Municipal elections were held in

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, Ontario, Canada, on January 1, 1916. Mayor

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 to his second term in office.

Toronto mayor

Church had first been elected mayor the year previous. In the words of the ''Toronto Daily Star'' the mayoral contest "was something of a joke" as Church was only opposed by Harry Winberg, who had never before held elected office. Church ignored his opponent during the campaign, and was easily returned. ;Results :

(incumbent) - 28,541 :

Harry Winberg Harry Winberg (also known as Harry Wineberg) was an entrepreneur and politician in Toronto, Canada. Winberg was born in the late-19th century to a Jewish family in the Kovno, Lithuania which was then part of the Russian Empire. His father was a whea ...

- 9,880

Board of Control

There was one change to the Board of Control. R.H. Cameron won a seat while

Frank S. Spence Francis Stephens Spence (March 29, 1850 — March 8, 1917) was an Irish-Canadian politician, prohibitionist, teacher, and journalist. Spence was born in County Donegal, Ireland, one of 12 children. His family emigrated to Canada West in 1861 wh ...

was defeated. :

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(incumbent) -18,209 : John O'Neill (incumbent) - 17,572 : Thomas Foster (incumbent) - 16,085 : R.H. Cameron - 15,391 : James Simpson - 13,080 :

(incumbent) - 12,652 :John Dunn - 11,009

City council

Toronto Municipal Wards for the 1910 civic election

;Ward 1 ( Riverdale) :

William D. Robbins William Dullam Robbins (May 7, 1874 – March 25, 1952) was the 45th Mayor of Toronto from 1936 to 1937. He was appointed mayor after the death of incumbent Sam McBride and remained in office until defeated by Ralph Day in the 1937 elections. Robb ...

(incumbent) - 4,283 :A.H. Wagstaff - 4,011 : W. W. Hiltz - 3,657 :Albert Walton (incumbent) - 2,866 :Robert Yeomans (incumbent) - 2,590 :Walter Brown - 913 ;Ward 2 ( Cabbagetown and Rosedale) :Charles A. Risk (incumbent) - 2,550 :J.R. Beamish - 2,499 :

Herbert Henry Ball Herbert Henry Ball (September 9, 1863 - February 26, 1943) was a Canadian politician and journalist. On October 24, 1885, he married Mary Ann Martin in Bristol, Somerset, England. In 1886, Ball and his wife emigrated to Canada, settling north o ...

(incumbent) - 2,093 :Charles Beavis - 1,946 :Thomas Barber - 729 ;Ward 3 (

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and The Ward) : Charles A. Maguire (incumbent) - 3,397 :

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 ...

(incumbent) - 2,154 :

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) - 1,971 :Thomas Vance - 1,666 ;Ward 4 (

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and Garment District) :

Arthur Russell Nesbitt Arthur Russell Nesbitt (November 1, 1883 – July 11, 1962) was an Ontario lawyer and political figure. He was elected to Toronto City Council for Ward 4 beginning in 1920, was subsequently elected to the Toronto Board of Control and then was ...

- 2,652 :John Cowan (incumbent) - 2,374 :

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) - 2,177 :A.W. Miles - 1,954 ;Ward 5 (

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) :Garnet Archibald - 2,808 :R.H. Graham - 2,789 :W.R. Plewman - 2,006 :John Warren (incumbent) - 1,860 :Joseph May - 1,571 :John Wesley Meredith (incumbent) - 1,439 :George Hagar - 1,373 :James Thompson - 1,290 :Alfred Moore - 388 ;Ward 6 ( Brockton and Parkdale) :

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 a ...

- 4,512 :

Joseph Gibbons Joseph Gibbons may refer to: * Joseph Gibbons (Florida politician) (born 1948), Florida businessman and Democratic politician * Joseph Gibbons (Toronto politician) (died 1946), municipal politician in Toronto, Canada See also * * Joe Gibbon (1935 ...

(incumbent) - 4,414 :D.C. MacGregor - 4,006 :George Birdsall - 3,890 :Thomas Roden (incumbent) - 2,319 ;Ward 7 (

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) :Samuel Ryding (incumbent) - 1,420 :Frank Whetter - 1,252 :William Henry Weir (incumbent)- 1,106 Results taken from the January 1, 1916 ''Toronto Daily Star'' and might not exactly match final tallies.

References

*Election Coverage. ''Toronto Star''. January 1, 1916 {{Toronto elections 1916 elections in Canada

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