The 1998 municipal election was held October 26, 1998 to elect a mayor and twelve councillors 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 decided one plebiscite question and participated in the Senate election.
The Edmonton City Council is the governing body of the City of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
There were 172,215 ballots cast out of 482,763 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 35.7%.
(bold indicates elected, italics indicate incumbent)
| Candidate | Votes | % |
|---|---|---|
| Bill Smith | 84,512 | 50.62% |
| Mike Nickel | 27,029 | 16.19% |
| Ihor Broda | 22,280 | 13.35% |
| Tooker Gomberg | 21,614 | 12.95% |
| Rory Nugent | 3,869 | 2.32% |
| Cheryl Schumacher | 3,740 | 2.24% |
| Kelly Morris | 2,178 | 1.30% |
| Brian Gregg | 1,726 | 1.03% |
| Ward 1 | Ward 2 | Ward 3 | Ward 4 | Ward 5 | Ward 6 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | Candidate | Votes | Candidate | Votes | Candidate | Votes | Candidate | Votes | Candidate | Votes |
| Wendy Kinsella | 18,731 | Allan Bolstad | 15,605 | Brian Mason | 19,311 | Jim Taylor | 20,357 | Larry Langley | 13,805 | Terry Cavanagh | 13,659 |
| Leroy Chahley | 18,589 | Rose Rosenberger | 11,141 | Robert Noce | 17,094 | Michael Phair | 19,708 | Bryan Anderson | 12,731 | Dave Thiele | 9,773 |
| Jane Standing | 7,958 | Don Koziak | 7,875 | Gordon Stamp | 8,085 | Douglas Meggison | 5,191 | Jane Batty | 8,785 | Chinwe Okelu | 7,654 |
| Jerry Voss | 3,350 | Mimi Williams | 5,739 | Thomas Tomilson | 2,046 | Lee Permann | 4,893 | Maurice Fritz | 6,503 | Sheila McKay | 6,781 |
| Sergio Teixeira | 1,783 | Donna Finucane | 6,369 | Ziad Jaber | 3,937 | ||||||
| Brenda Platzer | 5,973 | Frank Atkinson | 2,823 | ||||||||
| Adil Pirbhai | 891 | Greg Dagg | 2,022 | ||||||||
| Gordon McIntosh | 1,927 | ||||||||||
| Anna Graham | 1,306 | ||||||||||
| Marcel Fayant | 228 | ||||||||||
| Ward A | Ward C | Ward E | Ward G | Ward H | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bill Bonko | 4,867 | 48.31% | Don Williams | 3,979 | 33.12% | Carole Anne Dean | 4,944 | 48.22% | Svend Hansen | 3,806 | 25.37% | George Nicholson | 9,510 | 65.94% |
| Bev Esslinger | 3,325 | 33.00% | Mel Huizinga | 3,312 | 27.57% | Dennis Freeman | 3,569 | 34.81% | Donna Fong | 3,299 | 21.99% | Kerry Brown | 4,912 | 34.06% |
| Lynette Young | 1,883 | 18.69% | Dorothy Reynolds | 2,405 | 20.02% | Lise Watts | 1,740 | 16.97% | Lori Hilibeck | 2,418 | 16.12% | |||
| Dorothy Reynolds | 2,405 | 20.02% | Larry Zbitnew | 1,591 | 10.61% | |||||||||
| John McDonald | 1,259 | 10.48% | Anna Der | 1,244 | 8.29% | |||||||||
| Murray Clarke | 1,060 | 8.82% | Jim Patrick | 1,058 | 7.05% | |||||||||
| Ward B | Ward D | Ward F | Jason Burns | 503 | 3.35% | Ward I | ||||||||
| Janice Melnychuk | 3,972 | 41.80% | Terry Sulyma | 3,395 | 41.22% | Don Fleming | Acclaimed | Ron Kuban | 405 | 2.70% | Gerry Gibeault | 6,328 | 54.87% | |
| Loreen Kabanuk | 1,661 | 17.48% | Vicki Stamp | 3,128 | 37.98% | Lynn Lunde | 372 | 2.48% | David Fletcher | 5,205 | 45.13% | |||
| Doug Stamp | 1,287 | 13.54% | Karl Kuss | 1,713 | 21.13% | David Balcon | 304 | 2.03% | ||||||
| Andy Chichak | 1,254 | 13.20% | ||||||||||||
| Denis Lapierre | 716 | 7.53% | ||||||||||||
| Dwayne Jiry | 613 | 6.45% | ||||||||||||
| Ward 1 | Ward 2 | Ward 3 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debbie Engel | 2,357 | 34.07% | Ronald Zapisocki | 3,655 | 42.47% | Jim Shinkaruk | 2,477 | 30.18% |
| David MacDougall | 1,189 | 17.18% | Jim Urlacher | 2,587 | 30.06% | Gerda Krug | 2,217 | 27.01% |
| Don Mah | 1,013 | 14.64% | Vincent Capri | 2,365 | 27.48% | Helen Tymoczo | 1,955 | 23.82% |
| John Patrick Day | 1,011 | 14.61% | Gunda Murray | 1,558 | 18.98% | |||
| Reg Kastelan | 993 | 14.35% | ||||||
| Don Marriott | 198 | 2.86% | ||||||
| Robert Gossain | 158 | 2.28% | ||||||
| Ward 4 | Ward 5 | Ward 6 | ||||||
| Ron Patsula | 2,772 | 43.78% | Judy Buddle | 4,610 | 77.67% | Brian Mitchell | 3,784 | 58.47% |
| Debbie Cavaliere | 2,033 | 32.11% | Raphael Watzke | 1,325 | 22.33% | Barbara Ann Thompson | 2,688 | 41.53% |
| Don Weideman | 1,526 | 24.10% | ||||||
(Edward Wieclaw was acclaimed to the seat representing Vegreville on the board.)
Vegreville is a town in central Alberta, Canada located on Highway 16A approximately 103 km (64 mi) east of Edmonton, Alberta's capital city. It was incorporated as a town in 1906, and that year also saw the founding of the Vegreville Observer, a weekly newspaper for the region.
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 | % | |
|---|---|---|
| Yes | 80,964 | 49.85% |
| No | 81,449 | 50.15% |
This was a province-wide election. Results below reflect only Edmonton vote totals; provincially, Ted Morton and Bert Brown were elected (see Alberta Senate nominee election, 1998 for province-wide results).
Frederick Lee Morton, known commonly as Ted Morton, is a Canadian politician and former cabinet minister in the Alberta government. As a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, he represented the constituency of Foothills-Rocky View as a Progressive Conservative from 2004 to 2012. He did not win reelection in the 2012 Alberta general election. Morton was a candidate for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Association in its 2006 and 2011 leadership elections. Dr. Morton is currently an Executive-in-Residence at the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary and Senior Fellow, Energy and Environment, at the Manning Foundation. He also serves on the Board of the Alberta Land Institute and the Board of Governors of the Council of Canadian Academies.
Bert Brown was a Canadian senator and retired farmer and development consultant who resided in Balzac, Alberta.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reform | Bert Brown | 56,456 | |
| Reform | Ted Morton | 47,785 | |
| Independent | Guy Desrosiers | 36,472 | |
| Independent | Vance Gough | 28,588 |
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