Municipal elections were held in

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, Ontario, Canada, on December 3, 1956. Incumbent mayor Nathan Phillips was easily reelected.

Jean Newman Jean Dorothy Newman (1905 in Née Reading – October 4, 1971) was a municipal politician in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She was the vice-chairman of the Toronto Board of Control and president of the Toronto City Council. She was the first woman elect ...

became the first woman elected to the Board of Control, and topped the poll to become budget chief.

Toronto mayor

Nathan Phillips, elected two years earlier, faced only limited opposition from

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and was easily reelected. ;Results : Nathan Phillips - 80,352 :

- 9,834

Board of Control

All four sitting Board of Control members chose to run for re-election. Controller and former mayor

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 ...

was pushed off the board by Jean Newman's victory. Newman is the first woman to be elected to the Board of Control or to win a city-wide election in Toronto. The most senior two Controllers in terms of votes also sat on

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. ;Results :

- 54,785 :

Ford Brand Ford Brand (1904July 29, 1986) was a Canadian politician who was a one-time rival to Toronto mayor Nathan Phillips. Ford had a seat on the Toronto Board of Control, the municipality's executive body, from 1951 to 1958 and also an inaugural member ...

(incumbent) - 54,178 :

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(incumbent) - 54,038 :

Joseph Cornish F. Joseph Cornish Q.C. (1911 – September 28, 2004) was a lawyer, judge and Toronto politician who served as alderman for Ward 2 and as a member of the Toronto Board of Control as well as a Metro Toronto Councillor.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 ...

(incumbent) - 47,048 :Harry Bradley - 16,450 :Charles Sims - 6961 :George Rolland - 5,632

City council

Two aldermen were elected per Ward. The alderman with the most votes was declared Senior Alderman and sat on both Toronto City Council and Metro Council. Toronto ward map 1964

;Ward 1 ( Riverdale) :

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(incumbent) - 6,318 :

Fred Beavis Frederick J. Beavis (October 8, 1914 – July 11, 1997) was a longtime city councillor in Toronto, Ontario, who briefly served as interim mayor of the city in 1978. Beavis operated the ''Beavis Bros. Roofing Co.'' with his brothers before becomin ...

- 3,636 :Jean Brown - 3,412 : George Phillips (incumbent) - 2,578 :Dominic Di Stasi - 1,657 :Basil Ingleby - 494 ;Ward 2 (

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and Rosedale) : William Dennison (incumbent) - 4,962 :

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 ...

- 2,614 :

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- 2,567 :

Edgar Roxborough Edgar is a commonly used English given name, from an Anglo-Saxon name ''Eadgar'' (composed of '' ead'' "rich, prosperous" and ''gar'' "spear"). Like most Anglo-Saxon names, it fell out of use by the later medieval period; it was, however, rev ...

(incumbent) - 2,380 :Andrew Kavanaugh - 569 :Philip Rowley - 528 ;Ward 3 (West

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and

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(incumbent) - 4,149 : John MacVicar - 1,980 :Richard James - 2,537 ;Ward 4 (

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and Garment District) :

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 ...

(incumbent) - 4,437 : Francis Chambers (incumbent) - 3,449 :

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- 2,692 :Dorothy Cureatz - 628 ;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 ...

and

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) :

Philip Givens Philip Gerald Givens, (April 24, 1922 – November 30, 1995) was a Canadian politician and judge. He was the Mayor of Toronto, a Member of Parliament (MP) and Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP). He was born and raised in Toronto and at ...

(incumbent) - 6,226 :

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(incumbent) - 5,177 :Ben Nobleman - 1,500 :Paul Pauk - 1,092 ;Ward 6 ( Davenport and Parkdale) : May Robinson (incumbent) - 8,691 :

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(incumbent) - 7,171 :William Stevens - 3,884 :Wallace Martin - 2,066 :John Shedden - 1,795 :George Jackson - 1,498 ;Ward 7 (

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William Davidson William or Bill Davidson may refer to: Businessmen * Bill Davidson (businessman) (1922–2009), Michigan businessman and sports team owner ** William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan, named in honor of Bill Davidson * William Davidson ( ...

(incumbent) - 5,122 :

John Kucherepa John William Kucherepa (27 May 1919 – 25 March 1990) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. Kucherepa was born in Toronto, Ontario where he attended the Humberside Collegiate Institute and Western H ...

(incumbent) - 5,069 : Thomas Wilson - 1,548 :Stewart - 1,077 :William Repka - 579 ;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 ...

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Donald Summerville Donald Dean Summerville (August 4, 1915 – November 19, 1963) was a Canadian politician who served as the 53rd mayor of Toronto from January 1963 until his death that same year. Early life and family Summerville was born in Toronto to Willi ...

(incumbent) - 12,567 : Albert G. Cranham (incumbent) - 9,577 :Chris Stavro - 2,488 :John Square - 1,146 ;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 ...

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(incumbent) - 12,084 : Kenneth Ostrander - 10,515 :Alex Thompson - 8,064 Results are taken from the December 4, 1956 ''Toronto Star'' and might not exactly match final tallies.

