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Edmonton municipal election, 1977

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The 1977 municipal election was held October 19, 1977 to elect a mayor and twelve aldermen 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.

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This was the first election in which a nine-member public school board was elected instead of the seven member board that had previously existed. It was also the last election to use only four wards; beginning in 1980, two aldermen were elected from each of six wards.

Voter turnout

There were 116,525 ballots cast out of 305,342 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 38.2%.

Results

(bold indicates elected, italics indicate incumbent)

Mayor

(William Hawrelak had been elected mayor in the 1974 election, but had died in office. Cavanagh was selected by council to replace him.)

Aldermen

Guide:

  • E.C.G.A = Edmonton Civic Government Association
  • E.V.A. = Edmonton Voters Association
  • U.R.G.E. = Urban Reform Group Edmonton
  • Public school trustees

  • Shirley Forbes - 38468
  • Mel Binder - 37438
  • Ernie Lund - 35406
  • Jim Patrick - 33618
  • Don Massey - 33444
  • Catherine Ford - 33170
  • Richard Jamieson - 32371
  • James Falconer - 31754
  • Elaine Jones - 27494
  • Lorne Mowers - 26792
  • Vernon Johnson - 25896
  • Douglas Sorenson - 24397
  • Molly Glass - 21330
  • John Mason - 16319
  • Clare Brown - 16252
  • Separate (Catholic) school trustees

  • Leo Floyd - 16438
  • Jean McDonald - 15123
  • Barry Cavanaugh - 11506
  • Phil Gibeau - 11207
  • Laurier Picard - 11071
  • Raymond Pinkowski - 10342
  • Joe Donahue - 9810
  • William McNeill - 8664
  • Zan Matishank - 8436
  • Patrick Murphy - 7873
  • Lyle Lavender - 7039
  • John Kash - 6506
  • Paul Haljan - 4659
  • References

    Edmonton municipal election, 1977 Wikipedia