Metro Toronto Regional Chairman - Alan Tonks
Mayor of Toronto - June Rowlands
Mayor of East York - David Johnson (1992–93), Michael Prue (1994)
Mayor of Etobicoke - Bruce Sinclair
Mayor of North York - Mel Lastman
Mayor of Scarborough - Joyce Trimmer
Mayor of York - Fergy Brown
Metro council was mostly unchanged from that elected in the 1988 election. The only incumbent defeated was Bob Sanders in Scarborough Malvern, who was ousted by Raymond Cho. New arrivals included school board trustee Olivia Chow elected downtown.
High Park
Derwyn Shea (incumbent) - 13,706
David Miller - 8,079
Yaqoob Khan - 1,544
Trinity Niagara
Joe Pantalone (incumbent) - 9,084
Michael Baillargeon - 3,610
Charlene Cottle - 1,364
Downtown
Olivia Chow - 10,024
Storm MacGregor - 4,913
Michael Lockey - 2,805
Larry Lee - 1,836
Zoltan Fekete - 1,327
Don River
Roger Hollander (incumbent) - 10,868
Paul Raina - 9,220
East Toronto
Paul Christie (incumbent) - acclaimed
Davenport
Dennis Fotinos - 7,452
Anne Ladouceur - 3,695
Peter Zahakos - 3,532
Dale Ritch - 1,697
Midtown
Ila Bossons (incumbent) - 14,776
Victor Knox - 6,996
North Toronto
Anne Johnston (incumbent) - 21,953
Paul Egli - 4,267
East York
Peter Oyler (incumbent) - 9,810
Steve Mastoras - 7,083
Mike Wyatt - 4,372
Lakeshore Queensway
Blake Kinahan (incumbent) - 9,055
Jeff Knoll - 6,624
Markland Centennial
Dick O'Brien (incumbent) - acclaimed
Kingsway Humber
Dennis Flynn - 13,097
Terry Howes - 5,825
Rexdale Thistletown
Lois Griffin - acclaimed
North York Humber
Mario Gentile (incumbent) - acclaimed
Black Creek
Maria Augimeri (incumbent) - 10,801
Frank Crudo - 3,298
Angela Natale
North York Spadina
Howard Moscoe (incumbent) - 11,129
Tibor Martinek - 2,589
Larry Wynne - 1,687
North York Centre South
Bev Salmon (incumbent) - acclaimed
North York Centre
Norman Gardner (incumbent) - 12,119
Jeffrey Smith - 3,028
Don Parkway
Marie Labette (incumbent) - 10,897
Louis Horvath - 3,544
Seneca Heights
Joan King (incumbent) - 11,624
Peter Lowry - 3,245
Scarborough Bluffs
Brian Ashton (incumbent) - 11,398
Frank Duckworth - 3,994
Scarborough Wexford
Maureen Prinsloo (incumbent) - 6,288
Hugh Canning - 4,820
Scarborough Centre
Brian Harrison (incumbent) - acclaimed
Scarborough Highland Creek
Ken Morrish (incumbent) - acclaimed
Scarborough Agincourt
Scott Cavalier (incumbent) - 7,171
Anne McBride - 4,236
Scarborough Malvern
Raymond Cho - 5,283
Bob Sanders(incumbent) - 3,977
Shan Rana - 1,321
York Eglinton
Mike Colle - 10,773
John Rocca - 2,223
York Humber
Alan Tonks - acclaimed
North York Humber Councillor Mario Gentile resigned on August 10, 1994 following a conviction for breach of trust. Paul Valenti was appointed to fill the vacancy on August 24.
In Toronto, the mayoral race was the first open contest in more than a decade as Mayor Art Eggleton decided not to run for re-election after 11 years. Jack Layton, a long-time city councillor and leader of the council's left wing contested the Mayor's position as the first-ever official candidate of the Metro New Democratic Party (NDP).
The centre-right was initially divided amongst three candidates, former city councillor June Rowlands who had most recently been chair of the police commission, then-city councillor Betty Disero and former alderman, provincial cabinet minister and Red Tory Susan Fish. Fearing that the 1991 election would be a repeat of 1978 where a split on the right allowed left-winger John Sewell to win, the business and development community worked behind the scenes to consolidate its support behind Rowlands. Lacking funds, Disero and Fish were forced to drop out before the close of nominations resulting in a two-way race between Rowlands and Layton with Rowlands proving victorious. Fish's name remained on the ballot, as she withdrew after the deadline for nominations had passed.
Results taken from the Toronto Star newspaper, 14 November 1991, E8. The final official results were not significantly different.
