Edmonton municipal election, 1995
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The 1995 municipal election was held October 16, 1995 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. Edmontonians also decided two plebiscite questions.

This was the first election in which the public school board used nine wards instead of six to elect its trustees.

Voter turnout

There were 221236 ballots cast out of 440044 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 50.3%.

Mayor

Candidate Votes %
Bill Smith
Bill Smith (Alberta politician)
William Smith is a businessman, Canadian politician, and former mayor of Edmonton, Alberta.Smith was first elected in 1995 after defeating incumbent Mayor Jan Reimer and was re-elected in 1998 and 2001...

79,832 36.48%
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...

78,514 36.02%
John Ramsey 42,044 19.29%
Brad Checknita 10,361 4.75%
Lance White
Lance White (politician)
Lance Day White is a former Canadian municipal and provincial level politician. He served on the Edmonton city council from 1983 until 1992. He then moved on to provincial politics and served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1993 until 2001.-Municipal politics:White began his...

7,081 3.25%
Bob Ligertwood 563 0.26%
Paul Earley 452 0.21%

Aldermen

Ward 1 Ward 2 Ward 3 Ward 4 Ward 5 Ward 6
Leroy Chahley 24,822 Allan Bolstad 16,802 Brian Mason
Brian Mason
Brian Mason is a Canadian politician and leader of the Alberta New Democrats . Mason was first elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood in a 2001 byelection, and his career in politics spans more than 20 years.Mason first became politically active...

23,769 Jim Taylor 8,531 Larry Langley 13,360 Terry Cavanagh
Terry Cavanagh
Terence James Cavanagh is a Canadian politician, municipal councillor in Edmonton, Alberta, who served as mayor. He was Edmonton's first native-born mayor.-Early life:...

17,664
Wendy Kinsella 21,456 Rose Rosenberger 15,189 Robert Noce 13,526 Michael Phair
Michael Phair
Michael Phair is a Canadian politician, who served on Edmonton City Council from 1992 until 2007. He was the first openly gay elected politician in the province of Alberta.-External links:**...

8,031 Brent Maitson 12,989 Dick Mather
Dick Mather
Richard "Dick" Mather was a municipal politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of Edmonton city council from 1995 until his death in 1997. He also served as a public school trustee from 1983 to 1995....

17,117
Bruce Campbell
Bruce Campbell (Alberta politician)
Bruce Campbell was a Canadian politician, commercial contractor, carpenter, and Rotarian. He was born in Cadomin, Alberta, and resided in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, for most of his life....

15,715 Lori Hall 11,195 Sherry McKibben 8,471 Terence Harding 7,809 Lillian Staroszik 12,600 Dave Thiele
Dave Thiele
Dave Thiele is a Canadian politician. He was a member of the Edmonton City Council, representing Ward 6 alongside Amarjeet Sohi....

13,237
Roger Kotch 5,263 Ed Powell 10,629 John Bethel 8,141 Brian Bechtel 7,158 Margaret Asch 10,832 Sheila McKay 11,652
Joe Goebel 2,334 Bradley Day 1,752 Bill Maxim 8,096 Tooker Gomberg
Tooker Gomberg
Tooker Gomberg was a Canadian politician and environmental activist.A native of Montreal, Quebec and a liberal-arts graduate of Hampshire College , Gomberg founded one of Canada's first curbside recycling programs in Montreal, and later moved to Edmonton, Alberta, where he created educational...

7,031 Sheilah Montgomery 9,076 Riaz Choudhry 6,595
Carl Williams 1,393 Jerry Kitt 2,571 Janice Fleming 4,441 Craig Murray 5,429 Ken Kozak 4,250
Perry Dane 1,245 Veronika Greenwald 1,559 Sean Armstrong 2,863 Donald McMann 4,063 Art Clarke 4,092
Hatem Naboulsi 882 David Ward 1,949 Don Koziak 2,644 Charles Relland 2,128
Helene Donahue 1,619 Elaine Jones 2,600
Frank Klemen 1,012 Olga Cylurik 872
Rod Foster 696 Monty Worobec 684
Sui Wing Mak 621 Adil Pirbhai 548
Dennis Clark 440 Josephine Koper 503
Wes Barlow 395
George Richardson 354
Thomas Tomlinson 294
Art Sproul 253

Public school trustees

Ward A Ward B Ward D Ward F Ward H
Bill Bonko
Bill Bonko
Bill Bonko is a Canadian politician and former member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. He was first elected in the 2004 election as a Liberal in Edmonton Decore, but was defeated in his 2008 re-election bid by Progressive Conservative Janice Sarich....

