1925 Edmonton municipal election

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The 1925 municipal election was held December 14, 1925 to elect a mayor and seven aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council and four trustees to sit on each of the public and separate school boards. In the election's only plebiscite, the voters also rejected a proposal to increase the mayor's term from one year to two.

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There were ten aldermen on city council, but three of the positions were already filled: Will Werner, Charles Gibbs, and Daniel Knott were all elected to two-year terms in 1924 and were still in office. James Collisson and Joseph Clarke had also been elected in 1924, but both resigned to run for mayor. Accordingly, Charles Robson and Alfred Farmilo were elected to one-year terms.

There were seven trustees on the public school board, but three of the positions were already filled: Joseph Adair, Thyrza Bishop, and T J Johnston had all been elected to two-year terms in 1924 and were still in office. The same was true on the separate board, where C E Barry, E A Carrigan, and P M Dunne were continuing.

Voters in this election cast ranked votes. In the mayoral contest where one member was elected, the contest was conducted according to Instant-runoff voting; in contests where multiple members were elected, such as for city council and school boards, the contest was conducted according to the single transferable vote system.

The mayor was elected to a one year term, the term being finished in December 1926; all others were elected to two year terms, their terms being finished in December 1927.

Voter turnout

There were 15304 ballots cast out of 35343 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 43.3%.

Results

Mayor

This election was conducted using Instant-runoff voting but no vote transfers were conducted in this case because Blatchford received a majority of votes on the first count.

PartyCandidateVotes %Elected
Independent Kenneth Alexander Blatchford 8,46355.36%Green check.svgY
Independent James Collisson 2,30115.05%
Independent Joseph Clarke 2,09813.72%
Independent Rice Sheppard 1,4459.45%
Independent Joseph Adair 9486.20%
Independent Gertrude McBain310.20%

Aldermen

This election was conducted using Single transferable voting.

PartyCandidateInitial VotesElected
Civic Government Association James McCrie Douglas 3,587SSGreen check.svgY
Labour James East 2,839Green check.svgY
Civic Government Association A C Sloane1,541Green check.svgY
Civic Government Association Frederick Keillor1,273SSGreen check.svgY
Labour James Findlay1,071Green check.svgY
Civic Government Association Robert Dolphin Tighe1,028
Civic Government Association Charles Robson988Green check.svgY
Labour Alfred Farmilo855Green check.svgY
Civic Government Association C. W. Gimby728
Labour James Herlihy552
Labour Edward James Thompson380

Because of the single transferable vote system, Tighe received more initial votes, but Farmilo won (and Robson held) based on votes subsequently transferred from other candidates.

Douglas resigned less than a year later to run for mayor in the 1926 Edmonton municipal election.

Public school trustees

PartyCandidateVotesElected
Civic Government Association Ralph Bellamy3,478Green check.svgY
Labour Frank Crang2,832SSGreen check.svgY
Civic Government Association F. S. McPherson2,825Green check.svgY
Labour Elmer Roper 2,658Green check.svgY
Labour Sophie N. Bell1,503
Civic Government Association W. W. McBain1,147

Separate (Catholic) school trustees

PartyCandidateVotesElected
Independent Thomas Magee371Green check.svgY
Independent Charles Gariepy 365Green check.svgY
Independent A J Ryan336Green check.svgY
Independent Paul Jenvrin141
Independent Robert Crossland133SSGreen check.svgY

Under the minimum South Side representation rule, Crossland was elected over Jenvrin.

Mayoral Term Plebiscite

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

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