1922 Edmonton municipal election

The 1922 municipal election was held December 11, 1922 to elect a mayor and six aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council and three trustees to sit on the public school board. R Crossland, P M Dunne, Joseph Gariépy, and J J Murray were acclaimed to two-year terms on the separate school board.

There were ten aldermen on city council, but four of the positions were already filled: Ambrose Bury, James East, Thomas Malone, and Charles Weaver were all elected to two-year terms in 1921 and were still in office. Bickerton Pratt had also been elected to a two-year term in 1921, but had resigned in order to run for mayor. Accordingly, Valentine Richards was elected to a one-year term.

There were seven trustees on the public school board, but four of the positions were already filled: Samuel Barnes, Ralph Bellamy, Frank Scott, and Frank Crang had all been elected to two-year terms in 1921 and were still in office. The same was true on the separate board, where F A French, Paul Jenvrin, Thomas Magee, and Joseph Henri Picard were continuing.

The six candidates for mayor were a record high to date.

The 1922 election saw the defeat of the first woman ever elected to city council. Izena Ross had been elected to a one-year term the previous year, but finished eighth in her re-election bid. It would be 1933 before voters would elect another woman.

This would be the last election for a while conducted under the at-large block voting first-past-the-post system. Voters in this election voted to replace the system with a Single Transferable Voting/Proportional Representation (STV/PR) system already being used in Calgary.

Voter turnout

There were 10923 ballots cast out of 20403 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 53.5%.

Results

• bold 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	%	Citizens' League	David Duggan	4,937	45.49%	Independent	Joseph Clarke	3,583	33.02%	Independent	Alexander Livingstone	1,482	13.66%	Independent	Bickerton Pratt	498	4.59%	Independent	Samuel McCoppen	330	3.04%	Independent	Albert Stimmel	22	0.20%

Aldermen

Party		Candidate	Votes	Citizens' League	Joseph Adair	5,347	Labour	Rice Sheppard (South Side)	5,172	Citizens' League	Kenneth Alexander Blatchford	5,147	Citizens' League	Valentine Richards (South Side)	4,882	Citizens' League	James Collisson	4,801	Labour	Daniel Knott	4,170	Labour	James Findlay	3,881	Citizens' League	Izena Ross	3,845	Labour	E. E. Hyde	3,529	Independent	Archie Randall	3,525	Labour	H. Pallot	2,406	Citizens' League	S. W. Walker	1,735	Independent	L. T. Murray	1,419	Independent	E. G. Sutherland	1,198	Independent	Mrs. D. Lockman	1,077	Independent	M. F. Groat	915

Public school trustees

• W H Alexander - 6146
• E T Bishop - 5350
• L T Barclay - 4794
• C W Leonard - 3955

Separate (Catholic) school trustees

R Crossland, P M Dunne, Joseph Gariépy, and J J Murray (South Side) were acclaimed.

Single Transferable Vote Plebiscite

Shall the Council pass Bylaw No. 42 (1922), being a bylaw for providing for the taking of the votes of the Electors at all future Elections of Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Edmonton by the "Proportional Representation System" known as the "Single Transferable Vote"?

• Yes - 5664
• No - 3075

References

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