1983 Edmonton municipal election

Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates The 1983 municipal election was held October 17, 1983 to elect a mayor and twelve aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council in Alberta, Canada, nine trustees to sit on the public school board, and seven trustees to sit on the separate school board.

Electoral system

Mayor was elected through First past the post.

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

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

Voter turnout

There were 160942 ballots cast out of 382053 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 42.1%.

Results

(bold indicates elected, italics indicate incumbent)

Mayor

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Independent	Laurence Decore	95,981	61.29%	Independent	Cec Purves	41,273	26.35%	Independent	Jim Wiebe	15,071	9.62%	Independent	Doreen Crowley	2,070	1.32%	Independent	Robert Genis-Bell	1,479	0.94%	Independent	John Valpy	737	0.47%

Aldermen

Guide:

• E.V.A = Edmonton Voters Association
• R.C.C. = Responsible Citizens Committee
• 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
	R.C.C.	G. Lyall Roper	16,019	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	U.R.G.E.	Jan Reimer	12,048	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Julian Kinisky	7,809	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Ed Leger	7,235
width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Olivia Butti	12,583	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Ron Hayter	11,580	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	E.V.A.	Ed Ewasiuk	7,078	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Lance White	4,780
width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	U.R.G.E.	Walter Coombs	7,542	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Sam Donaghey	8,624	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	June Cavanagh	5,621	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Allen Wasnea	4,129
width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Johann Ludwig	6,289	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	E.V.A.	Gene Romaniuk	5,962	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Margaret Stumbourg	4,658	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Susan Middlemiss	4,092
width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Naseer Chaudhary	2,060	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Michael Fedoretz	5,696		R.C.C.	Jim Spalding	4,197	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	U.R.G.E.	Alex McEachern	3,783
				width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Pierre Lefort	1,124	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	William Chmiliar	3,704		R.C.C.	John Leslie Bodie	2,941
Ward 5				Ward 6				width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Barrie Shewchuk	3,365		R.C.C.	Don Williams	2,865
width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Percy Wickman	15,185	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	U.R.G.E.	Bettie Hewes	15,608	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Garry Stevenson	2,037	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	E.V.A.	Brian Mason	2,455
	R.C.C.	Lillian Staroszik	12,878	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Terry Cavanagh	14,352	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Klaus Weiher	1,553	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	George Butler	2,083
width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	U.R.G.E.	Lois Campbell	6,797		R.C.C.	James Bateman	8,707	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	E.V.A.	Lucien Royer	1,416	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Alex Munzel	1,713
width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Wesley Chandler	6,440		R.C.C.	Ken Kozak	8,110	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Gerald Lorente	1,237	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Mark Norris	1,309
width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	E.V.A.	Louise Swift	2,687	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Max Bahsen	5,075	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Armand Gendron	341	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Michael Hodgins	1,036
width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Allan Zemrau	2,509	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Wayne Weeks	3,375					width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Joe Bugis	954
width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Paul Fuog	895	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Klaus Lehmann	1,171					width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Carl William	329
width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Dean Leffler	464	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Owen Timperley	567					width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Ind.	Murray Scambler	256

Public school trustees

• Joan Cowling - 51434
• Don Massey - 50007
• Mel Binder - 46872
• Elaine Jones - 44147
• Dick Mather - 40921
• George Luck - 27746
• Marion Herbert - 27460
• Michael Belaire - 24864
• John Lakusta - 23313
• George Hum - 22814
• David Gowan-Smith - 22405
• Edward Hall - 22198
• Jeff Martin - 19260
• Olga Cylurik - 19001
• Douglas Elves - 18240
• Michael McDaid - 16380
• James Bondarenko - 15907

Separate (Catholic) school trustees

• Catherine Chichak - 18290
• Jean McDonald - 17690
• Francis O'Hara - 15864
• William Green - 14690
• Phil Gibeau - 14171
• Hugh Tadman - 13759
• Alice Gagne - 12767
• Elizabeth Reid - 11403
• Diana McIntyre - 10556
• Mark Toth - 9890
• Sarah Clancy - 8528
• James Shinkaruk - 8454
• Simone Secker - 7879
• John Higgins - 7745

External links

• City of Edmonton: Edmonton Elections