1977 Edmonton municipal election

Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates The 1977 municipal election was held October 19, 1977 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 a nine-member public school board was elected instead of the seven member board that had previously existed.

It was also the last election to use only four wards for election of the city councillors. Beginning in 1980, two aldermen were elected from each of six wards.

Electoral system

Mayor was elected through First past the post.

Councillors were elected three per ward, through Plurality block voting where each voter could cast up to three votes.

School board positions also were filled through Plurality block voting as well.

Voter turnout

There were 116,525 ballots cast out of 305,342 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 38.2%.

Results

(bold indicates elected, italics indicate incumbent)

Mayor

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Independent	Cec Purves	38,720	33.92%	Independent	Laurence Decore	29,682	26.00%	Independent	Terry Cavanagh	28,941	25.36%	Independent	Ivor Dent	13,818	12.11%	Independent	Eddie Keehn	1,108	0.97%	Independent	John Horobec	479	0.42%

(William Hawrelak had been elected mayor in the 1974 election, but had died in office. Cavanagh was selected by council to replace him.)

Aldermen

Guide:

• E.C.G.A = Edmonton Civic Government Association
• E.V.A. = Edmonton Voters Association
• U.R.G.E. = Urban Reform Group Edmonton

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|	U.R.G.E.	Lois Campbell	12,958	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Gene Dub	11,202		E.C.G.A	Ron Hayter	11,425	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	U.R.G.E.	Bettie Hewes	16,560
	E.C.G.A	Kenneth Newman	14,619		E.C.G.A	Olivia Butti	10,553	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Ed Leger	10,760		E.C.G.A	William Chmiliar	14,473
	E.C.G.A	Paul Norris	12,014	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Percy Wickman	8,755	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	U.R.G.E.	Edward Kennedy	9,957		E.C.G.A	Buck Olsen	14,090
width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Carl Paproski	11,926	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	U.R.G.E.	Gerry Wright	6,311	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	David Stewart	6,342	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Sheila McKay	10,876
	E.C.G.A	Bud Salloum	10,693	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Bob Caine	5,304	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	E.V.A.	Walter Doskoch	4,290		E.C.G.A	Darryl Smith	8,958
width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Nick Fedorak	7,440	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Solomon Agronin	5,153	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Clarence (Chuck) Bolton	3,408	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Mitchell Wijcik	6,515
width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Donald Eastcott	5,390	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Kenneth Burton	4,668	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Ernest Whitely	3,362	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	E.V.A.	Ed Ewasiuk	6,192
width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Cal O'Brian	4,624		E.C.G.A	Ed Baxter	4,138					width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	John Lakusta	3,031
width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	E.V.A.	Gerry Paschen	3,983	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Henry Rutkowski	3,167
width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Johannes Bosch	2,703	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	E.V.A.	Robert Blakely	2,867
				width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Olga Cylurik	1,870
				width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	E.V.A.	E. J. (Slim) Powell	1,800
				width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Richard Guthrie	1,171

Public school trustees

• Shirley Forbes - 38468
• Mel Binder - 37438
• Ernie Lund - 35406
• Jim Patrick - 33618
• Don Massey - 33444
• Catherine Ford - 33170
• Richard Jamieson - 32371
• James Falconer - 31754
• Elaine Jones - 27494
• Lorne Mowers - 26792
• Vernon Johnson - 25896
• Douglas Sorenson - 24397
• Molly Glass - 21330
• John Mason - 16319
• Clare Brown - 16252

Separate (Catholic) school trustees

• Leo Floyd - 16438
• Jean McDonald - 15123
• Barry Cavanaugh - 11506
• Phil Gibeau - 11207
• Laurier Picard - 11071
• Raymond Pinkowski - 10342
• Joe Donahue - 9810
• William McNeill - 8664
• Zan Matishank - 8436
• Patrick Murphy - 7873
• Lyle Lavender - 7039
• John Kash - 6506
• Paul Haljan - 4659

External links

• City of Edmonton: Edmonton Elections