1995 Edmonton municipal election

The 1995 Edmonton 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.

Councillors were elected in two-seat wards.

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

Electoral system

Mayor was elected through first past the post.

Councillors were elected through plurality block voting, two per ward, where each voter could cast up to two votes.

Public school board trustees were elected through first past the post.^[1]

The Separate school board trustees were elected through a different system—one trustee was elected from each ward through first past the post, and the seventh seat was filled by the non-victorious candidate with the most total votes anywhere in the city.

Voter turnout

There were 221,236 ballots cast out of 440,044 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 50.3%.

Results

(bold indicates elected, italics indicate incumbent)

Mayor

Candidate	Votes	%
Bill Smith	79,832	36.48%
Jan Reimer	78,514	36.02%
John Ramsey	42,044	19.29%
Brad Checknita	10,361	4.75%
Lance White	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	23,769	Jim Taylor	8,531	Larry Langley	13,360	Terry Cavanagh	17,664
Wendy Kinsella	21,456	Rose Rosenberger	15,189	Robert Noce	13,526	Michael Phair	8,031	Brent Maitson	12,989	Dick Mather	17,117
Bruce Campbell	15,715	Lori Hall	11,195	Sherry McKibben	8,471	Terence Harding	7,809	Lillian Staroszik	12,600	Dave Thiele	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	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	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	7,106	45.95%
Perry Dane	565	4.22%	Leon Lubin	7,120	43.77%	Stephen Mandel	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 unsuccessful candidate (across the city) with the most 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%

Plebiscites

Edmonton Municipal Airport

Do you direct City Council to repeal "The Edmonton Municipal Airport 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.

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.