As with Metro, city council was mostly stable with all incumbents who ran being reelected. The new council had six NDP affiliated members eight members on the right and two moderates who varied between the groups. New members included Kyle Rae, who won Layton's vacated downtown seat, and became the first ever openly gay man to serve on council.
In Ward 1, incumbent Councillor William Boytchuk (who has served as councillor since 1969), had no problem keeping his seat, winning with a 13% margin over David Hutcheon. Hutcheon would later be elected to City Council in 1994 and serve as Budget Chief.
Councillor Korwin-Kuczynski, who has held the ward since 1982, defeated challenger Susan Shaw by nearly 20% in a head-to-head challenge.
Serving on Council since 1966, O'Donohue easily won re-election in his ward.
Martin Silva has held the ward since winning for the first time in 1988, and won re-election over Nick Figliano and Ian Christie with almost half the vote.
One term Councillor Liz Amer won re-election by a narrow margin over Benson Lau.
Kyle Rae won the seat vacated by Jack Layton in his attempt to run for mayor, and became the first openly gay City Councillor in Toronto.
Barbara Hall (who will later serve as mayor), soundly won her ward with 70% of the vote, in a one-on-one campaign against Edward Fortune.
Future NDP MPP Peter Tabuns won his ward by a razor-thin margin. Tabuns defeated John Roy by just over 200 votes, the narrowest in the election campaign.
After the resignation of incumbent councillor Tom Clifford, the seat was won by Steve Ellis in a three way race over the area's School Trustee Avril Usha Velupillai and Terry Brackett.
Tom Jakobek, who has served as the councillor for the area since 1980, won re-election in an almost 3 to 1 margin over challenger Shelly Jean O'Neill.
Incumbent Rob Maxwell won by a 700-vote margin over Walter Melnyk.
After dropping out in her run for mayor, Betty Disero ran for City Council, soundly defeating her challengers with 65% of the vote.
John Adams won the ward of Yorkville. Ying Hope also attempted to make a political comeback, after serving as a Toronto alderman in the 1960s and 70s.
Incumbent Howard Levine wins the upper-class ward with 43% of the vote, 11% over his next closest challenger John Gunning.
The only ward where all candidates were female, incumbent Kay Gardner defeated her challenger Nnacy Griffin with 3 times the vote.
Michael Walker wins the riding with twice the amount of votes as his next closest challenger.
Mel Lastman was re-elected mayor of the North York for the seventh consecutive time which broke a record set 710 years ago in the 13th century. Only one incumbent councillor, Bob Bradley was defeated in Ward 13 by newcomer David Shiner. Two other newcomers joined him, John Filion and Maria Rizzo who replaced retiring councillors. All other councillors were re-elected.
Mel Lastman 91,449
David K. Long 17,321
Ward 1
Mario Sergio 6,699
Fred Craft 1,492
Ward 2
Judy Sgro acclaimed
Ward 3
Peter Li Preti 4,949
Kathleen Walsh 1,174
Lennox Farrell 1,072
Ward 4
Frank Di Giorgio 5,150
Marco DeVuono 1,484
Ward 5
Mario Rizzo 5,908
Linda Memmo 3,499
Craig Deasley 832
Ward 6
Milton Berger acclaimed
Ward 7
Irving W. Chapley 4,867
Shalom Schachter 2,649
Michael Klein 518
Sonnee Cohen 466
Jessie Silver 354
Mark Arshawsky 306
Lothar Hille 124
Ward 8
Joanne Flint acclaimed
Ward 9
Ron Summers 5,346
Freddy Trasmundi 3,341
Ward 10
Don Yuill 3,770
Anne Lelovic 3,193
Tony West 683
Rod Gerrard 457
Ward 11
John Filion 4,553
Mary Matrundola 2,680
Jack Arshawsky 289
Ward 12
Barry Burton 4,212
Frank DiTomasso 2,418
Ward 13
David Shiner 5,017
Bob Bradley 3,591
Ward 14
Paul Sutherland 5,470
Gerry Scanlan 1,355
Ward 1 Emery
Sheila Lambrinos (NDP)
Ward 2 Amesbury Park/Black Creek
Bob Churchill
Ward 3 Jane/Finch
Stephnie Payne (NDP)
Ward 4 Lawrence Heights
Elsa Chandler
Ward 5 Downsview
Errol Young
Ward 6 Avenue Rd.
Results taken from the Toronto Star, 13 November 1991 (all polls reporting). The final official results were not significantly different.
