1928 Edmonton municipal election

The 1928 municipal election was held December 10, 1928 to elect a mayor and six aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council and three trustees to sit on the public school board (A J Crowe, J O Pilon, and W D Trainor were acclaimed to the separate school board). There were also six bylaws put to a city-wide vote.

There were ten aldermen on city council, but four of the positions were already filled: Ralph Bellamy, A C Sloane, James East, and L S C Dineen were all elected to two year terms in 1927 and were still in office. John C. Bowen had also been elected to a two year term, but had resigned in order to run for mayor. Accordingly, Rice Sheppard was elected to a one year term.

There were seven trustees on the public school board, but four of the positions were already filled: Frank Crang, Arthur Cushing, Albert Ottewell, and Elmer Roper had all been elected to two year terms in 1927 and were still in office. The same was true on the separate board, where Robert Crossland, Charles Gariepy, Thomas Magee, and B J Tansey were continuing.

This election marked Edmonton's return to the first past the post electoral system after four elections of using single transferable vote.

Voter turnout

There were 14971 ballots cast out of 37915 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 39.4%.

Results

(bold indicates elected, italics indicate incumbent)

Mayor

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Independent	Ambrose Bury	8,970	59.92%	Independent	John C. Bowen	6,001	40.08%

Aldermen

Party		Candidate	Votes	Labour	Charles Gibbs	7,841	Civic Governance Association	Frederick Keillor	6,881	Labour	Alfred Farmilo	6,294	Labour	James Findlay	6,273	Independent labour	Rice Sheppard	6,262	Civic Governance Association	James Collisson	6,255	Civic Governance Association	George Hazlett	6,107	Civic Governance Association	Herbert Baker	5,978	Civic Governance Association	George Wilkinson	4,908	Labour	James Herlihy	4,561	Independent	G. V. Pelton	4,417	Labour	J. A. Thompson	4,623	Independent	Joseph Clarke	4,130	Independent	Charles Robson	4,026

Public school trustees

Party		Candidate	Votes	Labour	Samuel Barnes	7,022	Civic Governance Association	Thyrza Bishop	6,300	Civic Governance Association	Frederick Casselman	5,641	Civic Governance Association	R. Colwill	5,340	Labour	E. E. Owen	5,300	Labour	Mrs. D. T. Bell	5,267	Independent	S. T. Lawrie	2,469

Separate (Catholic) school trustees

A J Crowe, J O Pilon, and W D Trainor were acclaimed.

Bylaws

$86525 for paving

• Yes - 4305
• No - 824

$50000 for gravelling

• Yes - 4288
• No - 802

$23860 for airport improvements

• Yes - 3065
• No - 1692

$292688 for a hospital

• Yes - 4362
• No - 998

$50000 for a firehall

• Yes - 3735
• No - 1169

$100000 for fire equipment

• Yes - 4044
• No - 935

References

Edmonton election results (City of Edmonton website)