1977 Edmonton municipal election

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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.

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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. [1]

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

PartyCandidateVotes%
  Independent Cec Purves 38,72033.92%
  Independent Laurence Decore 29,68226.00%
  Independent Terry Cavanagh 28,94125.36%
  Independent Ivor Dent 13,81812.11%
Revolutionary Workers League Donald Tapscott 1,3951.22%
  Independent Eddie Keehn1,1080.97%
  Independent John Horobec4790.42%

(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:

Ward 1Ward 2Ward 3Ward 4
PartyCandidateVotesPartyCandidateVotesPartyCandidateVotesPartyCandidateVotes
U.R.G.E.Lois Campbell12,958 Ind. Gene Dub11,202E.C.G.A Ron Hayter 11,425U.R.G.E. Bettie Hewes 16,560
E.C.G.AKenneth Newman14,619E.C.G.AOlivia Butti10,553 Ind. Ed Leger10,760E.C.G.AWilliam Chmiliar14,473
E.C.G.APaul Norris12,014 Ind. Percy Wickman 8,755U.R.G.E.Edward Kennedy9,957E.C.G.ABuck Olsen14,090
Ind. Carl Paproski11,926U.R.G.E.Gerry Wright6,311 Ind. David Stewart6,342 Ind. Sheila McKay10,876
E.C.G.ABud Salloum10,693 Ind. Bob Caine5,304E.V.A.Walter Doskoch4,290E.C.G.ADarryl Smith8,958
Ind. Nick Fedorak7,440 Ind. Solomon Agronin5,153 Ind. Clarence (Chuck) Bolton3,408 Ind. Mitchell Wijcik6,515
Ind. Donald Eastcott5,390 Ind. Kenneth Burton4,668 Ind. Ernest Whitely3,362E.V.A. Ed Ewasiuk 6,192
Ind. Cal O'Brian4,624E.C.G.AEd Baxter4,138 Ind. John Lakusta3,031
E.V.A.Gerry Paschen3,983 Ind. Henry Rutkowski3,167
Ind. Johannes Bosch2,703E.V.A.Robert Blakely2,867
Ind. Olga Cylurik1,870
E.V.A.E. J. (Slim) Powell1,800
Ind. Richard Guthrie1,171

Public school trustees

Separate (Catholic) school trustees

References

  1. Rek, Municipal Elections in Edmonton