Municipal elections were held in
Toronto
Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the ancho ...
, Ontario, Canada, on January 1, 1923.
Charles A. Maguire was reelected to his second term as mayor.
Toronto mayor
Charles A. Maguire had been acclaimed as mayor the election previously. The 1923 campaign focused on Sir
Adam Beck
Sir Adam Beck (June 20, 1857 – August 15, 1925) was a Canadian politician and hydroelectricity advocate who founded the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario.
Biography
Beck was born in Baden, Upper Canada (now Ontario) to German i ...
's proposal of an electrical radial railway along the length of the Toronto water front and further into the neighbouring cities. Maguire was in favour of the controversial plan. His main opponent was
R.J. Fleming who opposed the scheme. Fleming had previously served as mayor of Toronto several decades previously. The radial plan was voted down in a referendum that accompanied the vote, but Maguire was reelected mayor.
;Results
:
Charles A. Maguire - 46,362
:
R.J. Fleming - 38,961
Board of Control
One new member was elected to the
Board of Control: Alderman
Joseph Singer.
;Results
:
Thomas Foster (incumbent) - 36,040
:
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) - 33,740
:
Wesley Hiltz (incumbent) - 32,551
:
Joseph Singer - 32,033
:
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 ...
- 30,606
:
A.R. 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 ...
(incumbent) - 29,947
:Alfred Burgess - 24,876
:J.R.I. Starr - 25,931
City council
Other than Ward plus number, the names are not official, and given here only as a guide to current-day places.
;Ward 1 (
Riverdale)
:
W.A. Summerville (incumbent) - 5,236
:
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 ...
- 4,987
:Robert Luxton (incumbent) - 3,916
:F.M. Johnston (incumbent) - 3,682
:James Burry - 2,743
:William Varley - 2,063
;Ward 2 (
Cabbagetown and
Rosedale)
:J.R. Beamish (incumbent) - 4,939
:Charles A. Risk (incumbent) - 4,249
:W.H. Shaw - 4,173
:
Bert Wemp
Bert Sterling Wemp (July 3, 1889 – February 5, 1976) was a Canadian journalist and mayor of Toronto. He was also a member of the Orange Order in Canada.
Born in Tweed, Ontario, he was raised in Cabbagetown and attended Dufferin School and J ...
- 3,503
:John Winnett (incumbent) - 3,281
:
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 ...
- 3,080
:Wallace - 208
;Ward 3 (
Central Business District
A central business district (CBD) is the commercial and business centre of a city. It contains commercial space and offices, and in larger cities will often be described as a financial district. Geographically, it often coincides with the "city ...
and
The Ward)
:Frank Stollery - 5,786
:Andrew Carrick - 5,190
:H.G. Stanton - 4,942
:Harry W. Hunt (incumbent) - 3,537
:C.A. Reed (incumbent) - 3,086
:F.W. Johnston - 3,662
:William Harper - 587
;Ward 4 (
Kensington Market
Kensington Market is a distinctive multicultural neighbourhood in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Market is an older neighbourhood and one of the city's most well-known. In November 2006, it was designated a National Historic Site of Canad ...
and
Garment District)
:
Ethel Small Ethel Small (née Ethel Dallas Horstmann) in 1921 became the second woman elected to the Toronto city council. She was the younger daughter of Ferdinand Oden Horstmann (1846–1894) and Harriett Kelley Horstmann. The Horstmann family were wealthy P ...
(incumbent) - 4,878
:
R.H. Cameron - 3,879
:Claude Pearce - 3,382
:John Cowan (incumbent) - 2,608
:John McMulkin - 2,305
:Harry Winberg - 1,947
:E.B. Westwood - 1,878
:P.W. Benner - 458
;Ward 5 (
Trinity-Bellwoods
Trinity-Bellwoods is an inner city neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is bounded on the east by Bathurst Street, on the north by College Street, on the south by Queen Street West, and by Dovercourt Road on the west. It has a large Por ...
)
:Clifford Blackburn - 5,540
:A.E. Hacker (incumbent) - 5,391
:Wesley Benson (incumbent) - 5,061
:James Phinnemore - 4,107
:C.W. Mogridge - 2,915
:William Faragher - 2,909
:Abraham Goldberg - 1,061
;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 ...
- 8,637
:D.C. MacGregor (incumbent) - 7,738
:George Birdsall (incumbent) - 6,942
:Brook Sykes (incumbent) - 6,684
:Edmund Atkinson - 5,783
:W.H. Price - 5,222
;Ward 7 (
West Toronto Junction
West or Occident is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sun sets on the Earth.
Etymology
The word "west" is a Germanic word passed into some R ...
)
:Frank Whetter (incumbent) - 2,937
:H.M Davy (incumbent) - 2,762
:Samuel Ryding (incumbent) - 2,546
:W.A. Baird - 2,536
:Hain - 2,410
;Ward 8 (
East Toronto
East Toronto was an incorporated community, currently part of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It covered much of the present day neighbourhood of the Upper Beaches, stretching up to Danforth Avenue in the north, part of it stretching to Lake Ontario in ...
)
:Robert Baker (incumbent) - 4,337
:George S. Shields - 3,992
:Francis Maxwell (incumbent) - 3,392
:William Miskelly - 3,266
:Walter Brown - 2,571
:Isaac Pimblett - 1,481
Results taken from the January 1, 1923 ''Toronto Daily Star'' and might not exactly match final tallies.
References
*Election Coverage. ''Toronto Star''. January 1, 1923
{{Toronto elections
1923 elections in Canada
1923
Events
January–February
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