Edmonton municipal election, 1924

The 1924 municipal election was held December 8, 1924 to elect a mayor and five 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 five of the positions were already filled: Ambrose Bury, James McCrie Douglas, Joseph Duggan, James East, and James Findlay were all elected to two-year terms in 1923 and were still in office.

There were seven trustees on the public school board, but four of the positions were already filled: Samuel Barnes, Ralph Bellamy, Frank Crang, and F S McPherson had all been elected to two-year terms in 1923 and were still in office. The same was true on the separate board, where Robert Crossland, Paul Jenvrin, Thomas Magee, and Joseph Henri Picard were continuing.

The election was conducted using the single transferable vote system.

Voter turnout

There were 9477 ballots cast out of 22298 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 42.5%.

Results

(bold indicates elected, italics indicate incumbent)

Mayor

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Kenneth Alexander Blatchford	5,664	60.31%
	Independent	Rice Sheppard	3,728	39.69%

Aldermen

Party		Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Independent	Joseph Clarke	2,296	Y
	Citizens' Committee	James Collisson	2,009	Y
	Citizens' Committee	Will Werner	1,030	Y
	Labour	Charles Gibbs	802	Y
	Labour	Daniel Knott	707	Y
	Citizens' Committee	Archie Rendall	632
	Citizens' Committee	A. C. Grant	619
	Labour	James Herlihy	480
	Labour	Robert McCreath	460
	Labour	H. J. Pallot	341
	Independent	Gertrude McBain	67

Public school trustees

Party		Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Citizens' Committee	Joseph Adair	2,767	Y
	Citizens' Committee	Thyrza Bishop	2,351	Y
	Labour	T. J. Johnston	1,379	Y
	Labour	Elmer Roper	1,401
	Citizens' Committee	George Young	955
	Independent	J. H. W. Williams	587
	Independent	A. R. Lawrence	294

Separate (Catholic) school trustees

Party		Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Independent	C. E. Barry	339	Y
	Independent	P. M. Dunne	193	Y
	Independent	E. H. Esch	133
	Independent	Harry Carrigan	74	Y

(Numbers provided are only for the first count; on subsequent counts, Harry Carrigan defeated E. H. Esch.)

References

City of Edmonton: Edmonton Elections