Edmonton municipal election, 1924

The 1924 municipal election was held December 8, 1924 to elect a mayor and five aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council and three trustees to sit on each of the public and separate school boards.

There were ten aldermen on city council, but five of the positions were already filled: Ambrose Bury, James McCrie Douglas, Joseph Duggan, James East, and James Findlay were all elected to two year terms in 1923 and were still in office.

There were seven trustees on the public school board, but four of the positions were already filled: Samuel Barnes, Ralph Bellamy, Frank Crang, and F S McPherson had all been elected to two year terms in 1923 and were still in office. The same was true on the separate board, where Robert Crossland, Paul Jenvrin, Thomas Magee, and Joseph Henri Picard were continuing.

The election was conducted using the single transferable vote system.

1 Voter turnout
2 Results
3 References

Voter turnout

There were 9477 ballots cast out of 22298 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 42.5%.

Results

(bold indicates elected, italics indicate incumbent)

Mayor

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Kenneth Alexander Blatchford	5,664	60.31%
	Independent	Rice Sheppard	3,728	39.69%

Aldermen

	Candidate	Votes
Independent	Joseph Clarke	2,296
Citizens' Committee	James Collisson	2,009
Citizens' Committee	Will Werner	1,030
Labour	Charles Gibbs	802
Labour	Daniel Knott	707
Citizens' Committee	Archie Rendall	632
Citizens' Committee	A. C. Grant	619
Labour	James Herlihy	480
Labour	Robert McCreath	460
Labour	H. J. Pallot	341
Independent	Gertrude McBain	67

Public school trustees

	Candidate	Votes
Citizens' Committee	Joseph Adair	2,767
Citizens' Committee	Thyrza Bishop	2,351
Labour	T. J. Johnston	1,379
Labour	Elmer Roper	1,401
Citizens' Committee	George Young	955
Independent	J. H. W. Williams	587
Independent	A. R. Lawrence	294

Separate (Catholic) school trustees

	Candidate	Votes
Independent	C. E. Barry	339
Independent	P. M. Dunne	193
Independent	E. H. Esch	133
Independent	Harry Carrigan	74

(Numbers provided are only for the first count; on subsequent counts, Harry Carrigan defeated E. H. Esch.)

References

City of Edmonton: Edmonton Elections

Elections and plebiscites in Edmonton

Municipal elections	1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 (Jan) 1896 (Dec) 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1912 (Feb) 1912 (Dec) 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1966 1968 1971 1974 1977 1980 1983 1986 1989 1992 1995 1998 2001 2004 2007 2010

By-elections	1907 1911 1912 1970 1984 1994

Plebiscites	1979 1981

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