1989 Edmonton municipal election

Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates The Edmonton municipal election, 1989 was held on October 16 that year 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. Edmontonians also voted in the Senate nominee election in conjunction with the municipal election.

This was the first election in which school trustees were elected by ward.

Voter turnout

There were 148068 ballots cast out of 406995 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 36.4%.

Results

(bold indicates elected, italics indicate incumbent)

Mayor

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Independent	Jan Reimer	73,728	50.09%	Independent	Terry Cavanagh	33,710	22.90%	Independent	Don Hamilton	31,483	21.39%	Independent	Terence Harding	7,156	4.86%	Independent	Naseer Chaudhary	542	0.37%	Independent	Carl Williams	449	0.31%	Independent	H. Campion Swartout	126	0.09%

(Laurence Decore was elected mayor in the 1986 election, but resigned to lead the Liberal Party of Alberta. Cavanagh was selected by council to serve as his replacement.)

Aldermen

Each ward elects two councillors. Voters can cast one or two votes (plurality block voting).

Ward 1				Ward 2				Ward 3
Party		Candidate	Votes	Party		Candidate	Votes	Party		Candidate	Votes
width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Bruce Campbell	11,864	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Ron Hayter	12,939	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Judy Bethel	10,805
Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Helen Paull	10,582	Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Catherine Chichak	7,503	Template:Canadian party colour|	E.V.A.	Brian Mason	8,992
Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Alice Gagne	9,552	Template:Canadian party colour|	E.V.A.	Gene Romaniuk	6,164	Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Ed Gibbons	4,852
Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Richard Kayler	5,297	Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Bill Maxim	5,366	Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Cindy Olsen	4,275
Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Al Wilson	3,532	Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Phyllis Basaraba	5,020	Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Margaret Stumbourg	4,097
Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Timothy Casey	1,606	Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Gerry Beck	1,555	Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Ernst Eder	3,214
Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Richard Guyon	1,339	Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Jim Hoyda	1,099	Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	George Butler	2,650
				Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Alwyn Brightley	1,067	Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Bonny Royce	593
				Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Rino Filippelli	1,036	Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Hans Slaby	440
				Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Michael Bulat	655
				Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Thomas Tomlinson	636
Ward 4				Ward 5				Ward 6
Party		Candidate	Votes	Party		Candidate	Votes	Party		Candidate	Votes
Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Lance White	12,831	Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Patricia MacKenzie	16,671	Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Sheila McKay	12,895
Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Mel Binder	12,588	Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Lillian Staroszik	15,977	Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Ken Kozak	9,836
Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Tooker Gomberg	8,109	Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Dan McMann	7,717	Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Debby Carlson	8,284
Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Perry Dane	3,080	Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Ian Crawford	6,337	Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Bill Diachuk	7,555
				Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Margaret Durnin	4,286	Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	John Bracegirdle	4,492
								Template:Canadian party colour|	E.V.A.	Elaine Masur-Mardiros	3,944

Public school trustees

One trustee is elected from each ward. Additional trustees are elected by taking the non-victorious candidate with the most votes between each of Wards 1 and 4, Wards 2 and 3, and Ward 5 and 6.

Ward 1					Ward 2					Ward 3
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Party		Candidate	Votes	%
width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Joan Cowling	8,333	52.49%	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Rose Rosenberger	7,725	57.53%	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	John Nicoll	7,422	58.21%
Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Esther Starkman	3,253	20.49%	Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Joe Hak	3,472	25.86%	Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Larry Phillips	5,328	41.79%
Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Ed Pearson	1,766	11.13%	Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Victor Varvis	2,230	16.61%
Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Raymond Marshall	1,588	10.00%
Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Ross Patchell	934	5.88%
Ward 4					Ward 5					Ward 6
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Party		Candidate	Votes	%
Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Don Williams	5,014	37.37%	Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	George Luck	6,947	36.54%	Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Doug Tupper	7,093	39.11%
Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Hilary Findlay	2,869	21.38%	Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Michael Ekelund	4,902	25.78%	Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Dick Mather	5,805	32.01%
Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Marion Herbert	2,702	20.14%	Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Gene Hartson	3,096	16.28%	Template:Canadian party colour|	E.V.A.	Mike Uhryn	2,702	14.90%
Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Mitch Bronaugh	1,683	12.54%	Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Indira Puri	2,554	13.43%	Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Gordon Hum	1,704	9.40%
Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Perry Dane	885	6.60%	Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Julio Ferrante	1,513	7.96%	Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	John Kurian	830	4.58%
Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Adil Pirbhai	264	1.97%

Separate (Catholic) school trustees

One trustee is elected from each ward, and the non-victorious candidate with the most total votes is also elected. Day was elected as second member for Ward 1.

Ward 1					Ward 2					Ward 3
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Party		Candidate	Votes	%
width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	David MacDougall	3,357	58.92%	width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Tony Catena	Acclaimed		width=20px Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Mary-Anne Razzolini	2,883	42.22%
Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	John Patrick Day	2,341	41.08%						Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Jim Shinkaruk	1,802	26.39%
										Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Ken Balko	1,147	16.80%
										Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Gerald Lorente	997	14.60%
Ward 4					Ward 5					Ward 6
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Party		Candidate	Votes	%
Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Krystina Tadman	Acclaimed		Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Ernie Turnbull	3,373	62.60%	Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Joan Tarnowski	4,560	71.29%
					Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Sadie Clancy	2,015	37.40%	Template:Canadian party colour|	Independent	Ken Alyluia	1,836	28.71%

Senate Nominee Election

This was a province-wide election. Results below reflect only Edmonton vote totals; provincially, Stan Waters was elected (see 1989 Alberta Senate nominee election for province-wide results).

	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Bill Code	46,452	34.07%	Stan Waters	41,987	30.79%	Bert Brown	18,911	13.87%	Kenneth Paproski	15,982	11.72%	Gladys Taylor	7,081	5.19%	Tom Sindlinger	5,934	4.35%

References

City of Edmonton: Edmonton Elections