diff --git a/public/elections/toronto/2026/survey-skyline.jpg b/public/elections/toronto/2026/survey-skyline.jpg
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diff --git a/src/app/toronto/vote/2026/survey/SurveyClient.tsx b/src/app/toronto/vote/2026/survey/SurveyClient.tsx
index 70419a69..af3be5e3 100644
--- a/src/app/toronto/vote/2026/survey/SurveyClient.tsx
+++ b/src/app/toronto/vote/2026/survey/SurveyClient.tsx
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import {
   useState,
   type CSSProperties,
 } from "react";
+import Image from "next/image";
 import Link from "next/link";
 import { ArrowRight } from "lucide-react";
 
@@ -395,6 +396,42 @@ export default function SurveyClient({
         className={`mx-auto w-full overflow-x-clip border-2 border-dark bg-bg transition-[max-width] duration-500 ${done ? "max-w-[1720px]" : "max-w-[760px]"
           }`}
       >
+        {/* ── Banner ─────────────────────────────────────────── */}
+        {/* The city the questions are about, before the first one is asked.
+            Thirty questions on what Toronto should do next open on a wall of
+            type otherwise, and the survey asks for a postal code and an email
+            before it gives anything back — a photograph is what says which
+            city's survey this is at a glance.
+
+            Only before the answers are in. Once the card widens to hold the
+            comparison, a banner is the width of the results and pushes the
+            thing the reader came back for below the fold; the comparison is a
+            findings page and does not want a hero. */}
+        {!done && (
+          <div className="relative h-36 w-full overflow-hidden border-b border-border-light sm:h-48 md:h-64">
+            <Image
+              /* Served from public/, like every other election photograph
+                 here — the only asset directory shipped into the production
+                 image (see the pledge OG template, which learned this the
+                 hard way). */
+              src="/elections/toronto/2026/survey-skyline.jpg"
+              alt="The Toronto skyline at sunset, seen across the lake from the Islands"
+              fill
+              // The card is 760px wide before the results widen it, so the
+              // banner never renders larger than that on any viewport.
+              sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 760px"
+              /* The skyline sits low in the frame under a lot of open sky, so
+                 a centred crop of a band this short is mostly empty air. The
+                 band's height and this focal point are a pair: the CN Tower
+                 spire sits about a third of the way down and the waterline
+                 four-fifths, and a shorter band or a lower focus cuts one end
+                 or the other off the one landmark that says Toronto. */
+              className="object-cover object-[50%_60%]"
+              priority
+            />
+          </div>
+        )}
+
         {/* ── Masthead ───────────────────────────────────────── */}
         {/* Its own band, ruled off from what follows. It had no bottom padding
             at all: the title sat on top of the progress bar, and the only
@@ -402,7 +439,7 @@ export default function SurveyClient({
             happened to carry. The intro keeps a reading measure of its own —
             once the card widens to hold the results, a line of intro type set
             across seventeen hundred pixels is a line nobody finishes. */}
-        <div className="flex flex-wrap items-end justify-between gap-x-10 gap-y-5 border-b border-border-light px-6 pt-10 pb-8 md:px-10 md:pt-12 md:pb-9">
+        <div className="border-b border-border-light px-6 pt-10 pb-8 md:px-10 md:pt-12 md:pb-9">
           {/* One masthead, saying whichever of the two things the page is
               currently for. Before the answers are in it introduces the
               survey; after, it is the heading of the comparison — which used
@@ -440,16 +477,6 @@ export default function SurveyClient({
               </p>
             )}
           </div>
-
-          {/* The way out, in the masthead where a reader looks for it rather
-              than at the bottom of a page they have to finish first. */}
-          <Link
-            href="/toronto/vote/2026"
-            className="group/btn type-button inline-flex flex-none items-center gap-2 pb-1 text-dark hover:text-accent"
-          >
-            Explore the candidates
-            <ArrowRight className="size-3.5 transition-transform group-hover/btn:translate-x-0.5" />
-          </Link>
         </div>
 
         {done ? (
@@ -463,6 +490,22 @@ export default function SurveyClient({
                 />
               </div>
             )}
+
+            {/* ── The way on ─────────────────────────────────── */}
+            {/* At the end rather than in the masthead. Offered up top it
+                competed with the survey for the reader's first move — a way
+                off the page, beside the reason they came to it. Here it is
+                what to do next once the comparison has been read: the names
+                in it are the ones this links to. */}
+            <div className="border-t-2 border-dark px-6 py-8 md:px-10">
+              <Link
+                href="/toronto/vote/2026"
+                className="group/btn type-button inline-flex items-center gap-2 text-dark hover:text-accent"
+              >
+                Explore the candidates
+                <ArrowRight className="size-3.5 transition-transform group-hover/btn:translate-x-0.5" />
+              </Link>
+            </div>
           </>
         ) : (
           <>