Edmonton municipal election, 1926

The 1926 municipal election was held December 13, 1926, to elect a mayor and six aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council and three trustees to sit on the public school board. Harry Carrigan, J O Pilon, and W D Trainor were acclaimed to two-year terms on the separate school board.

There were ten aldermen on city council, but four of the positions were already filled: James East, James Findlay, Frederick Keillor (SS), and A C Sloane were all elected to two-year terms in 1925 and were still in office. James McCrie Douglas (SS) had also been elected in 1925, but had resigned; accordingly, L S C Dineen was elected to a one-year term.

There were seven trustees on the public school board, but four of the positions were already filled: Ralph Bellamy, Frank Crang (SS), F S MacPherson, and Elmer Roper had all been elected to two-year terms in 1925 and were still in office. The same was true on the separate board, where R Crossland (SS), Charles Gariepy, Thomas Magee, and A J Ryan were continuing.

The election was conducted using the single transferable vote system.

Voter turnout

There were 12720 ballots cast out of 35726 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 35.6%.

Results

bold or Y indicates elected
italics indicate incumbent
"SS", where data is available, indicates representative for Edmonton's South Side, with a minimum South Side representation instituted after the city of Strathcona, south of the North Saskatchewan River, amalgamated into Edmonton on February 1, 1912.

Mayor

	Candidate	Votes	%
Independent	Ambrose Bury	4,816	37.94%
Labour	Dan Knott	2,944	23.19%
Civic Government Association	Will Werner	2,388	18.81%
Independent	Joseph Clarke	1,727	13.61%
Independent	James McCrie Douglas	571	4.50%
Independent	Rice Sheppard	247	1.95%

Aldermen

	Candidate	Votes	Elected
Labour	Charles Gibbs	2,107	Y
Labour	Alfred Farmilo	1,510	Y
Independent	Charles Robson	1,458	Y
Civic Government Association	Herbert Baker	1,287	Y
Civic Government Association	Robert Dolphin Tighe	1,107
Civic Government Association	George Hazlett	1,009	Y
Civic Government Association	Robert Muir	980
Civic Government Association	Charles Henry Grant	840
Civic Government Association	Norman Currie Willson	657
Labour	Lionel Shurley Crawford Dineen	555	Y
Labour	Edward James Thompson	402
Labour	Edwin Evart Owen	379

Because of the single transferable vote system, Tighe received more initial votes, but Dineen won (and Hazlett held) based on votes subsequently transferred from other candidates.

Public school trustees

	Candidate	Votes		Elected
Labour	Samuel Barnes	3,741		Y
Civic Government Association	Thyrza Bishop	2,506		Y
Civic Government Association	D. B. Lake	1,710
Civic Government Association	W. W. McBain	1,528
Labour	J A Herlihy	1,127	SS	Y
Labour	G. Teviotdale	480

Under the minimum South Side representation rule, Herlihy was elected over Lake.

Separate (Catholic) school trustees

Harry Carrigan, J O Pilon, and W D Trainor were acclaimed.

References

Election History, City of Edmonton: Elections and Census Office

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