Ottawa municipal election, 1939

The city of Ottawa, Canada held municipal elections on December 4, 1939.


Mayor of Ottawa

Candidate Votes %
J. E. Stanley Lewis (X) 15,685 47.70
Finley McRae 11,941 36.31
S. Leonard Belaire 5,260 15.99

Plebiscite

2 year council terms
Option Votes %
For 19,067 59.49
Against 11,185 40.51

Ottawa Board of Control

(4 elected)

Candidate Votes %
E. A. Bourque (X) 13,674
G. M. Geldert (X) 13,479
Jim Forward 12,920
J. H. Putman (X) 12,577
Grenville Goodwin 10,761
W. H. Marsden 10,507
Thomas Brethour 7,631
Ellis 4,289
Bedford 1,488
Caleb S. Green 967
Max Feller 940
Kesterton 269

Ottawa City Council

(2 elected from each ward)

Rideau Ward
Candidate Votes %
John Powers (X) 687
A. W. Spearman 680
Wilfrid D. Girard 573
Fred Goodhouse (X) 490
Max Schoen 218
By Ward
Candidate Votes %
J. Albert Parisien (X) 1,279
Eric Query (X) 1,039
Marcel Dupuis 974
James C. Butler 338
St. George's Ward
Candidate Votes %
Arthur Pinard (X) 1,892
Hamnett P. Hill, Jr. 1,645
Harold Taylor (X) 1,608
Wellington Ward
Candidate Votes %
Martin M. Walsh (X) 2,195
Arthur J. Ash (X) 1,967
Robert Burnett 984
William A. Coe 260
Capital Ward
Candidate Votes %
Edward Band (X) 2,562
C. E. Pickering (X) 2,372
J. H. Fraser 1,124
Dalhousie Ward
Candidate Votes %
Daniel McCann (X) Acclaimed
Wilbert Hamilton (X) Acclaimed
Elmdale Ward
Candidate Votes %
David Sprague 2,148
Henry Bradley (X) 1,666
George Pingle (X) 1,653
Cecil D. Norris 808
Victoria Ward
Candidate Votes %
Nelson J. Lacasse (X) 1,364
J. P. Nolan (X) 1,362
Joseph Allard 1,139
Ottawa Ward
Candidate Votes %
Aristide Belanger (X) 1,637
Napoleon Bordeleau (X) 1,623
A. E. Beauchamp 1,134
Riverdale Ward
Candidate Votes %
David McMillan (X) 1,568
Len Coulter 1,505
George Sloan (X) 1,269
John McLennan 840
Samuel Dibartolo 445
Central Ward
Candidate Votes %
George F. Perley (X) 2,205
Fred Journeaux (X) 2,088
J. Grant Shaw 1,463

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