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Municipal elections were held in
Toronto , Ontario, Canada, on January 1, 1946. Incumbent
Robert Hood Saunders ran unopposed and was
acclaimed as mayor.
Results
Robert Hood Saunders - acclaimed
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.
Results
Hiram E. McCallum (incumbent) - 42,126
Stewart Smith (incumbent) - 41,637
David Balfour (incumbent) - 40,632
Kenneth Bert McKellar - 35,627
William J. Wadsworth (incumbent) - 35,477
Leslie Saunders - 22,040
Harry Bradley - 6,796
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.
Election Coverage. Globe and Mail . January 2, 1946
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