Municipal elections were held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on January 1, 1914. H.C. Hocken was reelected mayor defeating Fred McBrien. The election was also notable for the victory of Louis Singer, the first representative of Toronto's large Jewish community elected to city council.

Toronto mayor

Hocken had been mayor since 1912, as a founder of the ''Toronto Daily Star'' he was strongly supported by that newspaper and opposed by its rival the ''Toronto Telegram''. In the 1914 election the ''Telegram'' supported Alderman McBrien, but Hocken won by a significant margin. Two other candidates ran, but received little support: Alderman Alfred Burgess and Birks. ;Results : H.C. Hocken (incumbent) - 21,218 : Fred McBrien - 16,641 :Alfred Burgess - 3,725 :James Birks - 1,511

Board of Control

The Board of Control election was also a victory for the ''Star''. Most notably labour leader James Simpson was elected at the top of the poll while incumbent ''Telegram'' favourite Thomas Foster was defeated. : James Simpson - 20,695 :

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(incumbent) - 17,490 :

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(incumbent) - 17,085 : John O'Neill (incumbent) - 14,597 : Joseph Elijah Thompson - 14,233 : Thomas Foster (incumbent) - 13,929 :Robert Yeomans - 11,708 :A. J. H. Eckardt - 7,755

City council

Toronto Municipal Wards for the 1910 civic election

;Ward 1 ( Riverdale) :

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(incumbent) - acclaimed : Albert Walton (incumbent) - acclaimed : W. W. Hiltz - acclaimed ;Ward 2 ( Cabbagetown and Rosedale) : H.A. Rowland (incumbent) - 3,732 : Samuel Wickett (incumbent) - 2,267 : Charles A. Risk (incumbent) - 2,813 :

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- 866 ;Ward 3 (

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- 4,245 : F.S. Spence - 2,918 : Sam McBride (incumbent) - 2,806 :Marmaduke Rawlinson (incumbent) - 2,770 :G.J. Castle - 809 :Rudolph Paulich - 135 ;Ward 4 ( Kensington Market and Garment District) : J. Wanless (incumbent) - 2,667 :

R.H. Cameron Robert Henderson Cameron (March 27, 1867-1949) was a Toronto manufacturer and politician. He was born in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1867 and came to Canada as a child with his family in the early 1869. Cameron entered the manufacturing industry and wa ...

- 2,101 : Louis Singer - 1,842 :A.B. Farmer - 1,571 :Robert McLeod - 1,308 : A.E. Hacker - 1,002 :A.R. Williamson - 995 :G.R. Sweeny - 906 :

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- 240 :G.H. Pettit - 211 ;Ward 5 (

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(incumbent) - 3,087 : R.H. Graham - 3,076 :

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(incumbent) - 3,023 :Joseph May (incumbent) - 2,754 :G.S.C. Garrett - 2,416 :R.W. Dockeray - 2,115 :Alfred Moore - 452 ;Ward 6 ( Brockton and Parkdale) : David Spence (incumbent) - 5,822 : C.H. Maybee (incumbent) - 5,200 :

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- 4,847 :T.J. Ryan - 2,669 :S.H. Hurst - 1,472 :Richard Holmes - 592 :W.H. Stevens - 343 ;Ward 7 (

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- 750 : Samuel Ryding (incumbent) - 678 :J.G. Wright - 539 :W.J. Dalton - 525 :Alexander Chisholm - 390 : William Henry Weir - 294 :Maxwell Armstrong - 164 :A.M. Wilson - 166 :J.A. Macdonald - 120 :J.C. McClelland - 82 Results taken from the January 2, 1914 ''Toronto Daily Star'' and might not exactly match final tallies.

References

*Election Coverage. ''Toronto Star''. January 1, 1914 {{Toronto elections 1914 elections in Canada

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