The 1986 municipal election was held October 20, 1986 to elect a mayor and twelve aldermen to sit on

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, nine trustees to sit on the public school board, and seven trustees to sit on the separate school board. Party labels were dropped from the ballots by this time. This was the last election in which school trustees were elected at large. Beginning in

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, both districts introduced a ward system. The fifty-seven candidates for the public school board remains the most in Edmonton's history.

Electoral system

Mayor was elected through

first past the post First-past-the-post (FPTP)—also called choose-one, first-preference plurality (FPP), or simply plurality—is a single-winner voting rule. Voters mark one candidate as their favorite, or First-preference votes, first-preference, and the cand ...

. Councillors were elected through

plurality block voting Plurality block voting is a type of block voting method for multi-winner elections. Each voter may cast as many votes as the number of seats to be filled. The candidates with the most votes are elected. The usual result when the candidates div ...

, two per ward, where each voter could cast up to two votes. School board positions also were filled through

as well.Rek, Municipal Elections in Edmonton

Voter turnout

There were 134020 ballots cast out of 396004 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 33.8%.

Results

(bold indicates elected, ''italics'' indicate incumbent)

Mayor

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'' - 87939 *Buck Olsen - 39857 *Eddie Keehn - 1255 *Naseer Chaudhary - 1037 *Paul (Big Jim) Whitney - 704 *Harold Real - 396

Aldermen

Ward 1

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- 10929 *Helen Paull - 10074 *

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- 6545 *Paul Norris - 5038 *Walter Coombs - 2320 *John Ludwig - 2104 *Mary Hislop-Perraton - 864 *Roxanne Herbert - 712 *Francis Dryden - 490

Ward 2

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Jan Reimer Janice Rhea Reimer (born May 23, 1952) is a Canadian politician and the first female mayor of Edmonton, Alberta, having served in that capacity from 1989 until 1995. Highlights of her time in office included the inception of a new waste manageme ...

'' - 14177 *'' Ron Hayter'' - 9733 *Gene Romaniuk - 6297 *Mike Fedoretz - 4181

Ward 3

Judy Bethel Judith Claire Bethel (24 August 1943 – 11 March 2025) was a Canadian politician who served as a member of the House of Commons of Canada, House of Commons for the Edmonton East electoral district from 1993 to 1997. She was born in Winnipeg, M ...

- 8779 *''Julian Kinisky'' - 7812 *Joe Filewych - 4172 *Bill Kostiniuk - 3888 *John Strikwerda - 2994 *Kathy Kellman - 1872 *Mike Kachkar - 1309 *John Lakusta - 1306

Ward 4

*'' Lance White'' - 7639 *Mel Binder - 6249 *Donna Artuso - 4823 *Alice Hanson - 4816 *Gerry Wright - 4256 *''Ed Leger'' - 3579 *Ron Pilling - 1609 *Gordon Hum - 705 *Carl Byrd Williams - 260

Ward 5

*''Lillian Staroszik'' - 12753 *Patricia MacKenzie - 9052 *Wes Candler - 8429 *Donald Grimble - 5433 *Ross Brown - 4278 *Rom Smit - 875

Ward 6

*'' Terry Cavanagh'' - 13990 *''Ken Kozak'' - 9977 *Sheila McKay - 9809 *Wayne Weeks - 4301 *Ron Hodgins - 4077 *John Bracegirdle - 2120 *Eric Saemisch - 901 *Bill Gowan-Smith - 566 *Keith Adamson - 532

Public school trustees

Each voter could cast nine votes. *''Joan Cowling'' - 33370 *''

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'' - 29323 *''Elaine Jones'' - 22878 *''

Dick Mather Richard Mather (July 20, 1941 – August 13, 1997) was a municipal politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of Edmonton city council from 1995 until his death in 1997. He also served as a public school trustee from 1983 to 1995. ...

'' - 17878 *Lila Fahlman - 16613 *Doug Tupper - 12216 *''George Luck'' - 12018 *Leon Lubin - 11876 *Don Williams - 11582 *Linda Girard - 10337 *Doug Elves - 10311 *Adelle Bellhouse - 10213 *Janice Drysdale - 9581 *Clarence Climenhaga - 9493 *''John Lakusta'' - 9176 *Gordon Hum - 9123 *Jolly Drever - 8791 *Gerry Beck - 8533 *''Marion Herbert'' - 8511 *Rose Rosenberger - 8501 *James Forbes - 8129 *Yvonne Mury - 7524 *Ninele Jackson - 7366 *Bruce Uditsky - 7147 *John Ludwig - 6985 *Howard Welch - 6727 *Joe Hak - 6523 *Arnold Holmes - 6389 *Olga Cyrulik - 6382 *Ronald Bellamy - 6203 *James Albers - 6024 *Claire Fisher - 5825 *Alex Kinasewich - 5687 *Joe Burgis - 5246 *Shona Wehm - 5092 *Adolph Feingold - 5063 *Norval Horner - 4948 *R Glenn Ritchie - 4799 *Don Cruse - 4767 *Richard Woodward - 4478 *Jack Broyles - 4202 *Alwyn Brightley - 4182 *Gurcharan Bhatia - 4010 *David Rand - 3819 *R Genis Bell - 3754 *Gordon Stamp - 3516 *Jeffrey Martin - 3492 *Bas Roopnarine - 3363 *Brian Morton - 3163 *Doug Lewis - 3005 *Jim Jacuta - 2982 *Harbans Dhillon - 2911 *Thomas Tomlinson - 2132 *Samir Ghossein - 1690 *Jack Thonger - 1622 *Brant Maidens - 1304 *A D Pirbhani - 1095

Separate (Catholic) school trustees

Each voter could cast seven votes (

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'' - 18108 *''Alice Gagne'' - 16267 *''Francis O'Hara'' - 15558 *''Hugh Tadman'' - 14191 *Simone Demers-Secker - 9807 *Ken Alyluia - 9628 *Jim Shinkaruk - 8716 *L Brian Mitchell - 8667 *Lenore Hopchin - 8598 *William Koehler - 7758 *Carl Amodio - 7206 *Joe Sell - 6606

References

External links

City of Edmonton: Edmonton Elections
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