1974 Edmonton municipal election

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.

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	William Hawrelak	67,741	49.21%
	Independent	Cec Purves	32,674	23.74%
	Independent	Ivor Dent	28,297	20.56%
	Independent	David Ward	6,983	5.07%
	Edmonton League for Socialist Action	Carl Austin	1,017	0.74%
	Independent	Nell Martin	507	0.37%
	Independent	John Horobec	435	0.32%

Aldermen

Guide:

• E.V.A = Edmonton Voters Association
• U.R.G.E. = Urban Reform Group Edmonton

Ward 1				Ward 2				Ward 3				Ward 4
Party		Candidate	Votes	Party		Candidate	Votes	Party		Candidate	Votes	Party		Candidate	Votes
	Ind.	Ches Tanner	17,222		Ind.	Laurence Decore	13,213		Ind.	Ed Leger	12,733		Ind.	Terry Cavanagh	19,868
	Ind.	Kenneth Newman	14,902		Ind.	Olivia Butti	8,564		Ind.	Ron Hayter	10,016		Ind.	Buck Olsen	15,973
	Ind.	Robert Matheson	14,644		E.V.A.	David Leadbeater	7,152		U.R.G.E.	Edward Kennedy	8,670		U.R.G.E.	Bettie Hewes	15,447
	Ind.	Terry Laing	12,827		Ind.	James Falconer	6,658		Ind.	Terry Nugent	7,886		Ind.	Sheila McKay	9,125
	Ind.	Bud Salloum	7,758		Ind.	Cecil Rhodes	6,006		U.R.G.E.	Sam Agronin	7,248		Ind.	Mitchell Wujcik	6,949
	Ind.	John Ludwig	7,667		Ind.	Neil MacLean	5,667		Ind.	Bill McLean	7,149		Ind.	John Lakusta	6,364
	U.R.G.E.	Syeda Hameed	6,194		U.R.G.E.	Percy Wickman	5,313		Ind.	Olee Wowk	3,803		Ind.	Elaine Johnson	5,585
	Ind.	George Luck	5,154		U.R.G.E.	Gerry Wright	5,052		Ind.	Gerhard Volkmann	3,703		Ind.	William Askin	4,947
	Ind.	Eddie Keehn	4,602		Ind.	Bruce Vaughan	4,129		Ind.	Gene Dub	3,935		E.V.A.	Walter Doskoch	4,820
	Ind.	Jean Pierre Van Eck	3,221		Ind.	Clif Tait	3,276		Ind.	Henry Rutkowski	3,588
	Ind.	Ernie Hayne	2,332		Ind.	David Collier	3,142		Ind.	Lou Acocella	1,044
					Ind.	Victor Sedo	2,422
					Ind.	Larry Messier	1,929
					Ind.	Paul Fuog	1,348
					Ind.	Peter Yuca	1,125
					Socialist Action	Angela Mueller	1,104

Public school trustees

• Herb Jamieson - 34991
• Shirley Forbes - 31808
• Vernon Johnson - 28606
• James Falconer - 28259
• Catherine Ford - 25461
• Ernest Lund - 24732
• Mel Binder - 23521
• Don Massey - 23471
• Jim Patrick - 21968
• Betty Flewitt - 21349
• Maria Flak - 17914
• Jean Haddow - 17217
• Gerry Beck - 15700
• R W Sherwin - 15416
• Anna Pollock - 15376
• Al Fahlman - 14366
• Bernice Youck - 13030
• Ken Kozak - 12299
• Ashgar Ali - 10110
• William Lee - 9050
• Mark Pastic - 6392
• Tim Nolt - 6191
• William Hegedus - 6135
• George Skov - 5524

Separate (Catholic) school trustees

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

• Jean Forest - 14559
• Leo Floyd - 14406
• Jean McDonald - 11132
• W McNeill - 9493
• Phil Gibeau - 9425
• Raymond Pinkowski - 8499
• Laurier Picard - 8348
• Robert Carney - 7957
• Orest Evenshen - 7898
• Nicholas Sheptycki - 6716
• Robert Gourdine - 6593
• Edward Christie - 6463
• Bob McDonald - 5711
• Adele - 4946
• Larry Messier - 4938
• Paul Haljan - 3976
• Stanley Blazosek - 3532
• Don Davies - 3246
• Vincent Hawskwell - 3102

References

City of Edmonton: Edmonton Elections