Edmonton municipal election, 1980

The 1980 municipal election was held October 15, 1980 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 there were two aldermen elected from each of six wards, instead of three aldermen elected from each of four wards, as had previously been the case.

Voter turnout

There were 72939 ballots cast out of 341102 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 21.4%.

Results

(bold indicates elected, italics indicate incumbent)

Mayor

	Candidate	Votes	%
Independent	Cec Purves	52,035	76.47%
Independent	Murray Trott	5,346	7.86%
Independent	Lester Adams	4,902	7.20%
Independent	Eddie Keehn	2,938	4.32%
Independent	John Horobec	1,575	2.31%
Independent	John Buttrey	1,249	1.84%

Aldermen

Guide:

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

Ward 1				Ward 2				Ward 3
Party		Candidate	Votes	Party		Candidate	Votes	Party		Candidate	Votes
	Independent	Kenneth Newman	7,683		Independent	Ron Hayter	5,175		Independent	June Cavanagh	4,629
	Independent	Olivia Butti	6,673		U.R.G.E.	Jan Reimer	4,433		E.V.A.	Ed Ewasiuk	3,184
	U.R.G.E.	Iain Taylor	4,155		Independent	Jim Spalding	3,255		U.R.G.E.	Judy Bethel	2,727
	U.R.G.E.	Sherburne McCurdy	3,851		U.R.G.E.	Lila Fahlman	2,480		Independent	Sheila McKay	2,692
					Independent	David Stewart	1,685		Independent	William Chmiliar	2,604
					Independent	John Hawrelak	1,019		Independent	Mitch Wujik	2,384
					E.V.A.	Harry Johnson	419		U.R.G.E.	Clint Budd	708
					Independent	Wayne Hayes	313		Independent	Robert Acker	333
									Independent	Tim Baloben	279
									Independent	Noel Round	203
Ward 4				Ward 5				Ward 6
	Independent	Paul Norris	3,550		Independent	Percy Wickman	8,842		U.R.G.E.	Bettie Hewes	8,429
	U.R.G.E.	Gerry Wright	3,462		U.R.G.E.	Lois Campbell	7,696		Independent	Ed Leger	5,641
	U.R.G.E.	Carolyn Nutter	3,393		Independent	Nick Fedorak	2,279		Independent	Ken Kozak	4,154
	Independent	Ron Patsula	2,172		Independent	Guy Tessier	1,450		Independent	Wayne Weeks	2,169
	Independent	Allen Wasnea	1,190		Independent	Olga Cylurik	929		Independent	Don Massey	2,113
	Independent	Bill Broad	817		Independent	Paul Fuog	926		Independent	Bob Durrant	1,661
					E.V.A.	Walter Aiello	467		U.R.G.E.	Fred Atiq	688
					Independent	Paul Bird	260

Public school trustees

	Candidate	Votes	Elected
Independent	Shirley Forbes	24,566	Y
Independent	Mel Binder	20,757	Y
Independent	Ernie Hodgson	19,315	Y
Independent	Don Massey	19,060	Y
Independent	Jim Wiebe	17,756	Y
Independent	Herb Jamieson	17,582	Y
Independent	Ernie Lund	16,690	Y
Independent	Joan Cowling	16,469	Y
Independent	Elaine Jones	15,993	Y
Independent	Grace Hendrickson	14,375
Independent	P. Christensen	14,252
Independent	David Borgstrom	12,331
Independent	Lorne Mowers	12,252
Independent	George Luck	9,507
Independent	Susky Hardin	9,055
Independent	Julie Loga	7,664
Independent	Benjamin Doell	7,115
Independent	John Mason	7,079
Independent	G. Chandler-Nahumko	6,854
Independent	John Lakusta	6,489
Independent	N. A. Chaudhary	5,823
Independent	Robert Douglas	5,499

Separate (Catholic) school trustees

	Candidate	Votes	Elected
Independent	Jean McDonald	9,328	Y
Independent	William Green	8,549	Y
Independent	Phil Gibeau	7,728	Y
Independent	Alice Gagne	6,918	Y
Independent	Hugh Tadman	6,883	Y
Independent	Simone Secker	6,410	Y
Independent	Margaret Bouska	5,946	Y
Independent	Raymond Pinkowski	5,492
Independent	Lyle Lavender	4,132
Independent	Donald Sikorski	3,757
Independent	Joseph Hoover	3,538
Independent	L. Brian Mitchell	3,525
Independent	Edmund Nagle	3,457

References

City of Edmonton: Edmonton Elections

Elections and plebiscites in Edmonton

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