1915 Toronto municipal election Last updated May 24, 2025 Toronto mayor Incumbent mayor H.C. Hocken chose not to run for re-election. Two prominent members of the Board of Control ran to replace him: Tommy Church and Jesse O. McCarthy, with Church the victor. As with most races of the period, it was also a contest between the two newspapers with the Toronto Daily Star supporting McCarthy and the Toronto Telegram supporting Church.
Results Tommy Church - 26,041 Jesse O. McCarthy - 19,573 Board of Control The decision of both Church and McCarthy to run for mayor opened two vacancies on the Board of Control . A third opening was created by the defeat of labour leader James Simpson , who had been elected to the Board the year before. The spots were filled by Thomas Foster , Frank S. Spence , and Joseph Elijah Thompson .
John O'Neill (incumbent) - 20,751 Thomas Foster - 18,608 Frank S. Spence - 17,747 Joseph Elijah Thompson - 16,505 James Simpson (incumbent) - 16,349 Fred McBrien - 15,447 John Wanless - 13,044 City council A map of Toronto's seven municipal wards as they existed for elections for elections from 1910 until 1918, inclusive. (Source: Toronto Daily Star , 18 December 1909) Ward 1 (Riverdale ) William D. Robbins (incumbent) - 3,987Albert Walton (incumbent) - 3,353Robert Yeomans - 2,922 W. W. Hiltz (incumbent) - 2,900 A.H. Wagstaff - 2,754 William Orr - 1,700 George Smith - 1,148 George Daniels - 765 George Wellings - 325 Ward 2 (Cabbagetown and Rosedale ) Samuel Wickett (incumbent) - 3,028Charles A. Risk (incumbent) - 2,586 Herbert Henry Ball - 2,134Charles Beavis - 2,009 John Cooper - 1,789 Ward 3 (Central Business District and The Ward ) Charles A. Maguire (incumbent) - 4,356 Sam McBride (incumbent) - 3,993 J. George Ramsden - 2,107John Skelton - 1,783 Albert Hassard - 884 Rudolph Paulich - 150 Ward 4 (Kensington Market and Garment District ) R.H. Cameron (incumbent) - 3,286 Louis Singer (incumbent) - 2,865John Cowan - 2,339Robert McLeod - 1,673 Henry Dworkin - 1,281 Ward 5 (Trinity-Bellwoods ) John Dunn (incumbent) - 6,298John Warren - 3,578John Wesley Meredith (incumbent) - 3,498Joseph May - 3,138 Alfred Moore - 964 Ward 6 (Brockton and Parkdale ) David Spence (incumbent) - 5,727Thomas Roden - 2,319 Joseph Gibbons - 3,724George Birdsall - 2,524 D.C. MacGregor - 2,198 Albert Chamberlain - 1,491 Arthur Atkinson - 819 John Brown - 538 Kenneth McKenzie - 544 Richard Holmes - 417 George Pettit - 304 Ward 7 (West Toronto Junction ) Samuel Ryding (incumbent) - 1,218William Henry Weir - 1,141Frank Whetter (incumbent) - 1,026 Alexander Chisholm - 400 Maxwell Armstrong - 292 Results taken from the January 2, 1915 Toronto Daily Star and might not exactly match final tallies.
Vacancy Ward 2 Alderman Samuel Wickett dies December 7, 1915 and is not replaced.
References Election Coverage. Toronto Star . January 1, 1915
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