One public poll of Richmond voters has been published. Pallas Data released a Richmond, BC mayoral and council poll on July 15, 2026, fielded June 24–28, 2026. Two qualifications matter more than the numbers: it was commissioned by the Conservative Electors Association, a participant in the same election, and it was taken before nominations closed on September 11, so it does not describe the final ballot.
| Candidate | Poll support | Office on the final ballot |
|---|---|---|
| Kash Heed | 20% | Mayor |
| Sheldon Starrett | 11.3% | Councillor — not a mayor candidate |
| Alexa Loo | 8.5% | Mayor |
| Rob Howard | 5.9% | Mayor |
| Mei Kang | 4.3% | Mayor |
| Dickens Cheung | 1.6% | Mayor |
| Undecided | 48.4% | — |
Read the table with three limits in mind. Almost half the sample was undecided, which is larger than every candidate’s share and larger than the gap between them. The second-placed name is no longer in the race for mayor: Pallas polled Sheldon Starrett as a Conservative-endorsed mayoral candidate in June, but the City’s final candidate list names him as a council candidate for Advance Richmond. And two candidates on the final mayoral ballot were never polled — Dennet “The Cat Guy” Lee and Goldentiger King — because they had not filed when the survey ran.
Method, as published by Pallas Data: 304 Richmond adults eligible to vote municipally, interactive voice response (IVR) calls to landlines and cellphones, weighted by age, gender and region to the 2021 Census, margin of error ±5.6 percentage points at 95% confidence, subsamples wider. Source: Pallas Data, July 15, 2026.
In the same survey’s council question, 63.1% of voters named no preference. Among those who did: Conservative slate 16.8%, RITE Richmond 6.5%, RCA 3.9%, Richmond Forward 3.1%, Advance Richmond 2.8%, We Are Richmond 1.7%, Richmond Strong 1.6%. See what each Richmond elector organization is.
The chart above is not this poll. It shows an external prediction-market signal — not polling, and not projected vote share. Online attention, social followers and market prices do not represent a random sample of Richmond voters, and neither does a single sponsored survey taken three months before election day.
Vote in Smart Richmond’s reader poll for mayor and city council and see live results — an informal straw poll of site visitors, not a scientific or representative survey.
See the full list of all 90 Richmond candidates, what each elector organization is, how many councillors you may vote for, which issues council actually decides, where candidate debates get announced, the Kash Heed profile and its Lucy Scientific and the supervised consumption site motion with its evidence review, plus Richmond voting locations and voter requirements, and the source-linked candidate records below. Chinese: 列治文市长民调 · 列治文市長民調. Following the Vancouver race instead? See the Vancouver election guide and Vancouver mayor polls.