1989 Edmonton municipal election

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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.

Contents

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

PartyCandidateVotes%
  Independent Jan Reimer 73,72850.09%
  Independent Terry Cavanagh 33,71022.90%
  Independent Don Hamilton31,48321.39%
  Independent Terence Harding7,1564.86%
  Independent Naseer Chaudhary5420.37%
  Independent Carl Williams4490.31%
  Independent H. Campion Swartout1260.09%

(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 1Ward 2Ward 3
PartyCandidateVotesPartyCandidateVotesPartyCandidateVotes
Independent Bruce Campbell 11,864 Independent Ron Hayter 12,939 Independent Judy Bethel 10,805
Independent Helen Paull10,582 Independent Catherine Chichak 7,503 E.V.A. Brian Mason 8,992
Independent Alice Gagne9,552 E.V.A. Gene Romaniuk6,164 Independent Ed Gibbons 4,852
Independent Richard Kayler5,297 Independent Bill Maxim5,366 Independent Cindy Olsen4,275
Independent Al Wilson3,532 Independent Phyllis Basaraba5,020 Independent Margaret Stumbourg4,097
Independent Timothy Casey1,606 Independent Gerry Beck1,555 Independent Ernst Eder3,214
Independent Richard Guyon1,339 Independent Jim Hoyda1,099 Independent George Butler2,650
Independent Alwyn Brightley1,067 Independent Bonny Royce593
Independent Rino Filippelli1,036 Independent Hans Slaby440
Independent Michael Bulat655
Independent Thomas Tomlinson636
Ward 4Ward 5Ward 6
PartyCandidateVotesPartyCandidateVotesPartyCandidateVotes
Independent Lance White 12,831 Independent Patricia MacKenzie16,671 Independent Sheila McKay12,895
Independent Mel Binder12,588 Independent Lillian Staroszik15,977 Independent Ken Kozak9,836
Independent Tooker Gomberg 8,109 Independent Dan McMann7,717 Independent Debby Carlson 8,284
Independent Perry Dane3,080 Independent Ian Crawford6,337 Independent Bill Diachuk7,555
Independent Margaret Durnin4,286 Independent John Bracegirdle4,492
E.V.A. Elaine Masur-Mardiros3,944

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 1Ward 2Ward 3
PartyCandidateVotes%PartyCandidateVotes%PartyCandidateVotes%
Independent Joan Cowling8,33352.49% Independent Rose Rosenberger7,72557.53% Independent John Nicoll7,42258.21%
Independent Esther Starkman3,25320.49% Independent Joe Hak3,47225.86% Independent Larry Phillips5,32841.79%
Independent Ed Pearson1,76611.13% Independent Victor Varvis2,23016.61%
Independent Raymond Marshall1,58810.00%
Independent Ross Patchell9345.88%
Ward 4Ward 5Ward 6
PartyCandidateVotes%PartyCandidateVotes%PartyCandidateVotes%
Independent Don Williams5,01437.37% Independent George Luck6,94736.54% Independent Doug Tupper7,09339.11%
Independent Hilary Findlay2,86921.38% Independent Michael Ekelund4,90225.78% Independent Dick Mather 5,80532.01%
Independent Marion Herbert2,70220.14% Independent Gene Hartson3,09616.28% E.V.A. Mike Uhryn2,70214.90%
Independent Mitch Bronaugh1,68312.54% Independent Indira Puri2,55413.43% Independent Gordon Hum1,7049.40%
Independent Perry Dane8856.60% Independent Julio Ferrante1,5137.96% Independent John Kurian8304.58%
Independent Adil Pirbhai2641.97%

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 1Ward 2Ward 3
PartyCandidateVotes%PartyCandidateVotes%PartyCandidateVotes%
Independent David MacDougall3,35758.92% Independent Tony CatenaAcclaimed Independent Mary-Anne Razzolini2,88342.22%
Independent John Patrick Day2,34141.08% Independent Jim Shinkaruk1,80226.39%
Independent Ken Balko1,14716.80%
Independent Gerald Lorente99714.60%
Ward 4Ward 5Ward 6
PartyCandidateVotes%PartyCandidateVotes%PartyCandidateVotes%
Independent Krystina TadmanAcclaimed Independent Ernie Turnbull3,37362.60% Independent Joan Tarnowski4,56071.29%
Independent Sadie Clancy2,01537.40% Independent Ken Alyluia1,83628.71%

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).

PartyCandidateVotes%
Liberal Bill Code46,45234.07%
Reform Stan Waters 41,98730.79%
Progressive Conservative Bert Brown 18,91113.87%
Independent Kenneth Paproski 15,98211.72%
Independent Gladys Taylor7,0815.19%
Independent Tom Sindlinger 5,9344.35%

References

City of Edmonton: Edmonton Elections

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