1928 Edmonton municipal election

The 1928 municipal election was held on December 10, 1928 to elect a mayor and six aldermen to join Edmonton City Council and three trustees to join the public school board during the year of 1929 and 1930. Three trustees were elected by acclamation to join the separate school board for 1929 and 1930.

There were also six bylaws put to a citywide vote.

10 aldermen sat on city council at any one time. Four of the positions were already filled: Ralph Bellamy, A C Sloane, James East, and L S C Dineen were all elected to two-year terms in 1927 and were still in office. John C. Bowen had also been elected to a two-year term, but had resigned in order to run for mayor. Rice Sheppard (SS) was elected in the 1928 election to finish Bowen's term.

Labour did well in this election, electing four new alderman (counting farmer activist Sheppard) to add to East and Dineen who continued to serve in 1929. These six out of 11 seats gave Labour a majority position in city hall in 1929.

There were seven trustees on the public school board, but four of the positions were already filled: Frank Crang (SS), Arthur Cushing, Albert Ottewell (SS), and Elmer Roper had all been elected to two-year terms in 1927 and were still in office. The same was true on the separate board, where Robert Crossland (SS), Charles Gariepy, Thomas Magee, and B J Tansey (SS) were continuing.

This election marked Edmonton's return to the at-large Plurality block voting for election of city councilors and school board trustees and first past the post for the mayoral election, under which each voter had as many votes as there were seats to fill. In the previous five elections, single transferable vote/PR had been used for aldermanic elections and Instant-runoff voting for mayoral contests. As had been the case since Edmonton was declared a town in 1892 and a city in 1904, no wards divided the city voters.

Due to the plurality block voting system used to elect the aldermen, 78,000 votes were cast in the aldermanic contest by the approximately 15,000 voters who voted. This was very many more than had been counted in the previous election when STV had been used for the same purpose.