1918 Edmonton municipal election

The 1918 municipal election was held December 9, 1918 to elect a mayor and six aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council, three trustees to sit on the public school board, and four trustees to sit on the separate school board.

City council held ten aldermen, but four of the positions were already filled: Matthew Esdale, James Kinney, Warren Prevey, and Orlando Bush had been elected to two-year terms in 1917 and were still in office for another year. Charles Wilson also had been elected to a two-year term in 1917, but had resigned to run for mayor. Accordingly, Charles Grant, the sixth most polar candidate in this election, was elected to finish the last year of Wilson's term.

In this election, the candidates on the labour ticket were Farmilo, Fielde, Findlay and White, with Scott running as a labour candidate for school board.^[1] Other candidates also appealed for the labour vote in 1918 included Wilson (running for mayor), Clarke, Martin, Joseph Duggan, Scott, and Mackenzie.^[2][3] Many labour voters supported alderman McCoppen, who in 1917 had been elected for one year with endorsement of the Labour Representation League and now was running for re-election.

The public school board held seven trustees, but four of the positions were already filled: Henry Douglas, J A McPherson, Arthur Cushing, and E T Bishop had been elected to two-year terms in 1917.

On the eight member separate board, four of the positions were filled: M Kelly, F A French, Joseph Henri Picard, and H J Roche had been elected to two-year terms in 1917. To keep the terms properly staggered with half (four) elected each year, Paul Jenvrin was elected to a one-year term.