Edmonton municipal election, 1934

The 1934 municipal election was held November 14, 1934 to elect a mayor and six aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council and three trustees to sit on each of the public and separate school boards.

There were ten aldermen on city council, but four of the positions were already filled: Margaret Crang, Harry Ainlay, Ralph Bellamy, and James Findlay were all elected to two-year terms in 1933 and were still in office. Rice Sheppard was also elected to a two-year term in 1933, but had resigned in order to run for mayor; accordingly, Athelstan Bissett was elected to a one-year term.

There were seven trustees on the public school board, but four of the positions were already filled: Albert Ottewell, Frank Crang, Walter Morrish, and Sidney Bowcott had all been elected to two-year terms in 1933 and were still in office. The same was true of the separate school board, where Charles Gariepy, T Malone, Thomas Magee, and J Tansey were continuing.

Voter turnout

There were 27683 ballots cast out of 45589 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 60.7%.

Results

(bold indicates elected, italics indicate incumbent)

Mayor

Aldermen

Party		Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Civic Government Association	Hugh MacDonald	14,116	Y
	Civic Government Association	John Wesley Fry	13,554	Y
	Civic Government Association	Dick Foote	12,436	Y
	Civic Government Association	John McCreath	11,990	Y
	Civic Government Association	Athelstan Bissett	11,576	Y
	Labour	James East	10,654	Y
	Civic Government Association	James Ponton	10,651
	Labour	E. E. Hyde	9,127
	Labour	Sidney Parsons	8,102
	Labour	L. E. Price	6,991
	Labour	W. H. Miller	6,453
	Independent Labour	Walter Clevely	5,887
	Independent Labour	C. W. Lee	4,922
	Independent Labour	Charles Martin Keily	3,930
	Independent Labour	R. H. Le Maitre	3,883
	Independent Labour	E. C. Holub	3,410
	Independent	Peter Glassman	3,247
	Communist	George H. Salter	2,681
	Independent	J. A. Leonard	1,731

Public school trustees

Party		Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Civic Government Association	Frederick Casselman	13,543	Y
	Labour	Samuel Barnes	12,681	Y
	Civic Government Association	Izena Ross	12,230	Y
	Civic Government Association	E. E. Howard	11,046
	Labour	H. H. Owen	7,758
	Independent	E. A. Roe	7,620

Separate (Catholic) school trustees

• Adrien Crowe - 1814
• J O Pilon - 2109
• J O’Hara - 1886

Names and vote totals of defeated candidates are no longer available.

References

City of Edmonton: Edmonton Elections

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