Eighteen new castaways compete in Fiji's Mamanuca Islands, navigating a shortened 26-day game defined by risky 'Beware Advantages' and shifting tribal alliances.
Day one split the cast into three tribes: Baka, Coco, and Vesi. Everyone here was new to the game, and none has returned since, so every connection this season made stays inside it.
Starting tribes
Full cast & placements
Days, tribes and votes are on each castaway's page.
| Place | Castaway | Result | Days | Tribes | Votes against |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Mike Gabler | 7 of 8 jury votes
| 26 | BakaGaia | 0 |
| 2 |  Cassidy Clark | 1 of 8 jury votes
| 26 | CocoGaia | 5 |
| 3 |  Owen Knight | 0 of 8 jury votes
| 26 | BakaGaia | 3 |
| 4 |  Jesse Lopez | Lost final 4 fire challenge | 25 | VesiGaia | 0 |
| 5 |  Karla Cruz Godoy | 14th voted out | 24 | CocoGaia | 6 |
| 6 |  Cody Assenmacher | 13th voted out | 23 | VesiGaia | 5 |
| 7 |  Sami Layadi | 12th voted out | 21 | BakaGaia | 7 |
| 8 |  Noelle Lambert | 11th voted out | 19 | VesiGaia | 6 |
| 9 |  Ryan Medrano | 10th voted out | 17 | CocoGaia | 9 |
| 10 |  James Jones | 9th voted out | 17 | CocoGaia | 8 |
| 11 |  Jeanine Zheng | 8th voted out | 16 | BakaGaia | 9 |
| 12 |  Dwight Moore | 7th voted out | 14 | VesiGaia | 7 |
| 13 |  Elie Scott | 6th voted out | 13 | BakaGaia | 7 |
| 14 |  Geo Bustamante | 5th voted out | 11 | Coco | 4 |
| 15 |  Lindsay Carmine | 4th voted out | 9 | Coco | 4 |
| 16 |  Nneka Ejere | 3rd voted out | 7 | Vesi | 5 |
| 17 |  Justine Brennan | 2nd voted out | 5 | Vesi | 3 |
| 18 |  Morriah Young | 1st voted out | 3 | Baka | 5 |
Episode guide
All 13 episodes of Survivor 43: when each aired, who won reward and immunity, who left, and how many people watched.
| # | Episode | Aired | Reward | Immunity | Voted out | Viewers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LIVIN | Sep 21 | Vesi | CocoVesi | Morriah Young | 5.0M |
| 2 | Lovable Curmudgeon | Sep 28 | BakaCoco | BakaCoco | Justine Brennan | 4.6M |
| 3 | I'll Sign the Divorce Papers | Oct 5 | BakaCoco | BakaCoco | Nneka Ejere | 5.2M |
| 4 | Show No Mercy | Oct 12 | Vesi | VesiBaka | Lindsay Carmine | 5.0M |
| 5 | Stop with All the Niceness | Oct 19 | VesiBaka | VesiBaka | Geo Bustamante | 4.9M |
| 6 | Mergatory | Oct 26 | Dwight Moore, Jeanine Zheng, Jesse Lopez, Karla Cruz Godoy, Mike Gabler, Ryan Medrano | Dwight Moore, Jeanine Zheng, Jesse Lopez, Karla Cruz Godoy, Mike Gabler, Ryan Medrano | Elie Scott | 5.2M |
| 7 | Bull in a China Shop | Nov 2 | – | Mike Gabler | Dwight Moore | 4.6M |
| 8 | Proposterous | Nov 9 | – | Owen Knight | Jeanine Zheng | 4.7M |
| 9 | What About the Big Girls | Nov 16 | Karla Cruz Godoy, Cody Assenmacher | Karla Cruz Godoy, Cody Assenmacher | James Jones Ryan Medrano | 5.2M |
| 10 | Get That Money, Baby | Nov 23 | Noelle Lambert | Cassidy Clark | Noelle Lambert | 4.9M |
| 11 | Hiding in Plain Sight | Nov 30 | – | Karla Cruz Godoy, Owen Knight | Sami Layadi | 5.3M |
| 12 | Telenovela | Dec 7 | Cody Assenmacher, Karla Cruz Godoy, Owen Knight | Cassidy Clark | Cody Assenmacher | 5.3M |
| 13 | Snap Some Necks and Cash Some Checks | Dec 14 | Owen Knight | Owen Knight, Cassidy Clark | Karla Cruz Godoy Jesse Lopez Eliminated | 5.0M |
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 43. A rough proxy for who the season was built around.
- 1 Jesse Lopez 60
- 2 Owen Knight 53
- 3 Karla Cruz Godoy 53
- 4 Cody Assenmacher 50
- 5 Mike Gabler 45
- 6 Cassidy Clark 44
- 7 Sami Layadi 35
- 8 Jeanine Zheng 27
- 9 Elie Scott 26
- 10 James Jones 22
502 confessionals across the season. Top 10 of 18 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 Morriah 5-1 | Ep 2 Justine 3-1-1 | Ep 3 Nneka 4-1 | Ep 4 Lindsay 4-1-1 | Ep 5 Geo 3-2 | Ep 6 Elie 7-2-1-1 | Ep 7 Dwight 7-3-2 | Ep 8 Jeanine 9-2 | Ep 9 James 4-1 | Ep 9 Ryan 4-1 | Ep 10 Noelle 5-2-1 | Ep 11 Sami 6 | Ep 12 Cody 4 | Ep 13 Karla 4 | Ep 13 Jesse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mike Gabler | Morriah | Elie | Ryan | Jeanine | Ryan | Noelle | Sami | Cody | Karla | ||||||
| Cassidy Clark | Lindsay | Geo | Elie | Dwight | Ryan | Ryan | Noelle | Sami | Cody | Karla | |||||
| Owen Knight | Morriah | James | Ryan | Jeanine | Karla | Sami | Cody | Karla | |||||||
| Jesse Lopez | Justine | Nneka | Dwight | Jeanine | Ryan | Noelle | Sami | Cody | Karla | ||||||
| Karla Cruz Godoy | Lindsay | Geo | Owen | Dwight | Jeanine | James | Noelle | Sami | Owen | Jesse | |||||
| Cody Assenmacher | Justine | Nneka | Elie | Dwight | Jeanine | Ryan | Noelle | Sami | Karla | ||||||
| Sami Layadi | Morriah | Elie | Dwight | Jeanine | James | Karla | |||||||||
| Noelle Lambert | Nneka | Nneka | Cassidy | James | Jeanine | James | Sami | ||||||||
| Ryan Medrano | Lindsay | Cassidy | Elie | Dwight | Jeanine | Cassidy | |||||||||
| James Jones | Lindsay | Geo | Elie | Dwight | Jeanine | Owen | |||||||||
| Jeanine Zheng | Morriah | Ryan | Ryan | ||||||||||||
| Dwight Moore | Nneka | Elie | James | ||||||||||||
| Elie Scott | Morriah | James | |||||||||||||
| Geo Bustamante | Cassidy | Cassidy | |||||||||||||
| Lindsay Carmine | Geo | ||||||||||||||
| Nneka Ejere | Justine | Noelle | |||||||||||||
| Justine Brennan | Cody | ||||||||||||||
| Morriah Young | Owen |
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