Municipal elections were held in Toronto, Canada, on January 1, 1946. Incumbent Robert Hood Saunders

Robert Hood Saunders

Robert Hood Saunders, Q.C., CBE was mayor of Toronto from 1945 to 1948, President of the Canadian National Exhibition, chairman of the Ontario Hydro ....

 was acclaimed as mayor.

Board of Control

One incumbent on the Board of Control

Toronto Board of Control

Toronto Board of Control was a part of the municipal government of Toronto, Canada from 1904 until its abolition in 1969 and served as the executive committee of Toronto City Council. It consisted of four councillors elected city wide and was presided over by the mayor. Each voter could vote for up...

 lost, William J. Wadsworth

William J. Wadsworth

William J. Wadsworth was a long serving municipal politician in Toronto, Canada.He was born in Flesherton, Ontario and migrated to Toronto his family moved to the West Toronto Junction while he was still a youth...

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

Stewart Smith (politician)

Stewart Smith was a long-time leading member of the Communist Party of Canada. He also served on Toronto City Council for a period in the 1930s and 1940s....

 of the Labour-Progressive Party

Labour-Progressive Party

For the Labour-Progressive Coalition Government in New Zealand see the Fifth Labour Government of New ZealandThe Labor-Progressive Party was the legal political organization of the Communist Party of Canada between 1943 and 1959....

 won the second position on the Board.

Results

Hiram E. McCallum

Hiram E. McCallum

Hiram Emerson McCallum was a mayor of Toronto, Ontario from 1948-1951.Born in East Caledon, Ontario, his first job was at The Mail and Empire newspaper as a clerk in the advertising department. From there, he started his own printing plant in 1931...

(incumbent) - 42,126

Stewart Smith

Stewart Smith (politician)

Stewart Smith was a long-time leading member of the Communist Party of Canada. He also served on Toronto City Council for a period in the 1930s and 1940s....

(incumbent) - 41,637

David Balfour (incumbent) - 40,632

Bert McKellar - 35,627

William J. Wadsworth

William J. Wadsworth

William J. Wadsworth was a long serving municipal politician in Toronto, Canada.He was born in Flesherton, Ontario and migrated to Toronto his family moved to the West Toronto Junction while he was still a youth...

 (incumbent) - 35,477

Leslie Saunders - 22,040

Harry Bradley - 6,796

City council

Ward 1 (Riverdale

Riverdale, Toronto

Riverdale is a large neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is bounded by the Don River Valley to the west, Danforth Avenue and Greektown to the north, Jones Avenue, the CN/GO tracks, and Leslieville to the east, and Lake Shore Boulevard to the south....

)

William Murdoch (incumbent) - 5,597

Charles Walton (incumbent) - 4,168

William Simpson - 3,481

Ward 2 (Cabbagetown

Cabbagetown, Toronto

Cabbagetown is a neighbourhood located on the east side of downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It comprises "the largest continuous area of preserved Victorian housing in all of North America", according to the Cabbagetown Preservation Association....

 and Rosedale

Rosedale, Toronto

Rosedale is an affluent neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which was formerly the estate of William Botsford Jarvis, and so named by his wife, granddaughter of William Dummer Powell, for the wild roses that grew there in abundance....

)

Louis Shannon

Louis Shannon

J. Louis Shannon was a municipal politician in Toronto, Canada who served for many years on Toronto City Council and the Toronto Board of Control....

(incumbent) - 4,118

May Birchard

May Birchard

May Birchard was a municipal politician and poverty activist in Toronto, 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 moved to Winnipeg...

- 3,014

George A. Wilson (incumbent) - 2,910

William Dennison - 2,472

Ward 3 (West Downtown

Downtown Toronto

Downtown Toronto is the central business district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is approximately bounded by Bloor Street to the north, Lake Ontario to the south, the Don River to the east, and Bathurst Street to the west...

 and Summerhill

Summerhill, Toronto

The Summerhill neighbourhood in central Toronto was named after 'Summer Hill' house, built in 1842 by Canadian transportation baron Charles Thompson.Much of the area was once part of the Thompson estate but was subdivided by his heirs in the 1880s....

)

John S. Simmons (incumbent) - 2,175

Allan Lamport - 1,911

Harold Fishleigh (incumbent) - 1,724

Earl Selkirk - 586

William Smith - 285

Karl Prager - 281

Ward 4 (The Annex

The Annex

The Annex is a neighbourhood in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The traditional boundaries of the neighbourhood are north to Dupont Street, south to Bloor Street, west to Bathurst Street and east to Avenue Road...

, Kensington Market

Kensington Market

Kensington Market is a distinctive multicultural neighbourhood in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Market is an older neighbourhood and one of the city's most well-known. In November 2006, it was designated a National Historic Site of Canada. Robert Fulford wrote in 1999 that "Kensington...

 and Garment District)

Nathan Phillips

Nathan Phillips (politician)

Nathan Phillips, KC was a Canadian politician and popular Mayor of Toronto, Ontario.-Early life:Born in Brockville, Ontario, the son of Jacob Phillips and Mary Rosenbloom, he was educated in public and high schools in Cornwall. In 1908, he articled with the Cornwall lawyer, Robert Smith, who later...

(incumbent) - acclaimed

Norman Freed (incumbent) - acclaimed

Ward 5 (Trinity-Bellwoods)

Arthur Frost (incumbent) - acclaimed

Charles Sims (incumbent) - acclaimed

Ward 6 (Davenport and Parkdale

Parkdale, Toronto

Parkdale is a neighbourhood and former village in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, west of downtown. The neighbourhood is bounded on the west by Roncesvalles Avenue, on the north by Queen Street. It is bounded on the east by Dufferin Street from Queen Street south, and on the south by Lake Ontario...

)

Harold Timmins

Harold Timmins

Harold Aberdeen Watson Timmins 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 of Parkdale where he attended Parkdale Collegiate Institute before studying at the University...

(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 (West Toronto Junction)

William Butt - 4,510

E.C. Roelofson (incumbent) - 4,220

Eva Sanderson - 2,157

Ward 8 (The Beaches

The Beaches

The Beaches is a neighbourhood and popular tourist destination located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located on the east side of the "Old" City of Toronto. The original boundaries of the neighbourhood are from Fallingbrook Avenue on the east to Kingston Road on the north, to Woodbine Avenue...

)

William Collings (incumbent) - 6,789

Walter Howell (incumbent) - 6,476

Murray Cotterill

Murray Cotterill

Murray Cotterill was a Canadian trade union activist and organizer for the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ....

 - 5,143

James Davis - 2,244

Ward 9 (North Toronto

North Toronto

North Toronto was a town located in the northern part of the Old Toronto district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It occupies a geographically central location within the current boundaries of the city of Toronto. It is a relatively narrow strip, centred around Yonge Street; it extends from the CP...

)

John Innes

John Innes (politician)

John Innes was a municipal politician in Toronto, Canada. He was born in Scotland and immigrated to Canada in around 1900 when he was in his twenties. A carpenter by trade he built a home in on Merton Street in North Toronto. He then became a developer, building several other homes around the area...

(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.