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 {{ok}} 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=

class="wikitable"

! colspan="2"| Party

! Candidate

! Votes

! %

|Independent Labour

|Joseph Clarke

|align="right"|9,977

|align="right"|36.35%

{{CANelec |EDM |Civic Government Association |James Harwood Ogilvie |9,575 |34.89%}}

=Aldermen=

class="wikitable"

! colspan="2"| Party

! Candidate

! Votes

! Elected

{{CANelec |EDM |Civic Government Association |Hugh MacDonald |14,116 | |elected=yes}}

{{CANelec |EDM |Civic Government Association |John Wesley Fry |13,554 | |elected=yes}}

{{CANelec |EDM |Civic Government Association |Dick Foote |12,436 | |elected=yes}}

{{CANelec |EDM |Civic Government Association |John McCreath |11,990 | |elected=yes}}

{{CANelec |EDM |Civic Government Association |Athelstan Bissett |11,576 |SS |elected=yes}}

{{CANelec |EDM |Civic Government Association |James Ponton |10,651}}

{{CANelec |EDM |Independent Labour |Charles Martin Keily |3,930}}

=Public school trustees=

class="wikitable"

! colspan="2"| Party

! Candidate

! Votes

! Elected

{{CANelec |EDM |Civic Government Association |Frederick Casselman |13,543 |elected=yes}}

{{CANelec |EDM |Civic Government Association |Izena Ross |12,230 |elected=yes}}

{{CANelec |EDM |Civic Government Association |E. E. Howard |11,046}}

=Separate (Catholic) school trustees=

class="wikitable"
Candidate ! Votes ! ! Elected
J O Pilon \| 2,109 \| \| style="text-align:center"\|{{ok}}
James O'Hara \| 1,886 \| \| style="text-align:center"\|{{ok}}
Adrien Crowe \| 1,814 \| SS \| style="text-align:center"\|{{ok}}

class="wikitable"

Candidate

! Votes

! Elected

J O Pilon

| 2,109

| style="text-align:center"|{{ok}}

James O'Hara

| 1,886

| style="text-align:center"|{{ok}}

Adrien Crowe

| 1,814