Edmonton City Council

The Edmonton City Council is the governing body of the City of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Edmonton currently has one mayor and twelve city councillors. Elections are held every four years. The most recent was held in 2021, and the next is in 2025. The mayor is elected across the whole city, through the First Past the Post plurality voting system. Councillors are elected one per ward, a division of the city, through the First Past the Post plurality voting system.

On July 22, 2009, City Council voted to change the electoral system of six 2-seat wards to a system of 12 single-member wards. Each ward is represented by a single councillor. The changes took effect in the 2010 election. In the 2010 election, Edmonton was divided into 12 wards each electing one councillor. Before 2010, the city at different times used a variety of electoral systems for the election of its councillors: at-large elections with Block Voting; two different systems of wards, using Block Voting system (when mayor was elected through First past the post); and at-large elections using Single Transferable Voting (when the mayor was elected through Alternative Voting).^[1]

In May 2019, Edmonton's Ward Boundary Commission began reviewing the geographical boundaries of the city's wards.^[2][3] The final report was delivered on May 25, 2020.^[4] On December 7, 2020, Bylaw 19366^[5] was passed which included the new geographical boundaries and new Indigenous ward names.^[6] The Indigenous ward names were determined by the Committee of Indigenous Matriarchs^[7][8] and came into effect on October 18, 2021, the date of the 2021 municipal election. The Committee of Indigenous Matriarchs, also referred to as the naming committee, was composed of 17 women representing communities from treaty territories 6, 7 and 8, along with Métis and Inuit representation.^[9][7]