1902 Toronto municipal election

Municipal elections in Toronto Municipal elections were held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on January 6, 1902. In the mayoral election, Mayor Oliver Aiken Howland won a second term in office defeating William Findlay Maclean, a sitting Member of Parliament and founder of The Toronto World newspaper, who campaigned on a platform of public ownership, regulation and control over utilities such as waterworks, gasworks, electricity, and telephone, and the privately owned Toronto Railway Company (which operated the cities streetcar routes), as well as promising nighttime and Sunday streetcar service, and against temperance measures. Maclean's intention of simultaneously holding both the mayoralty and a seat in the Canadian House of Commons was a factor in his defeat. Another issue that hurt Maclean was his support for softening Toronto's blue law to allow for Sunday streetcar service."MR. HOWLAND RE-ELECTED: Mayor for 1902 by 4,649 Majority Over Mr. Maclean LITTLE INTEREST Total Vote Was Unusually Small MR. F. S. SPENCE ELECTED Heads the Poll in Second Ward-- Aid. starr. Cox. Sheard, Fraleigh and Hodgson Defeated--New Men Are B. Fleming, S. G. Curry, Ex-Ald. Dunn, Alex. Stewart and Harvey Hall COUNCIL FOR 1902 MAYOR: OLIVERA. HOWLAND. K.C..O. M.C. ALDERMEN: MAYORALTY VOTE", The Globe (1844-1936); Toronto, Ont. [Toronto, Ont]07 Jan 1902: 1"Three Candidates for the Mayoralty", Toronto Daily Star, 30 Dec 1901: 1. The third candidates was Charles Woodley who was the standard-bearer of the Socialist Labor Party."THREE MEN SEEK THE MAYORALTY: HOWLAND, MACLEAN AND WOODLEY PUT IN NOMINATION", The Globe (1844-1936); Toronto, Ont. [Toronto, Ont]31 Dec 1901: 2 Toronto mayor Results Oliver Aiken Howland (incumbent) - 13,424 William Findlay Maclean, M.P. - 8,774 Charles Christopher Woodley - 633 Source: Board of Control The Toronto Board of Control was, in 1902, elected by Toronto City Council from among its members. At the first council meeting following the general election, council chose Aldermen Graham, Crane, Loudon and McMurrich to sit on the body, which was chaired by the Mayor."INAUGURATION OF COUNCIL: Aid Graham, Crane, Loudon and McMurrich Controllers GAS AGREEMENT Aid Spence Moves For a Reconsideration PUBLIC OWNERSHIP", The Globe (1844-1936); Toronto, Ont. [Toronto, Ont]14 Jan 1902: 2. Plebiscites A plebiscite was held on a by-law to authorize expenditure on new buildings on the Exhibition grounds. Exhibition buildings For - 5,097 Against - 3,342 Source: City council thumb|right|350px|Map of Toronto's six wards (1892-1909), published in The Globe, 1 January 1892. Four aldermen were elected to Toronto City Council per ward. Former mayor John Shaw attempted to win an aldermanic seat in the Third Ward, but was defeated. First Ward (Riverdale) James Frame (incumbent) - 1,684 Robert Fleming - 1,614 Fred H. Richardson (incumbent) - 1,301 William Temple Stewart (incumbent) - 1,203 John Preston - 1,126 Dr. Hugh Spears - 326 Second Ward (Cabbagetown and Rosedale) Frank S. Spence - 2,318 Joseph Oliver (incumbent) - 2,050 Thomas Foster (incumbent) - 1,825 Daniel Lamb (incumbent) - 1,626 Edward Strachan Cox (incumbent) - 1,525 John Akers - 1,081 John Henderson - 615 W.A. Douglass - 405 Third Ward (Central Business District and The Ward) Oliver Barton Sheppard (incumbent) - 2,578 Samuel George Curry - 2,551 George McMurrich (incumbent) - 2,526 John Francis Loudon (incumbent) - 2,233 Henry Sheard (incumbent) - 2,070 Joseph George Ramsden - 1,832 Fourth Ward (Spadina) Thomas Urquhart - 3,280 William Burns (incumbent) -2,803 James Crane (incumbent) - 2,709 William Peyton Hubbard (incumbent) - 2,496 Alex R. Williamson - 1,830 Edmund Schilling - 254 Fifth Ward (Trinity-Bellwoods) William Bell (incumbent) - 2,017 John Dunn - 1,914 Frank Woods (incumbent) - 1,892 Alexander Stewart - 1,632 James Russell Lovett Starr (incumbent) - 1,581 Dr. William Stewart Fraleigh (incumbent) - 1,332 H.E. Hamilton - 769 Sixth Ward (Brockton and Parkdale) John Joseph Ward (incumbent) - 1,604 John James Graham (incumbent) - 1,551 Dr. Adam Lynd (incumbent) - 1,319 J.Harvey Hall - 1,178 James Henry McGhie - 989 W.W. Hodgson (incumbent) - 929 William O'Neill - 245 R.H. Holmes - 216 Robert Buist Noble - 210 Source: and "NOMINATIONS IN THE WARDS: Forty- four Aldermanic Candidates Are in the Field SCHOOL QUESTION Creating Interest Throughout the City F. S. SPENCE RUNNING Is a Candidate In the Second Ward--Many Issues Discussed--Lively Gatherings In Most of the Wards", The Globe (1844-1936); Toronto, Ont. [Toronto, Ont]31 Dec 1901: 8. References Results taken from the January 7, 1902 Toronto Globe and might not exactly match final tallies. Category:1902 elections in Canada 1902 Category:1902 in Ontario Category:January 1902 in Canada Category:1900s in Toronto