are new rules everyone is operating with from the provincial government. I think this is a pilot project for them to test and see how things are going. This has been tense, slower than expected.
“For a capital city especially, it’s not ideal.”
