Edmonton municipal election, 1980
The 1980 municipal election was held October 15, 1980 to elect a mayor and twelve aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council, nine trustees to sit on the public school board, and seven trustees to sit on the separate school board.
This was the first election in which there were two aldermen elected from each of six wards, instead of three aldermen elected from each of four wards, as had previously been the case.
Voter turnout
There were 72939 ballots cast out of 341102 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 21.4%.
Results
(bold indicates elected, italics indicate incumbent)
Mayor
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Cec Purves | 52,035 | 76.47% | |
Independent | Murray Trott | 5,346 | 7.86% | |
Independent | Lester Adams | 4,902 | 7.20% | |
Independent | Eddie Keehn | 2,938 | 4.32% | |
Independent | John Horobec | 1,575 | 2.31% | |
Independent | John Buttrey | 1,249 | 1.84% |
Aldermen
Guide:
- E.V.A = Edmonton Voters Association
- U.R.G.E. = Urban Reform Group Edmonton
Ward 1 | Ward 2 | Ward 3 | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | Party | Candidate | Votes | Party | Candidate | Votes | |||
Independent | Kenneth Newman | 7,683 | Independent | Ron Hayter | 5,175 | Independent | June Cavanagh | 4,629 | |||
Independent | Olivia Butti | 6,673 | U.R.G.E. | Jan Reimer | 4,433 | E.V.A. | Ed Ewasiuk | 3,184 | |||
U.R.G.E. | Iain Taylor | 4,155 | Independent | Jim Spalding | 3,255 | U.R.G.E. | Judy Bethel | 2,727 | |||
U.R.G.E. | Sherburne McCurdy | 3,851 | U.R.G.E. | Lila Fahlman | 2,480 | Independent | Sheila McKay | 2,692 | |||
Independent | David Stewart | 1,685 | Independent | William Chmiliar | 2,604 | ||||||
Independent | John Hawrelak | 1,019 | Independent | Mitch Wujik | 2,384 | ||||||
E.V.A. | Harry Johnson | 419 | U.R.G.E. | Clint Budd | 708 | ||||||
Independent | Wayne Hayes | 313 | Independent | Robert Acker | 333 | ||||||
Independent | Tim Baloben | 279 | |||||||||
Independent | Noel Round | 203 | |||||||||
Ward 4 | Ward 5 | Ward 6 | |||||||||
Independent | Paul Norris | 3,550 | Independent | Percy Wickman | 8,842 | U.R.G.E. | Bettie Hewes | 8,429 | |||
U.R.G.E. | Gerry Wright | 3,462 | U.R.G.E. | Lois Campbell | 7,696 | Independent | Ed Leger | 5,641 | |||
U.R.G.E. | Carolyn Nutter | 3,393 | Independent | Nick Fedorak | 2,279 | Independent | Ken Kozak | 4,154 | |||
Independent | Ron Patsula | 2,172 | Independent | Guy Tessier | 1,450 | Independent | Wayne Weeks | 2,169 | |||
Independent | Allen Wasnea | 1,190 | Independent | Olga Cylurik | 929 | Independent | Don Massey | 2,113 | |||
Independent | Bill Broad | 817 | Independent | Paul Fuog | 926 | Independent | Bob Durrant | 1,661 | |||
E.V.A. | Walter Aiello | 467 | U.R.G.E. | Fred Atiq | 688 | ||||||
Independent | Paul Bird | 260 |
Public school trustees
Party | Candidate | Votes | Elected | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Shirley Forbes | 24,566 | ||
Independent | Mel Binder | 20,757 | ||
Independent | Ernie Hodgson | 19,315 | ||
Independent | Don Massey | 19,060 | ||
Independent | Jim Wiebe | 17,756 | ||
Independent | Herb Jamieson | 17,582 | ||
Independent | Ernie Lund | 16,690 | ||
Independent | Joan Cowling | 16,469 | ||
Independent | Elaine Jones | 15,993 | ||
Independent | Grace Hendrickson | 14,375 | ||
Independent | P. Christensen | 14,252 | ||
Independent | David Borgstrom | 12,331 | ||
Independent | Lorne Mowers | 12,252 | ||
Independent | George Luck | 9,507 | ||
Independent | Susky Hardin | 9,055 | ||
Independent | Julie Loga | 7,664 | ||
Independent | Benjamin Doell | 7,115 | ||
Independent | John Mason | 7,079 | ||
Independent | G. Chandler-Nahumko | 6,854 | ||
Independent | John Lakusta | 6,489 | ||
Independent | N. A. Chaudhary | 5,823 | ||
Independent | Robert Douglas | 5,499 |
Separate (Catholic) school trustees
Party | Candidate | Votes | Elected | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Jean McDonald | 9,328 | ||
Independent | William Green | 8,549 | ||
Independent | Phil Gibeau | 7,728 | ||
Independent | Alice Gagne | 6,918 | ||
Independent | Hugh Tadman | 6,883 | ||
Independent | Simone Secker | 6,410 | ||
Independent | Margaret Bouska | 5,946 | ||
Independent | Raymond Pinkowski | 5,492 | ||
Independent | Lyle Lavender | 4,132 | ||
Independent | Donald Sikorski | 3,757 | ||
Independent | Joseph Hoover | 3,538 | ||
Independent | L. Brian Mitchell | 3,525 | ||
Independent | Edmund Nagle | 3,457 |
References
City of Edmonton: Edmonton Elections
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