1971 Edmonton municipal election explained

The 1971 municipal election was held October 13, 1971 to elect a mayor and twelve aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council and seven trustees to sit on each of the public and separate school boards.

This was the first election in which a ward system was used. Where previously all twelve aldermen were elected at large, beginning with this election three would be elected from each of four wards (starting with the 1980 election, this was changed to two aldermen being elected from each of six wards). The election was conducted under the block voting system in which each voter was given as many votes as there were vacancies.

School board trustees were elected at-large no wards used.

The mayor was elected through first-past-the-post voting. All others were elected through plurality block voting.

Voter turnout

In this election, 101,235 ballots cast out of 273,271 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 37.1%.

Results

(bold indicates elected, italics indicate incumbent)

Mayor

PartyCandidateVotes%

Aldermen

Ward 1Ward 2Ward 3Ward 4
PartyCandidateVotesPartyCandidateVotesPartyCandidateVotesPartyCandidateVotes
width=20px Ind.Kenneth Newman13,934width=20px Ind.Cec Purves10,879width=20px Ind.Ed Leger6,688width=20px Ind.Una Evans11,574
width=20px Ind.Dudley Menzies13,663width=20px Ind.David Ward9,244width=20px Ind.Ron Hayter5,709width=20px Ind.Terry Cavanagh8,776
width=20px Ind.Ches Tanner10,960width=20px Ind.Alex Fallow8,188width=20px Ind.William McLean5,454width=20px Ind.Buck Olsen7,550
width=20px Ind.Morris Weinlos10,053width=20px Ind.Laurence Decore7,899width=20px Ind.Sam Agronin4,735width=20px Ind.William Boytzun7,272
width=20px Ind.I. Gliener7,465width=20px Ind.Thomas Baker7,565width=20px Ind.Allan McTavish4,202width=20px Ind.Roy Jamha5,449
width=20px Ind.Terry Laing6,752width=20px Ind.Cecil Rhodes3,498width=20px Ind.Irene Domecki3,417width=20px Ind.Natalka Faryna3,894
width=20px Ind.Bob Bothwell5,332width=20px Ind.Eric Reilly3,482width=20px Ind.Joe Donahue2,873width=20px Ind.Allan Welsh3,755
width=20px Ind.John Ludwig4,043width=20px Ind.Percy Wickman3,277width=20px Ind.John Kloster2,772width=20px Ind.Harold Oppelt3,670
width=20px Ind.Joseph Bugis3,111width=20px Ind.Jane Weaver3,241width=20px Ind.Rory Nugent2,214width=20px Ind.Alex Muunzel3,330
width=20px Ind.George Luck2,950width=20px Ind.Victor Sedo2,432width=20px Ind.R. C. Squair2,142width=20px Ind.Ken McAuley3,143
width=20px Ind.Maureen Wanczura2,491width=20px Ind.Paul Fuog1,647width=20px Ind.Gerhard Volkmann2,008width=20px Ind.Douglas Tomlinson2,987
width=20px Ind.Ernest McCormack2,003width=20px Ind.Stephen Corby2,802
width=20px Ind.J. A. Robinson1,780width=20px Ind.John Lakusta2,167
width=20px Ind.Bernard Mazurewicz1,433width=20px Ind.Lori Phillips1,877
width=20px Ind.Clarence Bolton1,209width=20px Ind.Gerald Lorente1,577
width=20px Ind.Ennio Gentili1,154width=20px Ind.Frances Kelemen1,563
width=20px Ind.Ruby Lyons860width=20px Ind.Fred Haidner737
width=20px Ind.Arthur Shaw636

Public school trustees

PartyCandidateVotesElected

Separate (Catholic) school trustees

References

City of Edmonton: Edmonton Elections

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