LANGLEY, B.C. - The 2026 municipal election is now official in both Langleys. Langley City has posted its official results and the Township of Langley confirms its results have been tabulated and certified, closing the books on the October 17 vote that removed both incumbent mayors and handed each community a new council majority.
In Langley City, Councillor Delaney Mack and her Achieving for Langley City slate won decisively, taking the mayor’s chair and five of six council seats. In the Township, Jay Lundgren and his Langley Strong slate unseated Mayor Eric Woodward in a race that drew more than 33,000 ballots. For Surrey readers, the two results settle who will speak for the communities directly across the eastern border for the next four years, on everything from Fraser Highway growth to regional transit and policing costs.
Langley City: Mack and the Achieving slate take city hall
Mack defeated incumbent Mayor Nathan Pachal by 3,753 votes to 2,411, about 61 per cent of the mayoral vote, a dramatic reversal for a mayor who won his first term comfortably in 2022. Pachal ran under the Langley City First banner.
The Achieving slate carried that momentum through the council race, electing five of its six candidates. The new Langley City council is:
- Andrew Flitton (Achieving for Langley City), 3,236 votes
- Michael Hylands (Achieving for Langley City), 3,094 votes
- Scott Thompson (Achieving for Langley City), 3,034 votes
- Rick Orlando (Achieving for Langley City), 2,799 votes
- Simi Rajput (Achieving for Langley City), 2,737 votes
- Heather Jenkins (Langley City First), 2,488 votes
Jenkins was the only Langley City First candidate to hold a seat, and she took the last one narrowly: her party colleague Rosemary Wallace finished just 36 votes behind her at 2,452. The rest of the council field, in order, was Paul Albrecht (2,277), Jeff Jacobs (2,199), Shawn Caldera (1,973), Mike Solyom (1,967), Val Van Den Broek (1,453), Jennifer Denman (1,090), Bruce Downing (680), Samuel Otim (580) and Gurjit Dhillon (463).
Voters also elected two school trustees for the Langley City area. Tony Ward, running under the Langley Strong banner, topped the poll with 2,106 votes, and Celene Hoag took the second seat with 2,033. Jennifer Elderkin (1,935), Laura Wierenga (1,821) and Marshall Austin (1,410) were not elected.
Turnout in the City was 28.5 per cent, with 6,209 votes cast.
Township of Langley: Lundgren unseats Woodward, results certified
The Township of Langley’s election office states that all results in the Township have now been tabulated and certified, making the election-night outcome final. Jay Lundgren of Langley Strong won the mayor’s race with 18,302 votes, 54.21 per cent of the total, defeating incumbent Mayor Eric Woodward, who finished with 15,459 votes. The margin was 2,843 votes.
Woodward was elected in 2022 at the head of the Progress for Langley slate and spent his term pushing a major infrastructure building program financed in part through borrowing. Lundgren, a first-time mayoral candidate leading a new slate, made that borrowing the central issue of his campaign and promised a forensic audit of the Township’s books. Township voters will now watch for that audit, and for how a Lundgren council handles the projects and debt it inherits, as the first tests of the change they voted for.
Because the Township publishes its full results in an interactive online table, the complete list of elected councillors is best read on the Township’s own results page, linked below. The mayoral result and the certified status of the full results are confirmed.
City voters back the pool, reject the Timms and arts centre plan
Langley City voters also answered a voluntary, non-binding Community Opinion Vote on two facility expansions, and they split their verdict. A total of 4,998 opinion ballots were cast.
- Expanding the Al Anderson Memorial Pool: YES, 59.2 per cent (2,878 votes to 1,984)
- Expanding the Timms Community Centre combined with a new Performing Arts and Cultural Centre: NO, 57.1 per cent (2,774 votes against, 2,080 in favour)
- Expanding both facilities: NO, 64.6 per cent (3,082 votes against, 1,688 in favour)
The results do not bind the new council, but they set the politics of its first budget. Voters gave a clear green light to the pool expansion Mack’s council was elected alongside, and a clear warning against the larger combined Timms and arts centre project and against doing both at once. The City says the opinion results will help council decide whether to continue planning the expansions, with next steps posted on its LetsChat Langley City engagement page.
What certification means, and what happens next
Election night numbers are unofficial by design. They are the count as reported when polls close, before the chief election officer completes the final determination of results under British Columbia’s local elections rules. Certification is that final step: the count is checked, declared and entered as the official result, and it is the certified numbers, not the election-night figures, that the new councils are sworn in on.
For both Langleys, that process is now complete. Mack, Lundgren and their councils hold four-year mandates running to the 2030 local elections, and the real work of the transition, inaugural meetings, committee appointments and first budgets, begins in the coming weeks. In Langley City, the opinion vote gives the new council an early, public measuring stick on facilities spending. In the Township, the certified result makes the change of government official, and attention shifts to the promised audit and the Township’s debt.
Sources: City of Langley, 2026 Langley City Election Results (official results), langleycity.ca/2026Results; Township of Langley, 2026 Election Results (results tabulated and certified), tol.ca/en/the-township/2026-results.aspx.
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