1992 Winnipeg municipal election

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The 1992 Winnipeg municipal election was held on October 28, 1992 to elect a mayor, councillors and school trustees in the city of Winnipeg.

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Susan Thompson defeated Greg Selinger in the mayoral contest.

Results

Councillors

1992 Winnipeg municipal election:
Councillor, Elmwood Ward
CandidateTotal votes % of total votes
(x)Lillian Thomas 6,70857.99
Patrice McGrath3,09026.71
John Kubi1,77015.30
Total valid votes11,568100.00
1992 Winnipeg municipal election:
Councillor, Transcona Ward
CandidateTotal votes % of total votes
(x)Rick Boychuk 7,80047.12
(x)Shirley Timm-Rudolph 5,98036.13
Andrea Lillian Reid2,77216.75
Total valid votes16,552100.00

Mayor

1992 Winnipeg mayoral election
CandidateVotesPercentage
Susan Thompson 89,74339.01%
Greg Selinger 75,12332.66%
Dave Brown31,85913.85%
Ernie Gilroy 26,00111.30%
Natalie Pollock1,3110.57%
Dan Zyluk8330.36%
Darryl Soshycki7270.32%
Walter Diawol5530.24%
Menardo A. Caneda5340.23%
Martin Barnes5260.23%
James W. Miller (Pin The Elder)5000.22%
Bryan R. Benson4910.21%
Bob McGugan4330.19%
Charles-Alwyn Scotlend4210.18%
Ed Hay3740.16%
Aurel Joseph Prefontaine3480.15%
Rudolph Parker2670.12%
Total230,044100.00%

School trustees

Winnipeg School Division

1992 Winnipeg municipal election:
Winnipeg School Board, Ward Three (three members elected)
CandidateTotal votes % of total votes
(x)Edward Kowalchuk 7,52915.24
(x)Roman Yereniuk 6,60113.36
Bill Sanderson6,34212.84
Debi Ann Spence4,94810.02
Chris Kowalski4,5879.29
Ray Reeves4,3148.73
Luba Fedorkiw4,2518.60
Frank Unger3,4977.08
Angelina Olivier-Job3,0416.16
Roy Price2,3144.68
Wayne Rumley1,9784.00
Total valid votes49,402100.00

Results taken from the Winnipeg Free Press .

Electors could vote for three candidates. Percentages are determined in relation to the total number of votes.

  • Bill Sanderson is an aboriginal Canadian. He was raised in St. Laurent on the Red River, [6] and was educated in Canada's notorious residential school system. [7] He has a degree in Education from the University of Manitoba, and successfully lobbied for the creation of an all-aboriginal Winnipeg high school in 1991. [8] He was elected to the Winnipeg School Board in the 1992 election with the support of the New Democratic Party, and was subsequently chosen as its vice-chairman. He attracted some controversy in 1993, when he accused fellow trustee Betty Granger of racism. [9] The following year, he brought forward a successful motion to have the all-aboriginal Aberdeen Elementary School renamed as Niji Mahkwa. [10] He also supported a motion to teach tolerance toward homosexuals in Winnipeg's public schools in 1994, comparing the social struggles of homosexuals with those of aboriginal Canadians. [11] In 1995, he called for a distinct aboriginal school division in Manitoba. [12] Sanderson became involved in another controversy in 1995, in the period after MaryAnn Mihychuk resigned as chairman of the board. Sanderson argued that he should have automatically succeeded to the position by virtue of his vice-chairmanship; a majority of trustees, however, elected Anita Neville to the position. Sanderson then accused the trustees who voted against him of having been motivated by racism, a charge which they rejected. Fellow trustee Ed Kowalchuk, who had supported Sanderson, said that his support for an aboriginal school division had made him unpopular with other members of the board. [13] He campaigned for re-election in 1995 as an independent, having previously disagreed with the New Democratic Party trustees on budget cuts. [14] He was defeated, finishing eighth in a field of sixteen candidates.

Transcona-Springfield School Division

1992 Winnipeg election, Transcona-Springfield School Division, Ward One (three members elected)
CandidateTotal votes % of total votes
(incumbent)Mary Andree3,07519.83
(incumbent)Betty Ann Watts 2,59516.73
Colleen Carswell2,34715.14
(incumbent)Wally Stoyko2,16013.93
Gerald Basarab1,72811.14
Shannon Coughlin1,4449.31
Royce Hanson1,3458.67
Theresa Ducharme 8135.24
Total valid votes15,507100.00

Electors could vote for three candidates. Percentages are determined in relation to the total number of votes.

  • Wally Stoyko was listed as a retired school principal in a 2005 newspaper article. [15]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Patrice McGrath, "This is no way to reform welfare" [letter to the editor], 18 December 1993.
  2. ↑ "City hall power splits Cuff panelists", Winnipeg Free Press, 16 March 1998, A7.
  3. ↑ "Residents want cops", Winnipeg Free Press, 12 February 2002, A4.
  4. ↑ "Residents get to rag politicians", Winnipeg Free Press, 24 November 2004, NE3. See also "Billboard battle brewing in EK" [ permanent dead link ], Metro, 27 December 2007.
  5. ↑ "Committee plans historic' murals", Winnipeg Free Press, 8 September 1991.
  6. ↑ Nick Martin, "Beyond the Red's grasp", Winnipeg Free Press, 5 May 1997, A6.
  7. ↑ Brad Oswald, "Rookie turns page on native education", Winnipeg Free Press, 3 November 1995, D4.
  8. ↑ Jennifer Lewington, "Breaking the cycle of school failure", Globe and Mail, 2 May 1994, A1; Bill Redekop, "Racism echoes in lecture hall", Winnipeg Free Press, 18 December 1994. Sanderson later called for Canadian history courses to incorporate more material from before the European conquest.
  9. ↑ During a private conversation, Sanderson told Granger that he had recently[ when? ] bought a computer from his nephew, and Granger responded by joking that it must have been stolen. Sanderson suggested that Granger was intimating all aboriginal Canadians were thieves, a charge that she denied. See Larry Kusch, "Trustee accused of racism", Winnipeg Free Press, 30 July 1993.
  10. ↑ Randy Turner, "School name changed", Winnipeg Free Press, 3 March 1994.
  11. ↑ Bill Redekop, "Board defeats gay ed motion", 19 October 1994.
  12. ↑ Bud Robertson, "More schools for natives?", Winnipeg Free Press, 20 April 1995.
  13. ↑ Aldo Santin, "Trustee demands top job", Winnipeg Free Press, 12 May 1995.
  14. ↑ Aldo Santin, "NDP grip on board ends", Winnipeg Free Press, 27 October 1995, A4.
  15. ↑ Alexandra Paul, "Paul Martin: greatest Transconian (Really)", Winnipeg Free Press, 26 February 2005, B1.

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