1964 Edmonton municipal election

Last updated July 18, 2023

The 1964 Edmonton municipal election was held October 14, 1964 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.

The election for aldermen was conducted, like that for mayor, at-large city-wide. Thus the ballot for each voter held the names of the 46 candidates for aldermen. (This record for overall number of candidates was surpassed in the 2021 Edmonton municipal election. In 2021, the candidates were divided into twelve districts, and no ballot held more than 12 aldermanic candidates.)

Voter turnout

There were 94,880 ballots cast out of 199,259 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 47.6%.

Results

(bold indicates elected, italics indicate incumbent)

Mayor

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	William Hawrelak	56,328	60.12%
	Independent	George Prudham	37,365	39.88%

Aldermen

Councillors were elected through plurality block voting , with each voter able to cast up to 12 votes. For that reason, more than 880,000 votes were cast in this election by the roughly 100,000 voters who cast a ballot.

46 candidates in total

Party slates:

Better Civic Government Committee 11 candidates 5 elected

Civil Rights Association 7 candidates 2 elected

United Voters Association 9 candidates 2 elected

Independents 19 candidates 3 elected

	Candidate	Votes	Elected
Better Civic Government Committee	Morris Weinlos	55,827	Y
Civil Rights Association	Julia Kiniski	54,637	Y
Better Civic Government Committee	Ethel Wilson	51,246	Y
Independent	Kenneth Newman	49,742	Y
United Voters Association	Ivor Dent	45,276	Y
Independent	John Leslie Bodie	43,033	Y
United Voters Association	Ed Leger	38,747	Y
Better Civic Government Committee	Vincent Dantzer	37,421	Y
Independent	Angus McGugan	35,322	Y
Better Civic Government Committee	Frank Edwards	27,211	Y
Better Civic Government Committee	Kathleen McCallum	23,023	Y
Civil Rights Association	Robert Franklin Lambert	21,457	Y
United Voters Association	Norbert Berkowitz	21,277
Civil Rights Association	Allan Welsh	20,069
Better Civic Government Committee	M. A. Nugent	18,894
United Voters Association	William Orobko	18,519
Better Civic Government Committee	Conrad Korowan	18,464
Better Civic Government Committee	Jack Holmes	17,358
Civil Rights Association	K. L. McAuley	16,567
Independent	P. J. Ryan	16,468
Better Civic Government Committee	G. D. Newcombe	16,096
United Voters Association	Ian Nicoll	15,376
Better Civic Government Committee	P. C. C. Marshall	15,106
Independent	G. A. O'Hara	13,481
Independent	C. J. Primeau	13,034
Independent	F. Kurylo	12,458
Civil Rights Association	Joyce Kurie	12,417
Independent	Jack Kirk	12,175
Civil Rights Association	Sol Estrin	12,089
Independent	L. M. Campbell	11,930
United Voters Association	M. E. English	11,772
United Voters Association	A. Powers	11,699
United Voters Association	Peter Savaryn	11,679
United Voters Association	R. J. Dunseith	10,531
Independent	D. M. McLeod	10,383
Independent	L. E. Messier	10,089
Independent	J. O. A. Peets	9,092
Independent	R. Doyle	8,751
Independent	E. E. Aldridge	8,403
Independent	John Sehn	7,620
Independent	J. R. Lakusta	7,386
Civil Rights Association	Ivar Vanags	6,357
Better Civic Government Committee	Irvin Nessel	6,451
Independent	W. Makowecki	5,282
Independent	Jan Motyl	5,026
Independent	Doug Tomlinson*	4,685

Doug Tomlinson was member of the Communist Party.

Public school trustees

Each voter could cast 7 votes (plurality block voting).

	Candidate	Votes	Elected
Better Education Association	Milton Lazerte	37,344	Y
Quality Education Council	Edith Rogers	37,257	Y
Better Education Association	Earl Buxton	36,333	Y
Better Civic Government Committee	Vernon Johnson	31,047	Y
Better Civic Government Committee	James Falconer	30,482	Y
Better Education Association	John Bracco	26,626	Y
Better Education Association	Herbert Smith	25,346	Y
Better Civic Government Committee	Ernest Hanna	20,741
Better Education Association	James Young	19,991
Better Education Association	Alice Jamha	19,586
Better Civic Government Committee	Cec Purves	16,200
Better Education Association	Grant Fawcett	15,217
Quality Education Council	Dorothy Preston	14,532
Quality Education Council	I. C. Dare	13,893
Quality Education Council	Arnold Rapske	12,699
Better Civic Government Committee	R. Byrnes Fleuty	12,254
Quality Education Council	John Poppit	9,668
Independent	William Chomyn	7,652
Independent	Laura Tuomi	7,472
Quality Education Council	Norman Spratt	6,621
Quality Education Council	Arthur Latter	6,065

Separate (Catholic) school trustees

	Candidate	Votes	Elected
Independent	Orest Demco	14,362	Y
Independent	G. R. Boileau	13,693	Y
Independent	Jean McDonald	12,599	Y
Independent	A. A. Gorman	12,518	Y
Independent	Bernard Feehan	12,336	Y
Independent	Edward Stack	12,091	Y
Independent	Harry Carrigan	9,626	Y
Independent	Bill Diachuk	8,936
Independent	George Hertz	7,713
Independent	L. A. Ares	6,354

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References

City of Edmonton: Edmonton Elections

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