Edmonton municipal election, 1925

The 1925 municipal election was held December 14, 1925 to elect a mayor and seven aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council and four trustees to sit on each of the public and separate school boards. In the election's only plebiscite, the voters also rejected a proposal to increase the mayor's term from one year to two.

There were ten aldermen on city council, but three of the positions were already filled: Will Werner, Charles Gibbs, and Daniel Knott were all elected to two-year terms in 1924 and were still in office. James Collisson and Joseph Clarke had also been elected in 1924, but both resigned to run for mayor. Accordingly, Charles Robson and Alfred Farmilo were elected to one-year terms.

There were seven trustees on the public school board, but three of the positions were already filled: Joseph Adair, Thyrza Bishop, and T J Johnston had all been elected to two-year terms in 1924 and were still in office. The same was true on the separate board, where C E Barry, E A Carrigan, and P M Dunne were continuing.

The election was conducted using the single transferable vote system.

Voter turnout

There were 15304 ballots cast out of 35343 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 43.3%.

Results

(bold indicates elected, italics indicate incumbent)

Mayor

Aldermen

Party		Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Civic Government Association	James McCrie Douglas	3,587	Y
	Labour	James East	2,839	Y
	Civic Government Association	A C Sloane	1,541	Y
	Civic Government Association	Frederick Keillor	1,273	Y
	Labour	James Findlay	1,071	Y
	Civic Government Association	Robert Dolphin Tighe	1,028
	Civic Government Association	Charles Robson	988	Y
	Labour	Alfred Farmilo	855	Y
	Civic Government Association	C. W. Gimby	728
	Labour	James Herlihy	552
	Labour	Edward James Thompson	380

(While Tighe was in sixth on the first count, he fell on subsequent counts because of the single transferable vote system in place.)

Public school trustees

Party		Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Civic Government Association	Ralph Bellamy	3,478	Y
	Labour	Frank Crang	2,832	Y
	Civic Government Association	F. S. McPherson	2,825	Y
	Labour	Elmer Roper	2,658	Y
	Labour	Sophie N. Bell	1,503
	Civic Government Association	W. W. McBain	1,147

Separate (Catholic) school trustees

Party		Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Independent	Thomas Magee	371	Y
	Independent	Charles Gariepy	365	Y
	Independent	A J Ryan	336	Y
	Independent	Paul Jenvrin	141
	Independent	Robert Crossland	133	Y

(Crossland was elected over Jenvrin despite having fewer votes because a representative from the south side of the North Saskatchewan River was needed.)

Mayoral Term Plebiscite

Are you in favour of the Mayor holding office for the term of two years?

• Yes - 7251
• No - 8945

References

City of Edmonton: Edmonton Elections

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