1936 Edmonton municipal election

The 1936 municipal election was held November 12, 1936 to elect a mayor and five aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council and three trustees to sit on the public school board, while three trustees were acclaimed to the separate school board. Voters also rejected a proposal to extend the mayor's term to two years. The election would normally have been held on November 11 (the rule at the time being that the municipal election would be held on the second Wednesday of November), but was delayed by a day owing to the Armistice Day holiday.

There were ten aldermen on city council, but five of the positions were already filled: Margaret Crang (SS), Elisha East, Guy Patterson, Walter Clevely, and Charles Gould (SS) were all elected to two-year terms in 1935 and were still in office.

There were seven trustees on the public school board, but four of the positions were already filled: Walter Morrish, Frank Crang (SS), Albert Ottewell (SS), and Sidney Bowcott had all been elected to two-year terms in 1935 and were still in office. The same was true of the separate school board, where Charles Gariepy, Thomas Malone, R D Tighe, and William Wilde (SS) were continuing.

Voter turnout[]

There were 29,300 ballots cast out of 50,670 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 57.8%.

Results[]

• bold or Y indicates elected
• italics indicate incumbent
• "SS", where data is available, indicates representative for Edmonton's South Side, with a minimum South Side representation instituted after the city of Strathcona, south of the North Saskatchewan River, amalgamated into Edmonton on February 1, 1912.

Mayor[]

Aldermen[]

Party		Candidate	Votes		Elected
	Citizens' Committee	Hugh MacDonald	14,264		Y
	Citizens' Committee	John Wesley Fry	13,094		Y
	Citizens' Committee	James Ogilvie	12,787		Y
	Citizens' Committee	John McCreath	12,054		Y
	Citizens' Committee	Athelstan Bissett	11,978	SS	Y
	Social Credit	Rice Sheppard	11,612	SS
	Social Credit	Daniel Powers	10,246
	Social Credit	W. P. Bullock	9,549
	Independent	George O'Leary	8,414
	Civic Youth Association	Ernest Edward Howard	7,323
	United People's League	James East	5,850
	United People's League	James Findlay	5,134
	Independent	Dan Knott	3,939
	Independent	Joseph Adair	3,474
	United People's League	Herbert John Pallot	3,011
	Independent	Charles Martin Keily	727

Public school trustees[]

Party		Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Citizens' Committee	Frederick Casselman	14,301	Y
	Citizens' Committee	Izena Ross	13,974	Y
	Citizens' Committee	Armour Ford	13,102	Y
	Social Credit	A. D. Bruce	9,452
	Social Credit	Mary Ann Gilchrist	9,202
	United People's League	A. Richardson	4,706
	United People's League	Hugh Critchlow	2,858

Separate (Catholic) school trustees[]

Adrien Crowe (SS), J O Pilon, and J O'Hara were acclaimed.

Mayoral Term Plebiscite[]

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

• Yes - 12,511
• No - 15,320

References[]

• Election History, City of Edmonton: Elections and Census Office