Edmonton municipal election, 1923

The 1923 municipal election was held December 10, 1923 to elect a mayor and six aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council and four trustees to sit on the public school board. Robert Crossland, Paul Jenvrin, Thomas Magee, and Joseph Henri Picard 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: Joseph Adair, James Collisson, Daniel Knott, and Rice Sheppard were all elected to two-year terms in 1922 and were still in office. Kenneth Alexander Blatchford had also been elected to a two-year term in 1922, but had resigned in order to run for mayor. Accordingly, William Rea was elected to a one-year term.

There were seven trustees on the public school board, but three of the positions were already filled: W H Alexander, L T Barclay, and E T Bishop had all been elected to two-year terms in 1922 and were still in office. The same was true on the separate board, where P M Dunne, J J Murray, and Joseph Gariépy were continuing.

Pursuant to a plebiscite conducted during the 1922 election, the 1923 election was the first to make use of the single transferable vote style of voting.

Voter turnout

There were 13016 ballots cast out of 22077 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 58.9%.

Results

(bold indicates elected, italics indicate incumbent)

Mayor

Aldermen

(Because of the single transferable vote system, the number of votes initially received by a candidate was not necessarily determinative; accordingly, some defeated candidates initially received more votes than some victorious candidates.)

Party		Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Labour	James East	3,004	Y
	Independent	Ambrose Bury	1,993	Y
	Independent	William Rea	1,150	Y
	Independent	James McCrie Douglas	928	Y
	Independent	Thomas Ducey	789
	Labour	James Findlay	707	Y
	Independent	Archie Rendall	703
	Independent	Joseph Duggan	563	Y
	Independent	J. J. McKenzie	420
	Independent	Esther Saunders	380
	Independent	J. Boyd McBride	317
	Independent	A. K. Putland	312
	Labour	H. J. Pallot	308
	Labour	Jan Lakeman	265

Public school trustees

Party		Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Labour	Samuel Barnes	3,239	Y
	Independent	F. S. McPherson	1,769	Y
	Labour	Frank Crang	1,740	Y
	Independent	Ralph Bellamy	1,643	Y
	Independent	George Steer	1,054
	Labour	Robert McCreath	1,015
	Independent	George Massey	442

Separate (Catholic) school trustees

Robert Crossland, Paul Jenvrin, Thomas Magee, and Joseph Henri Picard were acclaimed.

References

City of Edmonton: Edmonton Elections

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