Toronto municipal election, 1960

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Municipal elections were held in Toronto , Ontario, Canada, on December 5, 1960. Six-year incumbent mayor Nathan Phillips was challenged by former mayor Allan Lamport and Controller Jean Newman. Phillips was returned to office.

Toronto Provincial capital city in Ontario, Canada

Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the most populous city in Canada, with a population of 2,731,571 in 2016. Current to 2016, the Toronto census metropolitan area (CMA), of which the majority is within the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), held a population of 5,928,040, making it Canada's most populous CMA. Toronto is the anchor of an urban agglomeration, known as the Golden Horseshoe in Southern Ontario, located on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A global city, Toronto is a centre of business, finance, arts, and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world.

Nathan Phillips (politician) Canadian politician

Nathan Phillips, was a Canadian politician and popular Mayor of Toronto, Ontario, from 1955 to 1962. A lawyer by training, Phillips was first elected to Toronto City Council in 1926.

Jean Dorothy Newman was a municipal politician in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She was the vice-chairman of the board of Control and president of the City Council. She was the first woman elected to Toronto’s Board of Control and the first woman to run for Mayor of Toronto.

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The City of Toronto also held a referendum on whether to remove the Blue Law banning films and concerts on Sunday evenings. The measure passed 94,000 votes to 58,003.

Toronto mayor

Phillips had first been elected to city council in 1926 and was elected mayor in 1954 and was reelected in 1956 and 1958. He faced two prominent challengers in the 1960 race. Former mayor and Board of Control member Allan Lamport and Controller Jean Newman. Each of the three candidates had the endorsement of one of the city's newspapers. The right-wing Toronto Telegram backed Phillips, the centre-right Globe and Mail backed Newman, and the centre-left Toronto Daily Star backed Lamport. One of the central issues was over the expansion of the Toronto subway system by building the Bloor-Danforth Line. All candidates supported it, but there was debate over how it should be paid for.

Mayor of Toronto

The Mayor of Toronto is the leader of the municipal government of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The mayor is directly-elected in municipal elections every four years alongside Toronto City Council. The mayor is responsible for the administration of government services, the composition of councils and committees overseeing Toronto government departments and serves as the chairperson for meeting of Toronto City Council.

The Board of Control of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, was a part of its municipal government until it was abolished in 1969. It served as the executive committee of the Toronto City Council, consisting of four "controllers" elected citywide and presided over by the Mayor. Beginning in 1904, the Board of Control was directly elected by the city's electorate. Each voter could vote for up to four candidates, and the four with the most votes were elected. By tradition the controller who received the most votes would get the powerful budget chief position.

<i>Toronto Telegram</i> Canadian daily newspaper

The Toronto Evening Telegram was a conservative, broadsheet afternoon newspaper published in Toronto from 1876 to 1971. It had a reputation for supporting the Conservative Party at the federal and provincial level. The paper competed with the liberal The Toronto Star. "The Tely" strongly supported Canada's imperial connection with Britain as late as the 1960s.

Results
Nathan Phillips - 81,699
Allan Lamport - 58,254
Jean Newman - 31,999
Ross Dowson - 1,643
Harry Bradley - 1,511

Board of Control

Top spot on the Board of Control, and the associated budget chief position, was contested between two incumbent conservatives Donald Summerville and William Allen with Summerville winning the top spot. Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) member William Dennison was also reelected to the Board. The position left open by Newman's decision to run for mayor attracted three aldermen with Philip Givens narrowly beating CCF member Herbert Orliffe and Francis Chambers finishing further behind. A month later in January 1961 William Allen won the position of head of Metro Toronto and resigned from the board. Orliffe was appointed to replace him.

William "Bill" Randall Allen, was a Toronto politician who served as the Chairman of the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto from 1962 to 1969 and is the namesake of the W.R. Allen Road highway. Metropolitan Toronto was created by the Province of Ontario in 1952 and comprised Toronto, North York, Scarborough, Etobicoke, York, and East York. While these municipalities continued to manage some local matters, Metropolitan Toronto assumed the responsibilities of more expensive programs, such as the TTC, police, and welfare. The municipality was presided over by a "super mayor", or Metro Chairman, for its 46-year duration until amalgamation in 1998.

Co-operative Commonwealth Federation former political party in Canada

The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) was a social-democratic and democratic socialist political party in Canada. The CCF was founded in 1932 in Calgary, Alberta, by a number of socialist, agrarian, co-operative, and labour groups, and the League for Social Reconstruction. In 1944, the CCF formed the first social-democratic government in North America when it was elected to form the provincial government in Saskatchewan. In 1961, the CCF was succeeded by the New Democratic Party (NDP). The full, but little used, name of the party was Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (Farmer-Labour-Socialist).

William Donald Dennison was a Canadian social-democratic politician that served in both the Ontario Legislative Assembly and finally as the City of Toronto's mayor. He served two nonconsecutive terms as a Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) in the 1940s and early 1950s. After his provincial-level career, he focused on Toronto's municipal politics, holding offices as an alderman, member of the Toronto Board of Control, and finally as the city's mayor. He was the mayor from 1967 to 1972, winning two consecutive three-year terms. Prior to entering politics, he was a school principal and teacher. As of 2015 he was the last mayor of Toronto to be a member of the Orange Order.

