Survivor 26 Caramoan
Caramoan, Camarines Sur, Philippines Feb 13 – May 12, 2013 Filmed May 21 – Jun 28, 2012
Format Fans vs. Favorites II Returning Players Challenge Advantage Tribe Switch Hidden Immunity Idol
Winner
John Cochran won 8-0-0 Who won Survivor 26?
John Cochran won Survivor 26, defeating Dawn Meehan and Sherri Biethman by an 8-0-0 final jury vote.
- Cast
- 20 castaways
- Filmed in
- Caramoan, Camarines Sur, Philippines
- Premiere
- Feb 13, 2013
- Finale
- May 12, 2013
Jump to the full cast and finish order or season voting history.
More winners: Survivor 25 winner Denise Stapley and Survivor 27 winner Tyson Apostol. See every Survivor winner in order.
The twenty-sixth season of the series features a 'Fans vs. Favorites' format where ten dedicated viewers compete against ten returning contestants in the Caramoan Islands of the Philippines.
Day one split the cast into two tribes: Bikal and Gota. Ten castaways arrived with prior seasons played, and two of this cast would go on to play again.
Starting tribes
Full cast & placements
Days, tribes and votes are on each castaway's page.
| Place | Castaway | Result | Days | Tribes | Votes against |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | John Cochran Returnee Also played S23 | 8 of 8 jury votes
| 39 | BikalEnil Edam | 0 |
| 2 |  Dawn Meehan Returnee Also played S23 | 0 of 8 jury votes
| 39 | BikalEnil Edam | 2 |
| 3 |  Sherri Biethman | 0 of 8 jury votes
| 39 | GotaEnil Edam | 6 |
| 4 |  Edward Fox | 15th voted out | 38 | GotaEnil Edam | 12 |
| 5 |  Erik Reichenbach Returnee Also played S16 | Medically evacuated | 36 | BikalGotaEnil Edam | 2 |
| 6 |  Brenda Lowe Returnee Also played S21 | 14th voted out | 36 | BikalGotaEnil Edam | 5 |
| 7 |  Andrea Boehlke Returnee Also played S22, S34 | 13th voted out | 33 | BikalGotaEnil Edam | 13 |
| 8 |  Reynold Toepfer | 12th voted out | 31 | GotaEnil Edam | 8 |
| 9 |  Malcolm Freberg Returnee Also played S25, S34 | 11th voted out | 30 | BikalGotaEnil Edam | 9 |
| 10 |  Phillip Sheppard Returnee Also played S22 | 10th voted out | 28 | BikalEnil Edam | 5 |
| 11 |  Michael Snow | 9th voted out | 25 | GotaBikalEnil Edam | 10 |
| 12 |  Corinne Kaplan Returnee Also played S17 | 8th voted out | 22 | BikalEnil Edam | 7 |
| 13 |  Julia Landauer | 7th voted out | 19 | GotaBikal | 9 |
| 14 |  Matt Bischoff | 6th voted out | 16 | GotaBikal | 4 |
| 15 |  Brandon Hantz Returnee Also played S23 | 5th voted out | 13 | Bikal | 8 |
| 16 |  Laura Alexander | 4th voted out | 10 | Gota | 6 |
| 17 |  Shamar Thomas | Medically evacuated | 10 | Gota | 8 |
| 18 |  Hope Driskill | 3rd voted out | 7 | Gota | 8 |
| 19 |  Alexandra Pohevitz | 2nd voted out | 5 | Gota | 6 |
| 20 |  Francesca Hogi Returnee Also played S22 | 1st voted out | 3 | Bikal | 6 |
Episode guide
All 14 episodes of Survivor 26: when each aired, who won reward and immunity, who left, and how many people watched.
| # | Episode | Aired | Reward | Immunity | Voted out | Viewers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She Annoys Me Greatly | Feb 13 | Bikal | Gota | Francesca Hogi | 8.9M |
| 2 | Honey Badger | Feb 20 | Bikal | Bikal | Alexandra Pohevitz | 9.3M |
| 3 | There's Gonna Be Hell to Pay | Feb 27 | Bikal | Bikal | Hope Driskill | 9.2M |
| 4 | Kill or Be Killed | Mar 6 | Bikal | Bikal | Shamar Thomas Evacuated Laura Alexander | 9.6M |
| 5 | Persona Non Grata | Mar 13 | Bikal | Gota | Brandon Hantz | 9.9M |
| 6 | Operation Thunder Dome | Mar 20 | – | Gota | Matt Bischoff | 9.8M |
| 7 | Tubby Lunchbox | Mar 27 | Gota | Gota | Julia Landauer | 9.4M |
| 8 | Blindside Time | Apr 3 | – | John Cochran | Corinne Kaplan | 9.3M |
| 9 | Cut Off the Head of the Snake | Apr 10 | Edward Fox, Erik Reichenbach, John Cochran, Michael Snow, Reynold Toepfer | Brenda Lowe | Michael Snow | 9.4M |
| 10 | Zipping Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Apr 17 | Dawn Meehan, Erik Reichenbach, John Cochran, Phillip Sheppard, Reynold Toepfer | Reynold Toepfer | Phillip Sheppard | 10.0M |
| 11 | Come Over to the Dark Side | Apr 24 | – | John Cochran | Malcolm Freberg | 10.3M |
| 12 | The Beginning of the End | May 1 | Andrea Boehlke | Andrea Boehlke, Erik Reichenbach | Reynold Toepfer Andrea Boehlke | 9.3M |
| 13 | Don't Say Anything About My Mom | May 8 | Brenda Lowe | Dawn Meehan | Brenda Lowe | 9.5M |
| 14 | Last Push | May 12 | John Cochran | John Cochran | Erik Reichenbach Evacuated Edward Fox | 10.2M |
Episode, twist and location facts adapted from Survivor Fandom and Wikipedia, retrieved 2026-07-21. Licensed CC BY-SA.
