1939 Ottawa municipal election

The city of Ottawa, Canada held municipal elections on December 4, 1939.

Mayor of Ottawa

Candidate	Votes	%
J. E. Stanley Lewis (X)	15,685	47.70
Finley McRae	11,941	36.31
S. Leonard Belaire	5,260	15.99

Plebiscite

2 year council terms
Option	Votes	%
For	19,067	59.49
Against	11,185	40.51

Ottawa Board of Control

(4 elected)

Candidate	Votes	%
E. A. Bourque (X)	13,674
G. M. Geldert (X)	13,479
Jim Forward	12,920
J. H. Putman (X)	12,577
Grenville Goodwin	10,761
W. H. Marsden	10,507
Thomas Brethour	7,631
Ellis	4,289
Bedford	1,488
Caleb S. Green	967
Max Feller	940
Kesterton	269

Ottawa City Council

2 elected from each ward

Rideau Ward
Candidate	Votes	%
John Powers (X)	687
A. W. Spearman	680
Wilfrid D. Girard	573
Fred Goodhouse (X)	490
Max Schoen	218

By Ward
Candidate	Votes	%
J. Albert Parisien (X)	1,279
Eric Query (X)	1,039
Marcel Dupuis	974
James C. Butler	338

St. George's Ward
Candidate	Votes	%
Arthur Pinard (X)	1,892
Hamnett P. Hill, Jr.	1,645
Harold Taylor (X)	1,608

Wellington Ward
Candidate	Votes	%
Martin M. Walsh (X)	2,195
Arthur J. Ash (X)	1,967
Robert Burnett	984
William A. Coe	260

Capital Ward
Candidate	Votes	%
Edward Band (X)	2,562
C. E. Pickering (X)	2,372
J. H. Fraser	1,124

Dalhousie Ward
Candidate	Votes	%
Daniel McCann (X)	Acclaimed
Wilbert Hamilton (X)	Acclaimed

Elmdale Ward
Candidate	Votes	%
David Sprague	2,148
Henry Bradley (X)	1,666
George Pingle (X)	1,653
Cecil D. Norris	808

Victoria Ward
Candidate	Votes	%
Nelson J. Lacasse (X)	1,364
J. P. Nolan (X)	1,362
Joseph Allard	1,139

Ottawa Ward
Candidate	Votes	%
Aristide Belanger (X)	1,637
Napoleon Bordeleau (X)	1,623
A. E. Beauchamp	1,134

Riverdale Ward
Candidate	Votes	%
David McMillan (X)	1,568
Len Coulter	1,505
George Sloan (X)	1,269
John McLennan	840
Samuel Dibartolo	445

Central Ward
Candidate	Votes	%
George F. Perley (X)	2,205
Fred Journeaux (X)	2,088
J. Grant Shaw	1,463

References

• Ottawa Citizen, December 4, 1939