1971 Edmonton municipal election

The 1971 municipal election was held October 13, 1971 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.

This was the first election in which a ward system was used. Where previously all twelve aldermen were elected at large, beginning with this election three would be elected from each of four wards. (Starting with the 1980 election, this was changed to two aldermen being elected from each of six wards). The election was conducted under the block voting system in which each voter was given as many votes as there were vacancies.

School board trustees were elected at-large no wards used.

The mayor was elected through first-past-the-post voting. All others were elected through plurality block voting.

Voter turnout

In this election, 101,235 ballots cast out of 273,271 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 37.1%.

Results

(bold indicates elected, italics indicate incumbent)

Mayor

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Ivor Dent	60,948	62.20%
	Independent	Julian Kinisky	27,270	27.83%
	Independent	Jack Holmes	9,777	9.98%

Aldermen

Ward 1				Ward 2				Ward 3				Ward 4
Party		Candidate	Votes	Party		Candidate	Votes	Party		Candidate	Votes	Party		Candidate	Votes
	Ind.	Kenneth Newman	13,934		Ind.	Cec Purves	10,879		Ind.	Ed Leger	6,688		Ind.	Una Evans	11,574
	Ind.	Dudley Menzies	13,663		Ind.	David Ward	9,244		Ind.	Ron Hayter	5,709		Ind.	Terry Cavanagh	8,776
	Ind.	Ches Tanner	10,960		Ind.	Alex Fallow	8,188		Ind.	William McLean	5,454		Ind.	Buck Olsen	7,550
	Ind.	Morris Weinlos	10,053		Ind.	Laurence Decore	7,899		Ind.	Sam Agronin	4,735		Ind.	William Boytzun	7,272
	Ind.	I. Gliener	7,465		Ind.	Thomas Baker	7,565		Ind.	Allan McTavish	4,202		Ind.	Roy Jamha	5,449
	Ind.	Terry Laing	6,752		Ind.	Cecil Rhodes	3,498		Ind.	Irene Domecki	3,417		Ind.	Natalka Faryna	3,894
	Ind.	Bob Bothwell	5,332		Ind.	Eric Reilly	3,482		Ind.	Joe Donahue	2,873		Ind.	Allan Welsh	3,755
	Ind.	John Ludwig	4,043		Ind.	Percy Wickman	3,277		Ind.	John Kloster	2,772		Ind.	Harold Oppelt	3,670
	Ind.	Joseph Bugis	3,111		Ind.	Jane Weaver	3,241		Ind.	Rory Nugent	2,214		Ind.	Alex Muunzel	3,330
	Ind.	George Luck	2,950		Ind.	Victor Sedo	2,432		Ind.	R. C. Squair	2,142		Ind.	Ken McAuley	3,143
	Ind.	Maureen Wanczura	2,491		Ind.	Paul Fuog	1,647		Ind.	Gerhard Volkmann	2,008		Ind.	Douglas Tomlinson	2,987
									Ind.	Ernest McCormack	2,003		Ind.	Stephen Corby	2,802
									Ind.	J. A. Robinson	1,780		Ind.	John Lakusta	2,167
									Ind.	Bernard Mazurewicz	1,433		Ind.	Lori Phillips	1,877
									Ind.	Clarence Bolton	1,209		Ind.	Gerald Lorente	1,577
									Ind.	Ennio Gentili	1,154		Ind.	Frances Kelemen	1,563
									Ind.	Ruby Lyons	860		Ind.	Fred Haidner	737
									Ind.	Arthur Shaw	636

Public school trustees

Party		Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Independent	Edith Rogers	22,170	Y
	Better Education Association	Lois Campbell	21,786	Y
	Independent	James Falconer	19,412	Y
	Independent	John Paterson	18,820	Y
	Independent	Vernon Johnson	17,003	Y
	Independent	Donald Kennedy	16,752	Y
	Independent	Richard Jamieson	14,166	Y
	Independent	John Chalmers	13,373
	Better Education Association	Murray Campbell	13,069
	Independent	Howard Clifford	12,626
	Independent	Fred Miller	12,313
	Independent	A A Aldridge	11,555
	Independent	Robert Bauer	11,554
	Independent	Roy Le Riche	11,380
	Better Education Association	Robert McAlpine	10,969
	Better Education Association	Rex Beach	10,832
	Independent	Anna Pollock	10,280
	Independent	Jay Purnell	9,940
	Better Education Association	Russel Dzenick	9,508
	Independent	Edith Hnytka	8,814
	Better Education Association	Alan Robertson	8,808
	Independent	George Kuschminder	8,113
	Independent	T O Walhovd	7,966
	Better Education Association	Metro Gulutsan	7,763
	Independent	Bill Tiffin	6,448
	Independent	E R Daniels	6,208
	Independent	Donald Skyes	5,869
	Independent	James Lawson	5,536
	Independent	Dorothy Preston	5,137
	Independent	Janet Tegart	4,724
	Independent	Laura Tuomi	4,225
	Independent	James Miller	3,964
	Independent	Noel Round	3,496
	Independent	Frank Vanner	2,984
	Independent	Donald Topilo	2,887
	Independent	Murray Fehr	2,792
	Independent	John Ryll	2,502
	Independent	Albert Hencsh	2,434
	Independent	Dave Poholko	1,851

Separate (Catholic) school trustees

• Georges Brosseau - 13549
• Jean Forest - 11991
• Robert Sabourin - 10250
• Leo Floyd - 9395
• Jean McDonald - 9206
• W McNeill - 8251
• Larry Messier - 7676
• Julia Kerans - 7492
• A M Ambrock - 6479
• Nicholas Sheptycki - 6045
• Orest Eveneshen - 6037
• Glen Hughes - 5052
• Maurice Legris - 4627
• Matt Reiser - 3666
• Julian Hnatiw - 3523

References

City of Edmonton: Edmonton Elections