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.
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 List of Calgary municipal elections
References
Sources Frederick Hunter: THE MAYORS AND COUNCILS OF THE CORPORATION OF CALGARY Archived March 3, 2020