1977 Edmonton municipal election
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 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
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Independent | Cec Purves | 38,720 | 33.92% | Independent | Laurence Decore | 29,682 | 26.00% | Independent | Terry Cavanagh | 28,941 | 25.36% | Independent | Ivor Dent | 13,818 | 12.11% | |
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| Revolutionary Workers League | Donald Tapscott | 1,395 | 1.22% | Independent | Eddie Keehn | 1,108 | 0.97% | Independent | John Horobec | 479 | 0.42% | |||||||||
(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
| Ward 1 | Ward 2 | Ward 3 | Ward 4 | ||||||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | Party | Candidate | Votes | Party | Candidate | Votes | Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||
| U.R.G.E. | Lois Campbell | 12,958 | width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents| | Ind. | Gene Dub | 11,202 | E.C.G.A | Ron Hayter | 11,425 | U.R.G.E. | Bettie Hewes | 16,560 | |||
| E.C.G.A | Kenneth Newman | 14,619 | E.C.G.A | Olivia Butti | 10,553 | width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents| | Ind. | Ed Leger | 10,760 | E.C.G.A | William Chmiliar | 14,473 | |||
| E.C.G.A | Paul Norris | 12,014 | width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents| | Ind. | Percy Wickman | 8,755 | U.R.G.E. | Edward Kennedy | 9,957 | E.C.G.A | Buck Olsen | 14,090 | |||
| width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents| | Ind. | Carl Paproski | 11,926 | U.R.G.E. | Gerry Wright | 6,311 | width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents| | Ind. | David Stewart | 6,342 | width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents| | Ind. | Sheila McKay | 10,876 | |
| E.C.G.A | Bud Salloum | 10,693 | width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents| | Ind. | Bob Caine | 5,304 | E.V.A. | Walter Doskoch | 4,290 | E.C.G.A | Darryl Smith | 8,958 | |||
| width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents| | Ind. | Nick Fedorak | 7,440 | width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents| | Ind. | Solomon Agronin | 5,153 | width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents| | Ind. | Clarence (Chuck) Bolton | 3,408 | width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents| | Ind. | Mitchell Wijcik | 6,515 |
| width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents| | Ind. | Donald Eastcott | 5,390 | width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents| | Ind. | Kenneth Burton | 4,668 | width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents| | Ind. | Ernest Whitely | 3,362 | E.V.A. | Ed Ewasiuk | 6,192 | |
| width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents| | Ind. | Cal O'Brian | 4,624 | E.C.G.A | Ed Baxter | 4,138 | width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents| | Ind. | John Lakusta | 3,031 | |||||
| E.V.A. | Gerry Paschen | 3,983 | width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents| | Ind. | Henry Rutkowski | 3,167 | |||||||||
| width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents| | Ind. | Johannes Bosch | 2,703 | E.V.A. | Robert Blakely | 2,867 | |||||||||
| width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents| | Ind. | Olga Cylurik | 1,870 | ||||||||||||
| E.V.A. | E. J. (Slim) Powell | 1,800 | |||||||||||||
| width=20px Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents| | Ind. | Richard Guthrie | 1,171 | ||||||||||||
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