The 1986 municipal election was held October 20, 1986 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 ...

, nine trustees to sit on the public school board, and seven trustees to sit on the separate school board. Party labels were dropped from the ballots by this time. This was the last election in which school trustees were elected at large. Beginning in 1989, both districts introduced a ward system. The fifty-seven candidates for the public school board remains the most in Edmonton's history.

Electoral system

Mayor was elected through

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. Councillors were elected through

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, two per ward, where each voter could cast up to two votes. School board positions also were filled through

as well.Rek, Municipal Elections in Edmonton

Voter turnout

There were 134020 ballots cast out of 396004 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 33.8%.

Results

(bold indicates elected, ''italics'' indicate incumbent)

Mayor

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'' - 87939 *Buck Olsen - 39857 *Eddie Keehn - 1255 *Naseer Chaudhary - 1037 *Paul (Big Jim) Whitney - 704 *Harold Real - 396

Aldermen

Ward 1

* Bruce Campbell - 10929 *Helen Paull - 10074 *

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- 6545 *Paul Norris - 5038 *Walter Coombs - 2320 *John Ludwig - 2104 *Mary Hislop-Perraton - 864 *Roxanne Herbert - 712 *Francis Dryden - 490

Ward 2

*'' Jan Reimer'' - 14177 *''

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'' - 9733 *Gene Romaniuk - 6297 *Mike Fedoretz - 4181

Ward 3

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- 8779 *''Julian Kinisky'' - 7812 *Joe Filewych - 4172 *Bill Kostiniuk - 3888 *John Strikwerda - 2994 *Kathy Kellman - 1872 *Mike Kachkar - 1309 *John Lakusta - 1306

Ward 4

*'' Lance White'' - 7639 *Mel Binder - 6249 *Donna Artuso - 4823 *Alice Hanson - 4816 *Gerry Wright - 4256 *''Ed Leger'' - 3579 *Ron Pilling - 1609 *Gordon Hum - 705 *Carl Byrd Williams - 260

Ward 5

*''Lillian Staroszik'' - 12753 *Patricia MacKenzie - 9052 *Wes Candler - 8429 *Donald Grimble - 5433 *Ross Brown - 4278 *Rom Smit - 875

Ward 6

*'' Terry Cavanagh'' - 13990 *''Ken Kozak'' - 9977 *Sheila McKay - 9809 *Wayne Weeks - 4301 *Ron Hodgins - 4077 *John Bracegirdle - 2120 *Eric Saemisch - 901 *Bill Gowan-Smith - 566 *Keith Adamson - 532

Public school trustees

*''Joan Cowling'' - 33370 *''

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'' - 29323 *''Elaine Jones'' - 22878 *'' Dick Mather'' - 17878 *Lila Fahlman - 16613 *Doug Tupper - 12216 *''George Luck'' - 12018 *Leon Lubin - 11876 *Don Williams - 11582 *Linda Girard - 10337 *Doug Elves - 10311 *Adelle Bellhouse - 10213 *Janice Drysdale - 9581 *Clarence Climenhaga - 9493 *''John Lakusta'' - 9176 *Gordon Hum - 9123 *Jolly Drever - 8791 *Gerry Beck - 8533 *''Marion Herbert'' - 8511 *Rose Rosenberger - 8501 *James Forbes - 8129 *Yvonne Mury - 7524 *Ninele Jackson - 7366 *Bruce Uditsky - 7147 *John Ludwig - 6985 *Howard Welch - 6727 *Joe Hak - 6523 *Arnold Holmes - 6389 *Olga Cyrulik - 6382 *Ronald Bellamy - 6203 *James Albers - 6024 *Claire Fisher - 5825 *Alex Kinasewich - 5687 *Joe Burgis - 5246 *Shona Wehm - 5092 *Adolph Feingold - 5063 *Norval Horner - 4948 *R Glenn Ritchie - 4799 *Don Cruse - 4767 *Richard Woodward - 4478 *Jack Broyles - 4202 *Alwyn Brightley - 4182 *Gurcharan Bhatia - 4010 *David Rand - 3819 *R Genis Bell - 3754 *Gordon Stamp - 3516 *Jeffrey Martin - 3492 *Bas Roopnarine - 3363 *Brian Morton - 3163 *Doug Lewis - 3005 *Jim Jacuta - 2982 *Harbans Dhillon - 2911 *Thomas Tomlinson - 2132 *Samir Ghossein - 1690 *Jack Thonger - 1622 *Brant Maidens - 1304 *A D Pirbhani - 1095

Separate (Catholic) school trustees

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'' - 18108 *''Alice Gagne'' - 16267 *''Francis O'Hara'' - 15558 *''Hugh Tadman'' - 14191 *Simone Demers-Secker - 9807 *Ken Alyluia - 9628 *Jim Shinkaruk - 8716 *L Brian Mitchell - 8667 *Lenore Hopchin - 8598 *William Koehler - 7758 *Carl Amodio - 7206 *Joe Sell - 6606

References

External links

City of Edmonton: Edmonton Elections
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