1933 Edmonton municipal election

The 1933 Edmonton municipal election was held November 8, 1933 to elect a mayor and five aldermen to sit on City Council and four trustees each to sit on the public and separate school boards.

There were ten aldermen on city council, but five of the positions were already filled: Charles Gibbs, John Wesley Fry, James Ogilvie, James East, and John McCreath were all elected to two-year terms in 1932 and were still in office.

There were seven trustees on the public school board, but three of the positions were already filled: Mrs. E G Ferris, Frederick Casselman, and Samuel Barnes had all been elected to two-year terms in 1932 and were still in office. The same was true of the separate school board, where Adrien Crowe (SS), J O Pilon, and W D Trainor were continuing.

Voter turnout

There were 21,730 ballots cast out of 44,603 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 48.7%.

Results

• bold or Y indicates elected
• italics indicate incumbent
• South Side, 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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Daniel Kennedy Knott	13,453	61.91%
	Independent Labour	Joseph Clarke	7,657	35.24%
	Independent	J. A. Leonard	620	2.85%

Aldermen

Councillors were elected through Plurality block voting.

The Labour Party took four of the five seats up for election.

Margaret Crang was among them. She was the second woman elected to the Edmonton city council.

Party		Candidate	Votes		Elected
	Labour	Rice Sheppard	11,418	SS	Y
	Labour	Miss M. (Margaret) Crang	10,858	SS	Y
	Labour	Harry Ainlay	10,195	SS	Y
	Civic Government Association	Ralph Bellamy	9,609		Y
	Labour	James Findlay	9,536		Y
	Civic Government Association	W. W. McBain	8,471
	Civic Government Association	Robert Dolphin Tighe	7,728
	Civic Government Association	T. A. Graham	7,647
	Civic Government Association	Dick Foote	7,537
	Independent Labour	M. Ainslie	2,879
	Communist	Jan Lakeman	2,830
	Independent Labour	Frank R. Lovette	2,636
	Independent Labour	Walter Clevely	2,493
	Communist	George H. Salter	1,295
	Independent	Peter Glassman	1,215
	Independent	F. S. Wright	1,094
	Independent	Charles Martin Keily	681

Public school trustees

Party		Candidate	Votes		Elected
	Civic Government Association	Albert Ottewell	12,500	SS	Y
	Labour	Frank Crang	11,963	SS	Y
	Civic Government Association	Walter Morrish	9,722		Y
	Labour	Sidney Bowcott	9,309		Y
	Civic Government Association	H. H. Dyde	8,762
	Civic Government Association	Ernest Howard	7,909
	Labour	L. E. Price	6,911

Separate (Catholic) school trustees

Party		Candidate	Votes		Elected
	Independent	Charles Gariepy	1,830		Y
	Independent	Thomas Malone	1,812		Y
	Independent	Thomas Magee	1,688		Y
	Independent	Mrs. M. Conroy	1,683
	Independent	J. Tansey	1,444	SS	Y

Under the minimum South Side representation rule, Tansey was elected over Conroy.

Board of Health Plebiscite

Are you in favor of the health services at present administered by the local Board of Health of the City of Edmonton and the Public and Separate School Boards being amalgamated and placed under the control of the local Board of Health?

• Yes - 11,660
• No - 7,971

References

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