The 2017 Lethbridge municipal election was held Monday, October 17, 2017 to elect a mayor and eight councillors (at-large), the seven Lethbridge School District No. 51 trustees, and five of the Holy Spirit Roman Catholic Separate Regional Division No. 4’s nine trustees (as Ward 2).
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 (X).
78,772 eligible voters
21,357 voted
Voter turn-out: 27 percentMedicine Hat News, Oct. 17, 2017
Mayor +MayorCandidateVotes%Chris Spearman (X)14,89773.72Martin Heavy Head3,34216.54Robert Janzen1,9699.74
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.
(Percentage means candidate received a vote from that portion of voters.)
+CouncillorsCandidateVotes%CandidateVotes%Mark Campbell9,52244.6Aileen Burke3,60016.8Joseph Mauro (X)8,89141.6Bruce Thurber3,32515.5Jeff Carlson (X)8,14038.1Rena Woss3,10214.5Ryan Parker (X)7,91937.1Zachary Gibb3,05814.3Blaine Hyggen (X)7,43834.8Stephnie Watson2,63812.3Belinda Crowson7,39134.6Bill Ginther2,27010.6Jeffrey Coffman (X)7,36834.5Raymond Hoffarth2,25010.5Rob Miyashiro (X)7,27234.0Craig Burrows-Johnson2,0910.9Liz Iwaskiw (X)5,68026.6John Pogorzelski1,7790.8Nick Paladino5,66826.5Davey Wiggers1,5320.7Jennifer Takahashi5,26424.6Louise Marie Saloff1,3210.6Harold Pereverseff4,75922.3Ross Morrell1,0560.4Joey Shackleford4,72822.1Kevin Mark Layton9940.4David Mikuliak3,70917.3Clint Germsheid9370.4
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