1920 Edmonton municipal election

Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates The 1920 municipal election was held December 13, 1920, to elect a mayor and six aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council and three trustees to sit on the public school board. J Cormack, Joseph Gariépy and J J Murray were acclaimed to two-year terms on the separate school board. In the election's only plebiscite, Edmontonians rejected a proposal to pay their aldermen for the second consecutive election.

There were ten aldermen on city council, but four of the positions were already filled: Percy Abbott, John Bowen, James East and Rice Sheppard were all elected to two-year terms in 1919 and were still in office. J. A. Kinney had also been elected to a two-year term in 1919, but had resigned. Accordingly, Samuel McCoppen, being the fifth most popular candidate, 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, J. W. H. Williams, J A McPherson, and Frank Scott had all been elected to two-year terms in 1919 and were still in office. The same was true on the separate board, where Joseph Henri Picard, Paul Jenvrin, Thomas Magee, and Thomas Malone were continuing.

Voter turnout

There were 14,710 ballots cast out of 26,903 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 54.6%.

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' Progressive League	David Duggan	7,537	51.78%	Labour	Joseph Clarke	6,974	47.90%	Independent	Albert Stimmel	47	0.32%

Aldermen

Party		Candidate	Votes	Citizens' Progressive League	Joseph Adair	7,023	Citizens' Progressive League	Andrew McLennan	6,996	Citizens' Progressive League	Valentine Richards (South Side)	6,385	Citizens' Progressive League	James Collisson	6,280	Citizens' Progressive League	William Campbell McArthur	5,679	Dominion Labour	Samuel McCoppen	5,478	Dominion Labour	A. Boileau	5,133	Citizens' Progressive League	W. H. Speer	5,111	Dominion Labour	Alfred Farmilo	4,638	Dominion Labour	Daniel Kennedy Knott	4,625	Dominion Labour	J. J. Murray	4,574	Dominion Labour	G. Latham	4,312	Independent	John McKenzie	3,040	Independent Labor Party	George L. Ritchie	1,610	Independent Labor Party	Joseph White	957	Independent	Hyman King	760

Public school trustees

Multiple non-transferable voting was used - each voter cast up to three votes.

Party		Candidate	Votes	Citizens' Progressive League	Mrs. E. T. (Thryza) Bishop	6,988	Citizens' Progressive League	William Hardy Alexander	6,711	Citizens' Progressive League	William Rea	6,667	Labour	J. W. B. Williams	5,599	Labour	Frank Crang	5,444	Labour	J. Heron	4,137

Separate (Catholic) school trustees

Party		Candidate	Votes	Independent	J. Cormack	acclaimed	Independent	Joseph Gariépy	acclaimed	Independent	J. J. Murray (South Side)	acclaimed

Plebiscite

Should Aldermen be paid?
	Votes	%
Yes	4,234	32.46%
No	8,811	67.54%

References

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