The 1935 municipal election was held November 13, 1935 to elect a mayor and five aldermen to sit on
Edmonton City Council
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Edmonton currently has one mayor and twelve city councillors. Elections are held every four years. The most recent was held in 2021, and the next is in 20 ...
and four trustees to sit on the public school board, while four trustees were acclaimed to the separate school board. Voters also approved a requirement that candidates for city council be required to own property.
There were ten aldermen on city council, but five of the positions were already filled: Hugh MacDonald,
John Wesley Fry
John Wesley Fry (December 5, 1876 – December 23, 1946) was a politician in Alberta, Canada and a mayor of Edmonton.
Biography Early life
John Fry was born in Woodstock, Ontario on December 5, 1876. He grew up in Woodstock and Owen Sound and ...
, Dick Foote, John McCreath, and
James East
James East (October 7, 1871 – June 23, 1940) was a politician and labour activist in Alberta, Canada. He was for a time and the longest-serving alderman in Edmonton's history, and was a defeated candidate at the provincial and federal levels ...
were all elected to two-year terms in
1934
Events
January–February
* January 1 – The International Telecommunication Union, a specialist agency of the League of Nations, is established.
* January 15 – The 8.0 1934 Nepal–Bihar earthquake, Nepal–Bihar earthquake strik ...
and were still in office.
This election saw emergence of two new civic political parties. Candidates for the first time ran in an Edmonton municipal election under the Social Credit label, excited after winning majority government in the 1935 provincial election. The Tax Reform League, an anti-Social Credit organization, also ran candidates. carrying on the anti-tax work that the Civic Government Association had conducted in previous elections.
[Tom Monto, Protest and Progress. Crang Publishing/Alhambra Books (2012), p.229]
There were seven trustees on the public school board, but three of the positions were already filled:
Samuel Barnes,
Frederick Casselman, and Izena Ross had all been elected to two-year terms in 1934 and were still in office. The same was true of the separate school board, where A J Crowe (SS), J O Pilon, and J O'Hara were continuing.
Electoral system
Election of mayor and other single members conducted using
First past the post
In a first-past-the-post electoral system (FPTP or FPP), formally called single-member plurality voting (SMP) when used in single-member districts or informally choose-one voting in contrast to ranked voting, or score voting, voters cast their ...
.
Election of aldermen and schoolboard trustees conducted using
Plurality block voting
Plurality block voting, also known as plurality-at-large voting, block vote or block voting (BV) is a non- proportional voting system for electing representatives in multi-winner elections. Each voter may cast as many votes as the number of sea ...
.
Voter turnout
There were 19,984 voters voting out of 48,003 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 41.6%.
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
North Saskatchewan River, amalgamated into Edmonton on February 1, 1912.
Mayor
Aldermen
Public school trustees
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Separate (Catholic) school trustees
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Charles Gariepy'', ''Thomas Malone'', R D Tighe, and William Wilde (SS) were acclaimed.
Property Qualification Plebiscite
Shall a candidate for Mayor or Alderman be required to have a property qualification?
*Yes - 14,478
*No - 4,202
References
''Election History'', City of Edmonton: Elections and Census Office
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1935
Events
January
* January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude Franco-Italian Agreement of 1935, an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims.
* ...
1935 elections in Canada
1935 in Alberta