Toronto municipal election, 1952

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Municipal elections were held in Toronto , Ontario, Canada, on December 1, 1952. Incumbent mayor Allan Lamport easily won against former alderman Nathan Phillips.

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.

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There were two referendum questions on the ballot. One called for municipal terms in the city to be extended from one year to two. This measure was rejected, but was later passed in the 1955 election. The second measure was to approve funds for the construction of the Regent Park housing project, which was passed by a slim margin.

Regent Park Neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Regent Park is a neighbourhood located in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, built in the late 1940s as a public housing project. The project is managed by Toronto Community Housing. It sits on what used to be a significant part of the Cabbagetown neighbourhood, and is bounded by Gerrard Street East to the north, River Street to the east, Shuter Street to the south, and Parliament Street to the west.

Toronto mayor

Lamport and Phillips had contested the mayoralty a year earlier in 1951. Phillips' vote increased substantially in the rematch, but Lamport was still easily reelected.

Results
Allan Lamport - 81,448
Nathan Phillips - 41,923

Board of Control

All four incumbents were reelected to the Board of Control despite several high-profile candidates running as well. Two sitting aldermen, Joseph Cornish and John McMechan, ran for spots, but finished fifth and sixth. In seventh was former Controller and Communist Stewart Smith.

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.

F. Joseph Cornish Q.C. was a lawyer, judge and Toronto politician who served as alderman for Ward 2 and as a member of the Toronto Board of Control as well as a Metro Toronto Councillor.

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
Leslie Saunders (incumbent) - 71,597
Louis Shannon (incumbent) - 61,154
David Balfour (incumbent) - 58,898
Ford Brand (incumbent) - 58,648
Joseph Cornish - 41,086
John McMechan - 30,219
Stewart Smith - 19,061
Harry Bradley - 17,480
Frederick Vacher - 7,065
Mahoney - 7,046

City council

Ward boundaries used in the 1952 election Toronto ward map 1964.PNG
Ward boundaries used in the 1952 election
Ward 1 (Riverdale)
William Allen (incumbent) - 9,886
Ken Waters - 8,583
Spence - 2,368
Morrison - 1,961
Ward 2 (Cabbagetown and Rosedale)
William Dennison - 4,090
Edgar Roxborough - 3,657
C.M. Edwards - 2,436
Irene Nash - 1,086
Wilson - 1,085
Ross - 843
Taylor - 773
Burke - 611
Hill - 490
Ward 3 (West Downtown and Summerhill)
John McVicar (incumbent) - 4,826
Howard Phillips (incumbent) - 4,154
Richard Newson - 1,238
Ward 4 (The Annex, Kensington Market and Garment District)
Allan Grossman (incumbent) - 6,143
Francis Chambers (incumbent) - 5,920
Norman Freed - 3,156
Henderson - 1,053
Ward 5 (Trinity-Bellwoods and Little Italy)
Joseph Gould - 6,490
Philip Givens (incumbent) - 6,294
Harold Menzies - 4,851
Charles Sims - 3,692
Lockhart - 1,372
Ward 6 (Davenport and Parkdale)
May Robinson (incumbent) - 10,291
Frank Clifton - 7,177
Lester Nelson - 6,350
Colucci - 4,065
Hector MacArthur - 2,174
Genovese - 1,747
Patrick McKeown - 1,112
Ward 7 (West Toronto Junction)
William Davidson (incumbent) - 6,017
John Kucherepa (incumbent) - 4,441
John Duncan - 4,260
Selkirk - 2,919
Ward 8 (The Beaches)
Ross Lipsett (incumbent) - 11,898
Alex Hodgins (incumbent) - 10,913
McNulty - 4,671
William Probert - 3,603
John Square - 893
Ward 9 (North Toronto)
Roy Belyea (incumbent) - 14,007
Leonard Reilly (incumbent) - 10,241
David Burt - 9,807

Results are taken from the December 8, 1953 Toronto Star and might not exactly match final tallies.

Outside Toronto

North York

Nelson A. Boylen re-elected as reeve.

Scarborough

Oliver E. Crockford re-elected as reeve.

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