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
, 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.
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
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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.
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.
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 | % |
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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 | ||||||
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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 | ||||||||||
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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 | ||||||
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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 AirportEdmonton 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 | % | |
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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 | % | |
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Yes | 92,807 | 43.67% |
No | 119,693 | 56.33% |