1924 Edmonton municipal election

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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.

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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 (SS), and FS 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 (SS), Paul Jenvrin, Thomas Magee, and Joseph Henri Picard were continuing.

The aldermanic election was conducted using the single transferable vote system to elect five members in a city-wide district; the mayor was elected through Instant-runoff voting.

Voter turnout

There were 9,477 ballots cast out of 22,298 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 42.5%.

Results

Mayor

PartyCandidateVotes%
Independent Kenneth Alexander Blatchford 5,66460.31%
Independent Rice Sheppard 3,72839.69%

Aldermen

Quota approximately 1580. This was the number of votes that guaranteed election.

PartyCandidateInitial VotesElected
Independent Joseph Clarke 2,296Green check.svgY
Citizens' Committee James Collisson 2,009Green check.svgY
Citizens' Committee Will Werner1,030Green check.svgY
Labour Charles Gibbs 802Green check.svgY
Labour Daniel Knott 707Green check.svgY
Citizens' Committee Archie Rendall632
Citizens' Committee A. C. Grant619
Labour James Herlihy480
Labour Robert McCreath460
Labour H. J. Pallot341
Independent Gertrude McBain67

Public school trustees

PartyCandidateInitial VotesElected
Citizens' Committee Joseph Adair 2,767Green check.svgY
Citizens' Committee Thyrza Bishop2,351Green check.svgY
Labour Elmer Roper 1,401
Labour T. J. Johnston1,379Green check.svgY
Citizens' Committee George Young955
Independent J. H. W. Williams587
Independent A. R. Lawrence294

Because of the single transferable vote system, Roper received more initial votes, but Johnston won based on votes subsequently transferred from other candidates.

Separate (Catholic) school trustees

PartyCandidateInitial VotesElected
Independent C. E. Barry339Green check.svgY
Independent P. M. Dunne193Green check.svgY
Independent E. H. Esch133
Independent Harry Carrigan74Green check.svgY

Because of the single transferable vote system, Esch received more initial votes, but Carrigan won based on votes subsequently transferred from other candidates.

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