Toronto municipal election, 1946

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

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.

Robert Hood Saunders Canadian mayor

Robert Hood Saunders, Q.C., CBE was mayor of Toronto from 1945 to 1948, President of the Canadian National Exhibition, chairman of the Ontario Hydro. He was also a member of the Orange Order in Canada.

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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.

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.

William J. Wadsworth was a Canadian businessman and politician. He was a long serving municipal politician in Toronto, Ontario.

Stewart Smith (politician) Canadian politician

Stewart Smith was a long-time leading member of the Communist Party of Canada. He also served on Toronto City Council for a period in the 1930s and 1940s.

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 boundaries used in the 1946 election Toronto ward map 1964.PNG
Ward boundaries used in the 1946 election
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.

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