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, 1942. Incumbent Frederick J. Conboy was acclaimed as mayor.

Toronto mayor

For the second election in a row no one chose to run against incumbent Frederick J. Conboy and he was acclaimed as mayor. ;Results : Frederick J. Conboy - acclaimed

Board of Control

The Board of Control election was marked by former mayor

Ralph Day Ralph Carrette Day (November 24, 1898 – May 21, 1976) was mayor of Toronto, Ontario from 1938 to 1940. He was also an accomplished funeral director, owning his own funeral home. He also served as chairman of the Toronto Transit Commission in ...

attempting to return to the Board, but he placed fifth as all four incumbents were reelected. ;Results :

Lewis Duncan James Lewis Duncan (1892 – 8 April 1960) was a Canadian politician and lawyer. Early life Duncan was the son of a physician and grandson of a Presbyterian minister. He studied at the University of Toronto and in Paris and won a silver medal a ...

(incumbent) - 41,656 :

Robert Hood Saunders Robert Hood Saunders, CBE, QC (May 30, 1903 – January 16, 1955) was mayor of Toronto from 1945 to 1948, President of the Canadian National Exhibition, chairman of the Ontario Hydro (formally named the Hydro Electric Power Commission of Ontario ...

(incumbent) - 28,923 : Fred Hamilton (incumbent) - 28,853 :

William J. Wadsworth William J. Wadsworth (died March 20, 1949) was a Canadian businessman and politician. He was a long serving municipal politician in Toronto, Ontario. He was born in Flesherton, Ontario and migrated to Toronto when his family moved to the West Toron ...

(incumbent) - 27,022 :

- 24,208 :Minerva Reid - 20,337 :J.C. Irwin - 18,272 :N. Macmillan - 5,179 :Harry Bradley - 3,102

City council

;Ward 1 ( Riverdale) :

Leslie Saunders Leslie Howard Saunders (September 12, 1899 – March 30, 1994) was Mayor of Toronto, Canada, from 1954 to 1955 and the last member of the Orange Order to hold the position until William Dennison. He also served as Mayor of East York in 1976. Ear ...

- 3,898 :

Gordon Millen Gordon James Millen (September 8, 1899 – April 10, 1948) was a politician from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He served several years on city council before being elected as a Member of Provincial Parliament. Background Millen was a dentist b ...

(incumbent) - 3,832 :W.S.B. Armstrong - 1,700 :R.A. Allen - 1,512 :H. Bell - 1,033 :George Gresswell - 910 ;Ward 2 ( Cabbagetown and Rosedale) : Louis Shannon (incumbent) - 3,175 :

Henry Glendinning Henry may refer to: People *Henry (given name) * Henry (surname) * Henry Lau, Canadian singer and musician who performs under the mononym Henry Royalty * Portuguese royalty ** King-Cardinal Henry, King of Portugal ** Henry, Count of Portugal, ...

- 3,148 : William Dennison (incumbent) - 3,036 ;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 ...

) : John S. Simmons (incumbent) - 1,396 :

Percy Quinn John Purcell Quinn (January 9, 1876 – October 28, 1944) was a Canadian athlete, businessman, sports executive and politician. He was an owner and president of the Toronto Blueshirts, winners of the Stanley Cup in 1914. He was a member of the wor ...

(incumbent) - 1,266 :H.E. Wallace - 1,233 :J.N. Mullholland - 530 :J. Lang - 464 :

Harold Fishleigh Harold Ferguson Fishleigh (May 11, 1903 – September 23, 1998) was a Canadian politician who was a Member of Provincial Parliament in Legislative Assembly of Ontario The Legislative Assembly of Ontario (OLA, french: Assemblée législati ...

- 166 ;Ward 4 (

The Annex The Annex is a neighbourhood in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The traditional boundaries of the neighbourhood are north to Dupont Street, south to Bloor Street, west to Bathurst Street and east to Avenue Road. The City of Toronto recognizes ...

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) : Nathan Phillips (incumbent) - 2,575 : David Balfour - 1,964 :

Herbert Orliffe Herbert Orliffe (c.1905 – 3 July 1967) was a municipal politician in Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He immigrated with his family from Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle, England at age 8 and settled in Toronto. His father operated a grocery sto ...

- 1,823 :David Goldstick - 1,793 : Hugh Ross (incumbent) - 1,123 : Joseph Gould - 697 :M. Kaschuck - 277 ;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 ...

Ernest Bogart Ernest is a given name derived from Germanic word ''ernst'', meaning "serious". Notable people and fictional characters with the name include: People *Archduke Ernest of Austria (1553–1595), son of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor *Ernest, M ...

(incumbent) - 5,502 : C.M. Carrie (incumbent) - 4,025 :Douglas Carr - 2,189 ;Ward 6 ( Davenport and Parkdale) : William V. Muir (incumbent) - 6,022 : D.C. MacGregor (incumbent) - 4,901 : Jack Bennett - 4,525 :George Harris - 1,672 :Nina Dean - 916 :R. Harding - 683 ;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 ...

) :

Charles Rowntree Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "f ...

(incumbent) - 3,707 : William C. Davidson - 2,398 :F.G.I Whetter - 1,605 :C.V. Pratt - 1,098 :H.H. Clark - 897 :M. Nichols - 625 ;Ward 8 (

The Beaches The Beaches (also known as "The Beach") is a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is so named because of its four beaches situated on Lake Ontario. It is located east of downtown within the "Old" City of Toronto. The approximate boundar ...

) : Hiram E. McCallum (incumbent) - 5,188 :

Walter Howell Walter Neville Howell OAM (born 17 December 1929) is an Australian former representative and Olympic medal winning rower. He competed at two Olympic Games, racing at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics in the men's eight and at the 1960 Rome O ...

(incumbent) - 4,784 :E.S. McGuinness - 2,483 :R. Cormack - 2,247 ;Ward 9 (

North Toronto North Toronto is a former town and informal district located in the northern part of the Old Toronto district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Currently occupying a geographically central location within the city of Toronto, the Town of North Toronto w ...

) : John Innes (incumbent) - 4,633 :

Donald Fleming Donald Methuen Fleming, (May 23, 1905 – December 31, 1986) was a Canadian parliamentarian, International Monetary Fund official and lawyer, born in Exeter, Ontario, Canada. Life and career Fleming was first elected to the House of Co ...

(incumbent) - 4,573 :Christine McCarty - 3,237 :L.V. Baldwin - 2,532 :W.G. Ellis - 2,123 Results taken from the January 2, 1942 ''Globe and Mail'' and might not exactly match final tallies.

Vacancy

Ward 6 Alderman D.C. MacGregor died on November 28, 1942 and was not replaced.

References

*Election Coverage. ''Globe and Mail''. January 2, 1942 {{Toronto elections 1942 elections in Canada

1942 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 – WWII: The Declaration by United Nations is signed by China, the United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union, and 22 other nations, in wh ...

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