Edmonton municipal election, 1964
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The 1964 Edmonton municipal election was held October 14, 1964 to elect a mayor and twelve aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council
Edmonton City Council
The Edmonton City Council is the governing body of the City of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.Members represent wards throughout the city, and are known as councillors. Until 2010, Edmonton was divided in six wards with two councillors representing citizens in each ward...

 and seven trustees to sit on each of the public and separate school boards.

This was the first election since 1898
Edmonton municipal election, 1898
The 1898 municipal election was held December 12, 1898. In previous elections, an entire town council had been elected at once for a one year term; 1898 marked the beginning of staggered aldermanic terms, such that half of the six aldermen would be elected each year to two year terms...

 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 election that established the first thirteen member council; previous councils had included only ten aldermen.

The forty-six candidates for alderman were the most in Edmonton's history.

Voter turnout

There were 94880 ballots cast out of 199259 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 47.6%.

Mayor

Party Candidate Votes %
Independent William Hawrelak
William Hawrelak
William Hawrelak was a politician in Alberta, Canada, the longest-serving mayor in Edmonton's history, and a candidate for election to the Canadian House of Commons.-Early life:...

56,328 60.12%
Independent George Prudham
George Prudham
George Prudham, was a Canadian politician.Born in Kilbride, Ontario, he was elected to the Canadian House of Commons representing the riding of Edmonton West in the 1949 federal election. A Liberal, he was re-elected in 1953. In 1950, he was the Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of...

37,365 39.88%

Aldermen

Party Candidate Votes
Better Civic Government Committee Morris Weinlos 55,827
Civil Rights Association Julia Kiniski
Julia Kiniski
Julia Kiniski , was an aldermen on the Edmonton City Council from 1963 until her death in 1969...

54,637
Better Civic Government Committee Ethel Wilson
Ethel Sylvia Wilson
Ethel Sylvia Wilson was a seamstress, labour activist and a municipal and provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. She served as a member of Edmonton City Council from 1952 to 1966 and as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1959 to 1971...

51,246
Independent Kenneth Newman 49,742
United Voters Association Ivor Dent
Ivor Dent
Ivor Graham Dent, was a politician from Alberta, Canada, a mayor of Edmonton, and a former candidate for the Canadian House of Commons and the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.-Early life:...

45,276
Independent John Leslie Bodie 43,033
United Voters Association Ed Leger 38,747
Better Civic Government Committee Vincent Dantzer 37,421
Independent Angus McGugan 35,322
Better Civic Government Committee Frank Edwards 27,211
Better Civic Government Committee Kathleen McCallum 23,023
Civil Rights Association Robert Franklin Lambert 21,457
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 D. Tomlinson 4,685

Public school trustees

Party Candidate Votes
Better Education Association Milton Lazerte 37,344
Quality Education Council Edith Rogers
Edith Rogers (Alberta politician)
Edith Blanche Rogers was a Canadian politician who served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1935 until 1940. Born in Nova Scotia, she came west to Alberta to accept a job as a teacher...

37,257
Better Education Association Earl Buxton 36,333
Better Civic Government Committee Vernon Johnson 31,047
Better Civic Government Committee James Falconer
James Falconer
James Falconer was a Scottish solicitor and Liberal Party politician.-Family and education:Falconer was born in Carmyllie, Forfarshire, the son of Donald Falconer. He was educated at Arbroath High School and Edinburgh University where he obtained his MA degree. He married Ada Kennedy. ...

30,482
Better Education Association John Bracco 26,626
Better Education Association Herbert Smith 25,346
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
Cec Purves
Cecil John Harry Purves is a politician in Alberta, Canada, who served as mayor of Edmonton.-Early life:Purves was born in Edmonton on October 18, 1933. He grew up in the city's Riverdale district and graduated high school in the city...

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
Independent Orest Demco 14,362
Independent G. R. Boileau 13,693
Independent Jean McDonald 12,599
Independent A. A. Gorman 12,518
Independent Bernard Feehan 12,336
Independent Edward Stack 12,091
Independent Harry Carrigan 9,626
Independent Bill Diachuk
Bill Diachuk
Bill Wasyl Diachuk was a municipal and provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He began his political career in Edmonton municipal politics serving two separate stints as a separate school trustee. The first was from 1962 to 1964 and the second from 1966 to 1971...

8,936
Independent George Hertz 7,713
Independent L. A. Ares 6,354
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