The 1906 municipal election was held December 10, 1906 for the purpose of electing a mayor and five aldermen to sit on the
Edmonton City Council
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, as well as five public school trustees and six separate school trustees.
There were eight aldermen on city council, but three of the positions were already filled:
Robert Manson,
Joseph Henri Picard, and
Samuel Smith had been elected to two-year terms in
1905, and were still in office.
William Antrobus Griesbach had also been elected to a two-year term in 1905, but resigned to run for mayor. Accordingly, five were to be elected, with the fifth place aldermanic candidate - Morton MacAuley - to be elected to serve out the remaining year of Griesbach's term. (MacAuley and Walker resigned the following year, each causing a
1907 Edmonton municipal by-election.)
In the election of mayor, each voter had one vote. ln the aldermanic and schoolboard elections, each voter could cast as many votes as the number of empty seats. Edmonton had no wards at that time.
Voter turnout
There were 1221 ballots cast in the 1906 municipal election. The number of eligible voters is no longer available.
Results
(bold indicates elected, ''italics'' indicate incumbent)
Mayor
*
William Antrobus Griesbach - 717
*
Thomas Bellamy - 301
*H J Dawson - 144
Aldermen
*
Wilfrid Gariépy - 585
*
Thomas Daly - 564
*
James Walker - 559
*
Cameron Anderson - 480
*
Morton MacAuley - 417
*Gustave Koerman - 399
*Wade Stuart - 312
*Lucien Dubuc - 305
*A H Allen - 276
*W S Weeks - 260
*J R Hetherington - 91
*F M Lannic - 77
Public school trustees
''W D Ferris'', ''H A Gray'', ''A E May'', ''
Alex Taylor'', and ''
Hedley C. Taylor'' were elected. Detailed results are no longer available.
Separate (Catholic) school trustees
''
Wilfrid Gariépy'', E J Hart,
Prosper-Edmond Lessard, ''
Joseph Henri Picard'', S Schultz, and ''O Tessier'' were elected. Detailed results are no longer available.
References
City of Edmonton: Edmonton Elections
{{DEFAULTSORT:Edmonton Municipal Election, 1906
1906
Events
January–February
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1906 elections in Canada
1906 in Alberta
December 1906 in North America