The 1952 municipal election was held October 15, 1952 to elect 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 three trustees to sit on the separate school board (Charles Cummins, Robert Rae, and Harry Fowler were acclaimed to two year terms on the public board). There was no election for mayor, as William Hawrelak

William Hawrelak

William Hawrelak was a politician in Alberta, Canada, the longest-serving mayor in Edmonton's history, and a candidate for election to the Canadian House of Commons.-Early life:...

 was halfway through his two year term. The electorate also decided four plebiscite questions.

There were ten aldermen on city council, but five of the positions were already filled:
Harold Tanner

Harold E. Tanner

Harold E. Tanner was a service man, teacher and Canadian politician. He served as an elected representative on both the civic and provincial levels of government in the province of Alberta. He served as an Alderman on Edmonton City Council from 1946 to 1955...

, Abe Miller

Abe William Miller

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, Rupert Clare, Violet Field, and Al Larson were all elected to two year terms in 1951

Edmonton municipal election, 1951

The 1951 municipal election was held November 7, 1951 to elect a mayor and five aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council and four trustees to sit on the separate school board...

 and were still in office.

There were seven trustees on the public school board, but four of the positions were already filled:
William Webber, Mary Butterworth, J W K Shortreed, and John Thorogood had been acclaimed to two year terms in 1951ṣ and were still in office. The same was true on the separate board, where Andre Dechene, William Sereda, Catherine McGrath, and Amby Lenon were continuing.

This was the first election to be held the third Wednesday in October instead of the first Wednesday in November, as had previously been the rule. It was also the first election in which there were more than one hundred thousand eligible voters.

Voter turnout

There were 12800 ballots cast out of 101521 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 12.6%.

Results

(bold indicates elected, italics indicate incumbent, SS denotes candidate from the south side of the North Saskatchewan River

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)

Aldermen

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Party		Candidate	Votes
Citizens' Committee	Edwin Clarke	10,617		Citizens' Committee	Richmond Francis Hanna Richmond Francis Hanna Richmond Francis Lionel Hanna was an insurance salesman, a Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Airforce, a member of Edmonton Municipal Council and served as a Canadian federal politician from 1953 to 1957....	10,532	SS	Citizens' Committee	Frederick John Mitchell Frederick John Mitchell Frederick John Mitchell was a politician in Alberta, Canada, a mayor of Edmonton, and a candidate for election to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.-Early life:...	9,502		Citizens' Committee	James MacDonald	9,200	SS	Citizens' Committee	Ethel Wilson Ethel Sylvia Wilson Ethel Sylvia Wilson was a seamstress, labour activist and a municipal and provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. She served as a member of Edmonton City Council from 1952 to 1966 and as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1959 to 1971...	7,039		Independent	Thomas Andrew Graham	6,153		Independent	Mack Lyle	5,567	SS	Independent labour	Carl Berg	4,563

Public school trustees

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Party		Candidate	Votes
Citizens' Committee	Charles Cummins	Acclaimed	Citizens' Committee	Robert Rae	Acclaimed	Citizens' Committee	Harry Fowler	Acclaimed

Separate (Catholic) school trustees

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Party		Candidate	Votes
Independent	Francis Killeen	1,339		Independent	James O'Hara	1,310		Independent	Joseph Pilon	1,306		Independent	Adrian Crowe	1,170	SS	Independent	William Ditto	855	SS

Paving

Shall Council pass a bylaw creating a debenture debt in the sum of $1,250,000.00 for the City’s share of paving residential and arterial streets?

• Yes - 7645
• No - 1185

Engineering Equipment

Shall Council pass a bylaw creating a debenture debt in the sum of $175,000.00 to purchase Engineers Department equipment consisting of road graders, street flushers, street sweepers and earthmovers??

• Yes - 7446
• No - 1288

Incinerator

Shall Council pass a bylaw creating a debenture debt in the sum of $550,000.00 in order to undertake the construction of a new Incinerator Building and the necessary furnaces for garbage and refuse disposal?

• Yes - 7363
• No - 1363

Royal Alexandra Hospital Maternity Wing

Shall Council pass a bylaw creating a debenture debt in the sum of $825,000.00 in order to finish building and to equip and furnish the maternity wing of the Royal Alexandra Hospital?

• Yes - 7363
• No - 1363