The 1954 municipal election was held October 13, 1954 to elect 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 three trustees to sit on each of the public and separate school boards. The electorate also decided seven plebiscite questions. No election was held for mayor, as William Hawrelak

William Hawrelak

William Hawrelak was a politician in Alberta, Canada, the longest-serving mayor in Edmonton's history, and a candidate for election to the Canadian House of Commons.-Early life:...

 was one year into a two year term.

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

Harold E. Tanner

Harold E. Tanner was a service man, teacher and Canadian politician. He served as an elected representative on both the civic and provincial levels of government in the province of Alberta. He served as an Alderman on Edmonton City Council from 1946 to 1955...

, Rupert Clare, Abe Miller

Abe William Miller

Abe William Miller was a Canadian lawyer and politician. He served in office on both civic and provincial levels of government in the province of Alberta...

, Charles Simmonds, and Cliffard Roy were all elected to two year terms in 1953

Edmonton municipal election, 1953

The 1953 municipal election was held October 14, 1953 to elect six aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council and four trustees to sit on the separate school board...

 and were still in office.

There were seven trustees on the public school board, but four of the positions were already filled: Mary Butterworth, William Cowley, James Falconer

James Falconer

James Falconer was a Scottish solicitor and Liberal Party politician.-Family and education:Falconer was born in Carmyllie, Forfarshire, the son of Donald Falconer. He was educated at Arbroath High School and Edinburgh University where he obtained his MA degree. He married Ada Kennedy. ...

, and John Thorogood had been acclaimed to two year terms in 1953 and were still in office. The same was true on the separate board, where Andre Dechene, Amby Lenon, Catherine McGrath, and William Sereda were continuing.

Voter turnout

There were 20866 ballots cast out of 123040 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 17.0%.

Aldermen

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Party		Candidate	Votes
Citizens' Committee	Edwin Clarke	14,258		Citizens' Committee	Ethel Wilson Ethel Sylvia Wilson Ethel Sylvia Wilson was a seamstress, labour activist and a municipal and provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. She served as a member of Edmonton City Council from 1952 to 1966 and as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1959 to 1971...	10,774		Independent	Frederick John Mitchell Frederick John Mitchell Frederick John Mitchell was a politician in Alberta, Canada, a mayor of Edmonton, and a candidate for election to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.-Early life:...	10,764		Independent	Giffard Main	9,607	SS	Citizens' Committee	Laurette Douglas	9,362		Independent	Duncan Innes	7,907	SS	Independent	L. B. Nicholson	6,354	SS	Independent	Thomas Graham	5,724		Independent	Clifford Lee	5,686	SS	Independent	Frank Cowles	4,554	SS	Independent	Sidney Bowcott Sidney Bowcott Sidney Bowcott Bowcott immigrated to Canada in 1905, and then moved to Edmonton in 1907. He spent 9 years on the Edmonton Public School Board, and then spent 10 years on the Edmonton council. He was president of the Montgomery Legion of the Royal Canadian Legion for a time as well...	4,409		Citizens' Committee	Roy Jamha	2,749		Independent	Tempest Aitken	2,507	SS	Citizens' Committee	Alex Goruk	2,444		Independent	Herbert Turner	2,187		Independent	Julia Kiniski Julia Kiniski Julia Kiniski , was an aldermen on the Edmonton City Council from 1963 until her death in 1969...	1,758		Civic Reform Committee	Rose Sarman	946	SS	Civic Reform Committee	William Tuomi	707

Public school trustees

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Party		Candidate	Votes
Citizens' Committee	William Roberts	12,723	Independent	Donald Bowen	11,828	Citizens' Committee	Rex Stevenson	10,529	Citizens' Committee	Henry Peterson	5,122	Civic Reform Committee	Rebecca Stilwell	4,989	Independent	Delmer Dreger	3,414

Separate (Catholic) school trustees

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Party		Candidate	Votes
Independent	James O'Hara	2,867		Independent	Louis Blain	2,761		Independent	Adrian Crowe	2,575	SS	Independent	John Kane	2,526		Independent	Marcel Lambert	2,514		Independent	Napolean Forcade	1,554

Paving

Shall Council pass a bylaw creating a debenture debt in the sum of $550,000.00 for the City share of standard paving of arterial and residential streets?

• Yes - 10749
• No - 1670

Asphalt Surfacing I

Shall Council pass a bylaw creating a debenture debt in the sum of $450,000.00 for the City share of paving means of asphalt surfacing on gravel?

• Yes - 9809
• No - 2004

Asphalt Surfacing II

Shall Council pass a bylaw creating a debenture debt in the sum of $150,000.00 for the City share of paving by means of asphalt surfacing on gravel?

• Yes - 9345
• No - 2097

Parks

Shall Council pass a bylaw creating a debenture debt in the sum of $100,000.00 for the rehabilitation and development of parks including new trees, new roads, sewers, drains, fences and general rebuilding?

• Yes - 9859
• No - 2112

Neighbourhood Beautification

Shall Council pass a bylaw creating a debenture debt in the sum of $91,500.00 for the completion of neighborhood beautification areas in various parts of the City including the beautification of small parcels of land owned within the City?

• Yes - 8808
• No - 2898

Playgrounds

Shall Council pass a bylaw creating a debenture debt in the sum of $61,000.00 for the improvement of playgrounds and the construction of playground shelters and wading pools and the erection of fencing at various City playgrounds?

• Yes - 10623
• No - 1677

Health Clinic

Shall Council pass a bylaw creating a debenture debt in the sum of $60,000.00 for the purpose of a health clinic to look after inoculations, also the supervision of babies and pre-school children and preventative dental services?

• Yes - 10623
• No - 1677