The 1934 municipal election was held November 14, 1934 to elect a mayor and six 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 three trustees to sit on each of the public and separate school boards.

There were ten aldermen on city council, but four of the positions were already filled: Margaret Crang, Harry Ainlay

Harry Dean Ainlay

Harry Dean Ainlay was a Canadian educator, politician, mayor of Edmonton, Alberta, and candidate for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, and the Canadian House of Commons....

, Ralph Bellamy, and James Findlay were all elected to two year terms in 1933

Edmonton municipal election, 1933

The 1933 Edmonton municipal election was held November 8, 1933 to elect a mayor and five aldermen to sit on City Council and four trustees to sit on each of the public and separate school boards....

 and were still in office. 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,...

 was also elected to a two year term in 1933, but had resigned in order to run for mayor; accordingly, Athelstan Bissett was elected to a one year term.

There were seven trustees on the public school board, but four of the positions were already filled: Albert Ottewell, Frank Crang, Walter Morrish, and Sidney Bowcott

Sidney Bowcott

Sidney Bowcott Bowcott immigrated to Canada in 1905, and then moved to Edmonton in 1907. He spent 9 years on the Edmonton Public School Board, and then spent 10 years on the Edmonton council. He was president of the Montgomery Legion of the Royal Canadian Legion for a time as well...

 had all been elected to two year terms in 1933 and were still in office. The same was true of the separate school board, where Charles Gariepy

Charles Gariepy

Charles Edward Gariepy was a Canadian politician. He was elected to the separate Catholic school board from 1929-1937...

, T Malone, Thomas Magee, and J Tansey were continuing.

Voter turnout

There were 27683 ballots cast out of 45589 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 60.7%.

Mayor

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Independent Labour	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...	9,977	36.35%	Civic Government Association	James Harwood Ogilvie	9,575	34.89%	Labour	Daniel Kennedy Knott Daniel Kennedy Knott Daniel Kennedy Knott was a labour activist and politician in Alberta, Canada and a mayor of Edmonton.-Early life:Dan Knott was born in Collingwood, Ontario on July 1, 1879 to Hugh Knott and Margaret Wright...	5,996	21.85%	Independent	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,...	1,849	6.74%	Independent	Frederick Speed	50	0.18%

Aldermen

Party		Candidate	Votes	Civic Government Association	Hugh MacDonald	14,116	Civic Government Association	John Wesley Fry John Wesley Fry John Wesley Fry was a politician in Alberta, Canada and a mayor of Edmonton.-Early life:John Fry was born in Woodstock, Ontario on December 5, 1876. He grew up in Woodstock and Owen Sound and moved to Regina, Saskatchewan in 1897 to attend Normal School...	13,554	Civic Government Association	Dick Foote	12,436	Civic Government Association	John McCreath	11,990	Civic Government Association	Athelstan Bissett	11,576	Labour	James East James East James East 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. He was also an ardent monetary reformer.-Early life:East was born in Bolton, Ontario on...	10,654	Civic Government Association	James Ponton	10,651	Labour	E. E. Hyde	9,127	Labour	Sidney Parsons Sidney Parsons Sidney Parsons was a Canadian politician, mayor of Edmonton, Alberta, and candidate for election to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.-Early life:...	8,102	Labour	L. E. Price	6,991	Labour	W. H. Miller	6,453	Independent Labour	Walter Clevely	5,887	Independent Labour	C. W. Lee	4,922	Independent Labour	Charles Martin Keily	3,930	Independent Labour	R. H. Le Maitre	3,883	Independent Labour	E. C. Holub	3,410	Independent	Peter Glassman	3,247	Communist	George H. Salter	2,681	Independent	J. A. Leonard	1,731

Public school trustees

Party		Candidate	Votes	Civic Government Association	Frederick Casselman Frederick Clayton Casselman Lieutenant Frederick Clayton Casselman was a soldier, barrister, teacher, as well as a Canadian municipal and federal level politician.-Military service:...	13,543	Labour	Samuel Barnes	12,681	Civic Government Association	Izena Ross	12,230	Civic Government Association	E. E. Howard	11,046	Labour	H. H. Owen	7,758	Independent	E. A. Roe	7,620

Separate (Catholic) school trustees

• Adrien Crowe - 1814
• J O Pilon - 2109
• J O’Hara - 1886

Names and vote totals of defeated candidates are no longer available.