1921 Edmonton municipal election

The 1921 municipal election was held December 12, 1921 to elect a mayor and seven aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council and four trustees to sit on the public school board. F A French, Paul Jenvrin, Thomas Magee, and Joseph Henri Picard were acclaimed to two-year terms on the separate school board.

There were ten aldermen seats on city council, but three of the positions were still filled from the previous election: Joseph Adair, James Collisson, and Valentine Richards were all elected to two-year terms in 1920 and were still in office. William Campbell McArthur had also been elected to a two-year term, but had resigned in order to run for mayor. Andrew McLennan had also been elected to a two-year term only to resign. In order to fill these vacancies, Izena Ross and Kenneth Alexander Blatchford, the least popular of the top seven candidates, were elected to one-year terms.

There were seven trustees on the public school board, but only four posts were open - three of the positions were already filled: W H Alexander, E T Bishop, and William Rea had all been elected to two-year terms in 1920 and were still in office.

The same was true on the separate board. Only four posts were open - J Cormack, J J Murray, and Joseph Gariépy were continuing.

The 1921 election was the first in which a woman - Izena Ross - was elected to city council.

Voter turnout

There were 10943 ballots cast out of 33256 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 32.8%. (The vote count is much higher than that because each voter could cast up to seven votes in the aldermanic election.)

Results

Mayor

Party Candidate Votes %
     Citizens' League David Duggan 7,011 66.87%
IndependentWilliam Campbell McArthur3,22730.78%
IndependentAlbert Stimmel2462.35%

Aldermen

Izena Ross, elected in 1921, was the first woman to run as a candidate in an Edmonton municipal election.

Party Candidate Votes
     Citizens' League Charles Weaver 5,814
     Dominion Labour Party James East 4,968
     Citizens' League Thomas Malone
(South Side)
4,685
     Citizens' League Ambrose Bury 4,673
     Citizens' League Kenneth Alexander Blatchford 4,277
     Citizens' League Izena Ross 3,341
     Citizens' League Bickerton Pratt
(South Side)
3,256
IndependentLyman Theophilus Barclay3,119
     Dominion Labour Party James Findlay 3,112
     Dominion Labour Party E. E. Hyde 2,991
IndependentArchie Rendell2,562
IndependentA. Boileau2,322
IndependentS. D. Walker1,585
     Independent Labour Party George L. Ritchie 1,501
     Citizens' League L. T. Murray 1,486
IndependentMrs. A. S. Taylor1,324
     Independent Labour Party Mary Cantin 1,095
     Independent Labour Party J. E. White 982
IndependentHyman King936

Public school trustees

Party Candidate Votes
     Dominion Labour Party Samuel Barnes 4,652
     Citizens' League Ralph Bellamy 4,512
     Dominion Labour Party Frank Scott 4,381
     Citizens' League Alex C. Grant 4,172
     Dominion Labour Party Frank Crang
(South Side)
3,951
     Citizens' League Oscar F. Strong 3,810
     Citizens' League W. H. Speer 3,523
     Dominion Labour Party Raymond C. Ghostley 3,215

Under the minimum South Side representation rule, Crang was elected over Grant.

Separate (Catholic) school trustees

F A French (South Side), Paul Jenvrin, Thomas Magee, and Joseph Henri Picard were acclaimed.

References

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