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Toronto municipal election, 1946

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January 1, 1946

Toronto municipal election, 1946

Municipal elections were held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on January 1, 1946. Incumbent Robert Hood Saunders was acclaimed as mayor.

Contents

Toronto mayor

Results
Robert Hood Saunders - acclaimed

Board of Control

One incumbent on the Board of Control lost, William J. Wadsworth. He was defeated by Alderman Bert McKellar. Communist Stewart Smith of the Labor-Progressive Party won the second position on the Board.

Results
Hiram E. McCallum (incumbent) - 42,126 Stewart Smith (incumbent) - 41,637 David Balfour (incumbent) - 40,632 Bert McKellar - 35,627 William J. Wadsworth (incumbent) - 35,477 Leslie Saunders - 22,040 Harry Bradley - 6,796

City council

Ward 1 (Riverdale)
William Murdoch (incumbent) - 5,597 Charles Walton (incumbent) - 4,168 William Simpson - 3,481
Ward 2 (Cabbagetown and Rosedale)
Louis Shannon (incumbent) - 4,118 May Birchard - 3,014 George A. Wilson (incumbent) - 2,910 William Dennison - 2,472
Ward 3 (West Downtown and Summerhill)
John S. Simmons (incumbent) - 2,175 Allan Lamport - 1,911 Harold Fishleigh (incumbent) - 1,724 Earl Selkirk - 586 William Smith - 285 Karl Prager - 281
Ward 4 (The Annex, Kensington Market and Garment District)
Nathan Phillips (incumbent) - acclaimed Norman Freed (incumbent) - acclaimed
Ward 5 (Trinity-Bellwoods)
Arthur Frost (incumbent) - acclaimed Charles Sims (incumbent) - acclaimed
Ward 6 (Davenport and Parkdale)
Harold Timmins (incumbent) - 6,768 Dewar Ferguson - 5,510 William V. Muir - 3,960 William Clifton - 3,744 Harold Lock - 2,244 Patrick McKeown - 746 Charles Dymond - 362
Ward 7 (West Toronto Junction)
William Butt - 4,510 E.C. Roelofson (incumbent) - 4,220 Eva Sanderson - 2,157
Ward 8 (The Beaches)
William Collings (incumbent) - 6,789 Walter Howell (incumbent) - 6,476 Murray Cotterill - 5,143 James Davis - 2,244
Ward 9 (North Toronto)
John Innes (incumbent) - 11,092 Melville Wilson (incumbent) - 8,257 F.W. Rayfield - 2,950 R.M. McLean - 1,720 Fred Vacher - 1,623

Results taken from the January 2, 1946 Globe and Mail and might not exactly match final tallies.

References

Toronto municipal election, 1946 Wikipedia