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The 1986 Winnipeg municipal election was held on October 22, 1986, to elect a mayor, councillors and school trustees in the city of
Winnipeg Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, near the longitudinal centre of North America. , Winnipeg had a city population of 749, ...
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Bill Norrie William Norrie (January 21, 1929 – July 6, 2012) was the 39th Mayor of Winnipeg, Manitoba, and was a onetime Chancellor of the University of Manitoba. Norrie was also involved in various charities, and once chaired the United Way of Winnipeg's ...
was re-elected to a fourth term as mayor, defeating former
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Russell Doern Russell John "Russ" Doern (October 20, 1935 – February 19, 1987) was a Manitoba politician. He served as a cabinet minister in the New Democratic government of Edward Schreyer (1969–1977), but left the New Democratic Party in 1984. He was ...
and ten other candidates. 29 councillors elected in 29 separate single-member wards.


Results


Councillors

*Cliff Annable was born in
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,
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in 1947, and was raised in
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. He joined the
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as an Air Crew Officer after graduating from high school. Annable lived in
Winnipeg Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, near the longitudinal centre of North America. , Winnipeg had a city population of 749, ...
from 1970 to 1987, and unsuccessfully sought a position on the
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and 1986. He supported the
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in this period. He later moved to Surrey, and was the owner of the
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team from 1993 to 2000. Annable is president and CEO of Commerce Pacific Holdings Ltd. He was elected as a councillor in White Rock in 2002. He was at the centre of an unusual controversy in June 2003, when rival councillor Margaret Woods punched him in the head during a heated debate about paving issues. (Annable asserted that Woods also jabbed him in the face with a pen, although she denied this.) Woods was charged with one count of common assault, which was later stayed. Annable did not seek re-election to the White Rock council in 2005, but instead ran for a seat on the Surrey City Council as a candidate of the centre-right Surrey Electors Team. He was narrowly defeated for the final position. In January 2008, he was appointed to Surrey's Parks and Community Services Committee.Kevin Diakiw, "City committees named"
''Surrey Leader'', recovered 23 May 2008. *Michelle Juba appears to have been a first time candidate.


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