4,480 33.48% Janice Melnychuk 6,355 51.34% Terry Sulyma 5,779 50.88% Don Fleming 6,914 46.22% George Nicholson Acclaimed
Maureen Ford 2,441 18.24% John Nicoll 5,108 41.27% Mimi Williams 5,578 49.12% Jim Selby 4,424 29.57%
Cathy Kutryk 2,175 16.25% Matt Diederichs 915 7.39% Michael Ekelund 3,621 24.21%
Joe Hak 1,933 14.45% Ward C Ward E Ward G Ward I
Larry Phillips 800 5.98% Don Williams 9,295 56.23% Jean Woodrow 9,685 66.30% Kay Chernowski 5,780 32.00% Gerry Gibeault
Gerry Gibeault
Gerry Gibeault is a former School Trustee with Edmonton Public Schools and served as the Trusee for Ward I. He previously served as Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1986 to 1993 sitting with the New Democrat caucus in opposition.-Early life:Gibeault graduated post secondary...

7,106 45.95%
Perry Dane 565 4.22% Leon Lubin 7,120 43.77% Stephen Mandel
Stephen Mandel
Stephen Mandel is a Canadian politician and the current mayor of Edmonton, Alberta.-Biography:Mandel received an Associate of Arts Degree from Lincoln College in Lincoln, Illinois, a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Miami University, and his Masters in Political Science from...

4,922 33.70% Jim Patrick 4,774 26.43% Bev Esslinger 6,004 38.83%
Victor Varvis 559 4.18% Marianne Stolz 4,152 22.99% Jeff Caskenette 2,353 15.22%
Dan McAra 428 3.20% Anna Der 3,354 18.57%

Separate (Catholic) school trustees

One trustee is elected from each ward, and the non-victorious candidate with the most total votes is also elected.
Ward 1 Ward 2 Ward 3
David MacDougall 4,843 52.48% Ronald Zapisocki 6,433 58.13% Mary-Anne Razzolini 7,247 69.88%
John Patrick Day 4,386 47.52% Jim Urlacher 4,633 41.87% Jim Shinkaruk 3,123 30.12%
Ward 4 Ward 5 Ward 6
Ron Patsula 3,496 57.00% Michael Savaryn 4,444 55.29% Brian Mitchell 5,415 57.44%
Cindy Holan 2,637 43.00% Alice Leung 3,594 44.71% Barbara Ann Thompson 4,011 42.56%

Edmonton Municipal Airport

Do you direct City Council to repeal “The Edmonton Municipal Airport
Edmonton City Centre (Blatchford Field) Airport
Edmonton City Centre Airport, , is located within the city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It is bordered by Yellowhead Trail to the north, Kingsway to the south, 121 Street to the west, and the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology to the east. It encompasses approximately of land just north...

 referendum bylaw” (No. 10,205)? That bylaw requires the City to operate the Municipal Airport and promote that airport’s air passenger service.

A “YES” vote means that the City will promote MOVING scheduled air passenger service to the Edmonton International Airport
Edmonton International Airport
Edmonton International Airport is the primary air passenger and air cargo facility in the Edmonton region in the Canadian province of Alberta. It is a hub facility for Northern Alberta and Northern Canada providing regularly scheduled nonstop flights to over fifty communities in Canada, the United...

.

A “NO” vote means that the City will promote MAINTAINING scheduled air passenger service at the Edmonton Municipal Airport.

Under both options the City will continue to own and offer general air services (e.g. private planes, small charters, air ambulance) at the Municipal Airport.
Votes %
Yes 166,404 76.81%
No 50,253 23.19%

Keillor Road

Do you direct City Council to PASS the Keillor Road Referendum Bylaw (No. 11, 124)?

A “YES” vote means the City must leave Keillor Road OPEN to traffic, including motor vehicle traffic.

A “NO” vote means City should CLOSE Keillor Road.
Votes %
Yes 92,807 43.67%
No 119,693 56.33%
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