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.
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. [1]
There were 160942 ballots cast out of 382053 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 42.1%.
(bold indicates elected, italics indicate incumbent)
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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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% |
Guide:
Ward 1 | Ward 2 | Ward 3 | Ward 4 | ||||||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | Party | Candidate | Votes | Party | Candidate | Votes | Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||
R.C.C. | G. Lyall Roper | 16,019 | U.R.G.E. | Jan Reimer | 12,048 | Ind. | Julian Kinisky | 7,809 | Ind. | Ed Leger | 7,235 | ||||
Ind. | Olivia Butti | 12,583 | Ind. | Ron Hayter | 11,580 | E.V.A. | Ed Ewasiuk | 7,078 | Ind. | Lance White | 4,780 | ||||
U.R.G.E. | Walter Coombs | 7,542 | Ind. | Sam Donaghey | 8,624 | Ind. | June Cavanagh | 5,621 | Ind. | Allen Wasnea | 4,129 | ||||
Ind. | Johann Ludwig | 6,289 | E.V.A. | Gene Romaniuk | 5,962 | Ind. | Margaret Stumbourg | 4,658 | Ind. | Susan Middlemiss | 4,092 | ||||
Ind. | Naseer Chaudhary | 2,060 | Ind. | Michael Fedoretz | 5,696 | R.C.C. | Jim Spalding | 4,197 | U.R.G.E. | Alex McEachern | 3,783 | ||||
Ind. | Pierre Lefort | 1,124 | Ind. | William Chmiliar | 3,704 | R.C.C. | John Leslie Bodie | 2,941 | |||||||
Ward 5 | Ward 6 | Ind. | Barrie Shewchuk | 3,365 | R.C.C. | Don Williams | 2,865 | ||||||||
Ind. | Percy Wickman | 15,185 | U.R.G.E. | Bettie Hewes | 15,608 | Ind. | Garry Stevenson | 2,037 | E.V.A. | Brian Mason | 2,455 | ||||
R.C.C. | Lillian Staroszik | 12,878 | Ind. | Terry Cavanagh | 14,352 | Ind. | Klaus Weiher | 1,553 | Ind. | George Butler | 2,083 | ||||
U.R.G.E. | Lois Campbell | 6,797 | R.C.C. | James Bateman | 8,707 | E.V.A. | Lucien Royer | 1,416 | Ind. | Alex Munzel | 1,713 | ||||
Ind. | Wesley Chandler | 6,440 | R.C.C. | Ken Kozak | 8,110 | Ind. | Gerald Lorente | 1,237 | Ind. | Mark Norris | 1,309 | ||||
E.V.A. | Louise Swift | 2,687 | Ind. | Max Bahsen | 5,075 | Ind. | Armand Gendron | 341 | Ind. | Michael Hodgins | 1,036 | ||||
Ind. | Allan Zemrau | 2,509 | Ind. | Wayne Weeks | 3,375 | Ind. | Joe Bugis | 954 | |||||||
Ind. | Paul Fuog | 895 | Ind. | Klaus Lehmann | 1,171 | Ind. | Carl William | 329 | |||||||
Ind. | Dean Leffler | 464 | Ind. | Owen Timperley | 567 | Ind. | Murray Scambler | 256 |
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