Municipal elections were held in Toronto, Canada, on January 1, 1914. H.C. Hocken

Horatio Clarence Hocken

Horatio Clarence Hocken was a Canadian politician, Mayor of Toronto, social reformer and a founder of what became the Toronto Star....

 was reelected mayor defeating Fred McBrien. The election was also notable for the victory of Louis Singer

Louis Singer

Louis M. Singer, K.C., was a Toronto lawyer and the first Jewish candidate to win election to Toronto City Council.Singer was born in Austria in 1885 and immigrated to Canada with his family when he was three years old. He attended Jarvis Collegiate Institute in Toronto and had to pay for his own...

, the first representative of Toronto's large Jewish community elected to city council.

Toronto mayor

H.C. Hocken

Horatio Clarence Hocken

Horatio Clarence Hocken was a Canadian politician, Mayor of Toronto, social reformer and a founder of what became the Toronto Star....

 had been mayor since 1912, as a founder of the Toronto Daily Star he was strongly supported by that newspaper and opposed by its rival the Toronto Telegram. In the 1914 election the Telegram supported Alderman Fred McBrien, but Hocken won by a significant margin. Two other candidates ran, but received little support: Alderman Alfred Burgess and Birks.

Results

H.C. Hocken

Horatio Clarence Hocken

Horatio Clarence Hocken was a Canadian politician, Mayor of Toronto, social reformer and a founder of what became the Toronto Star....

(incumbent) - 21,218

Fred McBrien - 16,641

Alfred Burgess - 3,725

Birks - 1,511

Board of Control

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...

 election was also a victory for the Star. Most notably labour leader James Simpson

James Simpson (politician)

James "Jimmy" Simpson was a Canadian trade unionist, printer, journalist and left wing politician in Toronto, Ontario...

 was elected at the top of the poll while incumbent Telegram favourite Thomas Foster was defeated.

James Simpson

James Simpson (politician)

James "Jimmy" Simpson was a Canadian trade unionist, printer, journalist and left wing politician in Toronto, Ontario...

- 20,695

J.O. McCarthy (incumbent) - 17,490

Tommy Church (incumbent) - 17,085

John O'Neill (incumbent) - 14,597

Joseph Elijah Thompson - 14,233

Thomas Foster (incumbent) - 13,929

Robert Yeomans - 11,708

Eckardt - 7,755

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 D. Robbins

William D. Robbins

William Dullam Robbins was the 45th Mayor of Toronto from 1936 to 1937. He was appointed mayor after the death of incumbent Sam McBride and remained in office until defeated by Ralph Day in the 1937 elections. Robbins was considered a representative of labour in Toronto city politics, but was also...

(incumbent) - acclaimed

Albert Walton (incumbent) - acclaimed

W. W. Hiltz - acclaimed

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....

)

H.A. Rowland (incumbent) - 3,732

Samuel Wickett (incumbent) - 2,267

Charles A. Risk (incumbent) - 2,813

James Lindala - 866

Ward 3 (Central Business District

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 The Ward)

Charles A. Maguire

Charles A. Maguire

Charles Alfred Maguire was mayor of Toronto from 1922-1923.Charles Alfred Maguire was born in Toronto, the son of James Maguire and Elizabeth Brown....

- 4,245

F.S. Spence - 2,918

Sam McBride (incumbent) - 2,806

Marmaduke Rawlinson (incumbent) - 2,770

G.J. Castle - 809

Rudolph Paulich - 135

Ward 4 (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)

J. Wanless (incumbent) - 2,667

R.H. Cameron

R.H. Cameron

Robert Henderson Cameron was a Toronto manufacturer and politician. He was born in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1867 and came to Canada as a child with his family in the early 1870s....

- 2,101

Louis Singer

Louis Singer

Louis M. Singer, K.C., was a Toronto lawyer and the first Jewish candidate to win election to Toronto City Council.Singer was born in Austria in 1885 and immigrated to Canada with his family when he was three years old. He attended Jarvis Collegiate Institute in Toronto and had to pay for his own...

- 1,842

A.B. Farmer - 1,571

Robert McLeod - 1,308

A.E. Hacker - 1,002

A.R. Williamson - 995

G.R. Sweeny - 906

Harry Winberg - 240

G.H. Pettit - 211

Ward 5 (Trinity-Bellwoods)

John Dunn (incumbent) - 3,087

R.H. Graham - 3,076

John Wesley Meredith (incumbent) - 3,023

Joseph May (incumbent) - 2,754

G.S.C. Garrett - 2,416

R.W. Dockeray - 2,115

Alfred Moore - 452

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...

)

David Spence

David Spence (Canadian politician)

David Spence was a Canadian politician.Spence was born in County Armagh, Ireland and was educated at a state school before immigrating to North America in 1896. After spending a year in Pittsburgh he moved to Toronto where he established a wholesale fruit and commission business...

(incumbent) - 5,822

C.H. Maybee (incumbent) - 5,200

W.H. Smith - 4,847

T.J. Ryan - 2,669

S.H. Hurst - 1,472

Richard Holmes - 592

W.H. Stevens - 343

Ward 7 (West Toronto Junction)

Frank Whetter - 750

Samuel Ryding (incumbent) - 678

J.G. Wright - 539

W.J. Dalton - 525

Alexander Chisholm - 390

William Henry Weir - 294

Maxwell Armstrong - 164

A.M. Wilson - 166

J.A. Macdonald - 120

J.C. McClelland - 82

Results taken from the January 2, 1914 Toronto Daily Star and might not exactly match final tallies.