Edmonton municipal election, 2001

The 2001 Edmonton municipal election was held on October 15, 2001 to elect a mayor and twelve councilors to sit on Edmonton City Council, nine trustees to sit on the public school board, seven trustees to sit on the separate school board, and seven members of the Capital Health Board of Directors.

This election was the first, and to date only, election in which directors were elected to the boards of Alberta's Regional Health Authorities. After this election, the provincial government returned to appointing all members of these boards directly.

Voter turnout

There were 172,540 ballots cast out of 489,794 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 35.2%.

Results

(bold indicates elected, italics indicate incumbent)

Mayor

Candidate	Votes	%
Bill Smith	75,678	44.35%
Robert Noce	54,375	31.87%
Mike Nickel	33,776	19.80%
Joe Devaney	1,746	1.02%
Katie Oppen	1,545	0.91%
Tess Elsworthy	1,513	0.89%
Laura Duffy	869	0.51%
Thomas "Buffalo Terminator" Tomilson	745	0.44%
Bob Ligertwood	376	0.22%

Councillors

Ward 1		Ward 2		Ward 3		Ward 4		Ward 5		Ward 6
Candidate	Votes	Candidate	Votes	Candidate	Votes	Candidate	Votes	Candidate	Votes	Candidate	Votes
Karen Leibovici	17,947	Allan Bolstad	13,933	Janice Melnychuk	10,550	Michael Phair	16,054	Larry Langley	19,521	Dave Thiele	13,998
Stephen Mandel	7,569	Ron Hayter	12,154	Ed Gibbons	8,640	Jane Batty	8,780	Bryan Anderson	19,131	Terry Cavanagh	13,784
Don Clarke	7,536	Mimi Williams	5,522	Ken Shipka	5,042	Debbie Yeung	5,837	Judith Brown	11,931	Chinwe Okelu	10,239
Kathy Kohut	3,545	Don Lawson	5,318	Gordon Stamp	4,987	David Starko	5,504			Bob Stenhouse	8,024
Jane Standing	3,470	Tim Gartner	2,478	Allan Jack	3,169	Myles Kitagawa	5,177			Dennis Trefiak	1,742
Joe Hudson	3,390	Neil Cameron	2,275	Daniel Bablitz	2,733	Ben Henderson	4,164
Charlie Galan	2,836	Mike Melymick	1,602	Marie Renaud	2,455	Jeff Campbell	1,503
Rob McGregor	1,931	Robert Burns	1,448	Ken Balkwill	2,445	Doug Meggison	1,204
Gerald "Jed" Woodill	1,390	Bud Sarasin	509	Mitch Compri	2,265	Peter Rowe	1,029
Larry Anderson	1,117			Ron Schuster	1,953	David Verhagen	964
Rita John	912			Joseph (J. R.) Royer	1,323	Lee Permann	925
Sean Tisdall	612			Wade Franko	1,310	Bob Whyte	874
				Ron Gavreau	833	Hank Muirhead	802
				Tom Phelan	470	Thomas Roberts	533
				Dean Leffler	432	Allyn White	524
						Adil Pirbhai	410
						Richard Gendron	277
						Alexander Riabou	229

Public school trustees

Ward A			Ward B			Ward C
Bill Bonko	6,769	62.07%	Bob Dean	4,739	46.94%	Lynn Odynski	7,669	56.77%
Bev Esslinger	4,136	37.93%	Doug Stamp	2,735	27.09%	Don Williams	5,839	43.23%
			Ed Vass	1,769	17.52%
			Perry Chahal	852	8.44%
Ward D			Ward E			Ward F
Ray Martin	6,604	66.27%	Jean Woodrow	5,610	49.09%	Don Fleming	7,700	63.94%
Terry Sulyma	2,021	20.28%	Carol Anne Dean	4,040	35.35%	Janice Fleming	4,342	36.06%
Vicki Nelson-Stamp	1,341	13.46%	Dianne Williamson	1,779	15.57%
Ward G			Ward H			Ward I
Svend Hansen	8,053	55.45%	George Nicholson	Acclaimed		Gerry Gibeault	4,221	36.47%
Sophie Ares Pilon	2,318	15.96%				Judith Axelson	3,183	27.50%
Patrick Dwyre	2,173	14.96%				Les Mcfadyen	2,910	25.14%
Sean Whelan	1,978	13.62%				Gordon Hum	1,064	9.19%
						Al Jovine	195	1.68%

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 2			Ward 3
Debbie Engel	5,828	76.15%	Janice Sarich	3,827	40.44%	Mark Razzolini	6,216	70.17%
Richard Mcnally	1,825	23.85%	Ronald Zapisocki	3,225	34.08%	Jim Shinkaruk	2,643	29.83%
			Jim Urlacher	2,411	25.48%
Ward 4			Ward 5			Ward 6
Debbie Cavaliere	3,851	58.96%	Judy Buddle	Acclaimed		Charles Koester	Acclaimed
Joe Filewych	2,681	41.04%

Capital Health Authority

Ward ED1			Ward ED3			Ward ED5			Ward ED6			Ward ED7
Olivia Butti	14,878	64.01%	Joan Duiker	12,837	64.70%	Ian Crawford	5,587	22.98%	Barbara Ann Thompson	10,719	57.80%	Sheila McKay	10,981	44.77%
Tom Olenuk	8,366	35.99%	Clarence Dezwart	7,004	35.30%	Jim Matt	4,402	18.10%	Earl Shinfruk	4,090	22.06%	Robert Hyndman	4,983	20.32%
Ward ED2			Ward ED4			Maurice Fritze	4,299	17.68%	Bas Roopnarine	3,735	20.14%	David Alton	4,208	17.16%
Molly Warring	6,056	32.50%	Brian Bechtel	8,808	46.55%	Robert Kinasewich	4,007	16.48%				Peter White	1,652	6.74%
Marilyn Kammer	4,811	25.82%	Les Young	6,333	33.47%	Deborah Holm	3,563	14.65%				Robert Rogers	1,555	6.34%
Louis Sobolewski	4,700	25.23%	Harvey Voogd	3,781	19.98%	Allan Hunsperger	1,700	6.99%				Fernando Pardo	1,147	4.68%
Brad Cardinal	3,065	16.45%				Bob Ewart	759	3.12%

References

City of Edmonton: Edmonton Elections

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