Edmonton municipal election, 1935

The 1935 municipal election was held November 13, 1935 to elect a mayor and five aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council and four trustees to sit on the public school board (Charles Gariepy, Thomas Malone, R D Tighe, and William Wilde were acclaimed to two-year terms on the separate school board). Voters also approved a requirement that candidates for city council be required to own property.

There were ten aldermen on city council, but five of the positions were already filled: Hugh MacDonald, John Wesley Fry, Dick Foote, John McCreath, and James East were all elected to two-year terms in 1934 and were still in office.

This election saw emergence of a new civic political party, the Tax Reform League, an anti-Social Credit organization carrying on the anti-tax, anti-Premier Aberhart work that the Civic Government Association had conducted in previous elections.^[1]

There were seven trustees on the public school board, but three of the positions were already filled: Samuel Barnes, Frederick Casselman, and Izena Ross had all been elected to two-year terms in 1934 and were still in office. The same was true of the separate school board, where A J Crowe, J O Pilon, and J O'Hara were continuing.

Voter turnout

There were 19984 ballots cast out of 48003 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 41.6%.

Results

(bold indicates elected, italics indicate incumbent)

Mayor

	Candidate	Votes	%
Canadian Youth Association	Joseph Clarke	11,120	56.06%
Tax Reform League	Ralph Bellamy	6,313	31.83%
Independent	Morris Baker	2,330	11.75%
Independent	Frederick Speed	73	0.37%

Aldermen

	Candidate	Votes	Elected
Labour	Margaret Crang	11,226	Y
Social Credit	Elisha East	8,798
Social Credit	Guy Patterson	8,409
Canadian Youth Association	Walter Clevely	7,410
Social Credit	Charles Gould	7,378
Tax Reform League	Athelstan Bissett	7,095
Labour	Harry Ainlay	6,848
Tax Reform League	Ernest Edward Howard	6,717
Tax Reform League	George Patterson Ponton	6,403
Tax Reform League	John Henry Warren	5,918
Labour	James Findlay	5,598
Labour	William Henry Miller	2,832
Independent	Raymond C. Ghostley	1,226
Independent	Charles Martin Keily	683

Public school trustees

	Candidate	Votes
Tax Reform League	Walter Morrish	11,093
Labour	Frank Crang	9,347	Y
Independent	Albert Ottewell	8,745	Y
Labour	Sidney Bowcott	8,566	Y
Tax Reform League	Armour Ford	7,039
Social Credit	Mary Ann Gilchrist	6,009
Social Credit	Adam Bruce	5,910

Separate (Catholic) school trustees

Charles Gariepy, Thomas Malone, R D Tighe, and William Wilde were acclaimed.

Property Qualification Plebiscite

Shall a candidate for Mayor or Alderman be required to have a property qualification?

Yes - 14478
No - 4202

References

↑ Tom Monto, Protest and Progress. Crang Publishing/Alhambra Books (2012), p.229

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