The 2017

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municipal election was held Monday, October 16, 2017, to elect a

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and 12

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s to the

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, the nine

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, and the seven trustees to the Edmonton Catholic Schools. One

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public school trustee had no challenger so was elected by acclamation; for the other eight balloting was conducted. They were all elected to four year terms. All contests were conducted according to the

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system. Although FPTP is thought to produce winners who receive a majority of the votes, the winner in seven of the 12 city councillor contests was elected with less than a majority of the votes cast. There was no mechanism used to secure proportional representation of women, labour or minority groups. Since 2013, provincial legislation has required every municipality to hold quadrennial elections. The voter turnout was 31.5% with 194,826 ballots cast out of the 618,564 estimate eligible voters.

Candidates

Bold indicates elected, ''italics'' indicates ''incumbent''.

Mayor

*Taz Bouchier Native activist - finished eleventh in the 2013 Ward 6 race *Mike Butler - finished thirteenth in the 2016 Ward 12 by-election race *Ron Cousineau - a retired partner of the Oil City Energy Services *Carla Frost - finished fifth in the 2010 Ward 6 race *

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*Don Koziak - finished second in the 2007 Mayor race *Bob Ligertwood - finished seventh in the 2010 Mayor race *Henry Mak - finished seventh in the 2007 Ward 3 race *Fahad Mughal - former City of Edmonton employee *Gordon Nikolic - business owner *Steven Charles Shewchuk - business owner *Neil Stephens - businessman *Justin Thomas - EPS officer

Ward 1

*Randy Allen - *Reuben Avellana - game designer *Andrew Knack - incumbent *Dave Olivier - businessman

Ward 2

*Bev Esslinger - incumbent *Ali Haymour - Alberta Sheriff *Shelly Tupper - finished third in the 2010 Ward 2 race

Ward 3

*Jon Dziadyk - urban planner *Dave Loken - incumbent *John Oplanich - finished third in the 2010 Ward 3 race *Karen Principe - dental hygienist *Sarmad Rasheed - business owner

Ward 4

*Felix Amenaghawon - engineer *Rocco Caterina - son of

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*Justin Draper - activist and policy analyst *Beatrice Kerubo Ghettuba - chartered accountant *Sam Hachem - finished second in the 2013 Ward 4 race *Hassan Haymour - engineer *Wade Izzard - Kelly Services employee *Emerson Mayers - nurse *Martin Narsing - former

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officer *Aaron Paquette - artist and author *Alison Poste -

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employee *Tricia Velthuizen - political staffer

Ward 5

*Philip Michael Asher - former councillor in Fort Nelson *Nafisa Bowen - development officer of

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*Sarah Hamilton - business owner *Miranda Jimmy - program manager *Brian Kendrick - finished third in the 2010 Ward 5 race *Dawn Newton - senior manager of

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*Svetlana Pavlenko - executive manager *James Prentice - Government of Alberta employee * David Xiao - former MLA

Ward 6

*Scott McKeen - incumbent *Bill Knight - entrepreneur *Adil Pirbhai - finished seventh in the 1998 Ward 5 race *Tish George Prouse - finished fourth in the 2013 Ward 7 race

Ward 7

- incumbent *Kris Andreychuk - social worker *Andrzej Gudanowski - finished thirteenth in the 2013 Ward 6 race *Liz John-West - social worker *Matthew Kleywegt - graduation facilitator *Mimi Williams - finished third in both the 2001 Ward 2 race and the 2013 Ward 7 race

Ward 8

* Ben Henderson - incumbent *Rob Bernshaw - finished third in the 2013 Ward 3 race *Kirsten Goa - government employee *James Kosowan -

employee *Eli Schrader - entrepreneur *Heather Workman - finished second in the 2013 Ward 8 race

Ward 9

*Rob Agostinis - physician *Tim Cartmell - engineer *Mark Hope - entrepreneur *Payman Parseyan - business owner *Sandy Pon - realtor

Ward 10

*Vieri Berretti - businessman *Samantha Hees - UofA administrator *Sim Senol - UofA employee *Michael Walters - incumbent *Glenda K. Williams - former reporter

Ward 11

*Rob Armin - finished eighth in the 2013 Ward 11 race *Brandy Burdeniuk - co-founder of EccoAmmo *Chris Christianson - Government of Alberta public servant *

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- incumbent *Troy Pavlek - software developer *Keren Tang - civil servant

Ward 12

*Moe Banga - incumbent *Nigel Logan - NDP MP constituency assistantdaveberta Alberta Politics blogsite *Mike Russnak - business manager *Jo-Anne Wright - government employee *Walter Youb - supply chain consultant

Public school trustees

Separate school trustees

References

External links

City of Edmonton: Edmonton Elections
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