Edmonton municipal election, 1915
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The 1915 municipal election was held December 13, 1915 to elect a mayor and five aldermen to sit on 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...

 and four trustees to sit on each of the public and separate school boards.

There were ten aldermen on city council, but five of the positions were already filled: Hugh Calder
Hugh Calder
Hugh Alfred Calder was a real estate developer and politician in Alberta, Canada. He served as an alderman on Edmonton City Council between 1912 and 1916 and was a principle founder of Calder.-Early life:...

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

, James Ramsey, and Samuel Williamson were all elected to two year terms in 1914
Edmonton municipal election, 1914
The 1914 municipal election was held December 14, 1914 to elect a mayor and six aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council and three trustees to sit on each of the public and separate school boards....

 and were still in office.

There were seven trustees on the public school board, but three of the positions were already filled: Charles Gibbs
Charles Gibbs (Alberta politician)
Charles Lionel Gibbs was a politician in Alberta, Canada. He served as a municipal councillor in Edmonton from 1924 until his death and, concurrently, a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1926 until his death.-Early life:Gibbs was born November 11, 1877, in Newport, Monmouthshire,...

, J J McKenzie, and William Rea had been elected to two year terms in 1914. The same was true of the separate board, where A H Esch, Joseph Gariépy
Joseph Gariépy
Joseph Hormidas Gariépy was a politician in Alberta, Canada and a municipal councillor in Edmonton.-Biography:...

, and M J O'Farrell were continuing.

Voter turnout

There were 7235 ballots cast out of 17990 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 40.2%.

Aldermen

  • Robert Douglas - 5,488 - Property Owners
  • James Macfie MacDonald - 3,504 - Property Owners
  • Orlando Bush
    Orlando Bush
    Orlando Bush was a farmer, businessman and political figure in Ontario and Alberta. He represented Grenville in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Conservative member from 1890 to 1898....

    - 3,339 - Property Owners
  • Charles Wilson - 3,300 - Property Owners
  • William Campbell McArthur - 2,933 - Property Owners
  • James Kinney
    James Kinney
    James Andrew Kinney was a politician in Alberta, Canada and the first Labour member of the Edmonton City Council.Kinney was born in Ontario in 1869...

    - 2,857
  • C C Tatham - 2,428
  • Joseph Clarke
    Joseph Clarke
    Joseph Andrew Clarke was a Canadian politician and lawyer. He served twice as mayor of Edmonton, Alberta, was a candidate for election to the Canadian House of Commons and the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, and was a member of the Yukon Territorial Council .-Early life:Clarke was born in...

    - 1,633
  • Joseph Driscoll
    Joseph Driscoll (Canadian politician)
    Daniel Joseph Driscoll was a Canadian politician and a municipal councillor in Edmonton, Alberta.-Early life:...

     - 1,523
  • Rice Sheppard
    Rice Sheppard
    Rice Sheppard was a politician and farmers' activist in Alberta, Canada. He served on Edmonton City Council for many years, ran for mayoral, provincial, and federal office, and was an executive member of the United Farmers of Alberta.-Early life:Sheppard was born April 2, 1861 in Lambourn,...

    - 1,379
  • H H Hull - 1,359
  • Joseph Adair
    Joseph Adair
    Joseph Woods Adair was a politician in Alberta, Canada, a municipal councillor in Edmonton, and a candidate for election to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.-Biography:...

     - 1,146
  • Adevdat Boileau - 872
  • Frederick C. Humberstone - 461

Public school trustees

  • Walter Ramsey - 4180
  • Samuel Barnes - 3942
  • Henry Douglas
    Henry Douglas (Alberta politician)
    Henry Ward Beecher Douglas was a businessman and politician in Alberta, Canada. He served as an alderman on the Edmonton City Council from 1912 until 1913.-Early life:...

    - 3261
  • J A McPherson - 3200
  • W A Lewis - 2124
  • J S Wright - 2010
  • Avery Smith - 1353
  • Amy Keane - 601
  • Marion Seymour - 591

Separate (Catholic) school trustees

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

    - 444
  • D. J. Gilmurray - 420
  • I. Tremblay - 404
  • Joseph O'Neill - 389
  • M. J. Kelly - 359


(O'Neill was elected despite winning fewer votes than Kelly because a representative was needed from the south side of the North Saskatchewan River
North Saskatchewan River
The North Saskatchewan River is a glacier-fed river that flows east from the Canadian Rockies to central Saskatchewan. It is one of two major rivers that join to make up the Saskatchewan River....

.)
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