2004 Edmonton municipal election
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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 2 | Ward 3 | Ward 4 | Ward 5 | 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 B | 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 E | Ward F | ||||||
| David Colburn | 5,011 | 44.92% | Ken Gibson | 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 H | 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 2 | Ward 3 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debbie Engel | 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 5 | 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% |