Edmonton municipal election, 1959

The 1959 municipal election was held October 14, 1959, to elect a mayor and five aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council and four trustees to sit on each of the public and separate school boards. The electorate also decided eleven plebiscite questions.

There were ten aldermen on city council, but five of the positions were already filled: Frederick John Mitchell, George Prudham, Donald Bowen, Ethel Wilson, and Laurette Douglas were all elected to two-year terms in 1958 and were still in office (in fact, Mitchell was in office as mayor, having been appointed by council to replace the resigned William Hawrelak, but city bylaws allowed him to resume his aldermanic term once a new mayor was elected).

There were seven trustees on the public school board, but three of the positions were already filled: J. Percy Page, Robert Thorogood, and William Orobko were elected to two-year terms in 1958 and were still in office. The same was true on the separate board, where Leo Lemieux, Vincent Dantzer, and E D Stack were continuing.

Voter turnout

There were 52357 ballots cast out of 150062 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 34.9%.

Results

• bold indicates elected
• italics indicate incumbent
• SS 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.

Aldermen

Party		Candidate	Votes		Elected
	Citizens' Committee & Civic Reform Association	William Henning	27,825	SS	Y
	Civic Reform Association	Angus McGugan	22,711	SS	Y
	Civic Reform Association	Ed Leger	21,372	SS	Y
	Civic Reform Association	Gordon McClary	19,269	–	Y
	Citizens' Committee	McKim Ross	17,950	SS	Y
	Citizens' Committee	Cliffard Roy	17,172	SS
	Citizens' Committee	Morris Weinlos	16,769
	Civic Reform Association	J. Les Bodie	15,077
	Citizens' Committee	Robert McDonald	14,592
	Independent	Ivor Dent	13,870	SS
	Edmonton Voters Association	Julia Kiniski	9,703
	Independent	Allan Welsh	8,824
	Independent	Orval Allen	7,671	SS
	Independent	Charles Simmonds	7,629	SS
	Independent	Stan Rogalski	3,787
	Edmonton Voters Association	E. J. (Slim) Powell	3,050
	Edmonton Voters Association	Walter Doskoch	2,639

Public school trustees

Party		Candidate	Votes		Elected
	Citizens' Committee & Civic Reform Association	Angus MacDonald	26,928		Y
	Civic Reform Association	Edith Rogers	24,893		Y
	Citizens' Committee & Civic Reform Association	Vernon Johnson	22,467	SS	Y
	Civic Reform Association	Murray Stewart Cooke	20,707
	Citizens' Committee	Ernest Hanna	18,685
	Citizens' Committee	Douglas Thomson	14,742	SS	Y
	Independent	David Graham	12,641
	Edmonton Voters Association	John Rawluk	3,685

Separate (Catholic) school trustees

Party		Candidate	Votes		Elected
	Independent	Joseph Moreau	7,165		Y
	Independent	Orest Demco	6,215		Y
	Independent	Catherine McGrath	6,158		Y
	Independent	Henry Carrigan	5,952	SS	Y
	Independent	Russell Burke	5,892	SS

References

City of Edmonton: Edmonton Elections