Edmonton municipal election, 1974

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

	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

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

Elections and plebiscites in Edmonton

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Plebiscites	1979 1981

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