The 1974 municipal election was held October 16, 1974 to elect a mayor and twelve aldermen to sit on
Edmonton City Council
The Edmonton City Council is the governing body of the City of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Edmonton currently has one mayor and twelve city councillors. Elections are held every four years. The most recent was held in 2021, and the next is in 20 ...
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
Aldermen
Guide:
*E.V.A = Edmonton Voters Association
*U.R.G.E. = Urban Reform Group Edmonton
Public school trustees
*''
Herb Jamieson'' - 34991
*Shirley Forbes - 31808
*''Vernon Johnson'' - 28606
*''
James Falconer
James Falconer (9 June 1856 – 21 April 1931) was a Scottish solicitor and Liberal Party politician.
Family and education
Falconer was born in Carmyllie, Forfarshire, the son of Donald Falconer. He was educated at Arbroath High School and the Un ...
'' - 28259
*Catherine Ford - 25461
*Ernest Lund - 24732
*Mel Binder - 23521
*
Don Massey
Donald Lee Massey is a former municipal and provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1993 until 2004. In that period he also served as Leader of the Official Opposition ...
- 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
Each voter could cast up to seven votes (
plurality block voting
Plurality block voting, also known as plurality-at-large voting, block vote or block voting (BV) is a non- proportional voting system for electing representatives in multi-winner elections. Each voter may cast as many votes as the number of sea ...
).
*''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
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1974
Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; f ...
1974 elections in Canada
1974 in Alberta