Edmonton municipal election, 1945

The 1945 municipal election was held November 7, 1945 to elect a mayor and five aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council and five trustees to sit on the public school board (Joseph Gallant, Thomas Malone, J O Pilon, and William Wilde were acclaimed to two-year terms on the separate school board).

There were ten aldermen on city council, but five of the positions were already filled: Sidney Bowcott, Athelstan Bissett, Sidney Parsons, James Ogilvie, Frederick John Mitchell were all elected to two-year terms in 1944 and were still in office.

There were seven trustees on the public school board, but two of the positions were already filled: George Cormie and Alex Gemeroy had been elected to two-year terms in 1944 and were still in office. Izena Ross had also been elected to a two-year term in 1944, but had resigned; accordingly, James MacDonald was elected to a one-year term.

On the separate board, there were four vacancies out of seven seats, as Adrian Crowe, Francis Killeen, and James O'Hara were continuing.

Voter turnout

There were 19600 ballots cast out of 69730 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 28.0%.

Results

(bold indicates elected, italics indicate incumbent)

Mayor

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Civic Democratic Alliance	Harry Ainlay	10,690	54.74%
	Citizens' Committee	Winslow Hamilton	8,840	45.26%

Aldermen

	Candidate	Votes
Citizens' Committee	James McCrie Douglas	9,343
Civic Democratic Alliance	Ethel Browne	9,074
Citizens' Committee	John Munro	8,570
Civic Democratic Alliance	John Gillies	8,553
Citizens' Committee	Charles Gariepy	8,532
Civic Democratic Alliance	Joseph Dowler	8,384
Citizens' Committee	E. B. Wilson	8,282
Citizens' Committee	Percy Gwynne	7,942
Civic Democratic Alliance	Peter Collins	7,814
Civic Democratic Alliance	J. H. King	7,370
Independent	Lawrie	2,996
Independent	Rice Sheppard	2,062
Independent Labour	W. H. O'Neill	1,646
Independent	Julia Kiniski	1,305

Public school trustees

	Candidate	Votes
Citizens' Committee	Albert Ottewell	9,262
Citizens' Committee	Armour Ford	9,100
Citizens' Committee	Mary Butterworth	9,090
Civic Democratic Alliance	E. S. Haynes	8,491
Citizens' Committee	James MacDonald	8,265
Citizens' Committee	Frank J. Newson	8,174
Civic Democratic Alliance	R. L. M. Hart	7,864
Civic Democratic Alliance	D. Milner	7,567
Civic Democratic Alliance	R. J. Boutilier	6,389
Civic Democratic Alliance	J. W. Badowski	6,361

Separate (Catholic) school trustees

Joseph Gallant, Thomas Malone, J O Pilon, and William Wilde were acclaimed.

References

City of Edmonton: Edmonton Elections

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