| Election Name: | 2013 Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo municipal election |
| Country: | Alberta |
| Type: | legislative |
| Previous Election: | 2010 Wood Buffalo municipal election |
| Previous Year: | 2010 |
| Next Election: | 2017 Wood Buffalo municipal election |
| Next Year: | 2017 |
| Seats For Election: | Mayor and 10 councilors to Wood Buffalo Council |
| Election Date: | October 21, 2013 |
| Color1: | DCDCDC |
| Candidate1: | Melissa Blake |
| Last Election1: | 7,799 |
| Popular Vote1: | 6,987 |
| Percentage1: | 60.3 |
| Color2: | DCDCDC |
| Candidate2: | Gene Ouellette |
| Last Election2: | did not run |
| Popular Vote2: | 3,477 |
| Percentage2: | 30.0 |
| Color3: | DCDCDC |
| Candidate3: | Jim Rogers |
| Last Election3: | did not run |
| Popular Vote3: | 1,120 |
| Percentage3: | 9.8 |
| Mayor | |
| Before Election: | Melissa Blake |
| After Election: | Melissa Blake |
The 2013 Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo municipal election was held Monday, October 21, 2013. From 1968 to 2013, provincial legislation has required every municipality to hold elections every three years.[1] The Alberta Legislative Assembly passed a bill on December 5, 2012, amending the Local Authorities Election Act.[2] Starting with the 2013 elections, officials are elected for a four-year term, and municipal elections are moved to a four-year cycle.[3]
The citizens of the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, Alberta, elected one mayor, ten councillors, the five Fort McMurray Public School District trustees (in Fort McMurray), five of the Northland School Division No. 61's 23 school boards (outside Fort McMurray, three or five trustees each), and the five Fort McMurray Roman Catholic Separate School District No. 32 trustees (in Fort McMurray). Wood Buffalo includes Fort McMurray, an urban service area deemed equivalent of a city.
Bold indicates elected, and incumbents are italicized.
| Melissa Blake | 6,987 | 60.3 | |
| Gene Ouellette | 3,477 | 30.0 | |
| Jim Rogers | 1,120 | 9.8 |
Council consists of ten councillors, six from Ward 1, two from Ward 2, one from Ward 3, and one from Ward 4.
| Ward 2 ! | Ward 3 | Ward 4 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | % | Candidate | Votes | % | Candidate | Votes | % | Candidate | Votes | % |
| Guy C. Boutilier | 6,649 | 12.7 | Julia Cardinal | 130 | 23.7 | Allan Glenn Vinni | 206 | 60.1 | Jane Stroud | 268 | 72.0 |
| Sheldon Germain | 6,037 | 11.5 | John H. (H.J.) Chadi | 119 | 21.7 | Bradley Friesen | 137 | 39.9 | Bob Galbraith | 56 | 15.1 |
| Phil Meagher | 5,642 | 10.8 | Lloyd (Sonny) Flett | 108 | 19.7 | Gordon S. Janvier | 48 | 12.9 | |||
| Lance E. Bussieres | 4,349 | 8.3 | David Blair | 101 | 18.4 | ||||||
| Tyran Ault | 4,106 | 7.8 | Edith Fraser | 90 | 16.4 | ||||||
| Keith McGrath | 3.874 | 7.4 | |||||||||
| Colleen Tatum | 3,770 | 7.2 | |||||||||
| Veronica Doleman | 3,276 | 6.3 | |||||||||
| Christine Burton | 3,193 | 6.1 | |||||||||
| Russell Vincent Thomas | 2,910 | 5.6 | |||||||||
| Jon Tupper | 2,534 | 4.8 | |||||||||
| Steve Kelly | 2,216 | 4.2 | |||||||||
| Carmen Ramstead-Royer | 1,723 | 3.3 | |||||||||
| Abbas Abbas | 1,428 | 2.7 | |||||||||
| Andrew Manyevere | 589 | 1.1 | |||||||||
| Angela Adams | 4,249 | 19.6 | |
| Jeff Thompson | 4,115 | 19.0 | |
| Linda Mywaart | 3,711 | 17.2 | |
| Stephan Drover | 3,478 | 16.1 | |
| Tim O'Hara | 3,475 | 16.1 | |
| Mohamed (Moe) Farhat | 2,595 | 12.0 |