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, Ontario, Canada, on January 1, 1915.

Tommy Church Thomas Langton "Tommy" Church (1873 – February 7, 1950) was a Canadian politician. After serving as Mayor of Toronto from 1915 to 1921, he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1921 election as a Conservative from the riding ...

was elected mayor defeating Jesse O. McCarthy.

Toronto mayor

Incumbent mayor H.C. Hocken chose not to run for re-election. Two prominent members of the Board of Control ran to replace him: Tommy Church and Jesse O. McCarthy, with Church the victor. As with most races of the period, it was also a contest between the two newspapers with the ''Toronto Daily Star'' supporting McCarthy and the ''Toronto Telegram'' supporting Church. ;Results :

- 26,041 : Jesse O. McCarthy - 19,573

Board of Control

The decision of both Church and McCarthy to run for mayor opened two vacancies on the Board of Control. A third opening was created by the defeat of labour leader James Simpson, who had been elected to the Board the year before. The spots were filled by Thomas Foster,

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, and

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. : John O'Neill (incumbent) - 20,751 : Thomas Foster - 18,608 :

- 17,747 :

- 16,505 : James Simpson (incumbent) - 16,349 :

Fred McBrien Frederick George McBrien (15 June 1888 – 2 July 1938) was an Ontario lawyer and political figure. He represented Toronto Southwest and then Brockton from 1923 to 1934 and Parkdale from 1937 to 1938 in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as ...

- 15,447 :John Wanless - 13,044

City council

Toronto Municipal Wards for the 1910 civic election

;Ward 1 ( Riverdale) :

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(incumbent) - 3,987 :Albert Walton (incumbent) - 3,353 :Robert Yeomans - 2,922 : W. W. Hiltz (incumbent) - 2,900 :A.H. Wagstaff - 2,754 :William Orr - 1,700 :George Smith - 1,148 :George Daniels - 765 :George Wellings - 325 ;Ward 2 ( Cabbagetown and Rosedale) :Samuel Wickett (incumbent) - 3,028 :Charles A. Risk (incumbent) - 2,586 :

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- 2,134 :Charles Beavis - 2,009 :John Cooper - 1,789 ;Ward 3 (

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and The Ward) : Charles A. Maguire (incumbent) - 4,356 :

Sam McBride Sam (Samuel) McBride (July 13, 1866 – November 14, 1936) was a two-time Mayor of Toronto serving his first term from 1928 to 1929 and his second term in 1936 which ended prematurely due to his death. He was also a member of the Orange Order ...

(incumbent) - 3,993 :

J. George Ramsden Joseph George Ramsden (July 3, 1867 to December 28, 1946) was a long active municipal politician in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was born in Thornhill, Ontario and first became active in politics working for Alexander Mackenzie in a York East by-e ...

- 2,107 :John Skelton - 1,783 :Albert Hassard - 884 :Rudolph Paulich - 150 ;Ward 4 (

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and Garment District) : R.H. Cameron (incumbent) - 3,286 :

Louis Singer Louis M. Singer, K.C., (1885–1959 ) was a Toronto lawyer and the second Jewish candidate to win election to Toronto City Council, the first being Newman Leopold Steiner. Singer was born in Austria in 1885 and immigrated to Canada with his famil ...

(incumbent) - 2,865 :John Cowan - 2,339 :Robert McLeod - 1,673 :Henry Dworkin - 1,281 ;Ward 5 (

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) :John Dunn (incumbent) - 6,298 :John Warren - 3,578 :John Wesley Meredith (incumbent) - 3,498 :Joseph May - 3,138 :Alfred Moore - 964 ;Ward 6 ( Brockton and Parkdale) : David Spence (incumbent) - 5,727 :Thomas Roden - 2,319 :

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- 3,724 :George Birdsall - 2,524 :D.C. MacGregor - 2,198 :Albert Chamberlain - 1,491 :Arthur Atkinson - 819 :John Brown - 538 :Kenneth McKenzie - 544 :Richard Holmes - 417 :George Pettit - 304 ;Ward 7 (

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) :Samuel Ryding (incumbent) - 1,218 :William Henry Weir - 1,141 :Frank Whetter (incumbent) - 1,026 :Alexander Chisholm - 400 :Maxwell Armstrong - 292 Results taken from the January 2, 1915 ''Toronto Daily Star'' and might not exactly match final tallies.

Vacancy

Ward 2 Alderman Samuel Wickett dies December 7, 1915 and is not replaced.

References

*Election Coverage. ''Toronto Star''. January 1, 1915 {{Toronto elections 1915 elections in Canada

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