# 2004 Edmonton municipal election

The 2004 Edmonton municipal election was held on October 18, 2004 to elect a mayor and twelve councillors 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.

## Voter turnout

There were 212,105 ballots cast out of 507,577 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 41.8%.

## Results

(bold indicates elected, italics indicate incumbent)

### Mayor

| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Stephen Mandel | 85,887 | 40.68% |
| Bill Smith | 68,767 | 32.57% |
| Robert Noce | 52,640 | 24.93% |
| Tilo Paravalos | 921 | 0.44% |
| Dieter Peske | 905 | 0.43% |
| Dave Dowling | 858 | 0.41% |
| Thomas "Buffalo Terminator" Tomilson | 768 | 0.36% |
| Jean-Paul Noujaim | 390 | 0.18% |

### Councillors

Twelve councillors, two elected in each of six wards, with voters having up to two votes each.
Five women, seven men were elected as city 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 | 23,793 | Ron Hayter | 18,386 | Janice Melnychuk | 21,020 | Michael Phair | 23,219 | Bryan Anderson | 19,650 | Dave Thiele | 16,128 |
| Linda Sloan | 12,353 | Kim Krushell | 12,966 | Ed Gibbons | 17,524 | Jane Batty | 14,352 | Mike Nickel | 16,803 | Terry Cavanagh | 14,725 |
| Karen Lynch | 10,909 | Dave Loken | 7,512 | Tony Caterina | 9,416 | Ben Henderson | 12,475 | Donna Finucane | 15,123 | Chinwe Okelu | 12,877 |
| Charlene Davis | 6,888 | Don Koziak | 7,289 | Joan Duiker | 5,978 | Debbie Yeung | 10,500 | Al Slemko | 6,576 | Amarjeet Sohi | 8,077 |
| Terry Demers | 3,306 | Tim Hajar | 4,542 | Kyle Balombin | 3,334 | Thomas Roberts | 1,945 | Ian Crawford | 5,307 | Barbara Ann Thompson | 6,339 |
| Joe Hudson | 3,046 | Mimi Williams | 3,978 | | | Dale Ferris | 1,702 | Jung-Suk Ryu | 3,817 | Terry McKinnon | 2,908 |
| Samir Ghossein | 1,534 | Kerry Hutton | 1,820 | | | Paul Welke | 1,417 | Katie Oppen | 2,029 | Sean Diakiw | 1,013 |
| Rory Koopmans | 1,332 | Larry Thomson | 1,629 | | | | | Adil Pirbhai | 533 | | |
| Trent Soholt | 1,149 | Jabin Caouette | 1,526 | | | | | | | | |

### Public school trustees

| Ward A | Ward A | Ward A | Ward B | Ward B | Ward B | Ward C | Ward C | Ward C |
| Bev Esslinger | 9,702 | 70.53% | Wendy Keiver | 6,511 | 51.28% | Don Williams | 5,929 | 38.45% |
| Perry Chahal | 2,486 | 18.07% | Bob Dean | 6,187 | 48.72% | Sherry Adams | 5,719 | 37.09% |
| Victor Varvis | 1,567 | 11.39% | | | | Phill McNabb | 3,773 | 24.47% |
| Ward D | Ward D | Ward D | Ward E | Ward E | Ward E | Ward F | Ward F | Ward F |
| David Colburn | 5,011 | 44.92% | Ken Gibson | Acclaimed | Acclaimed | Don Fleming | 8,767 | 57.02% |
| Terry Sulyma | 4,017 | 36.01% | | | | Susan O'Neil | 6,608 | 42.98% |
| Emil van der Poorten | 2,127 | 19.07% | | | | | | |
| Ward G | Ward G | Ward G | Ward H | Ward H | Ward H | Ward I | Ward I | Ward I |
| Svend Hansen | 12,202 | 66.25% | George Nicholson | 9,868 | 50.41% | Gerry Gibeault | 6,296 | 44.17% |
| Kam Gill | 6,217 | 33.75% | Catherine Ripley | 9,706 | 49.59% | Judith Axelson | 6,020 | 42.23% |
| | | | | | | Neal Gray | 1,939 | 13.60% |

### 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 | Acclaimed | Acclaimed | Janice Sarich | 8,084 | 65.09% | Mark Razzolini | 7,786 | 69.08% |
| | | | Jim Urlacher | 4,336 | 34.91% | John Beke | 3,485 | 30.92% |
| Ward 4 | Ward 4 | Ward 4 | Ward 5 | Ward 5 | Ward 5 | Ward 6 | Ward 6 | Ward 6 |
| Debbie Cavaliere | 4,699 | 57.12% | Judy Buddle | 3,336 | 40.23% | Patrick McDonald | 3,803 | 46.17% |
| Joe Filewych | 2,329 | 28.31% | Marilyn Bergstra | 3,313 | 39.95% | Kara Pelech | 2,840 | 34.48% |
| Rudy Arcilla | 1,199 | 14.57% | Doug McCarthy | 1,643 | 19.81% | Jim Shinkaruk | 1,594 | 19.35% |