2017 Lethbridge municipal election


The 2017 Lethbridge municipal election was held Monday, October 17, 2017 to elect a mayor and eight councillors, the seven Lethbridge School District No. 51 trustees, and five of the Holy Spirit Roman Catholic Separate Regional Division No. 4’s nine trustees.
From 1968 to 2013, provincial legislation has required every municipality to hold elections every three years. The Legislative Assembly of Alberta passed a bill on December 5, 2012, amending the Local Authorities Election Act. Starting with the 2013 elections, officials are elected for a four-year term, and municipal elections are moved to a four-year cycle. Of the 78,772 eligible voters, only 21,338 turned in a ballot, a voter turnout of 27%.

Results

Bold indicates elected, and incumbents are marked with an.
78,772 eligible voters
21,357 voted
Voter turn-out: 27 percent

Councillors

The use of Block Voting meant that each voter could cast up to 8 votes. Thus there was a far greater number of votes than voters. 21,000 voters cast 128,000 votes.
CandidateVotes%CandidateVotes%
Mark Campbell9,52244.6Aileen Burke3,60016.8
Joseph Mauro 8,89141.6Bruce Thurber3,32515.5
Jeff Carlson 8,14038.1Rena Woss3,10214.5
Ryan Parker 7,91937.1Zachary Gibb3,05814.3
Blaine Hyggen 7,43834.8Stephnie Watson2,63812.3
Belinda Crowson7,39134.6Bill Ginther2,27010.6
Jeffrey Coffman 7,36834.5Raymond Hoffarth2,25010.5
Rob Miyashiro 7,27234.0Craig Burrows-Johnson2,0910.9
Liz Iwaskiw 5,68026.6John Pogorzelski1,7790.8
Nick Paladino5,66826.5Davey Wiggers1,5320.7
Jennifer Takahashi5,26424.6Louise Marie Saloff1,3210.6
Harold Pereverseff4,75922.3Ross Morrell1,0560.4
Joey Shackleford4,72822.1Kevin Mark Layton9940.4
David Mikuliak3,70917.3Clint Germsheid9370.4