Results
Donald Summerville (incumbent) - 110,893
William Allen (incumbent) - 110,256
William Dennison (incumbent) - 76,169
Philip Givens - 66,972
Herbert Orliffe - 65,418
Francis Chambers - 30,696
William Harris - 14,493
Jessie Jackson - 14,062
Mary Burke - 13,240

City council

Ward boundaries used in the 1960 election Toronto ward map 1964.PNG
Ward boundaries used in the 1960 election

In the elections for Toronto City Council, only one incumbent was defeated, May Birchard in Ward 2. In all but one ward where two incumbents were reelected two councillors switched position changing which would also represent the city on the board of Metro Toronto.

Toronto City Council legislative body of Toronto

The Toronto City Council is the governing body of the City of Toronto in Ontario, Canada. Members represent wards throughout the city, and are known as councillors. The passage of provincial legislation in the summer of 2018 established that the number of wards be reduced from 44 to 25 and that they be based upon the city's federal electoral districts as of the year 2000. While the federal districts have been redistributed since then, the ward boundaries remain the same. The city council had at its peak 45 members: 44 ward councillors plus the mayor. On September 19, 2018 an Ontario Court of appeals granted a stay order of a previous court decision that would have prevented this reduction, thus re-establishing the move to 25 wards. The actual court appeal of Bill 5 has yet to be scheduled, but was heard subsequent to the municipal election on October 22, 2018.

May Birchard was a municipal politician and poverty activist in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Born in Toronto, she married F.J. Birchard, an agricultural scientist who was an expert on grain. During the First World War the family moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba. A self described left-wing Liberal, May Birchard was a strong believer in the Canadian Social Gospel movement that originated in Winnipeg during the first part of the 20th century. In 1933, during the Great Depression, Birchard founded The Good Neighbours' Club to aid unemployed men. A few years later a branch was opened in Toronto. The organization continues to operate with a drop-in centre on Jarvis Street.

Ward 1 (Riverdale)
Fred Beavis (incumbent) - 10,423
Ken Waters (incumbent) - 10,224
Theobald - 5,566
Peter Ward - 2,092
Ward 2 (Regent Park and Rosedale)
Margaret Campbell (incumbent) - 6,829
Michael Grayson - 5,677
May Birchard (incumbent) - 4,927
Stanley Price - 4,095
Thomas McAulay - 3,360
Currey - 1,194
Ward 3 (West Downtown and Summerhill)
William Archer (incumbent) - 7,509
Charles Tidy (incumbent) - 6,707
John MacVicar - 3,977
James Sanderson - 1,156
Ward 4 (The Annex, Kensington Market and Garment District)
David Rotenberg - 4,766
Horace Brown - 3,626
Murray Caplan - 2,508
Jack Frankel - 2,364
Charles Drukarsh - 2,290
Ralph Meakes - 1,718
Lily Sherizen - 1,654
A.G. Finkelstein - 1,554
Samuel Kwinter - 854
Bruce Magnuson - 847
Dorothy Cureatz - 596
Ward 5 (Trinity-Bellwoods and Little Italy)
Harold Menzies (incumbent) - 6,667
Joseph Piccininni - 4,873
George Ben - 4,317
Louis Lockhart - 3,162
Lloyd White - 3,054
Russell Doyle - 1,609
Janet McMurray - 1,510
John Jones - 1,055
Ward 6 (Davenport and Parkdale)
Frank Clifton (incumbent) - 12,590
May Robinson (incumbent) - 11,201
George Jackson - 3,381
Michael Comar - 3,350
A.J. Robertson - 3,285
Stanley Steban - 3,197
W.G. Martin - 2,855
Pauline Miles - 2,360
Jack Starkman - 1,428
Anne Fritz - 1,142
Ward 7 (Bloor West Village)
William Davidson (incumbent) - 7,226
Mary Temple (incumbent) - 6,368
Thomas Wilson - 5,258
John O'Shea - 3,540
Ward 8 (The Beaches)
Alex Hodgins (incumbent) - 9,995
Tom Wardle Sr. - 9,516
S.T. Bullock - 7,963
Chris Stavro - 7,347
Joseph McNulty - 3,033
S.A. Baker - 2,486
A.A. Williams - 1,382
E.V. Cox - 1,064
Taiml Davis - 922
John Square - 455
Ward 9 (North Toronto)
Kenneth Ostrander (incumbent) - 20,481
Frank Nash (incumbent) - 11,907
Helen Johnston - 9,916
William Hall - 7,166

Results are taken from the December 6, 1960 Toronto Star and might not exactly match final tallies.

Changes

Controller William Allen resigned upon being elected Metro Chairman on January 9, 1962. On January 15, 1962 Controller William Dennison was appointed Metro Councillor and Herbert Orliffe was appointed Controller

Herbert Orliffe was a municipal politician in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He immigrated with his family form Newcastle, England at age 8 and settled in Toronto. His father operated a grocery store on Harbord Street. He attended first the University of Toronto and then received a law degree from Osgoode Hall

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Etobicoke

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Forest Hill

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Leaside

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Long Branch

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Mimico

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North York

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