Ward 7 Wilson Heights
Mae Waese
Ward 8 Banbury-Windfields-St. Andrew's
Gerri Gershon
Ward 9 Senlac
Shelley Stillman
Ward 10 Don Mills-Flemingdon
Darlene Scott
Ward 11 Willowdale
Diane Meaghan
Ward 12 Victoria Village-Broadlands-Fenside
Kim Scott Liberal
Ward 13 Hillcrest
Dan Hicks
Ward 14 Oriole/Fairview/Pleasant View
David Caplan Liberal
Dave Johnson was re-elected mayor by a wide margin. All the incumbents were re-elected. Ward 2 saw the closest race.
† - denotes incumbent status from previous council
†Dave Johnson 18,329
Brenda Louella Kildey 3,977
On April 2, 1993, Johnson was elected to the provincial government in a by-election to replace Margery Ward who died in office. East York council decided to choose a new mayor amongst themselves rather than run a by-election that would have cost an estimated $500,000. Michael Prue won the contest after six rounds of balloting and he became the mayor for the rest of the term. Norm Crone was appointed to fill Prue's place on council.
Two councillors were elected in each ward.
Ward 1
†Michael Prue 3,261
†Case Ootes 3,061
John Couvell 1,347
Michael Sokovnin 610
Ward 2
†George Vasilopoulos 3,469
David Anderson 3,269
Paul Robinson 3,098
Ward 3
Bob Dale 2,377
John Papadakis 2,052
John Antonopoulos 1,845
Ed McConnell 1,357
Jim Zotalis 487
Ward 4
†Lorna Krawchuk 5,173
†Jenner Jean-Marie 4,449
Darrel Berry 3,050
The race for York council was the most volatile of all the Toronto votes. During the previous term, a development scandal occurred where at least two councillors were convicted of taking bribes from a developer to sell parkland for a condominium development. In all, six of eight incumbents were defeated. Only Fergy Brown as mayor and councillors Frances Nunziata and Bill Saundercook were re-elected. Nunziata was instrumental in exposing the scandal.
†Fergy Brown 18,702
Phil White 12,776
Ward 1
Roz Mendelsohn 1,627
†Ben Nobleman 1,254
M. Kaszecki-Pryon 938
Kevin Fulbrook 429
Ward 2
Joe Mihevc 929
Branko Jovanovich 631
Helen Poulopoulos 590
†Tony Mandarano 571
Joe Fazio 509
Chaltanya Kalevar 497
Claudio C. Lewis 54
Ward 3
Rob Davis 859
Angela Bianci 625
Theo Evdoxiadis 475
Mario Giansante 422
Roland Saggiorato 402
Gabriel Graziano 290
Jose Perez 209
Suzana Dozsa 178
Leroy Crosse 152
Tony Pizzolato 101
Ward 4
Joan Roberts 1,149
†Nicolo Fortunato 666
Patrick Canavan 524
Joe Piccininno 317
Ward 5
Barry Rowland 941
Lynda Palmer 917
Mary Pedretti 710
Enrico Iafolla 667
†Jim Fera 466
Ward 6
Michael McDonald 2,259
†Bob McLean 1,417
Bernard Thompson 1,375
Ward 7
†Frances Nunziata 3,546
Pat Rocca 834
Harold Jinkinson 348
Ward 8
†Bill Saundercook 2,506
Ben Orszulak 1,227
Fran Ferguson 593
† Incumbent
Ward 1
Karen Hen
Ward 2
Pete Karageorgos (acclamation)
Ward 3
John Mills
Ward 4
Elizabeth Hill
Ward 5
Joe Morriello
Ward 6
Bonnie Taylor
Ward 7
Steven Mould
Ward 8
Madeline McDowell
Cho and Faubert were new councillors amongst returning incumbents:
Joyce Trimmer
Scarborough Bluffs
Brian Ashton
Scarborough Highland Creek
Ken Morrish ; Acclamation
Scarborough Wexford
Maureen Prinsloo
Scarborough Agincourt
Scott Cavalier
Scarborough City Centre
Brian Harrison
Scarborough Malvern
Raymond Cho
Ward 1
Harvey Barron
Ward 2
Gerry Altobello
Ward 3
John Wardrope
Ward 4
Lorenzo Berardinetti
Ward 5
Marilyn Mushinski
Ward 06
Paul Mushinski
Ward 7
Fred Johnson
Ward 8
Frank Faubert
Ward 9
Ron Moeser
Ward 10
Ron Watson
Ward 11
Sherene Shaw
Ward 12
Doug Mahood
Ward 13
Bas Balkissoon
Ward 14
Edith Montgomery
