The 1956 municipal election was held October 17, 1956 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 each of the public and separate school boards. The electorate also decided nine plebiscite questions. 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 one year into a two year term.

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

Abe William Miller

Abe William Miller was a Canadian lawyer and politician. He served in office on both civic and provincial levels of government in the province of Alberta...

, Cliffard Roy, Hu Harries

Hu Harries

Hu Harries was a Canadian economist and politician.Born in Strathmore, Alberta, he received a Bachelor of Science in agriculture from the University of Alberta in 1945. He also received a Master’s degree in political science from the University of Toronto and a Doctorate in economics from Iowa...

, James Falconer

James Falconer

James Falconer was a Scottish solicitor and Liberal Party politician.-Family and education:Falconer was born in Carmyllie, Forfarshire, the son of Donald Falconer. He was educated at Arbroath High School and Edinburgh University where he obtained his MA degree. He married Ada Kennedy. ...

, and William Connelly were all elected to two year terms in 1955

Edmonton municipal election, 1955

The 1955 municipal election was held October 19, 1955 to elect five aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council and six trustees to sit on the public school board...

 and were still in office.

There were seven trustees on the public school board, but four of the positions were already filled: Mary Butterworth, Herbert Smith, James Hanna, and William Henning were elected to two year terms in 1955 and were still in office. The same was true on the separate board, where Amby Lenon, Andre Dechene, Orest Demco, and Catherine McGrath were continuing.

Voter turnout

There were 13360 ballots cast out of 133537 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 10.0%.

Aldermen

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Party		Candidate	Votes
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:...	9,984		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...	9,284		Citizens' Committee	Laurette Douglas	9,233		Citizens' Committee	Giffard Main	8,838	SS	Citizens' Committee	Donald Bowen	8,774	SS	Labour	David Graham	6,424		Labour	Charles Gilbert	5,560	SS	Independent	Tempest Aitken	4,329	SS	Independent	Julia Kiniski Julia Kiniski Julia Kiniski , was an aldermen on the Edmonton City Council from 1963 until her death in 1969...	3,999

Public school trustees

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Party		Candidate	Votes
Citizens' Committee	John Page John Percy Page John Percy Page also known as J. Percy Page was a Canadian teacher, basketball coach, provincial politician, and the eighth Lieutenant Governor of Alberta.- Early life, education :...	10,354	Citizens' Committee	John Thorogood	8,942	Citizens' Committee	William Orobko	7,220	Independent	Rebecca Stillwell	5,882

Separate (Catholic) school trustees

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Party		Candidate	Votes
Independent	Vincent Dantzer	2,068		Independent	John Bernard Kane	1,846		Independent	Leo Lemieux	1,813	SS	Independent	James O'Hara	1,739

Paving

Shall Council pass a bylaw creating a debenture debt in the sum of $1,000,000.00 for the City’s share of standard paving on arterial and residential streets?

• Yes - 8673
• No - 1193

Parks

Shall Council pass a bylaw creating a debenture debt in the sum of $500,000.00 for the improvement of City parks, and the commencement of work on undeveloped parkland, circles, buffer zones, ravine side boulevards and similar works, including, necessary new roads, sewers and drains into parkland?

• Yes - 8246
• No - 1444

Health Clinic

Shall Council pass a bylaw creating a debenture debt in the sum of $60,000.00 for the purpose of a health clinic to provide inoculation services, supervision of babies and pre-school children and preventative dental services?

• Yes - 8755
• No - 1178

Royal Alexandra Hospital

Shall Council pass a bylaw creating a debenture debt in the sum of $350,000.00 to provide equipment and furnishings at the Royal Alexandra Hospital, miscellaneous improvements to the interior and exterior of the Hospital?

• Yes - 7213
• No - 2433

Traffic Lights

Shall Council pass a bylaw creating a debenture debt in the sum of $150,000.00 in order to purchase and install additional traffic lights at various locations within the City?

• Yes - 7987
• No - 1607

Fire Hall

Shall Council pass a bylaw creating a debenture debt in the sum of $125,000.00 for the purpose of constructing a fire hall in the vicinity of 97th Street and 127th Avenue?

• Yes - 7645
• No - 1741

Royal Alexandra Hospital - Nurses Residence

Shall Council pass a bylaw creating a debenture debt in the sum of $2,700,000.00 for the purpose of constructing at the Royal Alexandra Hospital nurses residence and training school?

• Yes - 6921
• No - 2695