Edmonton municipal election, 1977

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.

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 116525 ballots cast out of 305342 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

Public School Trustees

*"Shirley Forbes" - 38468
*"Mel Binder" - 37438
*"Ernie Lund" - 35406
*Jim Patrick - 33618
*Don Massey - 33444
*"Catherine Ford" - 33170
*"Herb Jamison" - 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

eparate (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

[http://www.edmonton.ca/portal/server.pt/gateway/PTARGS_0_0_265_210_0_43/http%3B/CMSServer/COEWeb/city+government/municipal+elections/past+results/1945+-+2001.htm Edmonton election results (City of Edmonton webpage)]