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

Aldermen

Party		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

Party		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

City of Edmonton: Edmonton Elections

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