1936 Edmonton municipal election

The 1936 municipal election was held November 12, 1936 to elect a mayor and five aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council and three trustees to sit on the public school board (Adrien Crowe, J O Pilon, and J O'Hara were acclaimed to two-year terms on the separate school board). Voters also rejected a proposal to extend the mayor's term to two years. The election would normally have been held on November 11 (the rule at the time being that the municipal election would be held on the second Wednesday of November), but was delayed by a day owing to the Armistice Day holiday.

There were ten aldermen on city council, but five of the positions were already filled: Margaret Crang, Elisha East, Guy Patterson, Walter Clevely, and Charles Gould were all elected to two-year terms in 1935 and were still in office.

There were seven trustees on the public school board, but four of the positions were already filled: Walter Morrish, Frank Crang, Albert Ottewell, and Sidney Bowcott had all been elected to two-year terms in 1935 and were still in office. The same was true of the separate school board, where Charles Gariepy, Thomas Malone, R D Tighe, and William Wilde were continuing.

Voter turnout

There were 29300 ballots cast out of 50670 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 57.8%.

Results

(bold indicates elected, italics indicate incumbent)

Mayor

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Civic Youth Association	Joseph Clarke	12,992	44.72%	Citizens' Committee	James McCrie Douglas	12,417	42.74%	United People's League	Harry Dean Ainlay	3,403	11.71%
	Independent	Dick Foote	184	0.63%
	Independent	Frederick Speed	54	0.19%

Aldermen

Party		Candidate	Votes	Citizens' Committee	Hugh MacDonald	14,264	Citizens' Committee	John Wesley Fry	13,094	Citizens' Committee	James Ogilvie	12,787	Citizens' Committee	John McCreath	12,054	Citizens' Committee	Athelstan Bissett	11,978	Social Credit	Rice Sheppard	11,612	Social Credit	Daniel Powers	11,612	Social Credit	W. P. Bullock	9,549
	Independent	George O'Leary	8,414	Civic Youth Association	Ernest Edward Howard	7,323	United People's League	James East	5,850	United People's League	James Findlay	5,134
	Independent	Dan Knott	3,939
	Independent	Joseph Adair	3,474	United People's League	Herbert John Pallot	3,011
	Independent	Charles Martin Keily	727

Public school trustees

Party		Candidate	Votes	Citizens' Committee	Frederick Casselman	14,301	Citizens' Committee	Izena Ross	13,974	Citizens' Committee	Armour Ford	13,102	Social Credit	A. D. Bruce	9,452	Social Credit	Mary Ann Gilchrist	9,202	United People's League	A. Richardson	4,706	United People's League	Hugh Critchlow	2,858

Separate (Catholic) school trustees

Adrien Crowe, J O Pilon, and J O'Hara were acclaimed.

Mayoral Term Plebiscite

Are you in favour of the Mayor holding office for the term of two years?

• Yes - 12511
• No - 15320

References

City of Edmonton: Edmonton Elections