1971 Edmonton municipal election

Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates 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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%

Aldermen

Ward 1				Ward 2				Ward 3				Ward 4
Party		Candidate	Votes	Party		Candidate	Votes	Party		Candidate	Votes	Party		Candidate	Votes
width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Kenneth Newman	13,934	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Cec Purves	10,879	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Ed Leger	6,688	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Una Evans	11,574
width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Dudley Menzies	13,663	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	David Ward	9,244	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Ron Hayter	5,709	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Terry Cavanagh	8,776
width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Ches Tanner	10,960	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Alex Fallow	8,188	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	William McLean	5,454	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Buck Olsen	7,550
width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Morris Weinlos	10,053	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Laurence Decore	7,899	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Sam Agronin	4,735	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	William Boytzun	7,272
width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	I. Gliener	7,465	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Thomas Baker	7,565	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Allan McTavish	4,202	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Roy Jamha	5,449
width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Terry Laing	6,752	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Cecil Rhodes	3,498	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Irene Domecki	3,417	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Natalka Faryna	3,894
width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Bob Bothwell	5,332	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Eric Reilly	3,482	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Joe Donahue	2,873	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Allan Welsh	3,755
width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	John Ludwig	4,043	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Percy Wickman	3,277	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	John Kloster	2,772	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Harold Oppelt	3,670
width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Joseph Bugis	3,111	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Jane Weaver	3,241	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Rory Nugent	2,214	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Alex Muunzel	3,330
width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	George Luck	2,950	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Victor Sedo	2,432	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	R. C. Squair	2,142	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Ken McAuley	3,143
width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Maureen Wanczura	2,491	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Paul Fuog	1,647	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Gerhard Volkmann	2,008	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Douglas Tomlinson	2,987
								width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Ernest McCormack	2,003	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Stephen Corby	2,802
								width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	J. A. Robinson	1,780	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	John Lakusta	2,167
								width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Bernard Mazurewicz	1,433	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Lori Phillips	1,877
								width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Clarence Bolton	1,209	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Gerald Lorente	1,577
								width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Ennio Gentili	1,154	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Frances Kelemen	1,563
								width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Ruby Lyons	860	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Fred Haidner	737
								width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Arthur Shaw	636

Public school trustees

Party		Candidate	Votes	Elected

Separate (Catholic) school trustees

• Georges Brosseau - 13549
• Jean Forest - 11991
• Robert Sabourin - 10250
• Leo Floyd - 9395
• Jean McDonald - 9206
• W McNeill - 8251
• Larry Messier - 7676
• Julia Kerans - 7492
• A M Ambrock - 6479
• Nicholas Sheptycki - 6045
• Orest Eveneshen - 6037
• Glen Hughes - 5052
• Maurice Legris - 4627
• Matt Reiser - 3666
• Julian Hnatiw - 3523

References

City of Edmonton: Edmonton Elections