2001 Edmonton municipal election

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2001 Edmonton municipal election
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  1998 October 15, 2001 2004  

Mayor and 12 councilors to Edmonton City Council

Mayor before election

Bill Smith

Elected Mayor

Bill Smith

The 2001 Edmonton municipal election was held on October 15, 2001 to elect a mayor and twelve councilors to sit on Edmonton City Council, nine trustees to sit on the public school board, seven trustees to sit on the separate school board, and seven members of the Capital Health Board of Directors.

Contents

This election was the first, and to date only, election in which directors were elected to the boards of Alberta's Regional Health Authorities. After this election, the provincial government returned to appointing all members of these boards directly.

Voter turnout

There were 172,540 ballots cast out of 489,794 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 35.2%.

Results

(bold indicates elected, italics indicate incumbent)

Mayor

CandidateVotes %
Bill Smith 75,67844.35%
Robert Noce54,37531.87%
Mike Nickel 33,77619.80%
Joe Devaney1,7461.02%
Katie Oppen1,5450.91%
Tess Elsworthy1,5130.89%
Laura Duffy8690.51%
Thomas "Buffalo Terminator" Tomilson7450.44%
Bob Ligertwood3760.22%

Councillors

Ward 1Ward 2Ward 3Ward 4Ward 5Ward 6
CandidateVotesCandidateVotesCandidateVotesCandidateVotesCandidateVotesCandidateVotes
Karen Leibovici 17,947Allan Bolstad13,933Janice Melnychuk10,550 Michael Phair 16,054Larry Langley19,521 Dave Thiele 13,998
Stephen Mandel 7,569 Ron Hayter 12,154 Ed Gibbons 8,640 Jane Batty 8,780 Bryan Anderson 19,131 Terry Cavanagh 13,784
Don Clarke7,536Mimi Williams5,522Ken Shipka5,042Debbie Yeung5,837Judith Brown11,931Chinwe Okelu10,239
Kathy Kohut3,545Don Lawson5,318Gordon Stamp4,987David Starko5,504Bob Stenhouse8,024
Jane Standing3,470Tim Gartner2,478Allan Jack3,169Myles Kitagawa5,177Dennis Trefiak1,742
Joe Hudson3,390Neil Cameron2,275Daniel Bablitz2,733 Ben Henderson 4,164
Charlie Galan2,836Mike Melymick1,602Marie Renaud2,455Jeff Campbell1,503
Rob McGregor1,931Robert Burns1,448Ken Balkwill2,445Doug Meggison1,204
Gerald "Jed" Woodill1,390Bud Sarasin509Mitch Compri2,265Peter Rowe1,029
Larry Anderson1,117Ron Schuster1,953David Verhagen964
Rita John912Joseph (J. R.) Royer1,323Lee Permann925
Sean Tisdall612Wade Franko1,310Bob Whyte874
Ron Gavreau833Hank Muirhead802
Tom Phelan470Thomas Roberts533
Dean Leffler432Allyn White524
Adil Pirbhai410
Richard Gendron277
Alexander Riabou229

Public school trustees

Ward AWard BWard C
Bill Bonko 6,76962.07%Bob Dean4,73946.94%Lynn Odynski7,66956.77%
Bev Esslinger4,13637.93%Doug Stamp2,73527.09%Don Williams5,83943.23%
Ed Vass1,76917.52%
Perry Chahal8528.44%
Ward DWard EWard F
Ray Martin 6,60466.27%Jean Woodrow5,61049.09%Don Fleming7,70063.94%
Terry Sulyma2,02120.28%Carol Anne Dean4,04035.35%Janice Fleming4,34236.06%
Vicki Nelson-Stamp1,34113.46%Dianne Williamson1,77915.57%
Ward GWard HWard I
Svend Hansen8,05355.45%George NicholsonAcclaimed Gerry Gibeault 4,22136.47%
Sophie Ares Pilon2,31815.96%Judith Axelson3,18327.50%
Patrick Dwyre2,17314.96%Les Mcfadyen2,91025.14%
Sean Whelan1,97813.62%Gordon Hum1,0649.19%
Al Jovine1951.68%

Separate (Catholic) school trustees

One trustee is elected from each ward, and the non-victorious candidate with the most total votes is also elected.

Ward 1Ward 2Ward 3
Debbie Engel5,82876.15% Janice Sarich 3,82740.44%Mark Razzolini6,21670.17%
Richard Mcnally1,82523.85%Ronald Zapisocki3,22534.08%Jim Shinkaruk2,64329.83%
Jim Urlacher2,41125.48%
Ward 4Ward 5Ward 6
Debbie Cavaliere3,85158.96%Judy BuddleAcclaimedCharles KoesterAcclaimed
Joe Filewych2,68141.04%

Capital Health Authority

Ward ED1Ward ED3Ward ED5Ward ED6Ward ED7
Olivia Butti14,87864.01%Joan Duiker12,83764.70%Ian Crawford5,58722.98%Barbara Ann Thompson10,71957.80%Sheila McKay10,98144.77%
Tom Olenuk8,36635.99%Clarence Dezwart7,00435.30%Jim Matt4,40218.10%Earl Shinfruk4,09022.06%Robert Hyndman4,98320.32%
Ward ED2Ward ED4Maurice Fritze4,29917.68%Bas Roopnarine3,73520.14%David Alton4,20817.16%
Molly Warring6,05632.50%Brian Bechtel8,80846.55%Robert Kinasewich4,00716.48%Peter White1,6526.74%
Marilyn Kammer4,81125.82%Les Young6,33333.47%Deborah Holm3,56314.65%Robert Rogers1,5556.34%
Louis Sobolewski4,70025.23%Harvey Voogd3,78119.98%Allan Hunsperger1,7006.99%Fernando Pardo1,1474.68%
Brad Cardinal3,06516.45%Bob Ewart7593.12%

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References

City of Edmonton: Edmonton Elections