Edmonton municipal election, 1920

The 1920 municipal election was held December 13, 1920 to elect a mayor and six aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council and three trustees to sit on the public school board. J Cormack, Joseph Gariépy, and J J Murray were acclaimed to two-year terms on the separate school board. In the election's only plebiscite, Edmontonians rejected a proposal to pay their aldermen for the second consecutive election.

There were ten aldermen on city council, but four of the positions were already filled: Percy Abbott, John Bowen, James East, and Rice Sheppard were all elected to two-year terms in 1919 and were still in office. J. A. Kinney had also been elected to a two-year term in 1919, but had resigned. Accordingly, Samuel McCoppen was elected to a one-year term.

There were seven trustees on the public school board, but four of the positions were already filled: Samuel Barnes, J. W. H. Williams, J A McPherson, and Frank Scott had all been elected to two-year terms in 1919 and were still in office. The same was true on the separate board, where Joseph Henri Picard, Paul Jenvrin, Thomas Magee, and Thomas Malone were continuing.

Voter turnout

There were 14710 ballots cast out of 26903 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 54.6%.

Results

(bold indicates elected, italics indicate incumbent)

Mayor

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Citizens' Progressive League	David Duggan	7,537	51.78%
	Labour	Joseph Clarke	6,974	47.90%
	Independent	Albert Stimmel	47	0.32%

Aldermen

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Citizens' Progressive League	Joseph Adair	7,023
	Citizens' Progressive League	Andrew McLennan	6,996
	Citizens' Progressive League	Valentine Richards	6,385
	Citizens' Progressive League	James Collisson	6,280
	Citizens' Progressive League	William Campbell McArthur	5,679
	Labour	Samuel McCoppen	5,478
	Labour	A. Boileau	5,133
	Citizens' Progressive League	W. H. Speer	5,111
	Labour	Alfred Farmilo	4,638
	Labour	Daniel Kennedy Knott	4,625
	Labour	J. J. Murray	4,574
	Labour	G. Latham	4,312
	Independent	John McKenzie	3,040
	Independent Labour	George L. Ritchie	1,610
	Independent Labour	Joseph White	957
	Independent	Hyman King	760

Public school trustees

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Citizens' Progressive League	Mrs. E. T. Bishop	6,988
	Citizens' Progressive League	William Hardy Alexander	6,711
	Citizens' Progressive League	William Rea	6,667
	Labour	J. W. B. Williams	5,599
	Labour	Frank Crang	5,444
	Labour	J. Heron	4,137

Separate (Catholic) school trustees

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Independent	J. Cormack	acclaimed
	Independent	Joseph Gariépy	acclaimed
	Independent	J. J. Murray	acclaimed

Plebiscite

Should Aldermen be paid?
	Votes	%
Yes	4,234	32.46%
No	8,811	67.54%

References

• City of Edmonton: Edmonton Elections