1923 Edmonton municipal election

Robert Crossland, Paul Jenvrin, Thomas Magee, and Joseph Henri Picard were acclaimed to two-year terms on the separate school board.

There were ten aldermen on city council, but four of the positions were already filled: Joseph Adair, James Collisson, Daniel Knott, and Rice Sheppard (SS) were all elected to two-year terms in 1922 and were still in office.

Kenneth Alexander Blatchford had also been elected to a two-year term in 1922, but had resigned in order to run for mayor.

There were seven trustees on the public school board, but three of the positions were already filled: W. H. Alexander, L. T. Barclay, and E. T. Bishop had all been elected to two-year terms in 1922 and were still in office.

The same was true on the separate board, where P M Dunne, J J Murray (SS), and Joseph Gariépy were continuing.

Some of the spoiled votes were ballots improperly filled out (say with an X instead of a number showing ranking), but some were declared spoiled for contests where the pertinent part of the ballot was simply left blank, such as no first-choice preference being marked for mayor or no first-choice preference was marked for an alderman.

Rea was third in the first count but did not receive many vote transfers and eventually was declared elected to serve one-year term, the consolation prize.

As seen in the above vote tallies, the front runners in the first count were mixed, belonging to both Independent (business) and Labour slates.

Their surplus votes were transferred to prevent waste and to ensure rough proportionality of the election result.

[5] Other than the change produced by the southside quota, all the candidates in winning positions in the first count were elected by the end after transfers, but single voting in multi-winner contest assured that each party received its due share of seats.

Bellamy and McPherson were elected in the fifth count, held after Massey and Steer had been eliminated, their second choices being distributed.

[6] The four candidates in winning positions wre elected in the end after transfers, but the single voting in multi-winner contest ensured that both parties were represented among them.

Robert Crossland (SS), Paul Jenvrin, Thomas Magee, and Joseph Henri Picard were acclaimed.