Edmonton municipal election, 1941

The 1941 municipal election was held November 12, 1941 to elect a mayor and five aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council and four trustees to sit on the public school board (William Wilde, Robert Tighe, Thomas Malone, and Romeo Bouchard were acclaimed to two year terms on the separate school board). Events 764 - Tibetan troops occupy Chang'an, the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, for fifteen days Year 1941 ( MCMXLI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (the link will display 1941 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Edmonton City Council is the governing body of the City of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

There were ten aldermen on city council, but five of the positions were already filled: James Ogilvie, Sidney Bowcott, Athelstan Bissett, Sidney Parsons, and Frederick John Mitchell were all elected to two year terms in 1940 and were still in office. Sidney Parsons (born 1893 died April 22, 1955) was a Canadian Politician, Mayor of Edmonton Alberta, and candidate Frederick John Mitchell (born December 4, 1893; died December 25, 1979) was a politician in Alberta, Canada, a mayor The 1940 municipal election was held November 13, 1940 to elect a mayor and seven aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council.

There were seven trustees on the public school board, but three of the positions were already filled: Izena Ross, E M Gunderson, and W G McConachie had been acclaimed to two year terms in 1940 and were still in office. The same was true of the separate board, where Adrien Crowe, James O’Hara, and J O Pilon were continuing.

1 Voter Turnout
2 Results
3 References

Voter Turnout

There were 17566 ballots cast out of 56808 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 30. 9%.

Results

(bold indicates elected, italics indicate incumbent)

Mayor

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	John Wesley Fry	11,632	68. John Wesley Fry (born December 5, 1876, died December 23, 1946) was a politician in Alberta, Canada and a mayor of 78%
	Citizens' Committee	George Campbell	5,281	31. 22%

Aldermen

	Candidate	Votes
Labour	Harry Ainlay	9,134
Citizens' Committee	James McCrie Douglas	8,113
Civic Progressive Association	Gwendolen Clarke	7,369
Citizens' Committee	Charles Gariepy	6,718
Civic Progressive Association	Guy Patterson	6,378
Civic Progressive Association	Frank Crang	6,082
Independent	Dan Knott	6,070
Citizens' Committee	John E. Harry Ainlay redirects here For the school of the same name see Harry Ainlay Composite High School. James McCrie Douglas (born February 5, 1867; died March 16, 1950) was a politician in Alberta, Canada, a mayor of In the Edmonton municipal elections Charles Gariepy was acclaimed to the separate Catholic school board from 1929-1937 Daniel Kennedy Knott (1889 – November 26, 1959) was a labour activist and politician in Alberta, Canada and a mayor of Edmonton Sydie	5,251
Citizens' Committee	Milo M. Case	4,921
Citizens' Committee	Albert E. Knowler	4,485
Independent	Joseph Adair	4,148
Independent	Mack McColl	4,053
Labour	W. Joseph Woods Adair (born 1877 died November 1, 1960) was a politician in Alberta, Canada, a municipal councillor in Edmonton H. O'Neill	3,928
Independent	Rice Sheppard	3,691

Public School Trustees

	Candidate	Votes
Citizens' Committee	Melvin Downey	10,993
Citizens' Committee	Roy Sutherland	10,794
Citizens' Committee	Albert Ottewell	10,532
Citizens' Committee	James Hyndman	10,532
Labour	William Tree	6,604

Separate (Catholic) School Trustees

William Wilde, Robert Tighe, Thomas Malone, and Romeo Bouchard were acclaimed. Rice Sheppard (born April 2 1861 died August 26 1947 was a politician and farmers' activist in Alberta, Canada. James Duncan Hyndman (July 29 1874 - October 11 1971 was a Canadian politician lawyer and judge

References

Edmonton election results (City of Edmonton website)

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