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The 1888 Calgary municipal election was held on January 3, 1888 to elect a Mayor and six Councillors to sit on the fourth Calgary Town Council from January 16, 1888 to January 21, 1889.^[1]

The 1888 election was the first after the Town Council had expanded from four councillors to six councillors.

Background

Nominations for council opened on December 27, 1887 and E. P. Davis was named returning officer, and the town fire hall was selected as his headquarters. Former Mayors George Murdoch, George Clift King and Arthur Edwin Shelton were nominated for the position of mayor. A public meeting was called a 2 p.m. later in the day to give speeches, which became so pointed and personal that several of the Aldermanic candidates withdrew their nominations.^[2]

Results

Mayor

Candidate	Votes	Percent
Arthur Edwin Shelton	85	36.64%
George Clift King	74	31.90%
George Murdoch	73	31.47%

Councillors

Six councillors were elected in this election. Election was conducted using Plurality block voting. Each voter could cast up to six votes.

Candidate	Votes	Percent
Elected
James Campbell Linton	133
Howard Douglas	122
John Gillies McCallum	120
Wesley Fletcher Orr	110
Henry Collins	109
Alexander Allan	109
Not elected
Isaac Sanford Freeze	101
James Reilly	84
Joseph Bannerman	81
M. O'Keefe	74
James Martin	74
Joseph Maw	57
James Delamere Lafferty	25
G.T. Duncan	24
T. Kdu	22
Charles Watson	17

References

^ "Calgary Elections". Calgary Tribune. January 4, 1888. p. 4.
^ Ward, Tom (1975). Cowtown: an Album of Early Calgary. Calgary: McClelland and Stewart West Limited. pp. 115–116. ISBN 978-0-7712-1012-9. Retrieved November 19, 2020.