Edmonton municipal election, 1936

The 1936 municipal election was held November 12, 1936 to elect a mayor and five aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council and three trustees to sit on the public school board (Adrien Crowe, J O Pilon, and J O'Hara were acclaimed to two-year terms on the separate school board). Voters also rejected a proposal to extend the mayor's term to two years. The election would normally have been held on November 11 (the rule at the time being that the municipal election would be held on the second Wednesday of November), but was delayed by a day owing to the Armistice Day holiday.

There were ten aldermen on city council, but five of the positions were already filled: Margaret Crang, Elisha East, Guy Patterson, Walter Clevely, and Charles Gould were all elected to two-year terms in 1935 and were still in office.

There were seven trustees on the public school board, but four of the positions were already filled: Walter Morrish, Frank Crang, Albert Ottewell, and Sidney Bowcott had all been elected to two-year terms in 1935 and were still in office. The same was true of the separate school board, where Charles Gariepy, Thomas Malone, R D Tighe, and William Wilde were continuing.

Voter turnout

There were 29300 ballots cast out of 50670 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 57.8%.

Results

(bold indicates elected, italics indicate incumbent)

Mayor

	Candidate	Votes	%
Civic Youth Association	Joseph Clarke	12,992	44.72%
Citizens' Committee	James McCrie Douglas	12,417	42.74%
United People's League	Harry Dean Ainlay	3,403	11.71%
Independent	Dick Foote	184	0.63%
Independent	Frederick Speed	54	0.19%

Aldermen

	Candidate	Votes
Citizens' Committee	Hugh MacDonald	14,264
Citizens' Committee	John Wesley Fry	13,094
Citizens' Committee	James Ogilvie	12,787
Citizens' Committee	John McCreath	12,054
Citizens' Committee	Athelstan Bissett	11,978
Social Credit	Rice Sheppard	11,612
Social Credit	Daniel Powers	11,612
Social Credit	W. P. Bullock	9,549
Independent	George O'Leary	8,414
Civic Youth Association	Ernest Edward Howard	7,323
United People's League	James East	5,850
United People's League	James Findlay	5,134
Independent	Dan Knott	3,939
Independent	Joseph Adair	3,474
United People's League	Herbert John Pallot	3,011
Independent	Charles Martin Keily	727

Public school trustees

	Candidate	Votes
Citizens' Committee	Frederick Casselman	14,301
Citizens' Committee	Izena Ross	13,974
Citizens' Committee	Armour Ford	13,102
Social Credit	A. D. Bruce	9,452
Social Credit	Mary Ann Gilchrist	9,202
United People's League	A. Richardson	4,706
United People's League	Hugh Critchlow	2,858

Separate (Catholic) school trustees

Adrien Crowe, J O Pilon, and J O'Hara were acclaimed.

Mayoral Term Plebiscite

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

Yes - 12511
No - 15320

References

City of Edmonton: Edmonton Elections

Elections and plebiscites in Edmonton

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