# 1964 Edmonton municipal election

The 1964 Edmonton municipal election was held October 14, 1964 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.
This was the first election since 1898 in which all officials were elected in the same year, and marked the introduction of a system whereby elections would be held only every two years. It was also the first election that elected twelve aldermen; previous councils had had only ten aldermen.
The forty-six candidates for alderman were among the most in Edmonton's history.
The election for aldermen was conducted, like that for mayor, at-large city-wide. Thus the ballot for each voter held the names of the 46 candidates for aldermen. (This record for overall number of candidates was surpassed in the 2021 Edmonton municipal election. In 2021, the candidates were divided into twelve districts, and no ballot held more than 12 aldermanic candidates.)

## Voter turnout

There were 94,880 ballots cast out of 199,259 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 47.6%.

## Results

(bold indicates elected, italics indicate incumbent)

### Mayor

| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Independent | William Hawrelak | 56,328 | 60.12% |
| | Independent | George Prudham | 37,365 | 39.88% |

### Aldermen

Councillors were elected through plurality block voting , with each voter able to cast up to 12 votes. For that reason, more than 880,000 votes were cast in this election by the roughly 100,000 voters who cast a ballot.
46 candidates in total
Party slates:
Better Civic Government Committee 11 candidates 5 elected
Civil Rights Association 7 candidates 2 elected
United Voters Association 9 candidates 2 elected
Independents 19 candidates 3 elected
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Elected |
| Better Civic Government Committee | Morris Weinlos | 55,827 | Y |
| Civil Rights Association | Julia Kiniski | 54,637 | Y |
| Better Civic Government Committee | Ethel Wilson | 51,246 | Y |
| Independent | Kenneth Newman | 49,742 | Y |
| United Voters Association | Ivor Dent | 45,276 | Y |
| Independent | John Leslie Bodie | 43,033 | Y |
| United Voters Association | Ed Leger | 38,747 | Y |
| Better Civic Government Committee | Vincent Dantzer | 37,421 | Y |
| Independent | Angus McGugan | 35,322 | Y |
| Better Civic Government Committee | Frank Edwards | 27,211 | Y |
| Better Civic Government Committee | Kathleen McCallum | 23,023 | Y |
| Civil Rights Association | Robert Franklin Lambert | 21,457 | Y |
| United Voters Association | Norbert Berkowitz | 21,277 |
| Civil Rights Association | Allan Welsh | 20,069 |
| Better Civic Government Committee | M. A. Nugent | 18,894 |
| United Voters Association | William Orobko | 18,519 |
| Better Civic Government Committee | Conrad Korowan | 18,464 |
| Better Civic Government Committee | Jack Holmes | 17,358 |
| Civil Rights Association | K. L. McAuley | 16,567 |
| Independent | P. J. Ryan | 16,468 |
| Better Civic Government Committee | G. D. Newcombe | 16,096 |
| United Voters Association | Ian Nicoll | 15,376 |
| Better Civic Government Committee | P. C. C. Marshall | 15,106 |
| Independent | G. A. O'Hara | 13,481 |
| Independent | C. J. Primeau | 13,034 |
| Independent | F. Kurylo | 12,458 |
| Civil Rights Association | Joyce Kurie | 12,417 |
| Independent | Jack Kirk | 12,175 |
| Civil Rights Association | Sol Estrin | 12,089 |
| Independent | L. M. Campbell | 11,930 |
| United Voters Association | M. E. English | 11,772 |
| United Voters Association | A. Powers | 11,699 |
| United Voters Association | Peter Savaryn | 11,679 |
| United Voters Association | R. J. Dunseith | 10,531 |
| Independent | D. M. McLeod | 10,383 |
| Independent | L. E. Messier | 10,089 |
| Independent | J. O. A. Peets | 9,092 |
| Independent | R. Doyle | 8,751 |
| Independent | E. E. Aldridge | 8,403 |
| Independent | John Sehn | 7,620 |
| Independent | J. R. Lakusta | 7,386 |
| Civil Rights Association | Ivar Vanags | 6,357 |
| Better Civic Government Committee | Irvin Nessel | 6,451 |
| Independent | W. Makowecki | 5,282 |
| Independent | Jan Motyl | 5,026 |
| Independent | Doug Tomlinson* | 4,685 |
* Doug Tomlinson was member of the Communist Party.

### Public school trustees

Each voter could cast 7 votes (plurality block voting).
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Elected |
| Better Education Association | Milton Lazerte | 37,344 | Y |
| Quality Education Council | Edith Rogers | 37,257 | Y |
| Better Education Association | Earl Buxton | 36,333 | Y |
| Better Civic Government Committee | Vernon Johnson | 31,047 | Y |
| Better Civic Government Committee | James Falconer | 30,482 | Y |
| Better Education Association | John Bracco | 26,626 | Y |
| Better Education Association | Herbert Smith | 25,346 | Y |
| Better Civic Government Committee | Ernest Hanna | 20,741 |
| Better Education Association | James Young | 19,991 |
| Better Education Association | Alice Jamha | 19,586 |
| Better Civic Government Committee | Cec Purves | 16,200 |
| Better Education Association | Grant Fawcett | 15,217 |
| Quality Education Council | Dorothy Preston | 14,532 |
| Quality Education Council | I. C. Dare | 13,893 |
| Quality Education Council | Arnold Rapske | 12,699 |
| Better Civic Government Committee | R. Byrnes Fleuty | 12,254 |
| Quality Education Council | John Poppit | 9,668 |
| Independent | William Chomyn | 7,652 |
| Independent | Laura Tuomi | 7,472 |
| Quality Education Council | Norman Spratt | 6,621 |
| Quality Education Council | Arthur Latter | 6,065 |

### Separate (Catholic) school trustees

| Party | Candidate | Votes | Elected |
| Independent | Orest Demco | 14,362 | Y |
| Independent | G. R. Boileau | 13,693 | Y |
| Independent | Jean McDonald | 12,599 | Y |
| Independent | A. A. Gorman | 12,518 | Y |
| Independent | Bernard Feehan | 12,336 | Y |
| Independent | Edward Stack | 12,091 | Y |
| Independent | Harry Carrigan | 9,626 | Y |
| Independent | Bill Diachuk | 8,936 |
| Independent | George Hertz | 7,713 |
| Independent | L. A. Ares | 6,354 |