Edmonton municipal election, 1927

The 1927 municipal election was held December 12, 1927 to elect a mayor and five aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council and four trustees to sit on each of the public and separate school boards. There were also two plebiscite questions.

There were ten aldermen on city council, but five of the positions were already filled: Charles Gibbs, Alfred Farmilo, Charles Robson, George Hazlett, and Herbert Baker were all elected to two-year terms in 1926 and were still in office.

There were seven trustees on the public school board, but three of the positions were already filled: Samuel Barnes, Thyrza Bishop, and J A Herlihy had all been elected to two-year terms in 1926 and were still in office. The same was true on the separate board, where Harry Carrigan, J O Pilon, and W D Trainor were continuing.

This election was the last to be conducted using the single transferable vote system, as a plebiscite held concurrently with the election resulted in Edmontonians voting to return to a first past the post system.

Voter turnout

There were 12907 ballots cast out of 37106 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 34.7%.

Results

(bold indicates elected, italics indicate incumbent)

Mayor

Aldermen

Party		Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Civic Government Association	Ralph Bellamy	2,195	Y
	Civic Government Association	Allan Sloane	1,951	Y
	Labour	James East	1,922	Y
	Civic Government Association	John C. Bowen	1,514	Y
	Civic Government Association	Frederick Keillor	1,227
	Labour	James Findlay	914
	Labour	Lionel Shurley Crawford Dineen	798	Y
	Independent	G. V. Pelton	784
	Civic Government Association	A. M. Rehwinkel	550
	Labour	James Herlihy	485
	Labour	E. J. Thompson	375

The above reflects vote totals on the first count. Because of the single transferable vote voting system in effect at the time, candidates leading on the first ballot were not necessarily those elected.

Public school trustees

Party		Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Civic Government Association	Arthur Cushing	2,458	Y
	Civic Government Association	Albert Ottewell	2,457	Y
	Labour	Frank Crang	2,020	Y
	Labour	Elmer Roper	2,005	Y
	Labour	Sophie N. Bell	1,416
	Civic Government Association	James Harwood Ogilvie	1,123

Separate (Catholic) school trustees

Plebiscites

Assessing Improvements on Industrial Establishments

To authorize the Council to fix the Assessment of improvements for industrial establishments.

• Yes - 2,224
• No - 1,038

Abolition of Single Transferable Vote

To abolish the Proportional Representation System of electing mayor and aldermen.

• Yes - 6,695
• No - 5,473

References

City of Edmonton: Edmonton Elections

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