Global Information Lookup Global Information

1922 Calgary municipal election information


1922 Calgary municipal election
1922 Calgary municipal election
← 1921 December 13, 1922 1923 →
 
J. W.
Candidate George Harry Webster Michael Copps Costello James E. Worsley
Popular vote 7,057 5,103 1,056
Percentage 53.40% 38.61% 7.99%

Mayor before election

Samuel Hunter Adams

Elected Mayor

George Harry Webster

The 1922 Calgary municipal election was held on December 13, 1922, to elect a mayor, commissioner, seven aldermen to sit on Calgary City Council. In addition three members were elected for the public school board.[1][2][3]

A swimming pool bylaw was defeated by a large majority.

Three plebiscites were held, one regarding compensation for aldermen, one to change the position of commissioner to an appointment, and one for a service tax. All three plebiscites were defeated.

The election was held under the Single Transferable Voting/Proportional Representation (STV/PR) with the term for candidates being one year.

  1. ^ "Webster is Mayor, Graves Commissioner". No. 4631. The Calgary Daily Herald. December 14, 1922. p. 1. Retrieved March 3, 2020.
  2. ^ "Vote by Polls for the Mayor and Commissioner". No. 4631. The Calgary Daily Herald. December 14, 1922. p. 30. Retrieved March 3, 2020.
  3. ^ "Candidates for Municipal Honors and Their Platforms". No. 4629. The Calgary Daily Herald. December 12, 1922. p. 14. Retrieved March 3, 2020.

and 21 Related for: 1922 Calgary municipal election information

Request time (Page generated in 0.8972 seconds.)

1922 Calgary municipal election

Last Update:

The 1922 Calgary municipal election was held on December 13, 1922, to elect a mayor, commissioner, seven aldermen to sit on Calgary City Council. In addition...

Word Count : 267

List of Calgary municipal elections

Last Update:

Councillors elected to Calgary City Council, the governing body for the city of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The first municipal election in Calgary took place in...

Word Count : 1749

Calgary

Last Update:

municipal election to be held in Calgary on November 3, 1886. George Clift King defeated his opponent John Lineham for the office of Mayor of Calgary...

Word Count : 20636

1923 Calgary municipal election

Last Update:

The 1923 Calgary municipal election was held on December 12, 1923 to elect a mayor and six aldermen to sit on Calgary City Council. Additionally a commissioner...

Word Count : 336

1922 Edmonton municipal election

Last Update:

The 1922 municipal election was held December 11, 1922 to elect a mayor and six aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council and three trustees to sit on the...

Word Count : 606

1921 Calgary municipal election

Last Update:

The 1921 Calgary municipal election was held on December 15, 1921 to elect six aldermen to sit on Calgary City Council. Additionally a commissioner, four...

Word Count : 409

William Humberstone

Last Update:

Humberstone (October 20, 1836 – April 2, 1922) was a Canadian businessman and politician. He was a municipal councillor in Edmonton, Alberta. Humberstone...

Word Count : 379

Andrew Davison

Last Update:

1963) was a Canadian politician, printer and 24th Mayor of Calgary. He served as alderman from 1922 to 1926 and mayor from 1929 to 1945 - his 15 year term...

Word Count : 792

Samuel Hunter Adams

Last Update:

1920. Adams was acclaimed in the 1921 Calgary municipal election, and decided not to contest the 1922 election for health reasons. As Mayor, Adams' biggest...

Word Count : 1023

Elections in Canada

Last Update:

(national) government, provincial and territorial governments, and municipal governments. Elections are also held for self-governing First Nations and for many...

Word Count : 6476

Edmonton

Last Update:

Statistics Canada defines as the "Calgary–Edmonton Corridor", a region spanning between Edmonton and the city of Calgary, Alberta's largest city, which includes...

Word Count : 20807

Lethbridge

Last Update:

summers, mild winters, and windy climate. Lethbridge lies southeast of Calgary on the Oldman River. Lethbridge is the commercial, financial, transportation...

Word Count : 7658

Elmer Roper

Last Update:

its lone MLA that long: after the 1944 election, he was joined in the legislature by Aylmer Liesemer of Calgary. Two seats were as large a caucus as the...

Word Count : 1310

George Harry Webster

Last Update:

December 13, 1922, municipal election on the first ballot. Webster would be elected for a second term in the December 12, 1924, general election, and was...

Word Count : 654

Tyler Shandro

Last Update:

Shandro was elected to represent Calgary-Acadia in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the 2019 provincial election. He was Alberta's minister of health...

Word Count : 2536

Frederick Ernest Osborne

Last Update:

involved in Calgary politics. He was a city alderman twice, and was elected the 1926 Calgary municipal election the twenty-third mayor of Calgary and served...

Word Count : 425

Robert Parkyn

Last Update:

(November 19, 1862 – June 13, 1939) was a municipal and provincial level politician and tradesman in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Parkyn was born in Cornwall...

Word Count : 460

David Milwyn Duggan

Last Update:

in all Alberta. Calgary and others follow. That is all. Goodnight." He was re-elected in 1921 and 1922, but did not seek re-election after his last term...

Word Count : 648

History and use of the single transferable vote

Last Update:

whole vote method. Only Calgary city elections used the Gregory fractional method. STV was used in Winnipeg for provincial elections to elect ten MLAs from...

Word Count : 7738

Michael Copps Costello

Last Update:

unsuccessfully for mayor in the 1922 municipal election. He ran unsuccessfully as a Conservative MLA candidate in the Calgary electoral riding in the 1921...

Word Count : 460

Wetaskiwin

Last Update:

Wee-Tas-Ki-Win-Spatinow for "the place where peace was made". In 1890, when the Calgary and Edmonton Railway was built, it became a whistle-stop, and was known...

Word Count : 2975

PDF Search Engine © AllGlobal.net