Edmonton municipal election, 1936

The 1936 municipal election was held November 12, 1936 to elect a mayor and five aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council and three trustees to sit on the public school board (Adrien Crowe, J O Pilon, and J O'Hara were acclaimed to two-year terms on the separate school board). Voters also rejected a proposal to extend the mayor's term to two years. The election would normally have been held on November 11 (the rule at the time being that the municipal election would be held on the second Wednesday of November), but was delayed by a day owing to the Armistice Day holiday.

There were ten aldermen on city council, but five of the positions were already filled: Margaret Crang, Elisha East, Guy Patterson, Walter Clevely, and Charles Gould were all elected to two-year terms in 1935 and were still in office.

There were seven trustees on the public school board, but four of the positions were already filled: Walter Morrish, Frank Crang, Albert Ottewell, and Sidney Bowcott had all been elected to two-year terms in 1935 and were still in office. The same was true of the separate school board, where Charles Gariepy, Thomas Malone, R D Tighe, and William Wilde were continuing.

Voter turnout

There were 29300 ballots cast out of 50670 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 57.8%.

Results

(bold indicates elected, italics indicate incumbent)

Mayor

Party Candidate Votes %
     Civic Youth Association Joseph Clarke 12,992 44.72%
     Citizens' Committee James McCrie Douglas 12,417 42.74%
     United People's League Harry Dean Ainlay 3,403 11.71%
IndependentDick Foote 184 0.63%
IndependentFrederick Speed 54 0.19%

Aldermen

Party Candidate Votes
     Citizens' Committee Hugh MacDonald 14,264
     Citizens' Committee John Wesley Fry 13,094
     Citizens' Committee James Ogilvie 12,787
     Citizens' Committee John McCreath 12,054
     Citizens' Committee Athelstan Bissett 11,978
     Social Credit Rice Sheppard 11,612
     Social Credit Daniel Powers 11,612
     Social Credit W. P. Bullock 9,549
IndependentGeorge O'Leary 8,414
     Civic Youth Association Ernest Edward Howard 7,323
     United People's League James East 5,850
     United People's League James Findlay 5,134
IndependentDan Knott 3,939
IndependentJoseph Adair 3,474
     United People's League Herbert John Pallot 3,011
IndependentCharles Martin Keily 727

Public school trustees

Party Candidate Votes
     Citizens' Committee Frederick Casselman 14,301
     Citizens' Committee Izena Ross 13,974
     Citizens' Committee Armour Ford 13,102
     Social Credit A. D. Bruce 9,452
     Social Credit Mary Ann Gilchrist 9,202
     United People's League A. Richardson 4,706
     United People's League Hugh Critchlow 2,858

Separate (Catholic) school trustees

Adrien Crowe, J O Pilon, and J O'Hara were acclaimed.

Mayoral Term Plebiscite

Are you in favour of the Mayor holding office for the term of two years?

References

City of Edmonton: Edmonton Elections