1943 Edmonton municipal election

The 1943 municipal election was held November 10, 1943 to elect a mayor and five aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council and four trustees to sit on the public school board, while four trustees were acclaimed to the separate school board.

There were ten aldermen on city council, but five of the positions were already filled: Athelstan Bissett (SS), Sidney Bowcott, Frederick John Mitchell, James Ogilvie, and Sidney Parsons were all elected to two-year terms in 1942 and were still in office.

There were seven trustees on the public school board, but three of the positions were already filled: Izena Ross, William McConachie, and Alex Gemeroy had been elected to two-year terms in 1942 and were still in office. The same was true of the separate board, where Adrien Crowe (SS), Francis Killeen, and James O'Hara were continuing.

Voter turnout

There were 10,442 ballots cast out of 58,406 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 17.8%.

Results

• bold or Y indicates elected
• italics indicate incumbent
• "SS", where data is available, indicates representative for Edmonton's South Side, with a minimum South Side representation instituted after the city of Strathcona, south of the North Saskatchewan River, amalgamated into Edmonton on February 1, 1912.

Mayor

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	John Wesley Fry	7,270	70.25%
	Independent	Thomas Joseph Cairns	3,079	29.75%

Aldermen

Party		Candidate	Votes		Elected
	Citizens' Committee	James McCrie Douglas	5,684	SS	Y
	Co-operative Commonwealth Federation	Harry Ainlay	5,216	SS	Y
	Citizens' Committee	Winslow Hamilton	4,910		Y
	Citizens' Committee	Charles Gariepy	4,777		Y
	Citizens' Committee	Melvin Downey	4,699	SS	Y
	Civic Progressive Association	Gwendolen Clarke	4,438
	Citizens' Committee	Verna Arthur Porter	4,424
	Civic Progressive Association	Guy Patterson	3,809
	Co-operative Commonwealth Federation	Joseph Herbert Dowler	3,309
	Co-operative Commonwealth Federation	Alfred Paramour Gregory	2,962
	Labor–Progressive	William Lambert Careless	1,836
	Civic Progressive Association	John Guild	1,496

Public school trustees

Party		Candidate	Votes		Elected
	Citizens' Committee	Albert Ottewell	6,466	SS	Y
	Citizens' Committee	Bertram F. Robertson	4,875		Y
	Citizens' Committee	Frank Jost Newson	4,958		Y
	Citizens' Committee	Roy Leonard Sutherland	4,770		Y
	Co-operative Commonwealth Federation	Mary Butterworth	4,380	SS
	Co-operative Commonwealth Federation	William Henry Thornton	3,911
	Civic Progressive Association	Wellesley Fraser	2,953

Separate (Catholic) school trustees

William Wilde (SS), Joseph Gallant, Thomas Malone, and J O Pilon were acclaimed.

References

• Election History, City of Edmonton: Elections and Census Office