Edmonton municipal election, 1930

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The 1930 municipal election was held November 12, 1930 to elect a mayor and five aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council and four trustees to sit on the public school board (Adrien Crowe, J O Pilon, and W D Trainor were acclaimed to the separate school board).

There were ten aldermen on city council, but five of the positions were already filled: Herbert Baker, Ralph Bellamy, Arthur Gainer, Dan Knott, and Rice Sheppard were all elected to two year terms in 1929 and were still in office.

There were seven trustees on the public school board, but three of the positions were already filled: Frank Crang, Arthur Cushing, and Albert Ottewell had all been elected to two year terms in 1929 and were still in office. S T Bigelow had also been elected in 1929, but had resigned; accordingly, S A Dickson was elected to a one year term. Similarly, there were only three vacancies on the seven member separate school board, where Charles Gariepy, Thomas Magee, A J Ryan, and J Tansey were continuing.

This was the first election to be held in November; where elections had previously been held on the second Monday of December, beginning in 1930 they were held on the (presumably milder) second Wednesday of November to encourage voter turnout.

The acclamation of James McCrie Douglas as mayor marked the first mayoral acclamation since 1915.

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[edit] Voter Turnout

There were 13869 ballots cast out of 41962 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 33.0%.

[edit] Results

(bold indicates elected, italics indicate incumbent)

[edit] Mayor

James McCrie Douglas was acclaimed for a second term as mayor.

[edit] Aldermen

Party Candidate Votes
     Civic Governance Association Frederick Keillor 7,136
     Labour Charles Gibbs 6,889
     Civic Governance Association James Collisson 6,814
     Civic Governance Association Donald Lake 6,307
     Civic Governance Association Charles Gerald O'Connor 6,303
     Labour James East 5,996
     Civic Governance Association F. R. Lovette 5,343
     Labour James Findlay 5,242
     Labour Harry Ainlay 4,864
     Labour Alfred Farmilo 4,692
     Independent Joseph Clarke 2,514
     Communist Jan Lakeman 1,001

[edit] Public School Trustees

Party Candidate Votes
     Civic Governance Association Mrs. W. D. Ferris 6,654
     Civic Governance Association Frederick Casselman 6,370
     Labour Samuel Barnes 6,243
     Civic Governance Association S.A. Dickson 6,190
     Civic Governance Association L. Y. Cairns 6,119
     Labour Robert McCreath 5,007
     Labour Mrs. S. N. Bell 4,728
     Labour Sidney Bowcott 4,184

[edit] Separate (Catholic) School Trustees

Adrien Crowe, J O Pilon, and W D Trainor were acclaimed.

[edit] References

Edmonton election results (City of Edmonton website)