The 1927 municipal election was held December 12, 1927 to elect a mayor and five aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council

Edmonton City Council

The Edmonton City Council is the governing body of the City of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.Members represent wards throughout the city, and are known as councillors. Until 2010, Edmonton was divided in six wards with two councillors representing citizens in each ward...

 and four trustees to sit on each of the public and separate school boards. There were also two plebiscite questions.

There were ten aldermen on city council, but five of the positions were already filled: Charles Gibbs

Charles Gibbs (Alberta politician)

Charles Lionel Gibbs was a politician in Alberta, Canada. He served as a municipal councillor in Edmonton from 1924 until his death and, concurrently, a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1926 until his death.-Early life:Gibbs was born November 11, 1877, in Newport, Monmouthshire,...

, Alfred Farmilo, Charles Robson, George Hazlett, and Herbert Baker

Herbert Baker (Alberta politician)

Herbert Baker was a politician in Alberta, Canada and a municipal councillor in Edmonton.-Early life:...

 were all elected to two year terms in 1926

Edmonton municipal election, 1926

The 1926 municipal election was held December 13, 1926 to elect a mayor and six aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council and three trustees to sit on the public school board...

 and were still in office.

There were seven trustees on the public school board, but three of the positions were already filled: Samuel Barnes, Thyrza Bishop, and J A Herlihy had all been elected to two year terms in 1926 and were still in office. The same was true on the separate board, where Harry Carrigan, J O Pilon, and W D Trainor were continuing.

This election was the last to be conducted using the single transferable vote

Single transferable vote

The single transferable vote is a voting system designed to achieve proportional representation through preferential voting. Under STV, an elector's vote is initially allocated to his or her most preferred candidate, and then, after candidates have been either elected or eliminated, any surplus or...

 system, as a plebiscite held concurrently with the election resulted in Edmontonians voting to return to a first past the post system.

Voter turnout

There were 12907 ballots cast out of 37106 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 34.7%.

Mayor

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Independent	Ambrose Bury Ambrose Upton Gledstanes Bury Ambrose Upton Gledstanes Bury was a politician in Alberta, Canada, a mayor of Edmonton, and a member of the Canadian House of Commons.-Early life:...	7,483	57.89%	Labour	Dan Knott Daniel Kennedy Knott Daniel Kennedy Knott was a labour activist and politician in Alberta, Canada and a mayor of Edmonton.-Early life:Dan Knott was born in Collingwood, Ontario on July 1, 1879 to Hugh Knott and Margaret Wright...	4,406	34.08%	Independent	Joseph Clarke Joseph Clarke Joseph Andrew Clarke was a Canadian politician and lawyer. He served twice as mayor of Edmonton, Alberta, was a candidate for election to the Canadian House of Commons and the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, and was a member of the Yukon Territorial Council .-Early life:Clarke was born in...	958	7.41%	Independent	J. Pfeim	80	0.62%

Aldermen

Party		Candidate	Votes	Civic Governance Association	Ralph Bellamy	2,195	Civic Governance Association	Allan Sloane	1,951	Labour	James East James East James East was a politician and labour activist in Alberta, Canada. He was for a time and the longest-serving alderman in Edmonton's history, and was a defeated candidate at the provincial and federal levels. He was also an ardent monetary reformer.-Early life:East was born in Bolton, Ontario on...	1,922	Civic Governance Association	John C. Bowen John C. Bowen John Campbell Bowen was a clergy man, insurance broker and long serving politician. He served as an Alderman in the City of Edmonton on the municipal level and then went on to serve as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1921 to 1926 sitting with the Liberal caucus in opposition...	1,514	Civic Governance Association	Frederick Keillor	1,227	Labour	James Findlay	914	Labour	Lionel Shurley Crawford Dineen	798	Independent	G. V. Pelton	784	Civic Governance Association	A. M. Rehwinkel	550	Labour	James Herlihy	485	Labour	E. J. Thompson	375

The above reflects vote totals on the first count. Because of the single transferable vote

Single transferable vote

The single transferable vote is a voting system designed to achieve proportional representation through preferential voting. Under STV, an elector's vote is initially allocated to his or her most preferred candidate, and then, after candidates have been either elected or eliminated, any surplus or...

 voting system in effect at the time, candidates leading on the first ballot were not necessarily those elected.

Public school trustees

Party		Candidate	Votes	Civic Government Association	Arthur Cushing Arthur Cushing Arthur Thompson Cushing was a politician in Alberta, Canada and a municipal councillor in Edmonton. His brother, William Henry Cushing, was a mayor of Calgary, while another brother, Alfred Cushing, served as alderman in that city.-Biography:Cushing was born in Kenilworth, Ontario February 10, 1869...	2,458	Civic Governance Association	Albert Ottewell	2,457	Labour	Frank Crang	2,020	Labour	Elmer Roper Elmer Ernest Roper Elmer Ernest Roper was a politician in Alberta, Canada. He served as leader of the Alberta Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, the mayor of Edmonton, and a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. He was also a candidate for the Canadian House of Commons.-Early life:Roper was born in...	2,005	Labour	Sophie N. Bell	1,416	Civic Governance Association	James Harwood Ogilvie	1,123

Separate (Catholic) school trustees

Party		Candidate	Votes	Independent	Robert Crossland	330	Independent	Charles Gariepy Charles Gariepy Charles Edward Gariepy was a Canadian politician. He was elected to the separate Catholic school board from 1929-1937...	323	Independent	Thomas Magee	315	Independent	B J Tansey	218	Independent	J R Naubert	90

Assessing Improvements on Industrial Establishments

To authorize the Council to fix the Assessment of improvements for industrial establishments.

• Yes - 2,224
• No - 1,038

Abolition of Single Transferable Vote

To abolish the Proportional Representation System of electing mayor and aldermen.

• Yes - 6,695
• No - 5,473