# 1974 Edmonton municipal election

The 1974 municipal election was held October 16, 1974 to elect a mayor and twelve aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council and seven trustees to sit on each of the public and separate school boards.

## Voter turnout

There were 141,636 ballots cast out of 406,995 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 36.4%.

## Results

(bold indicates elected, italics indicate incumbent)

### Mayor

| Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| Independent | William Hawrelak | 67,741 | 49.21% |
| Independent | Cec Purves | 32,674 | 23.74% |
| Independent | Ivor Dent | 28,297 | 20.56% |
| Independent | David Ward | 6,983 | 5.07% |
| Edmonton League for Socialist Action | Carl Austin | 1,017 | 0.74% |
| Independent | Nell Martin | 507 | 0.37% |
| Independent | John Horobec | 435 | 0.32% |

### 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 | Ward 4 | Ward 4 | Ward 4 | Ward 4 |
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | Party | Party | Candidate | Votes |
| | Ind. | Ches Tanner | 17,222 | | Ind. | Laurence Decore | 13,213 | | Ind. | Ed Leger | 12,733 | | Ind. | Terry Cavanagh | 19,868 |
| | Ind. | Kenneth Newman | 14,902 | | Ind. | Olivia Butti | 8,564 | | Ind. | Ron Hayter | 10,016 | | Ind. | Buck Olsen | 15,973 |
| | Ind. | Robert Matheson | 14,644 | | E.V.A. | David Leadbeater | 7,152 | | U.R.G.E. | Edward Kennedy | 8,670 | | U.R.G.E. | Bettie Hewes | 15,447 |
| | Ind. | Terry Laing | 12,827 | | Ind. | James Falconer | 6,658 | | Ind. | Terry Nugent | 7,886 | | Ind. | Sheila McKay | 9,125 |
| | Ind. | Bud Salloum | 7,758 | | Ind. | Cecil Rhodes | 6,006 | | U.R.G.E. | Sam Agronin | 7,248 | | Ind. | Mitchell Wujcik | 6,949 |
| | Ind. | John Ludwig | 7,667 | | Ind. | Neil MacLean | 5,667 | | Ind. | Bill McLean | 7,149 | | Ind. | John Lakusta | 6,364 |
| | U.R.G.E. | Syeda Hameed | 6,194 | | U.R.G.E. | Percy Wickman | 5,313 | | Ind. | Olee Wowk | 3,803 | | Ind. | Elaine Johnson | 5,585 |
| | Ind. | George Luck | 5,154 | | U.R.G.E. | Gerry Wright | 5,052 | | Ind. | Gerhard Volkmann | 3,703 | | Ind. | William Askin | 4,947 |
| | Ind. | Eddie Keehn | 4,602 | | Ind. | Bruce Vaughan | 4,129 | | Ind. | Gene Dub | 3,935 | | E.V.A. | Walter Doskoch | 4,820 |
| | Ind. | Jean Pierre Van Eck | 3,221 | | Ind. | Clif Tait | 3,276 | | Ind. | Henry Rutkowski | 3,588 | | | | |
| | Ind. | Ernie Hayne | 2,332 | | Ind. | David Collier | 3,142 | | Ind. | Lou Acocella | 1,044 | | | | |
| | | | | | Ind. | Victor Sedo | 2,422 | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | Ind. | Larry Messier | 1,929 | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | Ind. | Paul Fuog | 1,348 | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | Ind. | Peter Yuca | 1,125 | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | Socialist Action | Angela Mueller | 1,104 | | | | | | | | |

### Public school trustees

* Herb Jamieson - 34991
* Shirley Forbes - 31808
* Vernon Johnson - 28606
* James Falconer - 28259
* Catherine Ford - 25461
* Ernest Lund - 24732
* Mel Binder - 23521
* Don Massey - 23471
* Jim Patrick - 21968
* Betty Flewitt - 21349
* Maria Flak - 17914
* Jean Haddow - 17217
* Gerry Beck - 15700
* R W Sherwin - 15416
* Anna Pollock - 15376
* Al Fahlman - 14366
* Bernice Youck - 13030
* Ken Kozak - 12299
* Ashgar Ali - 10110
* William Lee - 9050
* Mark Pastic - 6392
* Tim Nolt - 6191
* William Hegedus - 6135
* George Skov - 5524

### Separate (Catholic) school trustees

Each voter could cast up to seven votes (plurality block voting).
* Jean Forest - 14559
* Leo Floyd - 14406
* Jean McDonald - 11132
* W McNeill - 9493
* Phil Gibeau - 9425
* Raymond Pinkowski - 8499
* Laurier Picard - 8348
* Robert Carney - 7957
* Orest Evenshen - 7898
* Nicholas Sheptycki - 6716
* Robert Gourdine - 6593
* Edward Christie - 6463
* Bob McDonald - 5711
* Adele - 4946
* Larry Messier - 4938
* Paul Haljan - 3976
* Stanley Blazosek - 3532
* Don Davies - 3246
* Vincent Hawskwell - 3102