The 1980 municipal election was held October 15, 1980 to elect a mayor and twelve aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council

Edmonton City Council

The Edmonton City Council is the governing body of the City of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.Members represent wards throughout the city, and are known as councillors. Until 2010, Edmonton was divided in six wards with two councillors representing citizens in each ward...

, nine trustees to sit on the public school board, and seven trustees to sit on the separate school board.

This was the first election in which there were two aldermen elected from each of six wards, instead of three aldermen elected from each of four wards, as had previously been the case.

Voter turnout

There were 72939 ballots cast out of 341102 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 21.4%.

Mayor

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Independent Independent (politician) In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...	Cec Purves Cec Purves Cecil John Harry Purves is a politician in Alberta, Canada, who served as mayor of Edmonton.-Early life:Purves was born in Edmonton on October 18, 1933. He grew up in the city's Riverdale district and graduated high school in the city...	52,035	76.47%	Independent Independent (politician) In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...	Murray Trott	5,346	7.86%	Independent Independent (politician) In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...	Lester Adams	4,902	7.20%	Independent Independent (politician) In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...	Eddie Keehn	2,938	4.32%	Independent Independent (politician) In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...	John Horobec	1,575	2.31%	Independent Independent (politician) In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...	John Buttrey	1,249	1.84%

Aldermen

Ward 1				Ward 2				Ward 3
Party		Candidate	Votes	Party		Candidate	Votes	Party		Candidate	Votes
	Independent	Kenneth Newman	7,683		Independent	Ron Hayter Ron Hayter Ronald John Hayter is the longest-serving city councillor of Edmonton, Alberta, having served since 1971 until 1995, when he stepped down to join the National Parole Board...	5,175		Independent	June Cavanagh	4,629
	Independent	Olivia Butti	6,673		U.R.G.E.	Jan Reimer Janice Rhea Reimer Janice Rhea Reimer is a Canadian politician and the first female mayor of Edmonton, Alberta, having served in that capacity from 1989 until 1995...	4,433		E.V.A.	Ed Ewasiuk Ed Ewasiuk Ed William "Eddie" Ewasiuk was a labour activist, a city councilor in Edmonton, Alberta and a NDP Member of the Legislative Assembly in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.-Early life:...	3,184
	U.R.G.E.	Iain Taylor	4,155		Independent	Jim Spalding	3,255		U.R.G.E.	Judy Bethel Judy Bethel Judith Claire Bethel was a member of the Canadian House of Commons for the Edmonton East electoral district from 1993 to 1997. Her career was in education and finance....	2,727
	U.R.G.E.	Sherburne McCurdy	3,851		U.R.G.E.	Lila Fahlman	2,480		Independent	Sheila McKay	2,692
					Independent	David Stewart	1,685		Independent	William Chmiliar	2,604
					Independent	John Hawrelak	1,019		Independent	Mitch Wujik	2,384
					E.V.A.	Harry Johnson	419		U.R.G.E.	Clint Budd	708
					Independent	Wayne Hayes	313		Independent	Robert Acker	333
									Independent	Tim Baloben	279
									Independent	Noel Round	203
Ward 4				Ward 5				Ward 6
	Independent	Paul Norris	3,550		Independent	Percy Wickman Percy Wickman Percy Dwight Wickman was a Canadian politician and well-known activist for people with disabilities. He was born in Thunder Bay, Ontario.Wickman served as an alderman on Edmonton City Council from 1977 to 1986...	8,842		U.R.G.E.	Bettie Hewes Bettie Hewes Elizabeth Jane Hewes was a Canadian politician, former Edmonton City Councilor, and Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.Hewes graduated from the University of Toronto in 1944 with degree in occupational therapy....	8,429
	U.R.G.E.	Gerry Wright	3,462		U.R.G.E.	Lois Campbell	7,696		Independent	Ed Leger	5,641
	U.R.G.E.	Carolyn Nutter	3,393		Independent	Nick Fedorak	2,279		Independent	Ken Kozak	4,154
	Independent	Ron Patsula	2,172		Independent	Guy Tessier	1,450		Independent	Wayne Weeks	2,169
	Independent	Allen Wasnea	1,190		Independent	Olga Cylurik	929		Independent	Don Massey Don Massey Don 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 and Leader of the Alberta Liberal Party in 2004...	2,113
	Independent	Bill Broad	817		Independent	Paul Fuog	926		Independent	Bob Durrant	1,661
					E.V.A.	Walter Aiello	467		U.R.G.E.	Fred Atiq	688
					Independent	Paul Bird	260

Public school trustees

Party		Candidate	Votes	Independent	Shirley Forbes	24,566	Independent	Mel Binder	20,757	Independent	Ernie Hodgson	19,315	Independent	Don Massey Don Massey Don 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 and Leader of the Alberta Liberal Party in 2004...	19,060	Independent	Jim Wiebe	17,756	Independent	Herb Jamieson Richard Jamieson Richard Herbert Jamieson was a politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1959 to 1963 sitting with the Social Credit caucus in government...	17,582	Independent	Ernie Lund	16,690	Independent	Joan Cowling	16,469	Independent	Elaine Jones	15,993	Independent	Grace Hendrickson	14,375	Independent	P. Christensen	14,252	Independent	David Borgstrom	12,331	Independent	Lorne Mowers	12,252	Independent	George Luck	9,507	Independent	Susky Hardin	9,055	Independent	Julie Loga	7,664	Independent	Benjamin Doell	7,115	Independent	John Mason	7,079	Independent	G. Chandler-Nahumko	6,854	Independent	John Lakusta	6,489	Independent	N. A. Chaudhary	5,823	Independent	Robert Douglas	5,499

Separate (Catholic) school trustees

Party		Candidate	Votes	Independent	Jean McDonald	9,328	Independent	William Green	8,549	Independent	Phil Gibeau	7,728	Independent	Alice Gagne	6,918	Independent	Hugh Tadman	6,883	Independent	Simone Secker	6,410	Independent	Margaret Bouska	5,946	Independent	Raymond Pinkowski	5,492	Independent	Lyle Lavender	4,132	Independent	Donald Sikorski	3,757	Independent	Joseph Hoover	3,538	Independent	L. Brian Mitchell	3,525	Independent	Edmund Nagle	3,457