The second of two 1912 municipal elections was held December 9, 1912 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 three trustees to sit on each of the public and separate school boards.

There were, at the time, ten aldermen on city council, but five of them were already filled. 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:...

, John Tipton

John Tipton (Alberta politician)

John Gaddis Tipton was a Canadian and American politician, lawyer, and coal miner. He was an alderman in Strathcona from 1908 until 1911 and on Edmonton City Council from 1912 until 1913, and was a major force for the amalgamation of the two cities, which was effected February 1, 1912.-Early...

, John Lundy

John Lundy

John Egbert Lundy was a politician in Alberta, Canada and a municipal councillor in Edmonton.-Biography:...

, and Thomas J. Walsh

Thomas J. Walsh (Alberta politician)

Thomas J. Walsh was a politician in Alberta, Canada. He served as alderman on the Edmonton City Council from 1912 until 1913.-Biography:...

 had been elected to two year terms earlier in the year

Edmonton municipal election, February 1912

On September 27, 1911, the voters of Edmonton approved by plebiscite the amalgamation of Edmonton with Strathcona. This amalgamation was effected February 1, 1912, and, in anticipation of this, no election was held December 11, 1911 as would normally have been required...

 and were still in office. Charles Gowan

Charles Gowan

Charles Gowan was an American and Canadian pioneer and politician. He served as mayor of Antigo, Wisconsin and as a municipal councillor in Edmonton, Alberta.-Biography:...

 had also been elected to a two year term, but had resigned May 14 and had been replaced in a by-election

Edmonton municipal by-election, 1912

On May 7, 1912 Herman McInnes resigned from Edmonton City Council. One week later, on May 14, Charles Gowan did the same. On June 7, a by-election was held to replace both aldermen. The first place candidate would replace Gowan, who had been elected to a two year term in February, while the...

 by Alexander Livingstone

Alexander Livingstone (Alberta politician)

Alexander Livingstone was a Canadian politician and municipal councillor in Edmonton, Alberta.-Early life:...

, who was also still in office.

There were continuing members of both boards of trustees as well: Samuel Barnes, Frank Crang, B H Nichols, and Walter Ramsey were in the midst of two year terms on the public board, while John Cashman, James Collisson

James Collisson

James Thomas Joseph Collisson was a politician in Alberta, Canada, a long-time municipal councillor in Edmonton, and a candidate for election to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.-Early life:...

, and Joseph Henri Picard

Joseph Henri Picard

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

 were still in office on the public board.

The election of three trustees to the separate system brought the total number of separate trustees to six, where it had hitherto been five.

Voter turnout

There were 6060 ballots cast out of 17000 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 35.6%.

Mayor

• William Short
  William Short (Alberta politician)
  William Short was a politician in Alberta, Canada and a two time mayor of Edmonton.-Biography:Short was born July 11, 1866 near Elora, Ontario and studied law at the University of Toronto before coming to Alberta in 1889. He articled to James Alexander Lougheed from 1891 until 1894, when he was...
  
  - 3732
• W J Magrath - 1220
• 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...
  
   - 1111

Aldermen

• Harry Smith
  Harry Smith (Alberta politician)
  Henry Richard Smith was a politician and physician in Alberta, Canada. He served on Edmonton City Council from 1912 until 1914 and as president of the Edmonton Conservative Association and the Alberta Medical Association.-Early life:Harry Smith was born September 11, 1873 in New Hamburg, Ontario...
  
  - 3369
• 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...
  
  - 2662
• Joseph Driscoll
  Joseph Driscoll (Canadian politician)
  Daniel Joseph Driscoll was a Canadian politician and a municipal councillor in Edmonton, Alberta.-Early life:...
  
  - 2437
• Gustave May
  Gustave May
  Gustave Henry May was a photographer and politician in Alberta, Canada. He co-operated the first photo-engraving business in western Canada and served on the Edmonton City Council from 1912 until 1914.-Biography:...
  
  - 2128
• James Macfie MacDonald - 1475
• Alex Stuart - 1306
• Charles Gowan
  Charles Gowan
  Charles Gowan was an American and Canadian pioneer and politician. He served as mayor of Antigo, Wisconsin and as a municipal councillor in Edmonton, Alberta.-Biography:...
  
   - 1223
• 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:...
  
  - 1162 (South Side)
• Samuel Williamson - 1120
• C B Beats - 958
• William Vogel - 881
• F M McQueen - 714
• William Campbell McArthur - 668
• F Sillitoe - 562
• E S McQuaid - 560
• William Murray - 466
• John Hoyle - 303

Public school trustees

• Kenneth W. MacKenzie
  Kenneth W. MacKenzie
  Kenneth W. MacKenzie was a politician in Alberta, Canada and a two-time mayor of Edmonton.-Biography:MacKenzie was born on a farm near Lucknow, Ontario on February 3, 1862. He left school during his early teens, but completed his schooling after losing the use of his left hand in an accident in...
  
  - 2,413
• Alex Butchart - 2390
• John Park - 2053
• J G McKenzie - 1930 (South Side)
• J M Clindinin - 1591
• Herbert Crawford
  Herbert Crawford
  Herbert Howard Crawford was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada.Crawford attempted a run at Edmonton municipal politics running for the position of Public School Trustee in the December 1912 Edmonton Municipal Election...
  
   - 1563
• D McLeod - 813

Separate (Catholic) school trustees

Wilfrid Gariépy

Wilfrid Gariépy

Wilfrid Gariepy was a Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and provincial cabinet minister, member of the Canadian House of Commons, and municipal councillor in Edmonton.-Early life:...

, M J O'Farrell, and Milton Martin were acclaimed.