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The 1900 Calgary municipal election took place on December 10, 1900 to elect a Mayor and nine Aldermen to sit on the seventeenth Calgary City Council from January 7, 1901 to January 6, 1902. The election for Mayor was very close, with the Calgary Herald reporting James Stuart Mackie defeating his opponent Silas Alexander Ramsay by a single vote.[1]
Results
Mayor
- James Stuart Mackie - 217 votes
- Silas Alexander Ramsay - 216 votes
Councillors
Ward 1
- James Alexander McKenzie - 124 votes
- Solomon Sheldwyn Spafford - 111 votes
- Thomas Alexander Hatfield - 106 votes
- William Pittman Jr. - 65 votes
- Spoiled - 5 votes
Ward 2
- John Jackson Young - 163 votes
- Richard Benjamin O'Sullivan - 105 votes
- John Creighton - 86 votes
- Robert Cadogan Thomas - 82 votes
- Spoiled - 1 vote
Ward 3
- Thomas Underwood - 91 votes
- John Emerson - 78 votes
- Joseph Edward Eckersley - 74 votes
- William Charles Gordon Armstrong - 65 votes
- Spoiled - 0 votes
School trustees
- Arthur Leslie Cameron - 232 votes
- Robert John Hutchings - 207 votes
- Richard Benjamin O'Sullivan - 182 votes
See also
References
- ↑ "The Civic Elections: A very large vote polled in all wards. - Mackie only one vote ahead of Ramsay". The Daily Herald. No. 4976. Calgary, AB. December 11, 1900. p. 1.
Sources
- Frederick Hunter: THE MAYORS AND COUNCILS OF THE CORPORATION OF CALGARY Archived March 3, 2020
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