The 1986 municipal election was held October 20, 1986 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...

, nine trustees to sit on the public school board, and seven trustees to sit on the separate school board.

This was the last election in which school trustees were elected at large. Beginning in 1989

Edmonton municipal election, 1989

The Edmonton municipal election, 1989 was held on October 16 that year to elect a mayor and twelve aldermen 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...

, both districts introduced a ward system.

The fifty-seven candidates for the public school board remains the most in Edmonton's history.

Voter turnout

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

Mayor

• Laurence Decore
  Laurence Decore
  Laurence G. Decore, CM was a Ukrainian-Canadian lawyer and politician from Alberta. He was mayor of Edmonton, a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, and leader of the Alberta Liberal Party.- Early life :...
  
  - 87939
• Buck Olsen - 39857
• Eddie Keehn - 1255
• Naseer Chaudhary - 1037
• Paul (Big Jim) Whitney - 704
• Harold Real - 396

Ward 1

• Bruce Campbell
  Bruce Campbell (Alberta politician)
  Bruce Campbell was a Canadian politician, commercial contractor, carpenter, and Rotarian. He was born in Cadomin, Alberta, and resided in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, for most of his life....
  
  - 10929
• Helen Paull - 10074
• Dan Backs
  Dan Backs
  Dan Backs is a politician and former member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. He was elected as a Liberal candidate in the 2004 provincial election, but was kicked out of the Liberal caucus by leader Kevin Taft, who cited concerns about Backs' ability to work as a member of a team...
  
   - 6545
• Paul Norris - 5038
• Walter Coombs - 2320
• John Ludwig - 2104
• Mary Hislop-Perraton - 864
• Roxanne Herbert - 712
• Francis Dryden - 490

Ward 2

• Jan Reimer
  Janice Rhea Reimer
  Janice Rhea Reimer is a Canadian politician and the first female mayor of Edmonton, Alberta, having served in that capacity from 1989 until 1995...
  
  - 14177
• Ron Hayter
  Ron Hayter
  Ronald John Hayter is the longest-serving city councillor of Edmonton, Alberta, having served since 1971 until 1995, when he stepped down to join the National Parole Board...
  
  - 9733
• Gene Romaniuk - 6297
• Mike Fedoretz - 4181

Ward 3

• Judy Bethel
  Judy Bethel
  Judith Claire Bethel was a member of the Canadian House of Commons for the Edmonton East electoral district from 1993 to 1997. Her career was in education and finance....
  
  - 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
  Lance White (politician)
  Lance Day White is a former Canadian municipal and provincial level politician. He served on the Edmonton city council from 1983 until 1992. He then moved on to provincial politics and served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1993 until 2001.-Municipal politics:White began his...
  
  - 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
  Terry Cavanagh
  Terence James Cavanagh is a Canadian politician, municipal councillor in Edmonton, Alberta, who served as mayor. He was Edmonton's first native-born mayor.-Early life:...
  
  - 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

• Joan Cowling - 33370
• Don Massey
  Don Massey
  Don Massey is a former municipal and provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1993 until 2004. In that period he also served as Leader of the Official Opposition and Leader of the Alberta Liberal Party in 2004...
  
  - 29323
• Elaine Jones - 22878
• Dick Mather
  Dick Mather
  Richard "Dick" Mather 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

• Catherine Chichak
  Catherine Chichak
  Catherine Chichak was a provincial and municipal politician from Alberta, Canada. She served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 to 1982 sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative caucus...
  
  - 18108
• Alice Gagne - 16267
• Francis O'Hara - 15558
• Hugh Tadman - 14191
• Simone Demers-Sicker - 9807
• Ken Alyluia - 9628
• Jim Shinkaruk - 8716
• L Brian Mitchell - 8667
• Lenore Hopchin - 8598
• William Koehler - 7758
• Carl Amodio - 7206
• Joe Sell - 6606