Changes

Ward 7 Alderman

resigned January 6, 1958 having been elected in the 1957 Federal Election; Thomas Wilson was appointed replacement on January 20.

Suburbs

East York East York is a former administrative district and municipality within Toronto, Ontario, Canada. From 1967 to 1998, it was officially the Borough of East York, a semi-autonomous borough within the upper-tier municipality of Metropolitan Toron ...

;Reeve : Jack Raymond Allen - 5,757 :C. Howard Chandler - 4,510 Jack R. Allen defeated business executive C. Howard Chandler. Source:"Many New Faces Lead Suburban Councils", ''Toronto Daily Star'' (1900-1971); Toronto, Ontario oronto, Ontario4 Dec 1956: 10.

Etobicoke Etobicoke (, ) is an administrative district of, and one of six municipalities amalgamated into, the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Comprising the city's west-end, Etobicoke was first settled by Europeans in the 1790s, and the municipalit ...

;Reeve : H.O. Waffle - 9,519 :Jack Bennett - 5,014 Deputy Reeve Waffle defeated Bennett, a former Toronto alderman to replace retiring reeve Bev Lewis. ;Deputy Reeve :Murray Johnston - 8,005 :Charles Devlin - 6,429 Source:

Forest Hill

;Reeve : Laurie T. Simonsky (acclaimed) Source:

Leaside Leaside (/'liːˌsaɪd/) is a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located northeast of Downtown Toronto, in the vicinity of Eglinton Avenue East and Bayview Avenue. The area takes its name from William Lea and the Lea family, who se ...

;Mayor :(incumbent) Charles Hiscott (acclaimed) Source:

Long Branch

;Reeve :(incumbent)

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- 1,522 :William Cambera - 553 :Sherman Anderson - 175 ;Deputy Reeve :Maurice Breen - 1,309 :Stanley Purvis - 888 Source:

Mimico Mimico is a neighbourhood (and a former municipality) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, being located in the south-west area of Toronto on Lake Ontario. It is in the south-east corner of the former Township (and later, City) of Etobicoke, and was an in ...

;Mayor :(incumbent) William Arthur (Gus) Edwards - 1,802 :Owen Gertrude - 1,098 Source:

New Toronto New Toronto is a neighbourhood and former municipality in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located in the south-west area of Toronto, along Lake Ontario. The Town of New Toronto was established in 1890, and was designed and planned as an indust ...

;Mayor :(incumbent) Donald Russell - 1,783 :David Post - 810 Source:

North York North York is one of the six administrative districts of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located directly north of York, Old Toronto and East York, between Etobicoke to the west and Scarborough to the east. As of the 2016 Census, it had a popu ...

;Reeve :

Vernon Singer Vernon Milton Singer (March 26, 1919 – September 20, 2003) was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1959 to 1977 who represented the North York ridings of York Centre, Downsview ...

- 24,045 :Maurice T. Hook - 5,302 Councillor Singer defeated former deputy reeve Hook to replace retiring reeve, Fred McMahon. Source:

Scarborough Scarborough or Scarboro may refer to: People * Scarborough (surname) * Earl of Scarbrough Places Australia * Scarborough, Western Australia, suburb of Perth * Scarborough, New South Wales, suburb of Wollongong * Scarborough, Queensland, su ...

;Reeve : Albert Campbell - 13,470 :(incumbent)

Gus Harris Augustus Vincent Patrick Harris (July 1908 – February 20, 2000) was a Canadian politician. He was born in Liverpool, Lancashire, England. He was the mayor of Scarborough, Ontario from 1978 to 1988. Although he was a relatively conservative, ...

- 11,569 ;Deputy Reeve :George R. Mason - 13,270 :John Algar - 11,361 Source:

Swansea Swansea (; cy, Abertawe ) is a coastal city and the second-largest city of Wales. It forms a principal area, officially known as the City and County of Swansea ( cy, links=no, Dinas a Sir Abertawe). The city is the twenty-fifth largest in ...

;Reeve :(incumbent) Dorothy Hague (acclaimed) ;Deputy Reeve :H.B. Squarebriggs - 1,233 :K.C. Woodsworth - 740 Source:

Weston Weston may refer to: Places Australia * Weston, Australian Capital Territory, a suburb of Canberra * Weston, New South Wales * Weston Creek, a residential district of Canberra * Weston Park, Canberra, a park Canada * Weston, Nova Scotia * W ...

;Mayor *(incumbent) Harry Clark (acclaimed) Source:

York York is a cathedral city with Roman origins, sited at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. It is the historic county town of Yorkshire. The city has many historic buildings and other structures, such as a ...

;Reeve :

Chris Tonks Chris is a short form of various names including Christopher, Christian, Christina, Christine, and Christos. Chris is also used as a name in its own right, however it is not as common. People with the given name *Chris Abani (born 1966), Nige ...

- 8,742 : Walter Saunders - 7,736 :Charles McMaster - 1,993 Source:

References

*Election Coverage. ''Toronto Star''. December 4, 1956 {{Toronto elections

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