1998 Edmonton municipal election

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1998 Edmonton municipal election
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  1995 October 26, 1998 2001  

Mayor and 12 councilors to Edmonton City Council

Mayor before election

Bill Smith

Elected Mayor

Bill Smith

The 1998 Edmonton municipal election was held October 26, 1998, to elect a mayor and 12 councillors to sit on Edmonton City Council, 9 trustees to sit on the public school board, and 7 trustees to sit on the separate school board. Edmontonians also decided one plebiscite question and participated in the Senate election.

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Voter turnout

There were 172,215 ballots cast out of 482,763 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 35.7%.

Results

(bold indicates elected, italics indicate incumbent)

Mayor

CandidateVotes %
Bill Smith 84,51250.62%
Mike Nickel 27,02916.19%
Ihor Broda22,28013.35%
Tooker Gomberg 21,61412.95%
Rory Nugent3,8692.32%
Cheryl Schumacher3,7402.24%
Kelly Morris2,1781.30%
Brian Gregg1,7261.03%

Councillors

Ward 1Ward 2Ward 3Ward 4Ward 5Ward 6
CandidateVotesCandidateVotesCandidateVotesCandidateVotesCandidateVotesCandidateVotes
Wendy Kinsella18,731Allan Bolstad15,605 Brian Mason 19,311Jim Taylor20,357Larry Langley13,805 Terry Cavanagh 13,659
Leroy Chahley18,589Rose Rosenberger11,141Robert Noce17,094 Michael Phair 19,708 Bryan Anderson 12,731 Dave Thiele 9,773
Jane Standing7,958Don Koziak7,875Gordon Stamp8,085Douglas Meggison5,191 Jane Batty 8,785Chinwe Okelu7,654
Jerry Voss3,350Mimi Williams5,739Thomas Tomilson2,046Lee Permann4,893Maurice Fritz6,503Sheila McKay6,781
Sergio Teixeira1,783Donna Finucane6,369Ziad Jaber3,937
Brenda Platzer5,973Frank Atkinson2,823
Adil Pirbhai891Greg Dagg2,022
Gordon McIntosh1,927
Anna Graham1,306
Marcel Fayant228

Public school trustees

Ward AWard CWard EWard GWard H
Bill Bonko 4,86748.31%Don Williams3,97933.12%Carole Anne Dean4,94448.22%Svend Hansen3,80625.37%George Nicholson9,51065.94%
Bev Esslinger3,32533.00%Mel Huizinga3,31227.57%Dennis Freeman3,56934.81%Donna Fong3,29921.99%Kerry Brown4,91234.06%
Lynette Young1,88318.69%Dorothy Reynolds2,40520.02%Lise Watts1,74016.97%Lori Hilibeck2,41816.12%
Dorothy Reynolds2,40520.02%Larry Zbitnew1,59110.61%
John McDonald1,25910.48%Anna Der1,2448.29%
Murray Clarke1,0608.82%Jim Patrick1,0587.05%
Ward BWard DWard FJason Burns5033.35%Ward I
Janice Melnychuk3,97241.80%Terry Sulyma3,39541.22%Don FlemingAcclaimedRon Kuban4052.70% Gerry Gibeault 6,32854.87%
Loreen Kabanuk1,66117.48%Vicki Stamp3,12837.98%Lynn Lunde3722.48%David Fletcher5,20545.13%
Doug Stamp1,28713.54%Karl Kuss1,71321.13%David Balcon3042.03%
Andy Chichak1,25413.20%
Denis Lapierre7167.53%
Dwayne Jiry6136.45%

Separate (Catholic) school trustees

Ward 1Ward 2Ward 3
Debbie Engel2,35734.07%Ronald Zapisocki3,65542.47%Jim Shinkaruk2,47730.18%
David MacDougall1,18917.18%Jim Urlacher2,58730.06%Gerda Krug2,21727.01%
Don Mah1,01314.64%Vincent Capri2,36527.48%Helen Tymoczo1,95523.82%
John Patrick Day1,01114.61%Gunda Murray1,55818.98%
Reg Kastelan99314.35%
Don Marriott1982.86%
Robert Gossain1582.28%
Ward 4Ward 5Ward 6
Ron Patsula2,77243.78%Judy Buddle4,61077.67%Brian Mitchell3,78458.47%
Debbie Cavaliere2,03332.11%Raphael Watzke1,32522.33%Barbara Ann Thompson2,68841.53%
Don Weideman1,52624.10%

(Edward Wieclaw was acclaimed to the seat representing Vegreville on the board.)

Video Lottery Terminal Plebiscite

Are you in favour of Bylaw No. 1853 which says, "City Council requests the Government of Alberta through the Alberta Liquor and Gaming Commission to remove Video Lottery Terminals from the City of Edmonton?" Vote Yes or No.

Votes %
Yes80,96449.85%
No81,44950.15%

Senate Nominee Election

This was a province-wide election. Results below reflect only Edmonton vote totals; provincially, Ted Morton and Bert Brown were elected (see 1998 Alberta Senate nominee election for province-wide results).

PartyCandidateVotes
Reform Bert Brown 56,456
Reform Ted Morton 47,785
Independent Guy Desrosiers36,472
Independent Vance Gough28,588

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References

City of Edmonton: Edmonton Elections