Township of Langley · 2026 election
What the candidates actually said
296 statements from 4 candidate events, in the candidates’ own words. Nothing graded, nothing summarised, and a note on how we know who said each one.
Voting day
Saturday, October 17, 2026
8:00am to 8:00pm
10
days to go
Advance voting, then voting day, every day 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Any Township voter may use any location.
Tue
6
Oct · held
Wed
7
Oct · today
Thu
8
Oct · advance
Fri
9
Oct · advance
Sat
10
Oct · advance
Sat
17
Oct · voting day
Advance voting today, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.: Langley Events Centre, West Gym, 7888 200 Street.
- Everyone who is running
Mayor, council and school trustees, in ballot order.
- Results
From the Township’s own count, once it is posted.
- The documents behind the arguments
Audited financial statements, the five-year plan, the court ruling on amenity contributions, the Rural Plan.
Live in the City of Langley rather than the Township? It is a separate election on the same day, with its own candidates and one voting place. The City of Langley election.
Who is running
In the order they appear on the ballot. Everything one person said, across every event, is one tap away. Colours show each person’s team and nothing else.
Langley StrongProgress for LangleyIndependentColours are each campaign’s own.
For mayor · vote for 1
For council · vote for up to 8
School trustees are on the full ballot.
By issue
Everyone’s position on one subject, side by side.
- Transportation and transitBuses, SkyTrain, roads, and the traffic through the village.32 statements
- Taxes and spendingThe debt, the capital plan, and what gets deferred.28 statements
- Agriculture and rural landFarmland, the rural plan, enforcement, and truck parking.27 statements
- Public safety and enforcementFire halls, policing, bylaw enforcement and whether it is followed up.24 statements
- Water and aquifersWells, aquifer study, and who the water is for.17 statements
- Housing and affordabilityWhat the Township can realistically do about the cost of a home.15 statements
- Parks and waterfrontMarina Park, the Haldi House, the Bedford Channel and dredging.14 statements
- Growth and densityHow much gets built, how tall, and where.11 statements
- Consultation and transparencyHow residents are consulted before council votes, and the part community groups and other agencies play.9 statements
- Seniors and social servicesAgeing in place, a seniors centre, and homelessness.8 statements
- Heritage and characterProtecting old buildings, and what the village should feel like.6 statements
- Arts and cultureTheatre, music, festivals and the events the village runs on.4 statements
- Climate and environmentA climate action plan, tree canopy, and what it costs.3 statements
By team
Who filed under each banner, and who filed under none.
The forums
The full record of one night, in the order it happened.
September 21, 2026
Fort Langley all-candidates meeting
Fort Langley Community Association
September 22, 2026
Candidates and Community meeting
Langley Farmers' Institute · written statements, not quoted speech
September 29, 2026
Greater Langley Chamber of Commerce
October 1, 2026
Jay Lundgren’s Reddit “Ask Me Anything”
r/Langley, from the Langley Strong account
Interviews elsewhere
Recorded by others and linked, not transcribed here.
- Interviews with Eric Woodward and Jay Lundgren, the two candidates for mayor by Justin McElroy. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), This is Vancouver podcast (the episode titled "Who is going to be the next Mayor of Richmond? (Part 2)"), October 1, 2026, 34 minutes.
How this is put together
Every entry carries a name only when the speaker or writer can be shown. At the Fort Langley meeting that means a candidate introducing themselves, the chair naming them, or a turn sitting between two proven ones. At the Farmers’ Institute it means a signature on the sheet they wrote it on: every sheet from that evening.
A candidate’s own written answers online count the same way when the account and the candidate say they are theirs: Jay Lundgren’s Reddit “Ask Me Anything”, every answer. Any candidate’s is added the same way.
Anything that cannot be shown stays out. A few statements were recorded with no name attached, and they are kept that way rather than guessed at.
Every spoken word is checked against separate transcriptions: five of the two Fort Langley recordings, three of the Chamber of Commerce forum’s. Where they do not agree on a word, it is shown as “…” rather than guessed. The same rule applies to every candidate.
Summarise it with an AI assistant
Each button opens the assistant with the question already written and a link to the whole record in one file. The summary is the assistant’s, not ours, so check it against the words on this site.
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Last reviewed October 6, 2026.