Scott Gillingham

He sits as an independent. He has been Mayor of Winnipeg since November 2022, after serving as councillor for St. James from 2014 to 2022. He is the incumbent candidate for Mayor of Winnipeg in the municipal election of 28 October 2026.

Career

Wikipedia says Gillingham was raised on a farm near Carman, Manitoba, and played junior hockey in the Manitoba Junior Hockey League. He earned a diploma in pastoral theology at Horizon College and Seminary in Saskatoon, studied further at Canadian Mennonite University and worked as a Pentecostal pastor. He lost the 2011 provincial race in St. James to the NDP's Deanne Crothers. He was elected to Winnipeg City Council in 2014 and re-elected in 2018 with 55.43 per cent. In 2022 he won the mayoralty with 27.54 per cent of the vote, ahead of Glen Murray at 25.29 per cent, and took office on 1 November 2022, succeeding Brian Bowman. In 2021 he considered, then decided against, running for the leadership of the Manitoba Progressive Conservatives. CTV News reported in July 2025 that he would seek a second term.

Summarised automatically from the linked sources. Wikipedia · Wikipedia · CTV News Winnipeg

Photo: U.S. Embassy and Consulates in Canada, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons (cropped)