# 1980 Edmonton municipal election

The 1980 municipal election was held October 15, 1980 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.
This was the first election in which there were two aldermen elected from each of the six wards, instead of three aldermen elected from each of the four wards, as had previously been the case.

## Electoral system

Mayor was elected through first past the post.
Councillors and school trustees were elected through block voting.

## Voter turnout

There were 72,939 ballots cast out of 341,102 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 21.4%.

## Results

(bold indicates elected, italics indicate incumbent)

### Mayor

| Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| Independent | Cec Purves | 52,035 | 76.47% |
| Independent | Murray Trott | 5,346 | 7.86% |
| Independent | Lester Adams | 4,902 | 7.20% |
| Independent | Eddie Keehn | 2,938 | 4.32% |
| Independent | John Horobec | 1,575 | 2.31% |
| Independent | John Buttrey | 1,249 | 1.84% |

### Aldermen

Guide:
* E.V.A = Edmonton Voters Association
* U.R.G.E. = Urban Reform Group Edmonton
| Ward 1 | Ward 1 | Ward 1 | Ward 1 | Ward 2 | Ward 2 | Ward 2 | Ward 2 | Ward 3 | Ward 3 | Ward 3 | Ward 3 |
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | Party | Party | Candidate | Votes |
| | Independent | Kenneth Newman | 7,683 | | Independent | Ron Hayter | 5,175 | | Independent | June Cavanagh | 4,629 |
| | Independent | Olivia Butti | 6,673 | | U.R.G.E. | Jan Reimer | 4,433 | | E.V.A. | Ed Ewasiuk | 3,184 |
| | U.R.G.E. | Iain Taylor | 4,155 | | Independent | Jim Spalding | 3,255 | | U.R.G.E. | Judy Bethel | 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 4 | Ward 4 | Ward 4 | Ward 5 | Ward 5 | Ward 5 | Ward 5 | Ward 6 | Ward 6 | Ward 6 | Ward 6 |
| | Independent | Paul Norris | 3,550 | | Independent | Percy Wickman | 8,842 | | U.R.G.E. | Bettie Hewes | 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 | 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 | Elected |
| Independent | Shirley Forbes | 24,566 | Y |
| Independent | Mel Binder | 20,757 | Y |
| Independent | Ernie Hodgson | 19,315 | Y |
| Independent | Don Massey | 19,060 | Y |
| Independent | Jim Wiebe | 17,756 | Y |
| Independent | Herb Jamieson | 17,582 | Y |
| Independent | Ernie Lund | 16,690 | Y |
| Independent | Joan Cowling | 16,469 | Y |
| Independent | Elaine Jones | 15,993 | Y |
| 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 | Elected |
| Independent | Jean McDonald | 9,328 | Y |
| Independent | William Green | 8,549 | Y |
| Independent | Phil Gibeau | 7,728 | Y |
| Independent | Alice Gagne | 6,918 | Y |
| Independent | Hugh Tadman | 6,883 | Y |
| Independent | Simone Secker | 6,410 | Y |
| Independent | Margaret Bouska | 5,946 | Y |
| 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 |