# 1971 Edmonton municipal election

The 1971 municipal election was held October 13, 1971 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 in which a ward system was used. Where previously all twelve aldermen were elected at large, beginning with this election three would be elected from each of four wards (starting with the 1980 election, this was changed to two aldermen being elected from each of six wards). The election was conducted under the block voting system in which each voter was given as many votes as there were vacancies.
School board trustees were elected at-large no wards used.
The mayor was elected through first-past-the-post voting. All others were elected through plurality block voting.

## Voter turnout

In this election, 101,235 ballots cast out of 273,271 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 37.1%.

## Results

(bold indicates elected, italics indicate incumbent)

### Mayor

| Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| Independent | Ivor Dent | 60,948 | 62.20% |
| Independent | Julian Kinisky | 27,270 | 27.83% |
| Independent | Jack Holmes | 9,777 | 9.98% |

### Aldermen

| 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. | Kenneth Newman | 13,934 | | Ind. | Cec Purves | 10,879 | | Ind. | Ed Leger | 6,688 | | Ind. | Una Evans | 11,574 |
| | Ind. | Dudley Menzies | 13,663 | | Ind. | David Ward | 9,244 | | Ind. | Ron Hayter | 5,709 | | Ind. | Terry Cavanagh | 8,776 |
| | Ind. | Ches Tanner | 10,960 | | Ind. | Alex Fallow | 8,188 | | Ind. | William McLean | 5,454 | | Ind. | Buck Olsen | 7,550 |
| | Ind. | Morris Weinlos | 10,053 | | Ind. | Laurence Decore | 7,899 | | Ind. | Sam Agronin | 4,735 | | Ind. | William Boytzun | 7,272 |
| | Ind. | I. Gliener | 7,465 | | Ind. | Thomas Baker | 7,565 | | Ind. | Allan McTavish | 4,202 | | Ind. | Roy Jamha | 5,449 |
| | Ind. | Terry Laing | 6,752 | | Ind. | Cecil Rhodes | 3,498 | | Ind. | Irene Domecki | 3,417 | | Ind. | Natalka Faryna | 3,894 |
| | Ind. | Bob Bothwell | 5,332 | | Ind. | Eric Reilly | 3,482 | | Ind. | Joe Donahue | 2,873 | | Ind. | Allan Welsh | 3,755 |
| | Ind. | John Ludwig | 4,043 | | Ind. | Percy Wickman | 3,277 | | Ind. | John Kloster | 2,772 | | Ind. | Harold Oppelt | 3,670 |
| | Ind. | Joseph Bugis | 3,111 | | Ind. | Jane Weaver | 3,241 | | Ind. | Rory Nugent | 2,214 | | Ind. | Alex Muunzel | 3,330 |
| | Ind. | George Luck | 2,950 | | Ind. | Victor Sedo | 2,432 | | Ind. | R. C. Squair | 2,142 | | Ind. | Ken McAuley | 3,143 |
| | Ind. | Maureen Wanczura | 2,491 | | Ind. | Paul Fuog | 1,647 | | Ind. | Gerhard Volkmann | 2,008 | | Ind. | Douglas Tomlinson | 2,987 |
| | | | | | | | | | Ind. | Ernest McCormack | 2,003 | | Ind. | Stephen Corby | 2,802 |
| | | | | | | | | | Ind. | J. A. Robinson | 1,780 | | Ind. | John Lakusta | 2,167 |
| | | | | | | | | | Ind. | Bernard Mazurewicz | 1,433 | | Ind. | Lori Phillips | 1,877 |
| | | | | | | | | | Ind. | Clarence Bolton | 1,209 | | Ind. | Gerald Lorente | 1,577 |
| | | | | | | | | | Ind. | Ennio Gentili | 1,154 | | Ind. | Frances Kelemen | 1,563 |
| | | | | | | | | | Ind. | Ruby Lyons | 860 | | Ind. | Fred Haidner | 737 |
| | | | | | | | | | Ind. | Arthur Shaw | 636 | | | | |

### Public school trustees

| Party | Candidate | Votes | Elected |
| Independent | Edith Rogers | 22,170 | Y |
| Better Education Association | Lois Campbell | 21,786 | Y |
| Independent | James Falconer | 19,412 | Y |
| Independent | John Paterson | 18,820 | Y |
| Independent | Vernon Johnson | 17,003 | Y |
| Independent | Donald Kennedy | 16,752 | Y |
| Independent | Richard Jamieson | 14,166 | Y |
| Independent | John Chalmers | 13,373 |
| Better Education Association | Murray Campbell | 13,069 |
| Independent | Howard Clifford | 12,626 |
| Independent | Fred Miller | 12,313 |
| Independent | A A Aldridge | 11,555 |
| Independent | Robert Bauer | 11,554 |
| Independent | Roy Le Riche | 11,380 |
| Better Education Association | Robert McAlpine | 10,969 |
| Better Education Association | Rex Beach | 10,832 |
| Independent | Anna Pollock | 10,280 |
| Independent | Jay Purnell | 9,940 |
| Better Education Association | Russel Dzenick | 9,508 |
| Independent | Edith Hnytka | 8,814 |
| Better Education Association | Alan Robertson | 8,808 |
| Independent | George Kuschminder | 8,113 |
| Independent | T O Walhovd | 7,966 |
| Better Education Association | Metro Gulutsan | 7,763 |
| Independent | Bill Tiffin | 6,448 |
| Independent | E R Daniels | 6,208 |
| Independent | Donald Skyes | 5,869 |
| Independent | James Lawson | 5,536 |
| Independent | Dorothy Preston | 5,137 |
| Independent | Janet Tegart | 4,724 |
| Independent | Laura Tuomi | 4,225 |
| Independent | James Miller | 3,964 |
| Independent | Noel Round | 3,496 |
| Independent | Frank Vanner | 2,984 |
| Independent | Donald Topilo | 2,887 |
| Independent | Murray Fehr | 2,792 |
| Independent | John Ryll | 2,502 |
| Independent | Albert Hencsh | 2,434 |
| Independent | Dave Poholko | 1,851 |

### Separate (Catholic) school trustees

* Georges Brosseau - 13549
* Jean Forest - 11991
* Robert Sabourin - 10250
* Leo Floyd - 9395
* Jean McDonald - 9206
* W McNeill - 8251
* Larry Messier - 7676
* Julia Kerans - 7492
* A M Ambrock - 6479
* Nicholas Sheptycki - 6045
* Orest Eveneshen - 6037
* Glen Hughes - 5052
* Maurice Legris - 4627
* Matt Reiser - 3666
* Julian Hnatiw - 3523