Municipal elections were held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on January 1, 1944. Incumbent

Frederick J. Conboy Frederick Joseph Conboy (January 1, 1883 – March 29, 1949) was a Canadians, Canadian politician, who served as List of mayors of Toronto, mayor of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario from 1941 to 1944. He was also a member of the Orange Order in C ...

defeated Controller Lewis Duncan. The election was a notable defeat for the

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(CCF, a social democratic party) as it lost all representation on city council.

Toronto mayor

Conboy had served as mayor since 1940 and was seeking his fourth term of office. He was opposed by CCFer Lewis Duncan who had also run and lost in 1939 and 1940. ;Results :

- 78,383 : Lewis Duncan - 58,712

Board of Control

The Board of Control had one open seat due to Duncan's run for mayor. Alderman William Dennison attempted to hold the seat for the CCF, but finished in distant seventh. Three other former aldermen ran for the seat

Hiram E. McCallum Hiram Emerson McCallum (August 14, 1899 – January 13, 1989) was a mayor of Toronto, Ontario from 1948 to 1951. He served in management roles at the Canadian National Exhibition from 1952 to 1964. Born in 1899 at Caledon East, Ontario, his f ...

, David Balfour, and communist Stewart Smith with Balfour winning the seat. ;Results : Robert Hood Saunders (incumbent) - 73,383 : Fred Hamilton (incumbent) - 52,694 :

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) - 52,485 : David Balfour - 50,599 :

- 50,337 : Stewart Smith - 41,277 : William Dennison - 30,026 :William Muir - 19,061 :Harry Bradley - 7,743

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 ...

(incumbent) - 7,999 : Gordon Millen (incumbent) - 7,758 :John McGuigan - 3,444 : Stanley Ryerson - 1,959 :Irene Humble - 1,475 ;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) - 5,798 :

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- 4,432 : Henry Glendinning - 2,538 :

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 ...

- 2,179 :Harold Toye - 1,819 :Gordon W. Armstrong - 819 ;Ward 3 (West

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and

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) : John S. Simmons (incumbent) - 3,132 : Harold Fishleigh - 2,915 : John Frank (incumbent) - 1,917 :J.R. Huffman - 909 :William Smith - 488 :Marjorie Garrow - 439 :Charles Lewis - 408 :Francis Burns - 321 ;Ward 4 ( The Annex, Kensington Market and Garment District) : Nathan Phillips (incumbent) - 4,951 :

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- 4,211 :H.A. Ross - 3,829 :

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 ...

- 2,797 :Charles Hamilton - 1,569 ;Ward 5 (

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: Ernest Bogart (incumbent) - 7,083 :

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- 7,016 : Arthur Frost - 5,337 : Harold Menzies - 3,473 :Maxwell Armstrong - 2,460 ;Ward 6 (

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and Parkdale) :

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- 8,903 :

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 ...

- 8,622 : Jack Bennett (incumbent) - 6,707 : George Granell - 3,749 : Dewar Ferguson - 3,015 :Patrick O'Donovan - 2,567 :Nina Dean - 2,238 :Patrick McKeown - 627 :Charles Dymond - 469 ;Ward 7 (

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) : Charles Rowntree (incumbent) - 7,393 : E.C. Roelofson (incumbent) - 5,542 :Eva Sanderson - 2,756 :Frank Cormack - 2,118 ;Ward 8 ( The Beaches) :

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(incumbent) - 9,431 : William Collings - 6,542 : Murray Cotterill - 5,833 :E.S. McGuinness - 5,377 :H.L. McKinstry - 3,990 :J.E. McMillan - 2,102 ;Ward 9 ( North Toronto) : John Innes (incumbent) - 14,252 : Donald Fleming (incumbent) - 13,948 :R.M. McLean - 3,499 :Christien McCarty - 2,174 Results taken from the January 3, 1944 ''Globe and Mail'' and might not exactly match final tallies.

References

*Election Coverage. ''Globe and Mail''. January 3, 1944 *Election Coverage. ''Toronto Star''. January 3, 1944 {{Toronto elections 1944 elections in Canada

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