# 2001 Edmonton municipal election

The 2001 Edmonton municipal election was held on October 15, 2001 to elect a mayor and twelve councilors to sit on Edmonton City Council, nine trustees to sit on the public school board, seven trustees to sit on the separate school board, and seven members of the Capital Health Board of Directors.
This election was the first, and to date only, election in which directors were elected to the boards of Alberta's Regional Health Authorities. After this election, the provincial government returned to appointing all members of these boards directly.

## Voter turnout

There were 172,540 ballots cast out of 489,794 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 35.2%.

## Results

(bold indicates elected, italics indicate incumbent)

### Mayor

| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Bill Smith | 75,678 | 44.35% |
| Robert Noce | 54,375 | 31.87% |
| Mike Nickel | 33,776 | 19.80% |
| Joe Devaney | 1,746 | 1.02% |
| Katie Oppen | 1,545 | 0.91% |
| Tess Elsworthy | 1,513 | 0.89% |
| Laura Duffy | 869 | 0.51% |
| Thomas "Buffalo Terminator" Tomilson | 745 | 0.44% |
| Bob Ligertwood | 376 | 0.22% |

### Councillors

| Ward 1 | Ward 1 | Ward 2 | Ward 2 | Ward 3 | Ward 3 | Ward 4 | Ward 4 | Ward 5 | Ward 5 | Ward 6 | Ward 6 |
| Candidate | Votes | Candidate | Votes | Candidate | Votes | Candidate | Votes | Candidate | Votes | Candidate | Votes |
| Karen Leibovici | 17,947 | Allan Bolstad | 13,933 | Janice Melnychuk | 10,550 | Michael Phair | 16,054 | Larry Langley | 19,521 | Dave Thiele | 13,998 |
| Stephen Mandel | 7,569 | Ron Hayter | 12,154 | Ed Gibbons | 8,640 | Jane Batty | 8,780 | Bryan Anderson | 19,131 | Terry Cavanagh | 13,784 |
| Don Clarke | 7,536 | Mimi Williams | 5,522 | Ken Shipka | 5,042 | Debbie Yeung | 5,837 | Judith Brown | 11,931 | Chinwe Okelu | 10,239 |
| Kathy Kohut | 3,545 | Don Lawson | 5,318 | Gordon Stamp | 4,987 | David Starko | 5,504 | | | Bob Stenhouse | 8,024 |
| Jane Standing | 3,470 | Tim Gartner | 2,478 | Allan Jack | 3,169 | Myles Kitagawa | 5,177 | | | Dennis Trefiak | 1,742 |
| Joe Hudson | 3,390 | Neil Cameron | 2,275 | Daniel Bablitz | 2,733 | Ben Henderson | 4,164 | | | | |
| Charlie Galan | 2,836 | Mike Melymick | 1,602 | Marie Renaud | 2,455 | Jeff Campbell | 1,503 | | | | |
| Rob McGregor | 1,931 | Robert Burns | 1,448 | Ken Balkwill | 2,445 | Doug Meggison | 1,204 | | | | |
| Gerald "Jed" Woodill | 1,390 | Bud Sarasin | 509 | Mitch Compri | 2,265 | Peter Rowe | 1,029 | | | | |
| Larry Anderson | 1,117 | | | Ron Schuster | 1,953 | David Verhagen | 964 | | | | |
| Rita John | 912 | | | Joseph (J. R.) Royer | 1,323 | Lee Permann | 925 | | | | |
| Sean Tisdall | 612 | | | Wade Franko | 1,310 | Bob Whyte | 874 | | | | |
| | | | | Ron Gavreau | 833 | Hank Muirhead | 802 | | | | |
| | | | | Tom Phelan | 470 | Thomas Roberts | 533 | | | | |
| | | | | Dean Leffler | 432 | Allyn White | 524 | | | | |
| | | | | | | Adil Pirbhai | 410 | | | | |
| | | | | | | Richard Gendron | 277 | | | | |
| | | | | | | Alexander Riabou | 229 | | | | |