Who got the edit
Confessional counts: the to-camera interviews the edit gave each castaway across Survivor 26. A rough proxy for who the season was built around.
- 1 John Cochran 67
- 2 Reynold Toepfer 40
- 3 Dawn Meehan 35
- 4 Malcolm Freberg 35
- 5 Phillip Sheppard 33
- 6 Edward Fox 25
- 7 Andrea Boehlke 25
- 8 Corinne Kaplan 22
- 9 Sherri Biethman 21
- 10 Erik Reichenbach 15
413 confessionals across the season. Top 10 of 20 castaways shown.
Voting history
Every tribal-council vote of the season. Rows are castaways by finish, columns are councils in order. Each cell is who that castaway voted for.
Key Vote matched the boot Struck through = vote nullified by an idol No vote cast (immune, absent, or already out)
| Voter | Ep 1 Francesca 6-4 | Ep 2 Alexandra 6-4 | Ep 3 Hope 8-4-3 | Ep 4 Laura 6 | Ep 5 Brandon 8-1 | Ep 6 Matt 4-2-1 | Ep 7 Julia 7-3 | Ep 8 Corinne 7-5 | Ep 9 Michael 7-3-1 | Ep 10 Phillip 4 | Ep 11 Malcolm 9-3-3 | Ep 12 Reynold 4-2-1-1 | Ep 12 Andrea 3-2-2 | Ep 13 Brenda 3-2-1 | Ep 14 Edward 3-1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Cochran | Francesca | Brandon | Matt | Michael | Corinne | Michael | Malcolm | Malcolm | Edward | Edward | Brenda | Edward | |||
| Dawn Meehan | Francesca | Brandon | Matt | Julia | Corinne | Michael | Edward | Reynold | Reynold | Edward | Brenda | Edward | |||
| Sherri Biethman | Alexandra | Hope | Laura | Corinne | Michael | Edward | Reynold | Reynold | Andrea | Brenda | Edward | ||||
| Edward Fox | Shamar | Shamar | Laura | Sherri | Andrea | Phillip | Andrea | Sherri | Brenda | Erik | Dawn | ||||
| Erik Reichenbach | Andrea | Brandon | Corinne | Michael | Phillip | Malcolm | Edward | Andrea | Edward | ||||||
| Brenda Lowe | Andrea | Brandon | Corinne | Michael | Edward | Reynold | Reynold | Andrea | Edward | ||||||
| Andrea Boehlke | Francesca | Brandon | Corinne | Michael | Edward | Malcolm | Reynold | Brenda | |||||||
| Reynold Toepfer | Shamar | Shamar | Laura | Sherri | Andrea | Phillip | Andrea | Erik | |||||||
| Malcolm Freberg | Francesca | Brandon | Sherri | Reynold | Phillip | Andrea | |||||||||
| Phillip Sheppard | Francesca | Brandon | Matt | Michael | Corinne | Michael | Malcolm | ||||||||
| Michael Snow | Alexandra | Edward | Laura | Julia | Julia | Sherri | Andrea | ||||||||
| Corinne Kaplan | Francesca | Brandon | Matt | Julia | Sherri | ||||||||||
| Julia Landauer | Alexandra | Hope | Laura | Dawn | Michael | ||||||||||
| Matt Bischoff | Alexandra | Edward | Laura | Julia | |||||||||||
| Brandon Hantz | Andrea | Phillip | |||||||||||||
| Laura Alexander | Alexandra | Hope | Reynold | ||||||||||||
| Shamar Thomas | Alexandra | Edward | |||||||||||||
| Hope Driskill | Shamar | Shamar | |||||||||||||
| Alexandra Pohevitz | Shamar | ||||||||||||||
| Francesca Hogi | Andrea |
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