Municipal elections were held in

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, Ontario, Canada, on January 1, 1946. Incumbent

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 ...

ran unopposed and was

acclaimed An acclamation is a form of election that does not use a ballot. It derives from the ancient Roman word ''acclamatio'', a kind of ritual greeting and expression of approval towards imperial officials in certain social contexts. Voting Voice vot ...

as mayor.

Toronto mayor

;Results :

- acclaimed

Board of Control

One incumbent on the Board of Control lost,

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 ...

. He was defeated by Alderman Bert McKellar. Communist Stewart Smith of the

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won the second position on the Board. ;Results : Hiram E. McCallum (incumbent) - 42,126 : Stewart Smith (incumbent) - 41,637 : David Balfour (incumbent) - 40,632 :

Kenneth Bert McKellar Kenneth is an English given name and surname. The name is an Anglicised form of two entirely different Gaelic personal names: ''Cainnech'' and '' Cináed''. The modern Gaelic form of ''Cainnech'' is ''Coinneach''; the name was derived from a byna ...

- 35,627 :

(incumbent) - 35,477 :

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 ...

- 22,040 :Harry Bradley - 6,796

City council

;Ward 1 ( Riverdale) :

William Murdoch William Murdoch (sometimes spelled Murdock) (21 August 1754 – 15 November 1839) was a Scottish engineer and inventor. Murdoch was employed by the firm of Boulton & Watt and worked for them in Cornwall, as a steam engine erector for ten yea ...

(incumbent) - 5,597 : Charles Walton (incumbent) - 4,168 :William Simpson - 3,481 ;Ward 2 ( Cabbagetown and Rosedale) :

Louis Shannon J. Louis Shannon (died February 16, 1954) was a municipal politician in Toronto, Ontario, Canada who served for multiple years on Toronto City Council and the Toronto Board of Control. Shannon was raised in Vankleek Hill where his father was the e ...

(incumbent) - 4,118 :

May Birchard May Birchard (died July 30, 1968) was a municipal politician and poverty activist in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Born in Toronto, she married F.J. Birchard, an agricultural scientist who was an expert on grain. During the First World War the family m ...

- 3,014 :

George A. Wilson George Allison Wilson (April 1, 1884 – September 8, 1953) was an American politician and lawyer. He was a United States Senate, United States Senator and List of Governors of Iowa, 28th Governor of Iowa. Personal background Born on a farm near ...

(incumbent) - 2,910 : William Dennison - 2,472 ;Ward 3 (West

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and

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) : John S. Simmons (incumbent) - 2,175 :

Allan Lamport Allan Austin Lamport, (April 4, 1903 – November 18, 1999) was mayor of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, from 1951 to 1954. Known as "Lampy", his most notable achievement was his opposition to Toronto's Blue laws which banned virtually any activ ...

- 1,911 :

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 ...

(incumbent) - 1,724 :Earl Selkirk - 586 :William Smith - 285 :Karl Prager - 281 ;Ward 4 (

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and Garment District) : Nathan Phillips (incumbent) - acclaimed :

Norman Freed Norman or Normans may refer to: Ethnic and cultural identity * The Normans, a people partly descended from Norse Vikings who settled in the territory of Normandy in France in the 10th and 11th centuries ** People or things connected with the Norm ...

(incumbent) - acclaimed ;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 ...

) : Arthur Frost (incumbent) - acclaimed :

Charles Sims Charles Sims may refer to: * Charles Sims (painter) (1873–1928), British painter * Charles Sims (mathematician) (1938–2017), American mathematician * Charles Sims (aviator) (1899–1929), British World War I flying ace * Charles Sims (American ...

(incumbent) - acclaimed ;Ward 6 ( Davenport and Parkdale) :

Harold Timmins Harold Aberdeen Watson Timmins (April 14, 1895 – July 29, 1966) was a Canadian politician and jurist. Timmins was born in Alliston, Ontario, the son of James S. Timmins and Charlotte Amelia Watson, and raised in the Toronto neighbourhood ...

(incumbent) - 6,768 : Dewar Ferguson - 5,510 : William V. Muir - 3,960 : William Clifton - 3,744 :Harold Lock - 2,244 :Patrick McKeown - 746 :Charles Dymond - 362 ;Ward 7 (

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) :

William Butt William Moore Butt (1805–1888) was a politician in Georgia. Butt arrived in Atlanta in 1851 from Campbell County, Georgia Campbell County was a county of the U.S. state of Georgia from to . It was created by the state legislature on De ...

- 4,510 : E.C. Roelofson (incumbent) - 4,220 :Eva Sanderson - 2,157 ;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 ...

) : William Collings (incumbent) - 6,789 :

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) - 6,476 :

Murray Cotterill Murray Cotterill (June 27, 1913 – February 23, 1995) was a Canadian trade union activist and organizer for the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF). In the 1930s, Cotterill was one of the organisers of the Co-operative Commonwealth Yout ...

- 5,143 :James Davis - 2,244 ;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) - 11,092 : Melville Wilson (incumbent) - 8,257 :F.W. Rayfield - 2,950 :R.M. McLean - 1,720 :Fred Vacher - 1,623 Results taken from the January 2, 1946 ''Globe and Mail'' and might not exactly match final tallies.

References

*Election Coverage. ''Globe and Mail''. January 2, 1946 {{Toronto elections

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