1934 Edmonton municipal election

The 1934 municipal election was held November 14, 1934 to elect a mayor and six aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council and three trustees to sit on each of the public and separate school boards.

There were ten aldermen on city council, but four of the positions were already filled: Margaret Crang (SS), Harry Ainlay (SS), Ralph Bellamy, and James Findlay were all elected to two-year terms in 1933 and were still in office. Rice Sheppard (SS) was also elected to a two-year term in 1933, but had resigned in order to run for mayor; accordingly, Athelstan Bissett (SS) was elected to a one-year term.

There were seven trustees on the public school board, but four of the positions were already filled: Albert Ottewell (SS), Frank Crang (SS), Walter Morrish, and Sidney Bowcott had all been elected to two-year terms in 1933 and were still in office. The same was true of the separate school board, where Charles Gariepy, T Malone, Thomas Magee, and J Tansey (SS) were continuing.

Voter turnout

There were 27,683 ballots cast out of 45,589 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 60.7%.

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent Labour	Joseph Clarke	9,977	36.35%
	Civic Government Association	James Harwood Ogilvie	9,575	34.89%
	Labour	Daniel Kennedy Knott	5,996	21.85%
	Independent	Rice Sheppard	1,849	6.74%
	Independent	Frederick Speed	50	0.18%

Aldermen

Party		Candidate	Votes		Elected
	Civic Government Association	Hugh MacDonald	14,116		Y
	Civic Government Association	John Wesley Fry	13,554		Y
	Civic Government Association	Dick Foote	12,436		Y
	Civic Government Association	John McCreath	11,990		Y
	Civic Government Association	Athelstan Bissett	11,576	SS	Y
	Labour	James East	10,654		Y
	Civic Government Association	James Ponton	10,651
	Labour	E. E. Hyde	9,127
	Labour	Sidney Parsons	8,102
	Labour	L. E. Price	6,991
	Labour	W. H. Miller	6,453
	Independent Labour	Walter Clevely	5,887
	Independent Labour	C. W. Lee	4,922
	Independent Labour	Charles Martin Keily	3,930
	Independent Labour	R. H. Le Maitre	3,883
	Independent Labour	E. C. Holub	3,410
	Independent	Peter Glassman	3,247
	Communist	George H. Salter	2,681
	Independent	J. A. Leonard	1,731

Public school trustees

Party		Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Civic Government Association	Frederick Casselman	13,543	Y
	Labour	Samuel Barnes	12,681	Y
	Civic Government Association	Izena Ross	12,230	Y
	Civic Government Association	E. E. Howard	11,046
	Labour	H. H. Owen	7,758
	Independent	E. A. Roe	7,620

Separate (Catholic) school trustees

Candidate	Votes		Elected
J O Pilon	2,109		Y
James O'Hara	1,886		Y
Adrien Crowe	1,814	SS	Y

Names and vote totals of defeated candidates are no longer available.

References

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