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

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

Plebiscite 2 year council termsOptionVotes%For 19,067 59.49Against 11,185 40.51

Ottawa Board of Control (4 elected) CandidateVotes%E. A. Bourque (X) 13,674 George MacKinley Geldert (X) 13,479 Jim Forward 12,920 John Harold Putman (X) 12,577Grenville Goodwin 10,761 William Henry Marsden 10,507 Thomas Brethour 7,631 Arthur Ellis 4,289 Percy Edwin Bedford 1,488 Caleb S. Green 967 Max Feller 940 Edward E. Kesterton 269

Ottawa City Council 2 elected from each ward

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

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

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

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

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

Dalhousie WardCandidateVotes%Daniel McCann (X) AcclaimedWilbert Hamilton (X) Acclaimed

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

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

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

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

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

References

Ottawa Citizen, December 4, 1939