1945 Toronto municipal election

none September 2023 Municipal elections were held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on January 1, 1945. Controller Robert Hood Saunders defeated incumbent Frederick J. Conboy to be elected mayor. Toronto mayor Conboy had served as mayor since 1940 and was seeking his fifth term of office, but he was decisively beaten by Saunders. Results Robert Hood Saunders - 68,757 Frederick J. Conboy - 36,299 Board of Control The Board of Control had two vacant seats in the 1945 election. Robert Saunders had left his seat to run for mayor and Fred Hamilton had retired. Five current or past alderman ran for the positions, with Hiram E. McCallum and communist Stewart Smith winning seats. Results David Balfour (incumbent) - 47,931 William J. Wadsworth (incumbent) - 45,942 Stewart Smith - 41,691 Hiram E. McCallum - 41,201 Leslie Saunders - 34,587 Ernest Bogart - 34,258 Gordon Millen - 30,235 Harry Bradley - 9,589 City council right|thumb|300px|Ward boundaries used in the 1945 election Ward 1 (Riverdale) William Murdoch - 5,180 Charles Walton - 4,306 William Simpson - 2,710 John McGuigan - 2,517 W.S.B. Armstrong - 1,582 Irene Humble - 1,357 Ward 2 (Cabbagetown and Rosedale) Louis Shannon (incumbent) - 5,426 George A. Wilson (incumbent) - 3,925 May Birchard - 3,456 Ward 3 (West Downtown and Summerhill) John S. Simmons (incumbent) - 3,132 Harold Fishleigh (incumbent) - 2,915 William Smith - 601 Francis Burns - 589 Karl Prager - 402 Ward 4 (The Annex, Kensington Market and Garment District) Norman Freed (incumbent) - acclaimed Nathan Phillips (incumbent) - acclaimed Ward 5 (Trinity-Bellwoods Charles Sims (incumbent) - 7,788 Arthur Frost - 6,497 Harold Menzies - 4,058 Maxwell Armstrong - 2,338 Ward 6 (Davenport and Parkdale) Kenneth Bert McKellar (incumbent) - 9,068 Harold Timmins (incumbent) - 8,263 William V. Muir - 4,745 Dewar Ferguson - 4,292 Patrick McKeown - 1,169 Charles Dymond - 661 Ward 7 (West Toronto Junction) E.C. Roelofson (incumbent) - acclaimed Charles Rowntree (incumbent) - acclaimed Ward 8 (The Beaches) Walter Howell (incumbent) - 7,478 William Collings (incumbent) - 7,104 Murray Cotterill - 5,132 James Davis - 2,687 Charles Wren - 2,505 Ward 9 (North Toronto) John Innes (incumbent) - 10,684 Melville Wilson - 7,605 Robert Ferguson - 3,329 Christine McCarty - 2,211 R.M. McLean - 1,568 Fred Vacher - 1,009 W.H. Harris - 877 Results taken from the January 2, 1945 Globe and Mail and might not exactly match final tallies. References Election Coverage. Globe and Mail. January 2, 1945 Election Coverage. Toronto Star. January 2, 1945 Category:1945 elections in Canada 1945 Category:1945 in Ontario