1929 Edmonton municipal election

Municipal election in Alberta, Canada September 2023 The 1929 municipal election was held December 9, 1929 to elect a mayor and five aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council and four trustees to sit on the public school board, while four trustees were acclaimed to the separate school board). In the election's only plebiscite, voters didn't endorse the extension of the half day Wednesday shopping holiday by the required two-thirds majority. City council consisted of the mayor and ten aldermen, but five of the aldermanic positions were already filled: James Collisson, Alfred Farmilo, James Findlay, Charles Gibbs, and Frederick Keillor (SS) were all elected to two-year terms in 1928 and were still in office. The public school board consisted of seven seven trustees, but four of the positions were already filled: Samuel Barnes, Thyrza Bishop, and Frederick Casselman had all been elected to two-year terms in 1928 and were still in office. The same was true on the separate board, where Robert Adrien Crowe (SS), J O Pilon, and W B Trainor were continuing. Electoral system The mayor was elected through First-past-the-post voting. First past the post does not require that the successful candidate takes a majority of the votes, as the Instant-runoff voting system previously used had, but in this election the successful candidate did in fact receive a majority of the votes cast. The aldermanic race, where five seats were being filled, was conducted using Plurality block voting and each voter could cast up to five votes. The successful candidates received a total of approximately 39,000 votes of the 76,000 voters cast by the 41,000 voters. The vote tally received by the successful candidates might have been cast by less than 9,000 of the 41,000 eligible voters.Rek, Municipal Elections in Edmonton Voter turnout There were 18,549 ballots cast out of 40,993 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 45.2%. A total of about 76,000 votes were cast in the aldermanic race due to the use of Plurality block voting. Results bold or 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 Party Candidate Votes % EDM Civic Government Association James McCrie Douglas 9,754 53.06% EDM Labour James East 6,898 37.52% EDM Independent Gerald Pelton 1,602 8.71% EDM Independent William Gunn 130 0.71% Aldermen Party Candidate Votes Elected EDM Civic Government Association Ralph Bellamy 8,542 yes EDM Civic Government Association Arthur Gainer 7,979 yes EDM Civic Government Association Herbert Baker 7,681 yes EDM Labour Dan Knott 7,419 yes EDM Labour Rice Sheppard 7,032 SS yes EDM Civic Government Association Thomas Shaftoe Thompson 6,643 EDM Labour Edward James Thompson 5,612 EDM Labour George Latham 5,482 EDM Independent Hugh MacDonald 5,287 EDM Labour James Herlihy 4,834 SS EDM Independent Joseph Clarke 4,139 EDM Independent Joseph Adair 3,670 EDM Communist Jan Lakeman 1,283 EDM Communist Herbert John Pallot 590 EDM Independent Wilfred Rose 418 Public school trustees Party Candidate Votes Elected EDM Civic Government Association Albert Ottewell 9,779 SS yes EDM Civic Government Association Arthur Cushing 8,742 yes EDM Labour Frank Crang 8,321 SS yes EDM Civic Government Association Shurburne Tupper Bigelow 7,900 yes EDM Civic Government Association Robert Muir 7,860 EDM Labour Thomas John Johnston 7,124 EDM Labour Sophie N. Bell 6,788 EDM Labour Sidney Bowcott 4,744 Separate (Catholic) school trustees Charles Gariepy, Thomas Magee, A J Ryan and J Tansey (SS) were acclaimed to the separate school board. Wednesday Holiday Plebiscite This plebiscite items required a minimum two-thirds "Yes" majority to bring about action, and in the vote the Yes side did not reach that mark. In favour of having Wednesday half-holiday extended to cover all the year except the month of December? Yes - 1,097 No - 654 References Election History, City of Edmonton: Elections and Census Office 1929 Category:1929 elections in Canada Category:1929 in Alberta Category:December 1929 in North America Category:1920s in Edmonton