The 1928 municipal election was held December 10, 1928 to elect a mayor and six aldermen to join

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and three trustees to join the public school board during the year of 1929 and 1930. Three trustees were elected by acclamation to join the separate school board for 1929 and 1930. There were also six bylaws put to a citywide vote. 10 aldermen sat on city council at any one time. Four of the positions were already filled: Ralph Bellamy, A C Sloane,

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, and L S C Dineen were all elected to two-year terms in

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and were still in office.

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had also been elected to a two-year term, but had resigned in order to run for mayor.

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(SS) was elected in the 1928 election to finish his term. Labour did well in this election, electing four new alderman (counting farmer activist Sheppard) to add to East and Dineen who were continue to serve in 1929. These six out of 11 seats would give Labour a majority position in 1929. There were seven trustees on the public school board, but four of the positions were already filled: Frank Crang (SS),

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, Albert Ottewell (SS), and

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had all been elected to two-year terms in 1927 and were still in office. The same was true on the separate board, where Robert Crossland (SS),

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, Thomas Magee, and B J Tansey (SS) were continuing. This election marked Edmonton's return to the at-large

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and

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electoral systems, under which each voter had as many votes as there were seats to fill and there were no wards to divide the city voters, after five elections of using

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/PR for aldermanic elections and

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for mayoral contests where more than two candidates were in the running.

Voter turnout

14,971 voters cast ballots, out of 37,915 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 39.4%. (The vote count is much more than the number of ballots cast due to the block-voting system in use for election of councillors and school trustees.)

Results

* bold or 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

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, amalgamated into Edmonton on February 1, 1912.

Mayor

Aldermen

Public school trustees

Separate (Catholic) school trustees

A J Crowe (SS), ''J O Pilon'', and ''W D Trainor'' were acclaimed.

Money Bylaws

* Money items required a minimum two-thirds "Yes" majority to approve the expenditure

$86,525 for paving

*Yes - 4,305 *No - 824

$50,000 for gravelling

*Yes - 4,288 *No - 802

$23,860 for airport improvements

*Yes - 3,065 *No - 1,692

$292,688 for a hospital

*Yes - 4,362 *No - 998

$50,000 for a firehall

*Yes - 3,735 *No - 1,169

$100,000 for fire equipment

*Yes - 4,044 *No - 935

References

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