### Public school trustees

| Ward A | Ward A | Ward A | Ward B | Ward B | Ward B | Ward C | Ward C | Ward C |
| Bill Bonko | 6,769 | 62.07% | Bob Dean | 4,739 | 46.94% | Lynn Odynski | 7,669 | 56.77% |
| Bev Esslinger | 4,136 | 37.93% | Doug Stamp | 2,735 | 27.09% | Don Williams | 5,839 | 43.23% |
| | | | Ed Vass | 1,769 | 17.52% | | | |
| | | | Perry Chahal | 852 | 8.44% | | | |
| Ward D | Ward D | Ward D | Ward E | Ward E | Ward E | Ward F | Ward F | Ward F |
| Ray Martin | 6,604 | 66.27% | Jean Woodrow | 5,610 | 49.09% | Don Fleming | 7,700 | 63.94% |
| Terry Sulyma | 2,021 | 20.28% | Carol Anne Dean | 4,040 | 35.35% | Janice Fleming | 4,342 | 36.06% |
| Vicki Nelson-Stamp | 1,341 | 13.46% | Dianne Williamson | 1,779 | 15.57% | | | |
| Ward G | Ward G | Ward G | Ward H | Ward H | Ward H | Ward I | Ward I | Ward I |
| Svend Hansen | 8,053 | 55.45% | George Nicholson | Acclaimed | Acclaimed | Gerry Gibeault | 4,221 | 36.47% |
| Sophie Ares Pilon | 2,318 | 15.96% | | | | Judith Axelson | 3,183 | 27.50% |
| Patrick Dwyre | 2,173 | 14.96% | | | | Les Mcfadyen | 2,910 | 25.14% |
| Sean Whelan | 1,978 | 13.62% | | | | Gordon Hum | 1,064 | 9.19% |
| | | | | | | Al Jovine | 195 | 1.68% |

### 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 1 | Ward 1 | Ward 2 | Ward 2 | Ward 2 | Ward 3 | Ward 3 | Ward 3 |
| Debbie Engel | 5,828 | 76.15% | Janice Sarich | 3,827 | 40.44% | Mark Razzolini | 6,216 | 70.17% |
| Richard Mcnally | 1,825 | 23.85% | Ronald Zapisocki | 3,225 | 34.08% | Jim Shinkaruk | 2,643 | 29.83% |
| | | | Jim Urlacher | 2,411 | 25.48% | | | |
| Ward 4 | Ward 4 | Ward 4 | Ward 5 | Ward 5 | Ward 5 | Ward 6 | Ward 6 | Ward 6 |
| Debbie Cavaliere | 3,851 | 58.96% | Judy Buddle | Acclaimed | Acclaimed | Charles Koester | Acclaimed | Acclaimed |
| Joe Filewych | 2,681 | 41.04% | | | | | | |

### Capital Health Authority

| Ward ED1 | Ward ED1 | Ward ED1 | Ward ED3 | Ward ED3 | Ward ED3 | Ward ED5 | Ward ED5 | Ward ED5 | Ward ED6 | Ward ED6 | Ward ED6 | Ward ED7 | Ward ED7 | Ward ED7 |
| Olivia Butti | 14,878 | 64.01% | Joan Duiker | 12,837 | 64.70% | Ian Crawford | 5,587 | 22.98% | Barbara Ann Thompson | 10,719 | 57.80% | Sheila McKay | 10,981 | 44.77% |
| Tom Olenuk | 8,366 | 35.99% | Clarence Dezwart | 7,004 | 35.30% | Jim Matt | 4,402 | 18.10% | Earl Shinfruk | 4,090 | 22.06% | Robert Hyndman | 4,983 | 20.32% |
| Ward ED2 | Ward ED2 | Ward ED2 | Ward ED4 | Ward ED4 | Ward ED4 | Maurice Fritze | 4,299 | 17.68% | Bas Roopnarine | 3,735 | 20.14% | David Alton | 4,208 | 17.16% |
| Molly Warring | 6,056 | 32.50% | Brian Bechtel | 8,808 | 46.55% | Robert Kinasewich | 4,007 | 16.48% | | | | Peter White | 1,652 | 6.74% |
| Marilyn Kammer | 4,811 | 25.82% | Les Young | 6,333 | 33.47% | Deborah Holm | 3,563 | 14.65% | | | | Robert Rogers | 1,555 | 6.34% |
| Louis Sobolewski | 4,700 | 25.23% | Harvey Voogd | 3,781 | 19.98% | Allan Hunsperger | 1,700 | 6.99% | | | | Fernando Pardo | 1,147 | 4.68% |
| Brad Cardinal | 3,065 | 16.45% | | | | Bob Ewart | 759 | 3.12% | | | | | | |