The 1904 municipal election was held December 12, 1904 for the purpose of electing a mayor and eight aldermen to sit on the Edmonton City Council

Edmonton City Council

The Edmonton City Council is the governing body of the City of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.Members represent wards throughout the city, and are known as councillors. Until 2010, Edmonton was divided in six wards with two councillors representing citizens in each ward...

, as well as five public school trustees and five separate school trustees. It was Edmonton's first election as a city, and the first in which there were eight aldermanic positions instead of six. Because of this new composition of city council, all aldermanic positions were elected instead of only half as had been the case in previous elections and would again be the case in subsequent elections. Accordingly, even though Edmund Grierson

Edmund Grierson

Edmund Edward DeLesert Grierson was a politician in Alberta, Canada and a municipal councillor in Edmonton.-Biography:...

, Charles May, and Joseph Henri Picard

Joseph Henri Picard

Joseph Henri Picard was a politician in Alberta, Canada and a municipal councillor in Edmonton.-Biography:...

 had been elected to two year terms in the 1903 election

Edmonton municipal election, 1903

The 1903 municipal election was held December 14, 1903 for the purpose of electing a mayor and three aldermen to sit on the Edmonton Town Council, as well as five public school trustees and five separate school trustees...

, their terms were truncated. May and Picard decided to stand for re-election, while Grierson did not.

In order to re-establish staggered aldermanic terms, the top four finishers were elected to two year terms while the next four were elected to one year terms.

Voter turnout

There were 743 ballots cast in the 1904 election. Information on the number of eligible voters is no longer available.

Aldermen

• Charles May - 471
• John Boyle - 349
• Kenneth McLeod
  Kenneth McLeod
  Kenneth Archibald McLeod , was a politician in Alberta, Canada and a municipal councillor in Edmonton. He was also the builder of the McLeod Building, the Edmonton's first skyscraper.-Early life and career:...
  
  - 330
• Thomas Bellamy
  Thomas Bellamy
  Thomas Bellamy was a politician in Alberta, Canada and a municipal councillor in Edmonton.-Biography:Bellamy was born in Durham County, Ontario in 1853. He moved to Portage la Prairie, Manitoba in 1881 after marrying Lora Davis in 1875...
  
  - 310
• William Clark - 277
• Joseph Henri Picard
  Joseph Henri Picard
  Joseph Henri Picard was a politician in Alberta, Canada and a municipal councillor in Edmonton.-Biography:...
  
  - 262
• Daniel Fraser - 257
• William Antrobus Griesbach
  William Antrobus Griesbach
  Major General William Antrobus Griesbach CB CMG DSO was a Canadian politician, decorated soldier, mayor of Edmonton, and member of the Canadian House of Commons and Senate of Canada.-Early life:...
  
  - 239
• Thomas Grindley
  Thomas Grindley
  Thomas Maltby Grindley was a politician in Alberta, Canada and a municipal councillor in Edmonton.-Biography:...
  
   - 231
• Gustave Koerman
• Peter Butchart - 204
• Donald MacDonald - 171
• William Deyl - 170
• Herbert Charles Wilson
  Herbert Charles Wilson
  Herbert Charles Wilson was a Canadian politician and physician. He served as mayor of the Town of Edmonton and Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the North-West Territories....
  
   - 162
• Frank Haldane - 161
• Samuel Paton - 143
• W S Weeks - 80

Public school trustees

Arthur Cushing

Arthur Cushing

Arthur Thompson Cushing was a politician in Alberta, Canada and a municipal councillor in Edmonton. His brother, William Henry Cushing, was a mayor of Calgary, while another brother, Alfred Cushing, served as alderman in that city.-Biography:Cushing was born in Kenilworth, Ontario February 10, 1869...

, H A Gray, Kenneth McLeod

Kenneth McLeod

Kenneth Archibald McLeod , was a politician in Alberta, Canada and a municipal councillor in Edmonton. He was also the builder of the McLeod Building, the Edmonton's first skyscraper.-Early life and career:...

, Alex Taylor, and H C Taylor were elected. Detailed results are no longer available.

Separate (Catholic) school trustees

N D Beck, J Bilodeau, H Morel, Joseph Henri Picard

Joseph Henri Picard

Joseph Henri Picard was a politician in Alberta, Canada and a municipal councillor in Edmonton.-Biography:...

, and J Pomerleau were elected. Detailed results are no longer available.