1974 Edmonton municipal election

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The 1974 municipal election was held October 16, 1974 to elect a mayor and twelve aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council and seven trustees to sit on each of the public and separate school boards.

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Voter turnout

There were 141,636 ballots cast out of 406,995 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 36.4%.

Results

(bold indicates elected, italics indicate incumbent)

Mayor

PartyCandidateVotes %
  Independent William Hawrelak 67,74149.21%
  Independent Cec Purves 32,67423.74%
  Independent Ivor Dent 28,29720.56%
  Independent David Ward 6,9835.07%
Edmonton League for Socialist ActionCarl Austin1,0170.74%
  Independent Nell Martin5070.37%
  Independent John Horobec4350.32%

Aldermen

Guide:

Ward 1Ward 2Ward 3Ward 4
PartyCandidateVotesPartyCandidateVotesPartyCandidateVotesPartyCandidateVotes
Ind. Ches Tanner17,222 Ind. Laurence Decore 13,213 Ind. Ed Leger12,733 Ind. Terry Cavanagh 19,868
Ind. Kenneth Newman14,902 Ind. Olivia Butti8,564 Ind. Ron Hayter 10,016 Ind. Buck Olsen15,973
Ind. Robert Matheson14,644E.V.A.David Leadbeater7,152U.R.G.E.Edward Kennedy8,670U.R.G.E. Bettie Hewes 15,447
Ind. Terry Laing12,827 Ind. James Falconer 6,658 Ind. Terry Nugent 7,886 Ind. Sheila McKay9,125
Ind. Bud Salloum7,758 Ind. Cecil Rhodes6,006U.R.G.E.Sam Agronin7,248 Ind. Mitchell Wujcik6,949
Ind. John Ludwig7,667 Ind. Neil MacLean5,667 Ind. Bill McLean7,149 Ind. John Lakusta6,364
U.R.G.E.Syeda Hameed6,194U.R.G.E. Percy Wickman 5,313 Ind. Olee Wowk3,803 Ind. Elaine Johnson5,585
Ind. George Luck5,154U.R.G.E.Gerry Wright5,052 Ind. Gerhard Volkmann3,703 Ind. William Askin4,947
Ind. Eddie Keehn4,602 Ind. Bruce Vaughan4,129 Ind. Gene Dub3,935E.V.A.Walter Doskoch4,820
Ind. Jean Pierre Van Eck3,221 Ind. Clif Tait3,276 Ind. Henry Rutkowski3,588
Ind. Ernie Hayne2,332 Ind. David Collier3,142 Ind. Lou Acocella1,044
Ind. Victor Sedo2,422
Ind. Larry Messier1,929
Ind. Paul Fuog1,348
Ind. Peter Yuca1,125
Socialist ActionAngela Mueller1,104

Public school trustees

Separate (Catholic) school trustees

Each voter could cast up to seven votes (plurality block voting).

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References

City of Edmonton: Edmonton Elections