1989 Edmonton municipal election

The Edmonton municipal election, 1989 was held on October 16 that year 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. Edmontonians also voted in the Senate nominee election in conjunction with the municipal election.

This was the first election in which school trustees were elected by ward.

Voter turnout[]

There were 148068 ballots cast out of 406995 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 36.4%.

Results[]

(bold indicates elected, italics indicate incumbent)

Mayor[]

	Candidate	Votes	%
Independent	Jan Reimer	73,728	50.09%
Independent	Terry Cavanagh	33,710	22.90%
Independent	Don Hamilton	31,483	21.39%
Independent	Terence Harding	7,156	4.86%
Independent	Naseer Chaudhary	542	0.37%
Independent	Carl Williams	449	0.31%
Independent	H. Campion Swartout	126	0.09%

(Laurence Decore was elected mayor in the 1986 election, but resigned to lead the Liberal Party of Alberta. Cavanagh was selected by council to serve as his replacement.)

Aldermen[]

Ward 1[]

Ward 1				Ward 2				Ward 3
Party		Candidate	Votes	Party		Candidate	Votes	Party		Candidate	Votes
	Independent	Bruce Campbell	11,864		Independent	Ron Hayter	12,939		Independent	Judy Bethel	10,805
	Independent	Helen Paull	10,582		Independent	Catherine Chichak	7,503			Brian Mason	8,992
	Independent	Alice Gagne	9,552			Gene Romaniuk	6,164		Independent	Ed Gibbons	4,852
	Independent	Richard Kayler	5,297		Independent	Bill Maxim	5,366		Independent	Cindy Olsen	4,275
	Independent	Al Wilson	3,532		Independent	Phyllis Basaraba	5,020		Independent	Margaret Stumbourg	4,097
	Independent	Timothy Casey	1,606		Independent	Gerry Beck	1,555		Independent	Ernst Eder	3,214
	Independent	Richard Guyon	1,339		Independent	Jim Hoyda	1,099		Independent	George Butler	2,650
					Independent	Alwyn Brightley	1,067		Independent	Bonny Royce	593
					Independent	Rino Filippelli	1,036		Independent	Hans Slaby	440
					Independent	Michael Bulat	655
					Independent	Thomas Tomlinson	636
Ward 4				Ward 5				Ward 6
Party		Candidate	Votes	Party		Candidate	Votes	Party		Candidate	Votes
	Independent	Lance White	12,831		Independent	Patricia MacKenzie	16,671		Independent	Sheila McKay	12,895
	Independent	Mel Binder	12,588		Independent	Lillian Staroszik	15,977		Independent	Ken Kozak	9,836
	Independent	Tooker Gomberg	8,109		Independent	Dan McMann	7,717		Independent	Debby Carlson	8,284
	Independent	Perry Dane	3,080		Independent	Ian Crawford	6,337		Independent	Bill Diachuk	7,555
					Independent	Margaret Durnin	4,286		Independent	John Bracegirdle	4,492
										Elaine Masur-Mardiros	3,944

Public school trustees[]

One trustee is elected from each ward. Additional trustees are elected by taking the non-victorious candidate with the most votes between each of Wards 1 and 4, Wards 2 and 3, and Ward 5 and 6.

Ward 1					Ward 2					Ward 3
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Joan Cowling	8,333	52.49%		Independent	Rose Rosenberger	7,725	57.53%		Independent	John Nicoll	7,422	58.21%
	Independent	Esther Starkman	3,253	20.49%		Independent	Joe Hak	3,472	25.86%		Independent	Larry Phillips	5,328	41.79%
	Independent	Ed Pearson	1,766	11.13%		Independent	Victor Varvis	2,230	16.61%
	Independent	Raymond Marshall	1,588	10.00%
	Independent	Ross Patchell	934	5.88%
Ward 4					Ward 5					Ward 6
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Don Williams	5,014	37.37%		Independent	George Luck	6,947	36.54%		Independent	Doug Tupper	7,093	39.11%
	Independent	Hilary Findlay	2,869	21.38%		Independent	Michael Ekelund	4,902	25.78%		Independent	Dick Mather	5,805	32.01%
	Independent	Marion Herbert	2,702	20.14%		Independent	Gene Hartson	3,096	16.28%			Mike Uhryn	2,702	14.90%
	Independent	Mitch Bronaugh	1,683	12.54%		Independent	Indira Puri	2,554	13.43%		Independent	Gordon Hum	1,704	9.40%
	Independent	Perry Dane	885	6.60%		Independent	Julio Ferrante	1,513	7.96%		Independent	John Kurian	830	4.58%
	Independent	Adil Pirbhai	264	1.97%

Separate (Catholic) school trustees[]

One trustee is elected from each ward, and the non-victorious candidate with the most total votes is also elected.

Ward 1					Ward 2					Ward 3
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	David MacDougall	3,357	58.92%		Independent	Tony Catena	Acclaimed			Independent	Mary-Anne Razzolini	2,883	42.22%
	Independent	John Patrick Day	2,341	41.08%							Independent	Jim Shinkaruk	1,802	26.39%
											Independent	Ken Balko	1,147	16.80%
											Independent	Gerald Lorente	997	14.60%
Ward 4					Ward 5					Ward 6
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Krystina Tadman	Acclaimed			Independent	Ernie Turnbull	3,373	62.60%		Independent	Joan Tarnowski	4,560	71.29%
						Independent	Sadie Clancy	2,015	37.40%		Independent	Ken Alyluia	1,836	28.71%

Senate Nominee Election[]

This was a province-wide election. Results below reflect only Edmonton vote totals; provincially, Stan Waters was elected (see 1989 Alberta Senate nominee election for province-wide results).

Party	Candidate	Votes	%
Liberal	Bill Code	46,452	34.07%
Reform	Stan Waters	41,987	30.79%
Progressive Conservative	Bert Brown	18,911	13.87%
Independent	Kenneth Paproski	15,982	11.72%
Independent	Gladys Taylor	7,081	5.19%
Independent	Tom Sindlinger	5,934	4.35%

References[]

City of Edmonton: Edmonton Elections

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