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
width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents|	Ind.	Ches Tanner	17,222	width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents|	Ind.	Laurence Decore	13,213	width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents|	Ind.	Ed Leger	12,733	width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents|	Ind.	Terry Cavanagh	19,868
width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents|	Ind.	Kenneth Newman	14,902	width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents|	Ind.	Olivia Butti	8,564	width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents|	Ind.	Ron Hayter	10,016	width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents|	Ind.	Buck Olsen	15,973
width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents|	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
width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents|	Ind.	Terry Laing	12,827	width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents|	Ind.	James Falconer	6,658	width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents|	Ind.	Terry Nugent	7,886	width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents|	Ind.	Sheila McKay	9,125
width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents|	Ind.	Bud Salloum	7,758	width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents|	Ind.	Cecil Rhodes	6,006		U.R.G.E.	Sam Agronin	7,248	width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents|	Ind.	Mitchell Wujcik	6,949
width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents|	Ind.	John Ludwig	7,667	width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents|	Ind.	Neil MacLean	5,667	width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents|	Ind.	Bill McLean	7,149	width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents|	Ind.	John Lakusta	6,364
	U.R.G.E.	Syeda Hameed	6,194		U.R.G.E.	Percy Wickman	5,313	width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents|	Ind.	Olee Wowk	3,803	width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents|	Ind.	Elaine Johnson	5,585
width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents|	Ind.	George Luck	5,154		U.R.G.E.	Gerry Wright	5,052	width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents|	Ind.	Gerhard Volkmann	3,703	width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents|	Ind.	William Askin	4,947
width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents|	Ind.	Eddie Keehn	4,602	width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents|	Ind.	Bruce Vaughan	4,129	width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents|	Ind.	Gene Dub	3,935		E.V.A.	Walter Doskoch	4,820
width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents|	Ind.	Jean Pierre Van Eck	3,221	width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents|	Ind.	Clif Tait	3,276	width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents|	Ind.	Henry Rutkowski	3,588
width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents|	Ind.	Ernie Hayne	2,332	width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents|	Ind.	David Collier	3,142	width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents|	Ind.	Lou Acocella	1,044
				width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents|	Ind.	Victor Sedo	2,422
				width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents|	Ind.	Larry Messier	1,929
				width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents|	Ind.	Paul Fuog	1,348
				width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents|	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

• 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