1971 Edmonton municipal election


The 1971 municipal election was held October 13, 1971 to elect a mayor and twelve aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council and seven trustees to sit on each of the public and separate school boards.
This was the first election in which a ward system was used. Where previously all twelve aldermen were elected at large, beginning with this election three would be elected from each of four wards. The election was conducted under the block voting system in which each voter was given as many votes as there were vacancies.

Voter turnout

There were 101235 ballots cast out of 273271 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 37.1%.

Results

Mayor

Aldermen

Public school trustees

Separate (Catholic) school trustees