The 1908 municipal election was held December 14, 1908 for the purpose of electing a mayor and six aldermen to sit on the Edmonton City Council, as well as three public school trustees and five separate school trustees.
Two of the other seats were already filled: George S. Armstrong and Robert Manson had been elected to two-year terms in 1907 and were still in office.
Robert Lee and Thomas Bellamy had also been elected to two-year terms in 1907 but were resigning to run for mayor.
According to the Edmonton Bulletin, Lee's earlier entry into the race and early success at recruiting prominent citizens as his public supporters was a decisive factor in his defeat of Bellamy, who entered the race later.
A bylaw to raise the sum of $60,000 for improvement in and extensions to Municipal Electric Plant.